Yarraville West Primary school | |
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Yarraville, Victoria , 3013, Australia | |
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Website | www.ywps.vic.edu.au |
Yarraville West Primary School, located in Yarraville, Melbourne, is a educational school for children aged 5–12. Unlike other schools it has prep, 1/2, 3/4, 5/6 classes. It has a new hall that is being built in the senior end of the school.
The school has a website called Mathletics that many students use, a few of them such as Sam P and Conrad B have made it in the world hall of fame. One of them made it to 1st place on the Australia world hall of fame.
In 2009, the school came second in the walkarari prize for their animation, Anna's Doll, and in 2010 they won it for there animation, "Duck out of the water". In 2009 the school won 2nd prize in Solar boats challenge. In 2010, on 2 occasions some of the classrooms were badly damaged from thunderstorms. The school is allowed to use the Yarraville oval during Recess and Lunch. The school enters Athletics competitions every year. It has a cross country competition every year for grades 4, 5 and 6.
The school has 2 weeks of school in the normal holidays and has 6 weeks of in the Christmas holidays.