West Beach Primary School was established in 1969 and is a small-to-medium sized school with excellent facilities including extensive grounds, a swimming pool and quality information technology facilities. Students are from a mixture of cultural backgrounds. Our school is part of the International Education Primary Student Program, with students from Asia currently enrolled. Our community has high expectations of student behaviour, academic achievement, as well as social and physical development. Our core values are Respect, Safety, Opportunity and Exciting Learning. Our vision is to empower our students to meet the challenges of their changing world, to be a place of exciting well-resourced learning, to be a place of safety, support and encouragement, and a place where children want to learn and teachers want to teach. A district special class of students with identified learning needs from years 3 to 7 is part of the school. Most special class students have a mainstream integration 'buddy' class. All classrooms are within a two-storey solid construction building, which is being upgraded as a result of the Australian Government's Building the Education Revolution funding. We have a three-teacher integrated unit designed to support middle schooling methodologies, completed in 1998 and redeveloped in 2010. We have a large resource centre which houses the school's suite of computers and was renovated in 2007. Our new school hall opened in Term 4, 2007. We also have a general-purpose room used for out-of-school-hours care and drama. Our school grounds are spacious and well maintained, and include a football/cricket oval, soccer/hockey pitch, and swimming pool. The Governing Council has executive committees to facilitate project planning and management (Finance/OSCH, Education, Assets, Fundraising, Canteen and Sport). The school publishes a fortnightly newsletter (also available on our website). In 2010 we have run a specialist Chinese language program, which will change to Japanese in 2011. The performing arts are..