Middle Park Primary School is located in a beach side area of Melbourne within the City of Port Phillip. The school provides a challenging and safe learning environment that encourages a love of learning, allowing students to perform confidently to the best of their ability. It supports students in taking leadership and becoming productive members of the global community through the development of the whole child. Our values are: Respect, Integrity and Community. Following community consultation , the school was organsised in a straight grade structure where possible in 2010. During the Strategic Plan the school is aiming at improving its performance in numeracy in relation to SFO (Student Family Occupation). This school has 28.2 equivalent full time staff including :2 Principal Class, 20.9 Teacher class and 5.3 Education support staff. As part of the strategic plan the school is developing Inquiry Based Learning further and has explored the International Baccalaureate with plans to become an accredited PYP school .With the development and forthcoming implementation of an Australian National Curriculum appproval for Victorian schools to become PYP schools has been put on hold.In 2010 the school developed two whole school inquiry units broadly based around PYP framework. Middle Park offered a range of specialist programs including: ICT, Physical Education, Visual Arts and one term of Music.An excellent After School Care Program is a feature of the school which involves in excess of 50% of families during the course of the week.