Education QLDÂ introduces Mount Pleasant Primary School in Mount Pleasant, for all your education and learning needs.
Mt. Pleasant Primary School is situated 65km from Adelaide at the south eastern end of the Barossa Council area. The school was established in 1858 in what was originally a church. That stone building is still used today and has been partially restored. Mount Pleasant is a small school and although classed as a metropolitan school, is very much a country community school.
Student numbers have stayed between 50 and 80 students for the past 10 years. Most classes have multiple year levels. We fluctuate between 3 and 4 classes depending on numbers and year level distribution.
We have a strong commitment to Numeracy and Literacy as well as Student Wellbeing.
Mount Pleasant Primary School is part of the Eat Well, Be Active program. All students, R-7, participate in a Healthy Snack time at 10am each day. Apart from daily fitness, PE lessons we also have a Student Led Fitness time on Friday afternoons.
As part of our sustainability focus the school has a vegetable garden with a propagation and a potting shed. We also keep chickens that are fed from the scraps produced during Healthy Snack time and often from the tasting and cooking of produce from the garden. Eggs are sold, as is any surplus vegetables, to pay for chook food etc. Our aim is to have an environmentally friendly, sustainable system operating. We are presently negotiating with the Upper Torrens Land Management group to help propagate plants and collect seeds for them.
