Orchard Grove Primary School is situated at 101 Orchard Grove, Blackburn South in the City of Whitehorse. The school is in a residential area and opens onto native parklands and Wurundjeri Walk.

At Orchard Grove Primary School we are committed to providing a safe, nurturing environment that engages curiosity and promotes learning, personal growth, and the well-being for all students.

We are very proud of our reputation as a high performing school, our dedicated staff work hard to provide a stimulating, differentiated, and relevant teaching and learning program that maximise student engagement. The students are empowered to make choices that impact their learning and relationships in a positive way. We encourage our students to be global citizens who have the capacity and responsibility to make meaningful and positive contributions to the world we live. Our community boasts a range of diverse backgrounds which gives us all the opportunity to learn from others around us.

History

The school opened on its present site in 1991 and was the result of the amalgamation of Blackburn South, Killoura, Mirrabooka and Warrawong Primary schools.

Historically, our School Houses have reflected part of the history of Orchard Grove Primary School and most of the names of our houses have an Aboriginal meaning.

Mirrabooka means ‘Southern Cross’, Warrawong means ‘side of hill’, and Wurundjeri refers to the parkland adjacent to the school and the name of the Aboriginal people who lived in this area. To honour and acknowledge the Aboriginal heritage of our area we were keen for all of our house names to have an Aboriginal meaning. So, in mid 2016 we changed the spelling of Killoura to Killara which means ‘always there’.

Sustainability

Orchard Grove Primary School is proud to call itself a sustainable school. The school has embraced many sustainability programs that have become an integral part of the school. The Sustainability Captains and the Green Team play a major role in running the programs.

Smart Food Tuesday encourages children to have a rubbish free lunch every Tuesday. This also has a run on effect to other days of the week. Green Team members record results on a tally spreadsheet. Children are rewarded for their efforts by participating in the Smart Food Raffle, where the winner receives a reward at Friday Assembly. Classes compete to be the Smart Food class of the week and this class gets to keep the Golden Lunchbox Award in their room.

We recycle and collect food scraps and have stations for soft plastics, compost and mixed recyclables located around the school. Each classroom also has a bin for paper and cardboard recycling. We collect the stickers from fruits and vegetables to ensure that our compost is plastic free. Our compost collections are used in our worm farms and to ensure we have healthy soil in our kitchen garden.

Every March we participate in Clean Up Australia Day and host our own Clean Up Orchard Grove Day. We encourage students to bring gardening gloves and each class spends some time collecting rubbish in school grounds, the surrounding sports fields and in ‘Wurundjeri Walk’.

 

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