Welcome to Koonwarra Village School
Children have lots of opportunities to make decisions and have a say over how their day looks. We also encourage adventure – physical, social and academic, and have lots of excursions, camps and extra-curricular activities.
Our learning program is flexible and tailored to the needs of individual students, as we collaborate with each student to develop their skills to become effective life-long learners.
About Us
Koonwarra Village School (KVS) first opened it’s doors in 2012. We are an independent primary school offering enrolment for children in Foundation to Grade 6.
KVS aims to provide a human-scale, democratic school life that inspires a life-long love of learning for students and staff alike.
Our school couples the Victorian Curriculum with the Village School Curriculum to provide a unique teaching and learning environment. Our philosophy and guiding principles inform how we go about our day-to-day school life at KVS.
school size
KVS will only ever have a maximum of 60 to 65 students. This is an intentional limit to ensure our community is well known to each other and the relationships remain authentic. It also allows our programs to be dynamic and flexible to the needs of our students and opportunities for learning.
School Calendar
KVS operates on a slightly different timetable to other schools. We have found that breaking our year into six-week cycles (five weeks of school, followed by a one week break) allows students and mentors to be refreshed and fully engaged for the full cycle without running out of steam as the term progresses. School commences at the same time as other schools at the start of the year and finishes at the same time at the end of the year. The total number of days that KVS students will be at school is roughly the same as at other independent schools.
school newsletters
We share news about the activities and programs at KVS each cycle via an electronic newsletter. KVS also prepares an annual report each year that overviews all of our program activity and important financial and statistical information. The annual reports are available to be viewed on our policies page.
