Before and After School Care
SCECS Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) Services provide care, play and learning for primary school aged children before and after school onsite in a safe and fun environment.
Classrooms
St Andrew’s provides modern learning environments that are adaptable to support various teaching methods and learning styles. These spaces provide students with the opportunity to think, work, and learn differently due to the world’s rapid change and interconnectedness.
Corner Playground
Our corner playground provides students with equipment that includes slides, climbers, and sensory panels that maximises pleasure, safety, and accessibility. This equipment aims to support strength, coordination, and critical thinking.
Front Playground
The front playground is a large open space that has recently been refurbished to include synthetic lawn, two clearly marked fields and handball courts. The shade cloth and undercover seating provides sun-safe quiet areas. The front playground is also used for our weekly whole school assembly and specialised sport sessions.
Kindergarten Playground
The Kindergarten Playground is a separate space for the Kindergarten students to play safely. The area has lined handball courts and equipment used to promote hand eye coordination and social skills. This designated area is also for Kindergarten parents to drop and pick up their children each day in a safe supervised manner.
Hall
Our school hall that is located on the school site provides a large safe space for extracurricular activities. These include but are not limited to our before and after care service, sport lessons, dance & music lessons and staff professional development. The space has multimedia capabilities which enables the staff and students to use the space for lessons, performances and celebrations.
Technology
The students at St Andrew’s all have access to a device, these include iPads and Chromebooks. Technology enables teachers and students to collaborate and communicate with ease, setting them up for 21st learning. Students can interact with one another throughout lessons in addition to engaging with teachers. All classrooms have an interacted board or large screen to support a range of students’ needs.
Library
Our library provides a social space to meet, collaborate, research, learn, share, and relax. The staff work to develop a reading culture and raise the levels of information literacy across the school by leading students through processes which empower them to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers and skillful, efficient and discerning researchers.