Dawson Park Primary School Bougainvillea Dr Forrestfield is a medium sized primary school of approximately 330 students from Kindy to Year 7. Set in a sprawling campus the school is well established with over a 25 year history and has an active P&C. The school's priorities include Maths, Literacy and Science.

Forrestfield Senior High School Principal Peter Noack with DPPS students.

The school has won many awards, recently being nominated for the state reading award. In 2007 the school has won  the Canning District Award for Educational Excellence in the Special Project category award for the Science program that dovetails Science and the teaching of Core Shared Values across the school.

In 2007 Dawson Park also entered the State Premier's Award for Excellence in Public Sector Management in the Lifestyle and the Environment category. Selected as one of 4 finalists against some very strong competition has been encouraging for the school. Premier's Awards

In order to make the most of our developing relationships with other schools in the cluster we have developed with the High School the Forrestfield Cluster Science Initiative. We envisage that the project will have several positive outcomes for the school:

1. Enable children to experience Science in exciting and new contexts, whether at the high school, Curtin University or other places
2. Give students the ability to collaborate, compete with and network with students from other schools
3. Strengthen the transition from primary to high school by making the change a less dramatic one through giving students visits to the high school that are non-threatening and interesting
4. Give teachers the framework within which they can liase with like minded associates to strengthen their Science teaching.

This link will take you to our Community Partnerships white paper that shows you how we make things grow.