Specialist Programs

We have outstanding specialist staff who provide targeted programs in Music, Art, Physical Education, Indonesian (Years 3-6) and Science. Our teachers are enthusiastic, dedicated and caring, working hard to ensure every student achieves success.

The Arts – Music 

All students from Year 1 to Year 6 attend 1 hour of Music lessons each week. These lessons are with a specialist teacher and the Music program include singing, playing instruments, composition and much more. 

We offer select students in Year 5 and 6 private musical tuition in guitar through the Instrumental Music School Services and these students celebrate their learning by performing at our end of year school concert. Warriapendi Primary School hosts a senior choir for students in Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 who love to sing. This dedicated group of students rehearse before school and perform at many school and community-based events. 

Physical Education 

All students from Year 1 to Year 6 attend 1 hour of Physical Education lessons each week. Our program assists students’ physical fitness and interpersonal skills. The focus of each lesson is on sportsmanship, teamwork, helping each other and persistence. Students regularly participate in extra curricula activities such as morning fitness, lunchtime sport and assorted carnivals and competitions. We have outside sporting agencies visit our school to run sporting clinics and we participate in interschool events throughout the year.  

Science

All students from Year 1 to Year 6 attend 1 hour of Science lessons each week. These lessons are with a specialist teacher who provides students with ways to explore and gain a greater understanding of the world. Students are encouraged to think critically and creatively to explore different ideas. They make predictions about the topic they are investigating and express their knowledge and understanding in a variety of ways. 

Indonesian (Year 3-6)

Students from Year 3 to Year 6 participate in the Indonesian language program for 1 hour per week.  Students explore language structures and cultural similarities and differences between Indonesia and Australia through a variety of collaborative tasks. They develop basic conversational skills through role plays, short stories, songs and poems, vocabulary recognition games, and teacher/student discourse.Through their study of the Indonesian language, students at Warriapendi Primary School develop an understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity in a global society.