Goodwood Primary School is a multicultural and economically diverse school. We have about 300 students from Reception to Year 7 in nine mainstream and three New Arrival Program classes. About 20 per cent of mainstream students are from a background with a language other than English. Our core values are respect, fairness and achievement and our mission is to create a challenging and supportive learning community. We take pride in the partnership we develop with parents to support student learning. Recent achievements include high academic results, a healthy canteen, a cooking program, sporting success in athletics and voleyball and a Taiko drumming group. We encourage student participation through student forums, student leaders and class meetings. Restorative practice provides the foundation for student-student, adult-student and adult-adult relationships and conflict resolution. Program Achieve is used across our school to develop the language and skills for successful learning and social interaction. Students use computers to facilitate their learning in their classrooms and in our computer suite. All mainstream classes have an interactive whiteboard. We have strong extracurricular programs in sports and music. Current areas for school improvement are literacy, numeracy and teaching and learning for the 21st Century. We play an important part in the school community through our Kids Kafe community service program, involvement with Kirkholme Nursing Home and the Goody Patch Community Garden. We also provide a very popular preschool program in the Child Parent Centre. Before school care, after school care and vacation care is offered. We have a New Arrivals Program catering for students with little or no English. Students with negotiated education plans and students in the New Arrivals Program are exempt from taking NAPLAN tests but are included in the data as students who did not meet national minimum standards.