Currambena Primary and Preschool

Imagine…

If your child felt like this about his or her school:

• ‘When you graze your knee or miss your parents and cry about this, people just comfort you with all their love and you just feel really special about this. They don’t tease you.’ (Tessa)
• ‘Hardly anyone at my high school likes school and I find that so surprising because I enjoyed Currambena so, so much. I’m happy to be in high school.’ (Laura)
• ‘I like how we can make friends with our teachers, and they become like one of us in our class. You can build a relationship with your teacher.’ (Allegra)
• ‘The teachers don’t let you take the easy option… but they let you have your own opinion.’ (Mikaela)
• ‘It’s hard to believe that storywriting is work because it is so much fun’ (Luke)
• ‘Basically everything you do at Currambena is fun.’ (Isabel)

It’s about the kids….

Established over 35 years ago, we have long been recognised as a leader in innovative educational thinking. At Currambena we deliver a holistic approach to learning, with the help of a flexible curriculum, which focuses on developing a child’s skills for life as well as high academic standards.

We are a democratic school based on the North Shore of Sydney that offers truly child centered education for both pre and primary school children.

Democracy

At Currambena all decisions that affect the school are made at class, school and council meetings. Each student, parent and staff member has an equal vote and together we share the responsibility for the quality of life at the school, building children’s understanding, pride and ownership of their environment.

Conflict resolution

In a world where bullying in schools is a well documented problem, Currambena has a different approach. We actively teach children the skills, strategies and language to resolve conflict effectively.

Child centredness

Our small class sizes and high teacher to student ratios enable us to work with each student to develop a challenging and inspiring program while providing freedom of choice that builds a deep and lasting love of learning.

Dear Parents,
We had a wonderful day yesterday at the Aquarium. Thank you so much to Myung Jin for coming with us. Thank you to Sue who organised it all. On Monday we all chose a creature that we wanted to study, so on Friday we are going to have a presentation of all our research [...]

Hello Everyone,
Mmm, I am definitely smelling spring in the air especially walking early in the morning with the delightful, wafting perfumes of all the various flowers in bloom. As far as I am concerned the warm weather can’t get here quick enough ! I am sick of coming home to a cold house and my [...]

The planning for the proposed trip to Laura next June has progressed this morning and we are almost at the stage of having an itinerary developed and approximate costings. The trip dates are likely to be from Wednesday 17th to the following Wednesday 24th which will include flying to Cairns, camping at the Laura Festival [...]

Hello Everyone
The excursion to the Aquarium was an interesting, if exhausting, day! We saw amazing sharks, turtles, seals, squid, divers, fairy penguins and tropical fish. Thank you to all the parents who came with us and gave all the children such a good experience. Thanks, Deb and Lachlan, for the jellyfish toys for preschool!
The next [...]

Hi Everyone!
Short and sweet this week:
Firstly, a big welcome to Amelia (Milly) and her family to the Currambena community.
We are getting closer to being ready for a trip to Reverse Garbage. Can anyone help us drive out there this Friday? The children are so excited about the class play and have some wonderful ideas for [...]

We had a very peaceful day at school yesterday with Fran’s, Preschool and, for part of the day, Olivia’s also, away from school! It was amazing how quiet it was. The two, somewhat bemused chickens spent much of the time sitting on the couch outside Preschool, possibly wondering where their lunch was going to come [...]

Hi all, what lovely warm weather we are having this week, we couldn’t have asked for better weather for Kinma’s visit this Thursday (28th Aug). We have planned loads of fun activities for both Currambena and Kinma to share in. We will be having a sausage sizzle for lunch but please send some food for [...]