Welcome to Westerway Primary School
Welcome families. We hope that your child/children will be very happy at Westerway Primary School.
Westerway Primary School enjoys a beautiful rural setting opposite the Tyenna River near Mt Field National Park in the Derwent Valley, Tasmania. We enjoy our proximity to Mt Field National Park, which enables us to explore our connection to nature and learn about the importance of protecting environments at a world-class site.
At Westerway Primary School, we cater for all children from birth to grade 6 and provide a challenging, fun, and vibrant teaching and learning programs for students within a caring and supportive environment. We offer a full curriculum, including specialist sessions in Music, Art, PE, and Wellbeing. We have a kitchen garden where classes learn about seed-to-plate and healthy eating.
In 2024, we contracted Maydena Bike Park to build a purpose-built bike track on our hill. This has been hugely popular and caters to all students who can ride a bike without training wheels, with a beginner and more advanced track available. Bikes and helmets are supplied by the school, although students can also bring their own.
Children thrive when there is open communication between parents and teachers and at Westerway Primary we foster active partnerships between the school, home, and wider community to ensure that the very best possible learning opportunities are provided for each child. We welcome family and community members into the school to contribute and share their ideas, knowledge, and skills in order to enrich learning. I encourage you to join our School Association to take an active role in school decision-making as well as participate in fundraising events.
All students are supported to attain their best performance in their learning, social skills, attitude, school spirit, decision making, and leadership. Individual learning plans, small group and 1:1 intervention, and support are provided as needed to ensure optimum progress. Our areas for focus on whole school improvement in 2025 are in the areas of reading and student wellbeing. Our values of respect, responsibility, courage, connection and growth are embedded in the school; we explicitly team these values to children and frequently point out positive behaviours that embody them. We encourage families to draw attention to positive behaviours at home that exemplify these values.
I strongly encourage all parents and students to meet with teachers and me as appropriate to discuss concerns, ideas, queries and feedback to ensure all individuals feel included, valued and supported and to continually build a strong and progressive school together.
As principal, I hope you and your family experience a happy and productive relationship with our school and that your children experience academic, social and creative success as part of belonging to our school community.
