Donations of goods and services from DESA Australia continues to significantly enhance the scope of the local area network installed during 1997. School Hours Centre Air Conditioned Classrooms Knox Gardens Primary School has modern architecturally designed permanent buildings, which are spacious and sunny. Extension and Challenge Children are catered for in the classroom setting. This is occurring more and more in the upper grades also. Budgets are provided for expenditure on appropriate resources for extending children.
All staff undertake PD in the area of catering for high achievers.
The school is moving progressively into developing a thinking curriculum, where children become more aware of how they learn best. Teachers use open-ended questioning, setting tasks which require higher levels of thought and give children more options in presenting their understandings. Classroom computers are used to cater for the range of individuals. Each classroom has access to a range of software, to aid research and skill development, and the Internet. Gateways, Trivia Challenges, Problem Solving Sessions, at local high schools.