Doncaster Gardens Primary School has established shared values and a common language that sets out expectations for each student’s involvement in the school.

Our values are:

• Compassion - displaying empathy for others and a desire to help.
• Courage - the ability to face difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or being deflected from a chosen course of action.
• Curiosity - a desire to know or learn something.
• Creativity - the ability to use the imagination to develop new and original ideas or things.

The following is a list of programs/activities which promote positive behaviours and high student engagement at Doncaster Gardens PS:

• Start Up program (beginning of the year)
• Circle Time
• Restorative Practices
• Year level Assemblies
• Buddies (Year 5)
• Student self-assessment (semester 1 & 2)
• Drug Education
• Encouragement Awards
• Aussie of the Month
• Chess
• Choir
• Orchestra
• Camping program (every 2nd year)
• Life Education (every 2nd year)
• Kids’ Hope (selected students)