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Established 160 years ago, Glen Iris Primary School, affectionately known as GIPS, is a family and community-oriented school serving families in Glen Iris and the surrounding areas. In 2025, our enrolment is 380 students across 18 grades.  Our highly motivated and professional staff members provide an engaging and caring education that fosters a love of learning and encouragement for individuals to excel. 

We have a deeply embedded pedagogical model from Prep to Year 6. We start our lessons with a hook or positive primer to help students engage with the learning. Then, we do explicit teaching of a skill or strategy. As students move off to differentiated work, teachers differentiate by working with small groups and then conferencing one to one with students before bringing students back to reflect at the end of class. This consistent, predictable routine is embedded across all classes and year level groups. In 2026, our specialist classes will include Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Physical Education, STEM Design Thinking, and Spanish.

Data drives everything here at GIPS so we can continually measure the progress of our students. We spend dedicated time during PLCs analysing all student data and then discussing in teams how that data will impact our explicit teaching, small group instruction, and one to one conferencing. We place great emphasis on reading, writing and mathematics at GIPS. Our motto is "Aim High", and thus we have very high expectations for our learners and their developmental growth. 

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