Department of Education - Victoria

Little Bendigo Primary School, was established in 1878, is located in Ballarat. The school has unique grounds adjoining natural bush land and a long, rich history reflected in the architecture of the main building and its surrounds. Little Bendigo Primary School's values of kindness, curiosity and resilience underpin learning relationships within our school community. The school's vision is to create passionate, intrinsic, life-long learners who are empowered to make positive and productive decisions.

Our staff profile consists of 1 principal, 6.6 EFT teaching staff and 5.4 EFT ES staff. In 2025 we have an enrolment of 84 students across four classes, 16% of students are of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent and 15% have a disability/additional needs. The school has a focus on inclusion to support students with additional support needs. The school's Overall Socio-Economic Profile changed from low-medium to medium range. The Victorian Curriculum is implemented at our school, Sounds Write synthetic phonics is used in Foundation to Grade 2 and for reading intervention. We believe it is important to empower our students with the skills, knowledge and understandings to know how to achieve, not just for here and now, but also for the future.

Students develop learning skills through a variety of experiences and have opportunities to use and apply their knowledge, skills and understandings. These learning skills include responsibility, self-discipline, persistence, independence, building confidence and self-esteem, problem solving, working cooperatively and collaboratively and developing leadership skills. Our specialist program is broad and includes Art, Physical Education, Respectful Relationships, STEM and Chinese. Curriculum linked excursions are conducted for all year levels and a broad range of curriculum linked excursions and incursions take place each year.

 

SC1    Demonstrated knowledge of the relevant curriculum, including the capacity to incorporate the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills. Demonstrated capacity to respond to student learning needs.

SC2    Demonstrated capacity to implement high impact teaching strategies, guided by how students learn, and evaluate the impact of learning and teaching programs on student learning growth. 

SC3    Demonstrated capacity to monitor and assess student learning. Demonstrated capacity to use data to inform teaching practice and to provide feedback on student learning growth and achievement to students and parents.

SC4    Demonstrated interpersonal and communication skills. Demonstrated capacity to establish and maintain collaborative relationships with students, parents, colleagues and the broader school community to support student learning, wellbeing and engagement.    

SC5    Demonstrated behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values. Demonstrated capacity to reflect upon practice and engage in professional learning to continually improve the quality of teaching.