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Fountain Gate Primary School is a vibrant school that is proud of its achievements within the community and beyond. Many of its families come from far and wide across the globe.

School Vision:

Fountain Gate Primary School is a community of active, focused learners who share their curiosity, voice and expertise with others.

To watch all the students, work and play together is a great joy. Fountain Gate PS has a dedicated staff team with a distributed model of leadership and this has enabled many staff to carry out new initiatives.

Fountain Gate Primary School draws students from its residential area in Narre Warren as well as the Fountain Gate South and Hallam Gardens estates.

The enrolment at the school is currently 540 students. Our school's current analysis of its student population indicates that there are 54% of students from Non English Speaking Backgrounds. We have pupils from over 50 different cultures and are strongly committed to the multicultural diversity of the community we serve.

The school's mission is to provide students with a nurturing, inclusive, stimulating environment that promotes meaningful, developmental learning for life. We envision a school community working together to enable individuals to be self-motivated learners who achieve their personal best so that they become responsible members of society. Our instructional model is based on the Gradual Release of Responsibility and this continues to be refined as our Professional Learning Community embeds best practices across all curriculum areas.

Our current strategic plan focuses on:

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