School News

Larrakeyah Primary School is a school of choice for many families because of the academic success students achieve, the support offered to students as well as the range of innovative programs offered.

Becoming an Independent Public School in 2014 has opened many opportunities to improve our already successful school. Since then, with the support of the NT Department of Education, our school leadership has developed the culture and direction of Larrakeyah Primary to provide students with greater opportunities to improve their educational outcomes and develop their social and emotional well-being.

Welcome back for an exciting term of learning and fun! It is so nice to see almost everyone’s smiling faces each day. Today we had 96% of our students at school ready and eager to learn. As the government has said it is “school as normal and attendance is compulsory”.

In our work towards e-Learning, we have developed a short "How To" instructional video on logging your child in to Seesaw Class, accessing and completing activities (using all tools), and using other parts of their Seesaw online learning journal. The link to the video is here: www.vimeo.com/403568654…

An update on our response to COVID-19, eLearning procedures, additional resources and outside school hours care.

Learning Intention: we are learning about the properties of number. Success Criteria: we successfully tested statements and came to conclusions. Students used their critical thinking skills to find numbers based on place value clues and to test whether something occurs sometimes, always or is never true…

3/4 Matthews has been learning about polygons. Students have used different polygons to construct their first names.

Beyond preparing students with the knowledge and skills core to the Australian Curriculum, at Larrakeyah Primary we aim to extend and support student development through a collection of programs designed to instil a lifelong appreciation for learning.