Casuarina Street Primary School is a young school. It opened at the beginning of the 1998 school year. It was used as an evacuation centre for the 1998 Katherine floods. The official opening of the school was on the 3rd September 1998 by the Hon Mike Reed MLA the member for Katherine, Deputy Chief Minister. The enrolment at the start of 1998 was 164 children comprising of 9 classes, a PE teacher, Teacher Librarian and a Principal.

Casuarina Street also has a thriving pre-school

LOCATION

Casuarina Street Primary School is located in a town called Katherine which is in the Northern Territory in Australia. Katherine is located approximately 315km south of Darwin. Katherine is the centre of a large region covering cattle country, farmlands and national parks

FACILITIES
Casuarina Street...

CONDITIONS
Terms and conditions for working in Katherine town schools can be found on the 'Teaching in the Territory' website.

PROGRAMS
The Group Schools have a number of programs running including ESL...

OPPORTUNITIES
Our school believes that each child's knowledge, attitudes and self esteem will be extended as a result of a positive relationship between home and school. Such a relationship will promote our common goal of seeing growth and development in each child. Our school will work to fulfil the right of all children and their families to an educational service of the highest quality.

To this end we strive to develop relationships with families that are based on mutual trust and open communication. We encourage parents to share their knowledge of their child and we reciprocate by sharing our knowledge of children in general to promote the most effective nurturing of their education.

Visit the 'In Town' section of the 'Katherine Region' pages of the Rivers Cluster site to learn more.

WEBSITE
You can find us on the web at:
http://www.schools.nt.edu.au/csps