Skip to content
Kismet Park Primary School

Our school

A school among the gum trees, grounded in community and proud of its place in Sunbury.

Kismet Park Primary School is located in Sunbury’s leafy Gum Tree Hills estate. We are a Foundation to Grade 6 school with a proud history and a strong reputation within our local community.

Mission, vision and values

What the school is actually for

Our mission

Building the Foundations for Success and Happiness.

Our vision

Our vision is to ignite a passion for learning in our students and equip them with the skills and mindset to thrive and achieve excellence.

Be Your Best

It’s about effort, growth, and becoming more capable, more confident, and proud of what you can do.

Respect

It’s shown in how we speak, how we listen, and how we treat the people and places around us.

Resilience

Things won’t always be easy, and we won’t always get them right. What matters is how we respond, learn, seek support when we need it, and find a way forward.

Kindness

We teach children to look out for others, act with care, and help create a school where everyone belongs.

Welcome from our Acting Principal

“I am privileged to be serving this community.”

A very warm welcome to Kismet Park Primary School. Our school is situated in the leafy green area of the Gum Tree Hills estate in an established part of Sunbury, and I am privileged to be serving this vibrant community.

We are proud of the strong reputation our school maintains within our local area. We are renowned for offering high quality programs within a warm and welcoming community. Our highly skilled staff provide a safe, secure and engaging learning environment. We are a school that supports collaboration with a focus on continuous improvement and places students at the centre of all that we do.

Learning and teaching at our school is grounded in research. Professional learning for staff is intentional, ongoing and reflective of the school’s strategic plan. Teachers work within the framework of a Professional Learning Community and refer to data to make decisions for the next level of learning. Strong literacy and numeracy practices, underpinned by structured Inquiry and access to technologies, ensure that learning for our students is engaging, relevant and significant.

In addition to this, we believe that high academic achievement holds equal weight to nurturing student wellbeing. We instil respect and an inclusive culture through supporting our students to adopt restorative practices to improve and repair relationships.

Our specialist programs encourage students to be curious, creative and willing to take on new challenges. Through STEM, students design, investigate and solve problems; Physical Education builds confidence, movement skills and healthy habits; Japanese develops language skills while broadening students’ understanding of culture and the world around them.

Together with our staff, I look forward to meeting you and your child, and serving to ensure that your child’s primary school journey is filled with success and happiness.

Sam CarltonActing Principal

Kismet Park school leaders walking across the oval with the school captains

What we run on

Four shared values that shape how we learn, work and treat one another every day.

  • All children can learn and achieve at high levels when they are given the right support, challenge and time to grow.
  • Shared responsibility for continuous improvement.
  • Differentiation through personalised learning, goal setting, conferences and feedback improves student capacity for learning and engagement.
  • High expectations for all in our learning community.
  • Principal as lead learner.

Our team

Who works here

Our leadership, teaching teams, specialists, education support and office staff.

Sam Carlton, Acting Principal

Sam Carlton

Acting Principal

Louisa Beckenham, Assistant Principal

Louisa Beckenham

Assistant Principal

Foundation

  • Felicity DobsonTeam Leader
  • Amy Bonnici
  • Carlie Lake

Year 1 and 2

  • Cassie Hampton-SmithTeam Leader
  • Brodie LaneLiteracy
  • Jasmine Tidswell
  • Madison Bialobrzeski
  • Marc Simpkins
  • Netty Merewether

Year 3 and 4

  • Brenna WohlersTeam Leader
  • Meagan O’SullivanNumeracy
  • Antionette Buchholz
  • Cassie Cunningham
  • Hayley Jackson
  • Jessica Barry
  • Louise Cashen

Year 5 and 6

  • Taylah ReesTeam Leader
  • Ashleigh Meagher
  • Donna Matthews
  • Jody Bretherton
  • Leah Price

Specialist teachers

  • Zac CorcoranPhysical Education
  • Kylie DelacoeSTEM
  • Rachel McAllisterJapanese
  • Rebecca JuzefowiczVisual Arts

Wellbeing and first aid

  • Davina RowellFacilities and First Aid Coordinator
  • Helen Woodhouse-WardleFirst Aid Officer
  • Sophie MildenhallSchool Chaplain

Office

  • Brooke ApollonioBusiness Manager
  • Simone KingAdministration

Education support

  • Adelle Meddings
  • Brooke Rennie
  • Jade McNeill
  • Kirsty Jones
  • Laura Potts
  • Lorna TaylorCanteen Manager
  • Michelle Patocs
  • Navjot Kaur
  • Sarah Cann
  • Shelley Spark
  • Sue Hooper
  • Sue Marshall

Learning specialists

  • Brodie LaneLiteracy
  • Meagan O’SullivanNumeracy
  • Maddie VuSpeech Pathologist

Policies and reporting

Key documents, all in one place

Every Victorian government school publishes key policies, its strategic plan and annual report. You can find Kismet Park Primary School’s current documents below, ready to view or download at any time.

School policies

Child safety, attendance, uniform, digital technologies, complaints and the rest of the set.

Strategic plan

The four-year plan that shapes what staff professional learning and school improvement focus on.

Annual report

How the school performed against its plan, published each year for the community.

Child safe standards

Kismet Park is committed to the Victorian Child Safe Standards and to the safety and wellbeing of every child.