Palmerston District Primary School

"Absolute nuisance to the community. Also the last election you had terribly rude, "unsupervised" (as the parents were ignoring how inappropriate they were behaving and speaking to people) kids running the sausage sizzle."

"I disliked some of the changes made in the recent few years. However, I met some great friends (Andy, Dylan, Niki, Nathan, Ryan Karwa, Aiden ) and have many happy nostalgic moments from that school. However none of them came from the toilets (They are not too good). My brother goes there now but I don't anymore."

"Surprised to see quite a few bad reviews. Both my daughters attends this school, both started from their fantastic preschool program and are now in Yr 3 and Yr 1. The school has been a fantastic learning place for my children, and this is coming from someone with high expectations of their learning curriculum. Preschool: Wonderful dedicated space in the school, with great play areas and amazing teachers. The education program is rich and inclusive. Lots of activities, and kids learned a lot of things from the standard english/math foundation to animals, nature, the human body, with significant emphasis on building strong self identity, friendship and belonging in the community. Kindergarten: Strong emphasis on building reading an math skills. Kids picked up most of their reading skills here. Great patient teachers. Yr1-3: Also very good experience, the school is enrolled in the national talent program, there is a strong music program with 2-3 very musically talented teachers (ukelele and violin lessons in school), good incursion and excursion programs. Yes there were cases of misbehaving among classmates, but I felt were handled promptly by the teachers. Its unrealistic to expect a completely robotic-level-well-behaved bunch of kids, but as long as the teachers are trained and genuinely resolve these issues, I feel assured. The school also handled COVID-19 transitions amazingly. Teaching transition to online learning and back to in-person was done well. Toilet facility upgrade to touch-free taps shows attention to detail. Overall I genuinely feel that this is an amazing place for learning. Now comes the negative: (as of 2021) - Parking! The school have expanded significantly in recent years and there is severe shortage of parking and pickup.dropoff zone. - Facilities: The school have expanded and likely need to build more classrooms to accommodate. -"

"We have been so happy at this school and preschool over the past 4 years. They are very inclusive and have excellent community activities for the children and families. Our kids have learnt a lot about life skills, recycling, environment, literacy, numeracy, science, physical activity, world cultures and respecting the traditional owners of the land too so it's great to see such a strong curriculum."

"We love palmerston primary. The teachers are amazing, the community is amazing and so inclusive. So many changes have occurred with the new principal and the kids absolutely love her and how involved in the school she is."