Morphett Vale Primary School is a newly developed school in a picturesque setting within the Morphett Vale area, approximately 40 minutes from the Adelaide CBD. The school boasts new, modern and spacious classrooms and shared learning areas, science and art laboratories, drama and music suites, a new Preschool Centre, beautifully landscaped gardens, extensive playground and oval areas and a full sized gymnasium. We cater for the education and wellbeing of students from Preschool to Year 7 and also accommodate three district special classes, Out of School Hours Care, an Occasional Care service and an active playgroup program. We have a strong emphasis on developing and sustaining the valued relationships we have built between families, staff and students across the new school community over recent years. The school's values of caring, respect, responsibility and honesty are strongly embedded in our school culture and drive our work across the school community. We have a strong focus on literacy, numeracy and ICT with an emphasis on high expectations, explicit teaching and innovation and consistency with teaching theory. Recent ICT developments include providing laptops for all staff, interactive Smart boards in all learning areas, computer hubs in all classes and shared learning areas, 1:1 laptops for every senior student and laptops for middle primary students to share. Our extensive professional development program has supported all staff, improving their knowledge and skills in the area of ICT. We are committed to ongoing work in implementing the ‘Teaching for Effective Learning Framework’ (TfEL) in 2012. The framework is assisting our leaders and teachers to effectively implement the Australian Curriculum and develop a consistent and innovative approach to teaching and learning across the school. Comprehensive intervention programs operate across the school with trained personnel and a teacher supporting groups through daily literacy and numeracy intervention sessions across the week. Further to this,..