Case study · Clyde Creek Primary

“This isn't a program at our school anymore…”

Four terms. A principal who started with one classroom. A community that ended up rebuilding itself from the inside out.

Victoria, AustraliaGovernment primary · Years P-6Multi-year partnership
Clyde
At a glance

Whole-school adoption, six-plus rounds of PD.

The full curriculum, Respectful Relationships embedded, Student Agency and Next Gen Leadership running side by side. Embedded culture, not a one-off program.

6+
Staff PD rounds
2
Leadership programs
Whole-school
Curriculum adoption
Multi-year
Partnership
In the room

The principal, in her own words.

Clyde Creek Primary · 2024
Two people playing a card game together on a hall floor during a session
A play-based session

Photograph from a School of Play session. Not taken at Clyde Creek Primary.

The story

One term pilot. Four chapters.

It started as a trial. It ended with every staff member, every student and every family doing PEGG together at a whole-school event.

Term 1

One pilot class

A single Year 4 class agreed to run the daily ritual for a term. Within three weeks other teachers were asking to join. By the end of term the whole staff had seen the data.

Term 2

Whole school, daily

Full PEGG rollout, every classroom, every morning. Students began leading their own groups by week four. Prep kids taught the Year 6 warm-up.

Family

Families come in

Parent PEGG sessions run every second Friday. Fourteen families become weekly regulars. Three parents join the school wellbeing committee for the first time.

Today

It's just how we do it

New enrolments are briefed on PEGG at orientation. Graduates write about it in their Year 6 speeches. It's no longer a program. It's the culture.

Every staff member, every student, every family.

Principal, Clyde Creek Primary

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