Avoca Primary School, its 8.6 teaching staff and 5 Educational Support staff sees its core purpose as encouraging and supporting the 120 students to achieve their personal best at whatever they do and to become effective, productive and tolerant members of society. Avoca Primary School provides access to curriculum that assists each student to achieve their goals and is flexible in its approach to cater for the aspirations of every student. We ensure that every student is well known by at least one staff member. We encourage students to set goals for their own learning and we provide structures and processes through which students can have input in decision making. The school values respect for one another and for differing viewpoints, equality of opportunity and achievement of individual goals. We believe parents, students and teachers need to cooperate as partners in learning. We are committed to improving teaching and learning opportunities for all students across the curriculum with a particular focus on Literacy and Numeracy. 2010 saw four new classrooms and a library being built. We entered a Human Powered Vehicle (HPV) in the RACV Energy Breakthrough and finished runners up in our section. We ran a breakfast program for selected students. The Ballarat Foundation and Avoca Community Pantry supported our student welfare progam. Excursions and incursions provided cultural experiences. The whole school attended a performance of Mary Poppins in Melbourne. French was taught to all classes.