Gagebrook Primary School is set in a broad acre housing estate that has high unemployment (25.5%), the community has a median age of 22 years, 48% of families are single parent families and only 15% of the population has completed education above year 10. The community in which the school is set has the highest Economic Needs Index of any school community in Tasmania. The school currently has a population of about 240 students. Our major foci are social skills, literacy and numeracy. Gagebrook Primary School's 'engage' social skilling program runs at the beginning of each day and operates in teams across the school. Each fortnight the school introduces a new teaching focus based on the current social needs and/or events in the school. Each focus is linked to the four school values of Community, Quality, Courage and Respect. These 'hooks' are embedded in all aspects of our curriculum. Each classroom has a minimum of two hours teacher aide time which is timetabled to include the daily literacy block.