Westall (Clayton South)
bookmarksSite priorities
- Westall’s CALD community is actively supported through inclusive systems that ensure every child can access the health and developmental services they need.
- Support families with service system navigation and build parental capacity to support their children’s learning and development.
- Services offered on-site and off-site are seamless and easy to access for our community.
groups Site Partnership Group
Westall Primary School, Westall Secondary College, City of Kingston, Community Kinders Plus, Department of Education, Department of Families, Fairness and Housing and Colman Education Foundation (Our Place).
attach_money Funding Partner
Sabemo Foundation.
>4,622
attendances in 2025
An attendance happens each time a person attends a service or activity.
Attendance is based on a reduced number of activities, so comparison with previous data is not meaningful.
Tracked attendance numbers keyboard_arrow_down
Tracked attendance numbers are lower than previously reported due to a change in how attendances are being tracked for reporting purposes from 2025. Attendance numbers no longer include a number of events or activities such as Breakfast Clubs, Out-of-School Hours Programs and Parent Information Sessions. Reported figures are therefore an underrepresentation of overall attendances on site.
Analysis
In 2025, Westall continued to show strong family engagement, supported by high-quality early learning, literacy and parent activities delivered through the shared hub and school spaces. While changes to attendance tracking affected reported participation figures, families continued to make strong use of shared spaces and referrals between partners remained steady. Partners worked closely together to support shared priorities, particularly helping parents build confidence to support learning at home and navigate services for their children, contributing to high levels of parent confidence and partnership strength.
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Moving Forward keyboard_return
- Boosting early literacy: Through the Paint the Town REaD initiative, students took home a new book each week and participated in Story Time sessions in the on-site library. Surveys with children, parents and teachers captured shifts in home reading behaviours and tracked progress over the term.
- Strengthening family relationships: Weekly Morning Teas averaged 20 parents, improving transitions and building trust with school staff.
- Supporting pathways to employment: Holmesglen TAFE began delivering on-site support to help parents explore employment and training options to respond to emerging family needs.
- Early years engagement: Families are increasingly engaging with early learning, continuity of learning for children and home-learning activities, supported by strong collaboration across site partners.
- Continuity of learning: Maintain and strengthen continuity of learning between the school and on-site kindergarten, extend shared practices to off-site feeder kindergartens, and co-develop culturally responsive school-readiness indicators with local partners.
- Reducing barriers to health and developmental support: Develop and regularly update a shared directory of bulk-billing or low-cost GPs and allied health providers who speak community languages to support timely referrals. Explore and implement access to no-cost or low-cost allied health services on site through student placements and university partnerships.
- Strengthening the home learning environment: Continue the Paint the Town REaD initiative and support parents to apply positive home learning strategies, with a strong focus on oral language development.
- Supporting migration system navigation: Strengthen support for families to navigate the migration system by building shared knowledge, referral pathways and service networks across the site, including connections with local cultural associations.
- Strengthening employment pathways: Deepen partnerships with TAFEs and recognition-of-prior-learning providers, and work with the City of Kingston Economic Development Unit, local chambers of commerce and cultural associations to create pathways into employment for parents.