At The Patch Primary School our fundamental purpose is to work with our community to provide innovative learning that encourages excellence, strengthens self-belief, supports deep creative thinking, recognizes and accepts diversity, develops compassion, respects the environment and gives all students the choices to fully participate in a sustainable global future. The school has 32 equivalent full time staff, 2 Principal Class, 21 Teachers and 10 Education Support Staff. To ensure that we meet our purpose, we are committed to providing our students with a high standard of literacy and numeracy. We believe that this commitment is strengthened through our diverse curriculum with its strong emphasis on art, environmental education, and music. To develop our students’ critical and creative thinking along with their ability to articulate this, we provide a philosophy program throughout the school. Our students learn science, humanities and physical education and we offer opportunities to take part in extension programs and activities relating to these areas. We have a very successful Out of School Hours program. We strongly believe that continual improvement and innovation are necessary to ensure that we are meeting the needs of all our students. National Partnership funding has been used to build teacher capacity to guarantee that literacy and numeracy levels continue to rise and that the needs of all students are met. The Patch Primary School offers its 294 students an attractive, safe and stimulating learning environment.