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Location Profile

Osborne Primary School is a large school of around 640 students located in Mount Martha, approximately 50 kilometres southeast of Melbourne on the Mornington Peninsula. Although initially established in 1873 to serve the needs of a largely rural population, the school is now close to a rapidly growing urban area to the east of Mornington. The school makes excellent use of its location near to Port Philip Bay and to sensitive wetland and bushland areas nearby.

A collaborative learning community that challenges students to become creative thinkers, independent learners and globally responsible citizens transpires at Osborne. The values of respect, confidence, co-operation, responsibility and resilience guide us in providing a happy, caring and stimulating environment where children will recognise and achieve their fullest potential. 

The Victorian Curriculum underpins teaching programs, which offer a stimulating learning across a broad range of areas. Teaching to suit individual students' learning needs is delivered through programs such as Point of Need, Daily Review and CUBES problem solving teaching in Mathematics, CAFE reading comprehension programs and 6 + 1 writing traits in Literacy. A combination of both explicit teaching methods and inquiry learning are used throughout the school.

Four major concepts ¿ ¿Understanding, Diversity, Creating, and Sustainability¿ are investigated through the inquiry process across the school. The specialist programs include Visual and Performing Arts, Physical Education, Problem Solvers, Languages (Indonesian), STEM and the S…