Assistant Principal-Range 1-Teaching, Pedagogy and Student Learning Growth

Location Profile

Wooranna Park Primary School is located within Dandenong North, situated in the south-east corridor of Melbourne approximately 34 kilometres from the Melbourne Central Business District and close to the Monash Freeway.

We are proud of our community, catering for a wide range of social, economic and cultural backgrounds. The current school population is 256 students with a Student Family Occupation and Education (SFOE) index of 0.5105, putting us in the high band.  We are proud to serve a large proportion of students with language background other than English with 156 students speaking a language other than English at home. This is 60.7% of the student body. 104 of these students were born in Australia, but speak a language other than English at home. They represent 40.47% of the student body.  62 students speak Dari at home, 39.74% of our EAL student population.  Next we have 11 students who speak Serbian, followed by 9 students who speak Vietnamese and 9 who speak Hazaraghi.

In 2023 we collaborated as a community to update our school vision, mission and values. Our school¿s vision states that we are striving to create a bright future for every learner.  As such we are here tobuild the foundations for life, in an inclusive and welcoming learning environment, as stated in our mission.  All members of our school community are expected to follow our school values of being Safe, Respectful and Responsible. These values form the pillars of our wellbeing and school wide positive behaviour approach to all interactions, empowering us all to Dream, Believe and Achieve…