Para Hills Primary School offers a range of programs from years 3-7 and celebrated 50 years in 2011. The school is identified as a Category 3 school in the Index of Disadvantage. Our core values of respect, commitment and honesty together with a weekly social skills focus underpin all school programs. We have excellent resources to support implementation of the new Australian Curriculum, particularly in English, maths and science. Each class area has an electronic whiteboard and 3-6 networked computers. A computer suite is located in the resource centre with 30 networked computers. Historically, most of the students who enrol at our school come from families who are long-term residents of the local area. Currently, many of these families have had a long association with us. These parents, in particular, are proud of our school’s history and good reputation in the local community. We have an annual enrolment of about 180 students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, which make up about 38% of our students. Each year level has its own breadth of social, cultural and academic diversity. The school has a history of strong participation in sporting events including athletics, soccer, football and netball. Worthy of note is that assessment results from NAPLAN include the figures of a higher than usual proportion of students with disabilities. This is due to the fact that we host a district special class for students with intellectual disabilities. These students are exempt from undertaking NAPLAN tests but they are included in the overall figures for the school and therefore the data reflects lower participation rates.