Little Bendigo Primary School aims to develop children to their full potential by providing opportunities to share skills, abilities, knowledge and experiences in a happy supportive environment. We aim to create passionate, intrinisic lifelong learners. Our school's core values are optimism, compassion and integrity. We believe it is important to provide our students with the skills, knowledge and understandings to know how to achieve, setting goals, strategies and evaluating their achivements to enable them to make positive and productive decisions for the future. This covers key areas of responsibility, work ethics, persistence, attitude, independence/own learning, citizenship, building positives, being empathic and being a problem solver/rational thinker. We have developed a 'Culture of learning where students enjoy learning, respect learning, share learning, value learning, are passionate about learning, are inspired by learning, celebrate learning and appreciate learning. The physical setting of the school has seem many changes with the development of excellent facilities including artifical turf oval, new learning studios, toilets, community library and administration facilities. The shedatorium (visual arts centre) and heritage building have also been upgraded. Little Bendigo Primary School employs 5.2 equivalent full time staff members. It has increased enrolments from 45 students at the start of 2010 to 72 students at the start of 2011.