Gilles Plains Primary schools aims to provide a safe and welcoming environment, where students are happy and want to be challenged to achieve their best. Our belief ‘building foundations for life success’ is central to all programs and practices and places importance of the crucial early years of a child’s life. Our school community is diverse with approximately 10% of our students coming from Indigenous backgrounds and another 40% coming from a NESB (non- English speaking) background. Our population fluctuates due to the transience nature of our community, however at present, our enrolments remain steady at 134 students with 70% of those being School Card holders. Our team of highly dedicated teachers and support staff provide engaging and rigorous learning experiences based on the principles of explicit teaching and differentiate to meet the individual needs of all children, be it extension or support. Literacy teaching and learning is a priority. Our balanced literacy program has a strong focus on orthography. All staff have had extensive training in THRASS (teaching handwriting reading and spelling skills), a phonics method for teaching learners of all ages, about the building blocks of reading and spelling. Developing and extending students’ comprehension level is a region priority and ‘reading’ is integrated into everything we do to both improve student outcomes and to foster a love of reading. Our school is located within the Gilles Plains Community Campus that also houses the preschool, North East Community Child Care Centre, Gilles Plains Community Health Centre and the North East Community Assistance Project. Many members of the school community access the services and support provided by these agencies. Refurbishments are currently underway so the Gilles Plains Children’s Centre can be opened and programs developed for early child development and parenting are already being offered. A restorative approach to behaviour education that includes anti-harassment, anger management programs..