Quarry Hill Primary School
Quarry Hill Primary School
Over recent years, Quarry Hill Primary School has welcomed a growing number of families from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. This school is committed to ensuring that all families feel a strong sense of belonging from the moment they step onto school grounds. Many new students are English as an Additional Language learners, and their families often face the added challenge of navigating a new language and unfamiliar school system.
To support a more inclusive and welcoming environment, Quarry Hill Primary School will create of a series of professionally designed and painted Welcome Signs to be installed at the entrances and key outdoor locations of our school buildings. These signs will feature the word "Welcome" in the home languages of the school’s student population.
Successful idea info
A Warm Welcome
Signage to help create a more inviting and inclusive environment for families from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
$2,000
Quarry Hill Primary School prioritises inclusive education practices.
A number of students in this central Victorian school have additional learning needs such as speech and language disorders, autism spectrum disorder, specific learning disorders in reading and writing and other disorders or difficulties.
This TIP grant will enable the purchase of tablets which are set up with assistive apps and technology including 'voice to text' and 'text to speech' to support learners with additional needs.
Assistive technology will allow some students to access their learning in a modified, and importantly in an achievable way for them. Breaking down barriers these students face in traditional learning situations.
Socially, this equipment will help students feel more included with the ways in which their peers learning.
For our educators, it helps teachers tailor the learning experience for each individual child to ensure they're all supported to reach their full potential.
Successful idea info
Supporting learners with additional needs
Assistive technology helps our students learn, be independent and achieve learning goals.
$2,000
More Successful Ideas
Sunshine Primary School
Seen through Classroom Libraries
Providing a range of newer, quality diverse texts so that students see themselves and their lives reflected in the books they choose to read.
$1,970
Nganboo Borron School
Step into Sounds!
A sensory-based phonics program designed for learners with disabilities, incorporating tactile toys, visual supports, songs and interactive materials that make learning fun and accessible.
$1,300
Cornish College
Menger Sponge
Building the world's largest Menger sponge to bring mathematics concepts to life and break a Guiness World Record in the process.
$2,000