A survey was given to 87 primary students in Years 3 and 4 at a school participating in the "Encouraging Persistence Maintaining Challenge" project. Its purpose was to give an overview of students' attitudes and beliefs about learning mathematics, their motivation, and their self-awareness. Findings indicate that most students believe mathematics is important, they feel confident and capable of learning mathematics. Students were also self-aware and identified their motivations to try hard at mathematics as: an interest in mathematics, wanting to please their parents, and feeling capable of being successful. Their learning appeared to be less influenced by peer pressure and classroom culture.