About | Tuntable Falls Community School, Primary School, Nimbin

Our Mission Statement:

Tuntable Falls Community School believes in an educational approach that provides children with experiences to grow into their unique selves in an inter-dependant web of community.

Community is at the centre of our philosophy. We nurture dynamic and interwoven relationships between children, staff, families, and the broader community to foster a deep sense of belonging.

We hold space for children’s self-expression, discovery, and personal growth by cultivating mutual respect and modelling empathy within a diverse community.

Children learn through unique experiences that the environment and community are inseparable from themselves. By supporting children’s individual learning styles, they are equipped with the passion, knowledge, and tools to build their own future.

At Tuntable Falls Community School we equip our students with the knowledge and skills to be curious learners and embrace a wide realm of future educational and life choices. Our strong numeracy and literacy focus is delivered through progressive, experiential programs that value children’s individual learning styles.

Sustainable and Environmental Education (SEE) is the core pillar of our curriculum, and the guiding principle of our management and resource decision making.

History

Tuntable Falls Community School was established in 1981 by families living on the Tuntable Cooperative Community, who wanted an alternative education for their children which was consistent with their values.

environmental sustainability
integration between family, community and school
valuing each child's gifts and learning style

By establishing and maintaining an independent parent-run school, these values continue to be at the core of our philosophy.

Location

Tuntable Falls Community School is tucked away in the lush rainforest of the Tuntable Falls Valley, bordering the World Heritage listed Nightcap National Park, and close to the vibrant diversity of Nimbin village in Northern NSW.

The school's natural surroundings and the children's freedom to interact with it is fundamental to the school’s culture. Our children swim, build dam walls, and skim stones in the creek. They climb trees, build cubbies and play hide and seek in the rainforest.

Up We Grow

Over the last forty years the Tuntable Falls Community School has steadily grown from a small one classroom school to acquire several additional buildings and invaluable resources.

With a flourishing vegetable garden, large child friendly kitchen, well-stocked cosy library, music and dance facilities, maker-space, thriving beehives and a new nature playscape, our children can immerse themselves in learning through play while teachers creatively facilitate opportunities to inspire their curiosity.

Stephanie Alexander

Kitchen Garden

We completed our Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden in 2013. This beautiful garden and kitchen are fully integrated into our learning programme as well as our daily school routines.

The children all contribute to what is grown, and they take great pride in gathering and helping to prepare the produce for the scrumptious vegetarian school lunches.

Nature Playscape

Through a 2019 NSW Government’s My Community Project grant we have been privileged to imagine and construct a new nature playscape with a wide and wonderful range of equipment and spaces for sensory exploration and physical discovery.

The children’s rainforest playground is beautifully complimented by a giant pendulum rope swing, timber tepees, obstacle logs, flying fox, tunnel slide, rope climbing ramp and the newly refurbished cubby castle and water-play sandpit.

Tuntable Falls Community School

History

Tuntable Falls Community School was established in 1981 by families living on the Tuntable Cooperative Community, who wanted an alternative education for their children which was consistent with their values.

environmental sustainability

integration between family, community and school

valuing each child's gifts and learning style

By establishing and maintaining an independent parent-run school, these values continue to be at the core of our philosophy.

Location

Tuntable Falls Community School is tucked away in the lush rainforest of the Tuntable Falls Valley, bordering the World Heritage listed Nightcap National Park, and close to the vibrant diversity of Nimbin village in Northern NSW.

The school's natural surroundings and the children's freedom to interact with it is fundamental to the school’s culture. Our children swim, build dam walls, and skim stones in the creek. They climb trees, build cubbies and play hide and seek in the rainforest.

Stephanie Alexander

Kitchen Garden

We completed our Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden in 2013. This beautiful garden and kitchen are fully integrated into our learning programme as well as our daily school routines.

The children all contribute to what is grown, and they take great pride in gathering and helping to prepare the produce for the scrumptious vegetarian school lunches.

Nature Playscape

Through a 2019 NSW Government’s My Community Project grant we have been privileged to imagine and construct a new nature playscape with a wide and wonderful range of equipment and spaces for sensory exploration and physical discovery.

The children’s rainforest playground is beautifully complimented by a giant pendulum rope swing, timber tepees, obstacle logs, flying fox, tunnel slide, rope climbing ramp and the newly refurbished cubby castle and water-play sandpit.

Tuntable Falls Community School

117 Upper Tuntable Falls Road, Nimbin, NSW 2480

ABN: 194 711 081 36
© 2022 Tuntable Falls Community School

History

Tuntable Falls Community School was established in 1981 by families living on the Tuntable Cooperative Community, who wanted an alternative education for their children which was consistent with their values.

​

environmental sustainability

integration between family, community and school

valuing each child's gifts and learning style

By establishing and maintaining an independent parent-run school, these values continue to be at the core of our philosophy.

​

Location

Tuntable Falls Community School is tucked away in the lush rainforest of the Tuntable Falls Valley, bordering the World Heritage listed Nightcap National Park, and close to the vibrant diversity of Nimbin village in Northern NSW.

​

The school's natural surroundings and the children's freedom to interact with it is fundamental to the school’s culture. Our children swim, build dam walls, and skim stones in the creek. They climb trees, build cubbies and play hide and seek in the rainforest.

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Stephanie Alexander

Kitchen Garden

We completed our Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden in 2013. This beautiful garden and kitchen are fully integrated into our learning programme as well as our daily school routines.

​

The children all contribute to what is grown, and they take great pride in gathering and helping to prepare the produce for the scrumptious vegetarian school lunches.

Nature Playscape

Through a 2019 NSW Government’s My Community Project grant we have been privileged to imagine and construct a new nature playscape with a wide and wonderful range of equipment and spaces for sensory exploration and physical discovery.

​

The children’s rainforest playground is beautifully complimented by a giant pendulum rope swing, timber tepees, obstacle logs, flying fox, tunnel slide, rope climbing ramp and the newly refurbished cubby castle and water-play sandpit.