Cluster schools and principals
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The Broken Creek Cluster consists of 11 primary schools and 3 secondary schools located within three distinctive areas. In the past there has been limited interaction across the cluster but within each of the three areas partnerships have existed particularly around transition and sporting interaction. The aim of this reform is to develop the cluster connection in the middle years with a view to sharing best practice and improving student learning outcomes.
Our Cluster firmly believes improved levels of achievement in both literacy and numeracy will better prepare our students for their working lives. More than any other area, Literacy and Numeracy skills develop over the entire P-12 continuum and therefore we see the pressing need for a collaborative and holistic approach towards improved outcomes in these areas. We believe students perform best when they are both happy and challenged in the classroom and this creates the utmost challenge to educators in the design and delivery of curriculum.
Middle year research and our own school based data point to a need to improve standards of achievement in English and Mathematics in years 5 to 9. Some school data within the cluster is below state benchmark achievement. This concern is reflected at the school level in current Charter Priorities. Improved standards in Literacy and Numeracy are a national goal and are a key initiative of the Blueprint for Government Schools. This research has also indicated that positive student connections not only assist in improving student achievement but also significantly enhance student well being. Planned professional development typically results in focused teaching responding to specific individual needs. -
Broken Creek Cluster
schools ( large, small )
Secondary Schools:
Cobram SC - Ms Vicki Nolen ( Malcolm Kerr - AP )
Nathalia SC - Mr Andrew Harnett ( Helen Ginnivan - AP )
Numurkah SC - Ms Kate Atkin ( Anne Harris - AP )
Primary Schools:
Cobram PS - Ms Trudie Nagle - Acting Princ. ( Mary Hockley - Acting AP )
Invergordon PS - Mrs Vicki McManus - Katamatite PS - Mrs Yvonne Cleary
Katunga PS - Mr Chris McCallum
Katunga Sth. PS - Mrs Jan Golding
Nathalia PS - Mr Brendan Bicknell
Numurkah PS - Mr Jeff Blackley ( Faye Holmes - AP )
Strathmerton PS - Ms Wendy Larcombe
Waaia - Yalca Sth. PS - Mrs Liz Lennie
Wunghnu PS - Mr Hayden Beaton
Cobram Special Development School - Mrs Jenny Barlow
Tocumwal Rd. Numurkah 3636
Postal address : P.O.Box 229 Numurkah 3636
Victoria, Australia
Phone : 03 58621088 Fax : 03 58621808
email numurkah.sc@edumail.vic.gov.au
Educator is based at this school
- Contact Information Principal: Mr Peter Krake Assistant Principal: Mrs Helen Ginnivan Phone: 03 58 662 331 Fax: 03 58 662 858 Electronic mail General Information: nathalia.sc@edumail.vic.gov.au Webmaster: nathalia.sc@edumail.vic.gov.au
- Street Address: Warkil Street Cobram Postal Address: P.O. Box 387 Cobram 3644 Phone: (03) 5871 1700 Fax: (03) 5872 2607 Email: cobram.sc@edumail.vic.gov.au Principal: Vicki Nolen. Assistant Principal: Malcolm Kerr
- Quinn St, Numurkah, 3636 Telephone: (03) 5862 1426 Fax: (03) 5862 2736, Email: numurkah.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au
- Nathalia Primary School is committed to providing students, staff, parents and the school community with a positive, safe and purposeful environment where they value and enjoy learning for life in partnership with each other. Address - P.O. BOX 5, Bromley St, Nathalia, Vic. 3638 Phone: 03 58662677 Fax: 03 58662749 Email: nathalia.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au
- Katunga South Primary School is situated 8 kilometres north of Numurkah on the corner of Tocumwal and Hays Roads. The rural area is predominantly irrigated dairy farms and orchards. It is justifiably proud of its history since 1880, and has a current enrolment of 29 children.
- Address - RMB 1560 Hays Road, Katunga. Ph - 5864 6212, Fax - 5862 6586.
- Katamatite Primary School has an enrolment of 50 children and is situated 10km south of Cobram. The school was established in 1871 and services the Katamatite community and the farming families in the surrounding area. Email: katamatite.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au
Katunga Primary School has an
enrolment of 98 children and is situated 10 km north of Numurkah.
The school was established in 1952 and services the
Katunga community and the farming families in the surrounding area.
Carter Street, Katunga. 3640, Phone: (03) 58 646 365,
Fax: (03) 58 646 511, Email:
katunga.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au
Waaia-Yalca South Primary School is located
in the small settlement of Waaia, midway between the townships of Nathalia
and Numurkah, and forty-five kilometres northwest of Shepparton. The
school, with a current enrolment of 26 students, was formed in 1994 as a
result of the merger of Waaia Primary School and Yalca South Primary
School. It continues to serve the largely rural communities of two
districts, as those schools did for more than a century. McDonald Street,
Waaia Victoria 3637, Telephone (03) 58641283, Fax (03) 58641079, E-mail:
waaia.yalca.south.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au
Strathmerton Primary School first opened in 1876 and has
occupied four sites since then. The present building, opened in
1984, is of modern brick construction consisting of five well
equipped classrooms each offering a bank of six computer, a
large well stocked library, spacious withdrawal areas and a
fully equipped staff and administrative area. There is also an
additional portable used as a classroom and “Bristol” building
which includes a kitchen. It is used for a range of educational
activities including art.
The Greater Shepparton Area is serviced by a
large number of schools delivering a uniquely "Rural Education". Smaller
schools are a real alternative. As a group there is enormous collegiality
and sharing of expertise and ideas. Children have the feeling of "belonging
to a community" and this is reflected in their behaviour and academic
achievement.
Country Education Project -
valuable website for rural schools (
funding available )
