Attunga Primary School, with a growing enrolment (44 students in 2009), is the major focus and resource for the small, rural community it serves. The school and community are very supportive of each other and are proud of the school spirit that has been nurtured by successive generations of families over the past 131 years. Because a number of students have low self-esteem and may fear failure, our school community's mission is to improve each student's confidence and resilience by fostering the belief, 'We can' (enjoy success). In order to achieve this, our objective is to identify student welfare (educational, physical and behavioural) concerns in a student's first years and to act promptly and accordingly. Whilst we access the support of the itinerant learning assistance teacher we are of the belief that the most significant improvements and successes will originate within our own classrooms. For the past three years the school, through careful budgeting and, more recently, funding from the Priority Schools Program, has employed two part-time school learning support officers to work with students who have found it difficult to enjoy learning success in literacy and numeracy.