Victoria Road Primary School, Lilydale | Fees, Address, Admission, Vacancies, Reviews & More

Attended for 7 years and it was all good until the new principal came in and decided to change everything that made the school good. On top of that, the lack of effort to help students who struggle with learning causes them to fall behind the rest of the class. Teachers are unhelpful and rude to parents and show constant favouritism to certain students.

Another thing is that students often are involved in violent and dangerous arguments in and out of school which often enough is brought to the schools attention, usually met with no action.

Overall I would NEVER recommend sending your kids here

it was good until the new principal changed the whole school, literally everything was just changed. so many people have problems here and the top building isnt even being used anymore because no one wants to even want to stay at this school. the teachers seriously dont know how to teach or control a classroom.

Victoria Road Primary School recently joined us for a school camp at Roses Gap and were a pleasure to work with. The staff were amazing and so well organised from start to finish. The students were friendly, had amazing manners, and were confident to challenge themselves on the activities with great peer support. The group also showed great resilience when some adverse weather impacted the camp during the week. Thanks to all at VRPS for a great week, and we hope to see your school back at Roses Gap in the future.

As a parent of 8 years at the school, It has been a whirlwind of changes, however, my family have always felt respected and able to openly communicate. Every school has positives and negatives. VRPS has had it far share, yet I am confident my children lives have been enriched. Here is what I love about the school:

– Display of compassion, empathy and individualised learning. Demonstrated and adapted very differently for my two children within their primary school journey.
– One of the many changes was to offer a holistic approach well-being, traditional education and life skills delivered through a great resource of programming. My kids have opportunity to learn traditionally in the classroom and within the natural environment whether that’s through learning about basics of horticulture, peer group activities or classroom setting.
– The classroom spaces seems to be a great learning environment and easily adaptable for traditional education and/ or modern relaxed, yet structured approach.
– The positive behaviour strategies and programming is hands down a wonderful achievement. It teaches my kids about their own behaviours and builds emotional intelligence. Strategies that workplaces with adults pay for as “professional development”. To have the foundations taught at young age regularly shapes for a positive culture and future.
– Pet therapy: offers kids with fears the opportunity to reduce them, kids who are not fortunate enough to have a pet have exposure and benefit.
– The last 5 years, specifically has generated a very positive cultural shift. This evident with the great sense of pride and community.

Our family has been part of the community at Victoria Road Primary School for 5 years now and we absolutely love it. The staff are amazing and go to such great lengths for the kids. In our time there we have witnessed so much wonderful change happening both in the curriculum and in the school facilities. Learning spaces are bright and open and the kids have access to so many different ways to learn through specialist subjects and areas of interest. I’ve found the teachers to be supportive and more than willing to work with us to help our child. I highly recommend Victoria Road Primary School.