Currambena Primary and Preschool

Imagine…

If your child felt like this about his or her school:

• ‘When you graze your knee or miss your parents and cry about this, people just comfort you with all their love and you just feel really special about this. They don’t tease you.’ (Tessa)
• ‘Hardly anyone at my high school likes school and I find that so surprising because I enjoyed Currambena so, so much. I’m happy to be in high school.’ (Laura)
• ‘I like how we can make friends with our teachers, and they become like one of us in our class. You can build a relationship with your teacher.’ (Allegra)
• ‘The teachers don’t let you take the easy option… but they let you have your own opinion.’ (Mikaela)
• ‘It’s hard to believe that storywriting is work because it is so much fun’ (Luke)
• ‘Basically everything you do at Currambena is fun.’ (Isabel)

It’s about the kids….

Established over 35 years ago, we have long been recognised as a leader in innovative educational thinking. At Currambena we deliver a holistic approach to learning, with the help of a flexible curriculum, which focuses on developing a child’s skills for life as well as high academic standards.

We are a democratic school based on the North Shore of Sydney that offers truly child centered education for both pre and primary school children.

Democracy

At Currambena all decisions that affect the school are made at class, school and council meetings. Each student, parent and staff member has an equal vote and together we share the responsibility for the quality of life at the school, building children’s understanding, pride and ownership of their environment.

Conflict resolution

In a world where bullying in schools is a well documented problem, Currambena has a different approach. We actively teach children the skills, strategies and language to resolve conflict effectively.

Child centredness

Our small class sizes and high teacher to student ratios enable us to work with each student to develop a challenging and inspiring program while providing freedom of choice that builds a deep and lasting love of learning.

Hello Everyone,
CONCERT IN THE PARK
How chic is that! And, it was fabulous, gorgeous and wonderfully entertaining.
Thank-you to all our amazing performers
A big big thank-you to all our teachers, student teachers and assistants who put in many hours of passion, energy and a teeny bit of frustration to produce our lovely concert.
A very special thanks to [...]

Hi Everyone!
How fantastic was the concert?! The kids keep asking if we can do “play practice”. A huge thank you to all who helped including Danielle who helped with the scenery. Whilst I was busy setting up etc, I forgot to take my camera. If anyone took any pictures, please could you email or bring them [...]

I have had so many people say to me how much they enjoyed the concert last Friday! It certainly was a great success. The weather was kind, thank goodness, and all the children played their parts and appeared to enjoy themselves thoroughly! I felt extremely proud of all of my group… they wrote the whole play [...]

Building the Education Revolution
Commonwealth funded
Primary School in the 21st Century (PS21)
National School Pride (NSP)
Hi Everyone,
Things are still moving along behind the scenes even though there is no construction underway yet.
Our architects expect to finish the revised drawings ready for re-tendering by the end of this week and I’ll get them on the notice board as [...]

Hello Everyone
The concert was a great success in a beautiful spot with a wonderful atmosphere. Thanks to all the children for ALL those practices, to Chris Rochester, Callum, Julianna and Steve for the microphone system and to all the parents who helped drive children to the morning practice. It was yet another Currambena milestone. You [...]

Dear Parents,
Wasn’t the concert wonderful, we have a lot of natural actors in our group!  Thank you to all the people that went above and beyond to make it happen at the new venue.
Swimming at Greenwich baths has been just perfect with this hot weather. Thank you to all the parents who are driving us [...]

NEWS FROM HOLLAND
 Hey everyone!
 
Finally some news from Holland! Things are going well over here! When Luuk and I were back in Holland we graduated from our University! I had such an awesome time at Currambena and Australia that is was very hard for me to describe it back home to my family and friends. But [...]