The school’s purpose is to ensure that all students develop an awareness and pride in their own culture whilst applying their knowledge, understandings, skills and attitudes to achieve their individual potential, thereby enabling them to participate fully in the school and wider community.
The school provides a caring, supportive environment for all children, particularly indigenous children. It caters for individual learning styles, sets high standards and has a strong belief that all children can learn. The school believes in and fosters tolerance, diversity and working collaboratively.
The promotion of Aboriginal culture in assisting Aboriginal children to accept and value themselves and their culture is central to the learning program.
Learning is developmental. The children are encouraged to be independent learners, with clear expectations and boundaries and are encouraged to be critical and reflective learners. The school works as a whole team with an expectation of commitment to improving outcomes for children and working within the school ethos. Children are encouraged and guided to make choices/decisions and be accountable for their choices.
As the Indigenous culture is central to all the learning programs, LOTE (Language Other Than English) and the Arts (Drama, dance, visual and music) maintain a focal part in the curriculum. Each learning community moves to the Cultural Centre to participate in these parts of the curriculum, often integrated into the other learning areas. A community garden including an Aquaponics project and a traditional cooking space are included in this cultural area enabling integrated real-life learning experiences.
Each learning community has provided not only a sense of place, but also an adaptability that allows a number of different pedagogies to be developed. Access to adjacent activity spaces and outdoor areas enables project based learning to be easily accommodated while maintaining adequate supervision and provide excellent facilities for cooking, science and technology activities. The teaching areas have incorporated high bandwidth information and communications technology enabling computers and media to be integrated into all lessons, including wireless access to the external covered areas.
Family and community members are greeted at the front office by our warm, welcoming friendly staff.
Annual Events involving Djidi Djidi School include; Harmony Week, ANZAC Service, NAIDOC, Combined Schools Music Festival , Presentation evening and year 7 Graduation, Book Week, Science Week, Literacy and Numeracy Week, and Family days.
