Established in 1958, Glenroy West Primary School is located in the inner-northern Melbourne suburb of Glenroy and set in a quiet residential area. The current school enrolement is 202 students. The student population is diverse with twenty-four languages represented at the school and 32 per cent of students coming from a home where English is not the main language spoken. The school has an SFO index of 0.62. The school site is shared with the Glenroy West Kindergarten and the school wishes to build stronger links with this pre-school. The are 21.4 EFT on Staff. The school values of Respect, Integrity, Communication, Responsibility, Excellence and Cooperation form the basis of our School Conduct. These values are manifested in the student management plans in every classroom across the school. The school has developed an Annual Implementation plan which includes a number of strategies from the Northern Metropolitan Region's "Powerful Learning" strategy. In 2010 work commenced on new teaching spaces funded through the Commonwealth government's School's of the 21st Century program. These teaching spaces will provide the school with more flexible teaching and learning spaces. Pedagogy will be reviewed to enable maximum utilisation of these spaces. The new teaching spaces will be equiped with interactive whiteboards. The school will extend the Laptop Computer Program and a ICT Learning Centre will be developed in these new Learning Neighbourhoods.