Felixstow Community School

Melbourne Private Schools introduces Felixstow Community School in Felixstow, for all your education and learning needs.

Felixstow Community School is a public school that values the whole child and the importance of the surrounding and extended community to foster learning. The school aims to ready your child to be a life long learner for the 21st century.

Philosophies such as the Reggio Emilia Approach, and leading thinkers, Sir Ken Robinson, Howard Gardener, Guy Claxton and Tony Wagner inspire and influence our learning program.

Our school focuses on:

• Inviting learning environments
• Collaboration between various ages
• Skill development for the 21st century
• Personalised learning where students can develop their strengths
• Partnerships with families and the community
• Democratic and Respectful relationships
• Constructivist learning

Students are placed in day groups of Juniors, Middles and Seniors based loosely on age. There are also home-groups of R-7 students where working on various learning projects is the focus. Inquiry through hands on learning and real-life experiences within and beyond the community are explored. Respect between all participants in a child’s world is expected and encouraged. A circle of learning between educators, parents, students and extended community is the goal for our students life long knowledge and development.

Principles of Learning at our school:

• Learning is an active process of co-constructing understanding and knowledge.
• We are all expert learners who have the capacity to direct our learning.
• Our understanding of the world develops through social and cultural interactions.
• The rights of a child, necessitates that they have a voice.