Killarney P-10 State School provides a co-educational education from Prep to Year 10 for around 200 students from Killarney as well as the surrounding rural area. A small number of students are drawn from adjacent areas in New South Wales.
Our curriculum has a central focus for high levels of literacy and numeracy. The development of high level skills in reading comprehension across all subject areas is an encompassing goal for our school.
Our charter is to provide real life and challenging learning experiences that encompass the syllabus areas of English, Mathematics, Health and Physical Education, Science, Languages Other Than English (Japanese), Study of Society and the Environment, Technology, and The Arts. The curriculum areas of Physical Education and Japanese are serviced by specialist teachers with the primary classes often accessing the specialist skills of our secondary teachers.
The social climate of our school is especially important to us. Central to our school’s operation is the Pathways to Peace Program. This involves all students from Prep to Year 10 belonging to vertical pathways groups that meet regularly to model, learn and develop social skills for life.
The Peace Code underpins the organisation of the supportive school environment at Killarney State School.
Our focus is to recognise and support students in developing these positive behaviours. The process for positive recognition includes students (with the support of the staff that teach them) identifying examples of their own positive behaviours based on the Peace Code. In doing so, students work through a bronze, silver and gold application process. When students progress to each level they are publically recognised and invited to be involved in a series of celebration activities that are financially supported by the Parents and Citizens Association.
