Marrickville West is a school that values its community. We work to build strong and meaningful collaboration between all stakeholders.
Our mission is to provide an inclusive, respectful and successful learning environment for every student and their family, and to ensure school resources and facilities are used to their full potential to benefit and enhance our wider school community.
Connect Marrickville
Connect Marrickville SaCC is a school as community centre (SaCC), funded under the Families NSW initiative and administered through the Department of Education to support families raising young children from birth to 8 years in the local area.
Based in the grounds of Marrickville West Public School the centre offers a range of activities and services to families living in Marrickville south, regardless of which school they select for their children.
Connect Marrickville SaCC aims to:
- increase supportive connections for families
- increase use of health and community services, resources and activities
- increase social, emotional and communication skills for school preparedness
- promote early literacy for children
- increase community engagement and participation.
Connect Marrickville SaCC does a range of activities such as:
- supported playgroups
- mothers and other social groups (Japanese mothers group, Vietnamese Families group)
- adult education with childcare
- parenting groups ("Black Box Parenting", "Anxiety Coach")
- community cultural development (Mini Mela, cultural cooking exchange)
- early literacy engagement (annual reading day, stortimes in the community)
