Salisbury Downs Primary School is located approximately 17km north of Adelaide, and has a student population of about 350. Our focus is on proactive social learning. We use a site-developed scheme called the Ripples program at the beginning of each year to help students successfully return to school. In mid 2009, we introduced Play is the Way as our preferred method of student behaviour support, with the school intent on becoming South Australia’s first Play is the Way Lighthouse School. There is a developing culture of collaboration among colleagues and community. As a part of our continuous improvement and innovation focus, we have successfully participated in initiatives such as Maths for Learning Inclusion, Well-being for Learning, and Primary Connections, which links Science and Literacy. In addition, we are committed to utilising information and communication technologies and interactive whiteboards as a teaching and learning tool across the school. Our mission is ‘we come to school to learn, have fun and to prepare ourselves for life’. Our shared values are: courage, good manners, friendliness, compassion, persistence and tolerance with courage being the virtue that underpins all others. Our aim is to achieve these values by creating a safe, supportive learning environment. We expect all students to participate with 100% effort for 100% of the time in all aspects of their schooling, irrespective of outcomes achieved or the people they work with.