Our Lady of Grace School is a Catholic school, within the Glenelg Parish, educating students in a lifelong pursuit of excellence and building a community of faith through the Dominican tradition. Our hope is that students graduating from Our Lady of Grace School will have developed a personal relationship with God and a growing understanding of their spiritual selves through their involvement in a faith centred community. In their time at Our Lady of Grace the students will have become competent, skilled lifelong learners, with a love of learning as well as being happy, confident individuals with a strong sense of self worth and respect for others. The school achieves this mission through providing a welcoming community, which nurtures relationships between students, families and staff. The school is committed to catering for the individual needs of all students by providing a comprehensive curriculum through engaging learning experiences and tasks that recognise the differing learning styles and needs of the students. At Our Lady of Grace School we are proud of our successful literacy program, which includes focused daily literacy blocks and supportive programs including Reading Recovery, Rainbow Reading and The Listening Program. There is a focus on The Arts with specialist teachers in Music and Drama. We also provide specialist Japanese and our students participate in a broad range of sports. Our classrooms are equipped with up to date digital technologies, including a wireless network, integrating MacBooks to encourage creativity, engagement and thinking in our technological world. Our Lady of Grace School has become an 'eSmart School' through our participation as a pilot school in the Alannah and Madeline Foundation's Cyber Safety and Wellbeing Initiative. Students and parents are provided strategies to help build safe and responsible use of communication technologies at home and school. Our early years students are supported through our 'Better Buddies' program, which reinforces positive values and social..