About Currambena
History

1970

Currambena School was founded in 1969, following a Public Meeting of parents, teachers and academics from Macquarie University.

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About us

Currambena Limited is a registered not-for-profit company with its own Memorandum and Articles of Association designed to maintain its special character.

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Our philosophy

Currambena is founded on the belief that all children are individuals with common needs for both security and challenge in their learning environment. In a school environment that is safe and happy children’s self-esteem will grow and their innate curiosity and desire to gain knowledge will rise to the challenge of new learning experiences.

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Choices in learning

At Currambena, we include the children’s ideas and enthusiasms in our planning and we design programs of work around their expressed interests as well as our knowledge of the Key Learning Areas.

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.

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Our facilities

Library

The community-managed library is situated upstairs in the main building. All students have access to the library and can borrow books on an honour system. They are encouraged to help take responsibility and consider others when borrowing. Children are shown around the library and how to use it early in their first term. Most classes also visit Lane Cove Public Library regularly.

Music Room

The music room is located in the main building. It contains a variety of musical instruments and equipment used individually, in class and whole school sessions.

Craft Room

The craft room contains equipment used by students in Preschool and Primary during their regular sessions in Visual Arts. This includes a pottery wheel and kiln, woodworking materials, painting equipment and other items. A part-time Visual Arts teacher is employed by the school. Outside of scheduled times, access to the craft room is only available under the supervision of a class teacher.

Children must wear shoes in the craft room.

Staff Room

The staff room serves a number or purposes as well as providing a place specifically for the staff. It has a bed, which can be used by sick children. The first aid kit and equipment are located here. It has kitchen facilities and houses a collection of educational magazines and other material of interest to the teachers.

Primary Classrooms

There are five classrooms in total, each with a capacity for 25 children. All rooms have carpeted and wet areas, and internet access. Each class has its own digital camera with a capacity for still shots and movie clips, a wall mounted projector and Ipads. 
Each room is fully equipped with all the necessary resources needed for the day-to-day learning- academic, social and physical.

Preschool Room

This is one large room divided into various areas that caters for all our preschool children from three years to five years. Currently we are licensed for 25; no more than this number of children participate in the preschool programmes on any given day.
The preschool staff have their own laptops, chromebooks and Ipads with internet access.
They have their own digital camera and wall-mounted projector.
The room is fully equipped with all the necessary resources needed for their day-to-day learning, the majority of which is done through play.
Each day, inside and out, a variety of equipment and resources are set up.

Playground

Curambena offers a diversity of play spaces on site. These include a high activity area, a half-size basketball court, and spaces that foster investigative and imaginative play.

School Garden

Students in all the classes and the Preschool have the opportunity to design, plant and maintain a garden including vegetable and herbs. Responsibility for garden plots is decided by vote at school meetings.

Telephones

Telephones are located in the office and the photocopier room. These are primarily for school use.

Photocopier

The photocopier is located in the staffroom and is linked to all the computers and chromebooks, and comes equipped with scanning facility.

A second photocopier/printer is located in the craft room.This is primarily used by the students for printing their artworks.

 

 
School protocols

 

Please note that our policies are constantly under review to ensure that they cater for the needs of the school and our community, and that they remain consistent with our philosophy and current legislative requirements. As such we encourage you to check this page often to ensure that you have the latest copy.

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