Student Wellbeing Support

Location Profile

Lara Primary school is situated in the north-east corner of the town of Lara. It is approximately 10 km from Geelong and 60 km west of Melbourne CBD. Our school's enrolment sits between 440-460 students across 20 classrooms. In addition to the Principal, Assistant Principals and a vibrant leadership/wellbeing team, there are 29.4 EFT teachers and 20.18 ESOs.

Lara Primary School is a safe and respectful learning community that fosters collaboration, nurtures resilience and promotes excellence. Our dedicated staff and families are committed to supporting each student to set goals and take pride in their achievements in a safe and caring environment. We articulate expected behaviours to support our vision by implementing the school values of:

   I am safe
   I am respectful
   I am resilient
   I am ready to learn

Our students benefit from having high quality teaching staff with a range of different experiences and skills working together in teams to support the learning of all students. We offer a broad curriculum based on building strong foundations in Literacy and Numeracy. There is an emphasis on developing life-long learners, and learning how to learn is a vital component of this process. We strive to build a growth mindset which encompasses high expectations where students understand that effort is needed to improve. Our curriculum is further enhanced by an outstanding specialist program featuring Physical Education, Visual Art, LOTE (Auslan), Science and Media Studies.

High expectations are at the centre of all that we say and do at Lara Primary School, and we …