Principal’s Welcome
Thank you for taking the time to visit our school website. I welcome you and your family to our beautiful small school.
Dederang Primary School is proud to offer you caring and conscientious staff, excellent facilities and innovative programs to enhance your child’s learning and wellbeing.
We embrace a strong sense of community and work in partnerships with students, parents and community members to ensure that the best opportunities are available to all of our students.
Our programs are specifically designed to respond to every students’ learning needs. Our school priorities are Literacy and Numeracy, with a focus on integrating Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) across all learning areas. We offer an extensive range of extra curricula activities and our specialist classes include Dhudhuroa Language, Art, Performing Arts (Drumming, Singing, Dance), STEM, Library, PE, Inquiry and Hands On Learning (Horticulture/Cooking/Building)
Our school boasts a superb rural setting and our spacious school ground consists of great spaces for exploration of the natural environment. We continually strive to fulfil the school’s motto “where each child is challenged to be curious, creative and caring.”
We would love you to visit our school!
Acknowledgement of Country
Here in Dederang we gather on Dhudhuroa country. We pay our respects to the Dhudhuroa elders past , present and future, who have nurtured this land for many centuries. We thank them for the trees, the animals and birds, the clear waters and the fertile land on which we learn, play and grow. We promise to look after this land and to make it a sustainable place for future generations to come. We are part of this land and this land is part of us.
“Hands up, Hands down, we are on Dhudhuroa Ground.”
Annual Report
The 2024 Annual School report has been endorsed by the school council president on behalf of the council, Senior Education Improvement Leader and Quality Assurance check has been completed.
Strategic Plan
Our Strategic Plan for Dederang primary School currently spans 2021-2025.
School Information Book
Our School Information Book has information for current & prospective parents.
Child safety and wellbeing: information for families and the school community
Dederang Primary School is committed to providing an environment where students are safe and feel safe. We have a zero tolerance for child abuse and are committed to protecting children from harm.
Our comprehensive child safety framework outlines our school’s strategies to support student safety and wellbeing. The framework includes the following policies, codes and procedures:
- Child Safety and Wellbeing Policy
- Child Safety Code of Conduct
- Child safety Responding and Reporting Obligations Policy and Procedure
- Complaints Policy
- Student Wellbeing and Engagement Policy
- Bullying Prevention Policy
- Volunteers Policy
- Visitors Policy
- Digital Learning Policy
- Yard Duty and Supervision Policy
Our students and their families are important partners in keeping our students safe. We value feedback and ideas on how we can continuously strengthen our child safety framework. If you have any suggestions or comments please contact the Principal on (02) 6028 9331 or at dederang.ps@education.vic.gov.au
Bushfire Management
Dederang Primary School is included in the Victorian Department of Education and Training’s bushfire at-risk register (BARR).
Inclusion on this register is a trigger for the school to pre-emptively close on days declared Code Red in their Bureau of Meteorology district.
