Gold Coast Primary School - Preparing Students For Future Success

Gold Coast Primary School - Preparing Students For Future SuccessIt is believed that the first study-a-holic in Australia was Gordon Brown, the former British Prime Minister, who spent an enormous amount of time studying during his first year at school. Others say it was Australian Prime Minister John Howard who, according to some, took extensive tutoring at primary school from Australian parents. Even today, Tony Abbott's daughter and Australian PM's other children both come from lower middle class families.The importance of attending primary school is certainly reflected in their philosophy about education. In both schools and universities, social development is promoted as the key to success, irrespective of religion, race or sex. In some schools, one or more teachers to offer free tutoring to their pupils. When free schools were introduced in England, several academic institutions established free schools and these are widely seen as being on the right track to having an educatio nal system that could possibly compete with well-funded, state-funded schools.Gold Coast Primary School is not free and will charge for tutoring. However, the school believes that if the student in the early years of schooling can become a good and independent thinker, the child will be able to eventually flourish in later life. Its research says, 'Teaching children to think, learn and create helps them become less concerned with conformity and more concerned with taking control of their lives'.The school has over 50 teachers who are on annual contracts to work for the school and the National Teaching Service, so all teachers on annual contracts are considered on a level playing field. There are six different levels of teaching that the school teaches to its pupils, with the first level being the teaching of English. The levels go up to, and beyond, the School Certificate, the Commonwealth Certificate, the University Certificate, National Diploma, Advanced Diploma and the secondary school diploma.There are two different types of primary school - one that is part of a school district and the other is an independent school. In a school district, all the teachers are accountable to a board of trustees and the head of the school district. In an independent school, the students of that school run the school and the responsibility of the school rests entirely with the head of the school.The school in Gold Coast is based on the concept of the world's oldest profession. This is how it is organized. According to the school's website, all the subjects are taught in turn from A to Z, with one subject being considered 'the most important'. Each teacher will teach to a grade group, with the teacher responsible for teaching the same subject to five different grades.Gold Coast Primary School has an annual budget of $370 million. Its research reveals that if they had no overhead costs, such as government taxes, this school would be almost free. The school's aim is to encourag e teachers to bring home and develop a career in teaching and after-school education, teaching or education administration.