Why choose our school?

We pride ourselves on four main points of difference identified through our signature programs:

1. Information, Communication and Technologies - Through our signature BYOD program students from Year 2 through to Year 6 engage with the curriculum by using a personal laptop to enhance and accelerate their learning. This platform enables students to obtain crucial skills required for jobs of the future and to thrive in this digital world.
2. Environmental Sustainability - The Pallara Environmental Education Program and Environment Club offers students across all year levels a broad range of activities to build their knowledge and skills of environmentally sustainable practices and how to care for our planet.
3. An innovative Inclusion Program based on Equity and Excellence that meets the needs and realises the potential of every student.
4. A targeted Literacy improvement agenda with a focus on phonics, writing and reading aligned to evidence-based research and high-yield practices. 

Our Beliefs 

At Pallara State School, we believe in a holistic approach to education which develops children as active, responsible citizens. Consequently, the social, emotional, physical, cultural, creative and technological needs of our students underpin our practices. We believe in creating a culture that promotes positive mental health while respecting cultural differences and establishing mutual respect as the basis of relationships. 

We believe that all students:

• have the capacity and the right to learn,
• are individuals and subsequently learn and achieve in different ways, at different rates and with different needs,
• bring valuable histories, languages, and cultures to the learning process,
• come with differing values and circumstances conducive to learning. 

We believe all students have the right to:

• a creative and individualised educational response that focuses on diversity and flexibility,
• be supported by teachers who operate as active professional learners within a culture of high learning expectations,
• a learning environment that caters to the learning needs of every student. 

Our Values 

The following common values have emerged from Australian school communities. These values are consistent with Australia's democratic traditions including beliefs in equality, freedom and the rule of law, and our overall commitment to a multicultural society where all are entitled to justice and a fair go. They are: 

1. Tolerance and Understanding - accepting other people's differences and being aware of others. 
2. Respect - treating others with consideration and regard. 
3. Responsibility (personal, social, civic, and environmental) - being accountable for, and in charge of action – responsibility for one's own actions, including the exercise of self-discipline; responsibility for the way in which one interacts and co-operates with others, especially for resolving differences in constructive, non-violent ways; responsibility for one's own role in the maintenance and preservation of the environment. 
4. Social Justice - being committed to the pursuit and protection of the common good where all persons are entitled to legal, social and economic fair treatment. 
5. Excellence - seeking to accomplish something noteworthy and admirable both individually and collectively and performing to the best of one's ability. 
6. Care - caring for self and showing interest in, concern for and care for others. 
7. Inclusion and Trust - being included and including others; listening to one another's thoughts and feelings actively; and creating a climate of mutual confidence. 
8. Honesty - being truthful and sincere; committed to finding and expressing the truth; requiring truth from others; and ensuring consistency between words and deeds. 
9. Freedom - enjoying all the rights and privileges of citizenship free from unnecessary interference or control and standing up for the rights of others; ensuring a balance between rights and responsibilities. 
10. Being Ethical - acting in accordance with generally agreed rules and/or standards for ethical (moral) conduct or practice.

Our Culture 

Positive school culture is created and fostered when all members of the school community work together to enact the school's vision, values, and beliefs. Student achievement and wellbeing is enhanced when all stakeholders actively contribute to the school. 

At Pallara State School, culture exists on three levels.

1. The student culture
2. The staff culture
3. The culture amongst parents, carers and the broader community.​​