Welcome to
Enkindle Village School

Enkindle Village School is an independent, government-accredited school located in a beautiful bushland setting on the James Cook University, Bebegu Yumba Campus.

At Enkindle, we are committed to giving our best, thinking outside the box, and continually learning and growing to ensure that each child and family is supported on their educational journey with us.

We follow the Australian Curriculum, but with a more holistic and real-life learning approach, ensuring that students engage with both academic and practical skills. Our unique path and purpose set us apart from traditional schooling, and it’s important that the decision to join us is well considered.

We welcome you to explore our website, which explains the Enkindle way and will support you in making this significant decision about whether this is the right journey for you and your child. We look forward to supporting you in discovering first-hand what makes Enkindle unique.

IDEC, the International Democratic Education Conference, described what it means to be a democratic school:

“A Democratic School is a school which is, in some capacity, self-governing, with each community member having influence on decisions and outcomes. A contrast might be made with more ‘autocratic’ school structures, in which power and authority are concentrated in the teachers and adult administrators. In democratic educational philosophy, students, including and especially children, are seen as active participants in their own learning and their environment. Each student’s voice is given weight in decision-making both personal — for instance, the direction of his or her own education — and communal — the rules and adjudications by which the school functions as a whole.” – Andy Holloway