Bridgewater Primary School

About us

a child 
colouring in a picture book

Bridgewater Primary, nestled in the Adelaide Hills, aims to develop and sustain a dynamic learning community. Involvement with the 'Learning to Learn' project supports our belief that there had to be better ways to learn. Our journey has led to developing constructivist learning environments based around student-centred learning principles, regular constructive feedback and non-comparative assessment.

The belief that learners need widely differing learning opportunities and time to build their understandings means they are actively involved in personally planning, monitoring and tracking their learning. Mathematics and English are core learning areas. Strong family partnerships have helped develop our community garden linked with the 'Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Foundation'.

Extra-curricular activities are highly valued by the school community and include: participation in a wide variety of sporting activities, school choir, a 'Jump Rope' demonstration team, 'Tournament of Minds', 'International Competitions and Assessments for Schools' testing, Information and Communication Technology groups and Kidskills and environment community projects.