Welcome to The Ponds School, a place where we all Believe, Learn and Achieve in a safe and caring environment where each student is known and valued. School vision
The Ponds School provides quality individualised and meaningful education in a safe and caring environment. The Ponds School supports families, encourages independence, and assists students to become valued members of the community now
and in the future. General School Information
The Ponds School is a purpose-built School for Specific Purposes located in The Ponds. The school has a steady enrolment of approximately 115 students, ranging from Kindergarten to Year 12. Many of our students have complex learning needs such as: Autism, challenging behaviours, physical disabilities, sensory impairments, and health care needs. We have 19 permanently established classes. Students travel to school from a wide geographical area. Due to the diverse geographical areas that our school community calls home, building strong relationships with our school community is a priority. Each student has a Personalised Learning Plan (PLP) developed in collaboration with families, therapists, and other key stakeholders, which works towards the achievement of their goals. The Ponds is a Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) school and has established a Learning Support and Wellbeing team. All members of staff are committed to Visible Learning and the Quality Teaching Framework and work collaboratively to deliver individualised and meaningful education in a safe and caring environment. Page Guidelines
The intent of this page is to provide a hub for responsible community engagement that celebrates the daily life of our school. We proactively support participation in social media to develop digital citizenship throughout our community. The Ponds School values the responsible use of social media articulated in a range of policies and guidelines that govern the expectations of online behaviour. We reserve the right to remove any content that we believe is in breach of these policies, guidelines and the values of our school. The Ponds School will remove content if it contains:
Offensive abusive, obscene, profane, hateful or racist content, links or images. Comments that threaten or defame any person or organisation. The direct, full name or descriptive reference to an individual, irrespective of the post’s tone. Solicitations and advertisements by other organisations or endorsements by other organisations or endorsements of other organisations. Multiple or repetitive posts by a single user. Repetitive posts copied and pasted or duplicated by single or multiple users. Anything else that the school deems inappropriate and does not align with our values, standards, policies and guidelines. For further information regarding the use of our official page or any other of our social media channels please contact the school directly (02) 96292470.