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School Philosophy
At Highfields State School, we believe students fly high with learning through
- Intellectual Rigour
- Positive Relationships
- Embracing Individuality
- Connecting with Communities
Intellectual Rigour refers to the essential knowledge and skills that are required for complex and real-life challenges.
Embracing Individuality refers to accepting all students, teachers and parents as individuals, and providing programs best suited to their needs.
Positive Relationships refers to building and maintaining healthy relationships with all members of our community.
Connecting with Communities refers to linking what we do as a school to broader communities; school, local, national and global.
Highfields State School Early Years Philosophy
At Highfields State School we acknowledge that students in their early years are capable learners and that diverse and responsive curriculum delivery must be put in place to engage students in the learning process.
In our Early Years classrooms, we believe children learn best through:
- Hands-on activities
- Negotiated learning within the core curriculum
- Stimulating environment
- Play based activities
- Inquiry based learning
- Seeing the links between their prior, current and future learnings
- Enjoyment and motivation
Highfields State School Middle Years Philosophy
At Highfields State School we acknowledge that students in their middle years engage with education through purposeful and challenging curriculum, pedagogy and assessment.
In our Middle Years classrooms, we believe children learn best through:
- Negotiated learning around the core curriculum.
- Stimulating and challenging environment
- Inquiry based learning
- Enjoyment and motivation
- Links to the world and their future
- Hands-on activities
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School Context
Highfields State School is situated on the New England Highway seventeen kilometres north of Toowoomba within the Crows Nest Shire. Highfields is a relatively middle-class “dormitory outer suburb” of Toowoomba which is developing a town centre and separate identity 2.3 kilometres west of the school. Growth rate within this part of Crows Nest Shire (Division 2) is currently 6.4%.
Highfields State School is included in the Darling Downs South West Region, Toowoomba District. The school was established in 1870. The school campus includes the main Primary (Years 1-7) campus as well as Preschool / Prep and Special Education Unit (also managing student with disabilities across three other cluster schools – Geham SS, Kingsthorpe SS, Meringandan SS.)
The majority of parents/care-givers are well educated and achievement-oriented. They set high standards for themselves and for their children, and consequently have high expectations of their school in terms of how they perceive their child’s learning should be supported, and the general level of service delivered by the school. These expectations are reflected in a quite active and supportive P & C Association, a large group of parent helpers on a day-to-day basis involved in learning programs as well as with special events, and a high level of community-wide involvement at a “grass roots” level.
The school has embraced the essential principles of “Outcomes-based Education” as a model for pedagogy and has a well established “Learning Organisation” culture which recognises that we are all travellers on a life-long journey of discovery.
The core business of the school is delivered via the three areas of focus as defined by Education Queensland:
Learning: pedagogy, curriculum programs and initiatives, students and their achievements
Schools: the learning environment, the community, resources, governance
Workforce: capability and flexibility, professional learning and development, organisation, composition, deployment
Recent Highfields State School Enrolment Data
