Operations & Community

School Operations

Decision-making structures

Governing Council, Parent Club & OSHC committees are active. Teaching & SSO staff meet each week at staff meeting and will discuss and make decisions wholistically. PAC & WHS decisions are also raised and discussed at staff meeting.

Regular publications

The Newsletter with student & class news is published three times per term. The school contributes to the bi-monthly Blyth community newsletter “A Town Called Blyth.”

Other communication

Classes use Class Dojo, and email to communicate with families. The school advertises on the “big screen” at the local cinema, and uses the local newspaper located in Clare for highlighting of events.

Local Community

Location

Blyth Primary School is a small school located within the township of Blyth. There is strong community support for the school and currently, an OSHC offers after school care. Playgroup also caters for birth to 5 year olds once per week.

The school is 14 kilometres from Clare. The Blyth community is a predominantly farming community.

Services in the town

Local services in the town include a  cafe, hotel, and agricultural supplier, post office, party hire, art gallery and cinema. Regular tree planting has led to a healthy environmental program. There is strong community support for various sporting activities including football & netball with Blyth combining with Snowtown to become the “Blyth/Snowtown Cats”. There are housing blocks, which border the school’s oval released for sale during 2005 with homes progressively being built.

There are generations of families who have lived in Blyth, but some other families are now choosing to live in Blyth and commute to Clare or other areas for employment. Families access Clare as the nearest shopping, medical and dental facilities that are available.

Parent and community involvement

There is community pride in the school and all events and programs are usually well attended. However, it is the situation of a small town where many parents & community members also hold positions on other committees and are involved with other organisations or have work commitments so this impacts on the organisation of some events and planning to ensure maximum participation. We welcome in community members to support our reading and numeracy programs (a valid WWCC is required for this).

A community Garden is being hosted on the North Western edge of the school oval.