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Fingal Primary School
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Fingal Primary School has 3 teaching staff and caters for 58 students from Kindergarten to Year 6. The school's address is Seymour Street FINGAL 7214. Phone (03) 6374 2197.

Schools receive an annual resource package for the purpose of providing educational programs for students throughout that year. Schools may also receive other funding from the Department as well as receiving income from other sources. Generally, like the resource package, these funds should be used in the year that they are received. However, in some circumstances, schools may need to carry funds over from one year to the next. A reasonable carry over is 25% of a school's annual resourcing package. As at January 31 2009, Fingal Primary School has carried over the equivalent of 107% of its annual resourcing package. Schools also receive additional funding to help reduce early years class sizes. The average class size at Fingal Primary School for groups containing Prep and Year 1 students is 20.

Information about Fingal Primary School (provided by the school)
Fingal Primary School is a small, rural school situated in the historic coal mining town of Fingal. The school has a very supportive and involved school community and plays an important role within the wider community. The school has a strong literacy and numeracy focus based on explicit teaching practices. We provide a diverse curriculum which also focuses on Society and History, Science and provides experiences of other activities such as gardening in our school garden, hot house and shade building, basketball, soccer, golf, aerobics, woodwork, diverse Art activities, and Indonesian. The school also offers a strong Music program which is percussion based. We are pleased to present a summary of the data which has been collected on our School Performance for 2008. The data presented has been gathered from a number of sources and will be used to inform future planning to improve the learning outcomes of our students. The targets which have been incorporated into our 2009 School Improvement Plan were based on this and school based data, and will be used in the formulation of the 2010 plan. Our major focus for 2009 has been to improve both literacy and numeracy outcomes for our students, and on pre school programs such as Launching into Learning. We hope that you find this information about our schools performance in 2008 informative and will engage with us in planning for continued improvement of our student outcomes.