Primary Extension and Challenge (PEAC) is a part-time withdrawal program for upper primary school Years 5-6 students.

Identified gifted and talented students are selected to participate in differentiated programs offered in a range of delivery modes.

Delivery modes include:

- PEAC centres based within a district centre or office with a series of specialist courses or programs.
- Coordinators who establish courses in a range of schools and/or other sites, with teachers released to teach these.
- Allocation to schools where multi-age programs operate within schools.
- Online delivery of programs.

Programs focus on:

- Social interaction with gifted and talented peers.
- Intellectual rigour and challenge.
- Pursuit of excellence.
- Development of higher-order process skills.
- In-depth investigations of real problems.
- Open-ended activities that encourage choice and negotiation.
- Opportunities to interact with practising experts.
- Students working at their own pace.
- Self/peer evaluation and reflection of performance.

The Arts have the capacity to engage, inspire and enrich all students, exciting the imagination and encouraging them to reach their creative and expressive potential. Visual Arts is taught by a highly skilled and talented Visual Artist teacher. Students in Years 1 to Year 6 attend in the well resources Art room each week to learn skills in various art techniques.

Visual Arts incorporates all three fields of art, craft and design. Students create visual representations that communicate, challenge and express their own and others' ideas, both as artists and audience members. They develop perceptual and conceptual understanding, critical reasoning and practical skills through exploring and expanding their understanding of their world, and other worlds.

Visual Arts engages students in a journey of discovery, experimentation and problem-solving relevant to visual perception and visual language. Students undertake this journey by utilising visual techniques, technologies, practices and processes. Visual Arts supports students' ability to recognise and develop cultural appreciation of visual arts in the past and contemporary contexts through exploring and responding to artists and their artworks.

Spearwood Primary School is implementing a Social and Emotional life skills program throughout the school.

Highway Heroes and Little Highway Heroes are programs developed by:
* Claire Orange, Science Speech & Hearing (Hons), Prof. Counsellor, Accredited Resilience Trainer and
* Helen Davidson OT, Masters Social Science (Counselling), Dip. Family Therapy

The Highway Heroes curriculum provides structured and fully resourced lessons in each of the Social and Emotional Learning areas that have been identified by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) - the international body in children's wellbeing. The school selected this Life skills program based on having seen it successfully implemented in other schools. We believe that this program will best meet the needs of our students.

Playing instruments is an integral part of a balanced music program. The specialised study of instrumental music further enhances student learning in music.

Instrumental music is:
* an enrichment of the normal classroom music program in primary schools
* an integral part of the program for most music students in secondary schools.

Not all students are prepared or able to commit themselves to the specialised study of instrumental music. The program offered through the Instrumental Music School Services is aimed at those students who show keen interest and aptitude in music, and who are prepared to make an ongoing commitment to musical activity.

Students are tested for aptitude in year four. Spearwood staff work with families to select students to participate in this free program in year five, continuing into year six. Students may choose to enrol in Music Specialist programs in high school.

Students from Year 1 to Year 6 take part in an Italian language and cultural program at Spearwood Primary School taught by our Specialist Teacher. Our cultural program is structured to develop students understanding of Italian by explicitly teaching the key concepts and skills required for language acquisition.

In Physical Education, students learn how to enhance their wellbeing and physical activity participation in varied and changing contexts.

Pre-Primary to Year 6 students participate in Physical Education as a specialist learning area. Students also do fitness and other physical education sessions with their class teachers. In the early primary years, the focus is on Fundamental Movement skills. In middle and upper primary classes fundamental game skills are taught

Spearwood Primary School utilises, Inquisitive and Primary Connections, for Science Instruction which are based on the 5e Pedagogical Model. This model is a guided inquiry framework to help create, deliver and review lessons and units of work in a well-equipped purpose-built Laboratory classroom.

A highly motivated specialist teacher takes Pre-Primary to Year Six students each week to: Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate and Evaluate utilising Inquiry skills. The four areas of: Earth and Space Sciences, Physical Sciences, Chemical Sciences and Biological Sciences are covered over the course of th year.