From the Principal's Desk

Concert Spectacular-

Wow what an amazing evening we had at Geelong Arts Centre on Tuesday ! The students were absolutely fantastic performing their tribute to modern musicals! 

Credit to Mr Smith for teaching them so many different routines, the smiles on their faces waving excitedly to their families is just what this is all about.

Thank you to all our families for your support here, finding costumes, purchasing tickets and organising busy lives at this time of year to enable all this to happen.

A special congratulations to Lola Fearby winning the Performing Arts Scholarship award from the Bendigo Community Bank!!

Year 6 Graduation-

Another wonderful end of year tradition at our school this time for our Year 6 cohort who celebrated their graduation at Truffleduck on Tuesday evening.

It was a wonderful way to gather all families, students and staff that supported and worked with the Year 6 cohort not only across this year, but years prior as well.

It takes a village to raise a child, so giving everyone the opportunity to celebrate these young people and give out awards at the same time was really special.

The following students received awards on the night-

Winchelsea Lions Club Scholarship- Olivia Maugeri, Tom Hobbs, Mackie McPhee

Torquay Rotary Club Award- Tahlia Barr

Bendigo Community Bank Performing Arts Scholarship- Lola Fearby

Bendigo Community Bank Visual Arts Scholarship- Pippa Findlay

Wannon Leadership and Community Spirit Award- Meg Rogers

Numeracy Award- Georgia Menzies and Lachlan Ciecura

Literacy Award- Lola Fearby

Sports Award- Archie Didomenico

French Award- Tahlia Barr

STEM Award- Hudson Newling

Principal Awards- Pippa Findlay and Goldie Menzies

COLOUR RUN- Celebrate the end of the school year!

We are very excited to continue with another MPS tradition- the annual Colour Run Fundraiser.

This year we will again be participating in the colour run on the Thursday 18th December to ensure we have plenty of time to celebrate the end of year festivities. 

A white t-shirt is required for the run so that the students can get the most out of the experience with a colourful day on the horizon. Please see the compass post for further details about this event.

We raised a great deal of money this year via the portal which was amazing and all monies passed onto us via the portal will continue to go into our fundraising account where our PnF and School Council parents will continue to prioritise and monitor. 

The colour run activity will mark the official end of our school year and is a great way to celebrate a great year at Moriac PS.

Final Day Timeline-

The School will be open on the Friday 19th December for half a day and students are most welcome to be here, however staff will be moving classrooms, personal items and furniture and dependent on student numbers, we will likely combine classes and just have some movies on to support the many moving parts on that final work day for staff at our school.

We will have a small assembly to mark the end of the year and the timeline will be the following-

*Please note all students to be collected by 1:30pm

9-10:50am- Sessions 1 & 2

1:50-11:20am- RECESS

11:10- 12:20pm- Session 3

12:20-1pm LUNCH

1-1:15pm- Students final pack up in class/ bags outside classrooms

1:15pm- Assembly

1:30pm- Student Dismissal

REPORTS-

Next Wednesday you will be notified on Compass when your child's report becomes available to read. Our staff have spent a great deal of time assessing and moderating the achievements of all the children before making their teacher judgements and writing their teacher comments.

End of year reports are really a wonderful way to capture not only the second semester of progress and learning but an overall way to celebrate the success of the year as opposed to mid-year reports which are designed to inform families of the next steps and goals in their learning. If you have any concerns with your child's progress, please reach out to your child's teacher.

SCHOOL CAPTAINS 2026-

The last few weeks we have completed the process to select our school and house captains for 2026. After the very successful and demographic approach we took last year implementing a combined effort, we have decided to continue with this style approach. Students had the opportunity for self nomination, followed by some public speaking which was then followed by a process to allow both staff and students the opportunity to select the captains. As I mentioned to all the students, the quality and level of presentation this time around was exceptionally difficult to select only a handful of students to represent the school and ALL students who ran for a captain role should be very proud.

Please see below our successful captains for 2026.

School Captains- for 2026 are:

Henry Doyle

Maya Fisk

Penny Naylor

Pippa Rogers

House Captains- for 2026 are:

– Farrer House Captains- Angus Charlesworth and Stella Peacock

– Kidman House Captains- Nate Chealuck and Stella Partridge

– MacArthur House Captains- Zoe Curtis and Lily Graham

Congratulations to you all!

EXITING STAFF 2025-

As always at the end of every school year it is time to bid farewell to some staff that have made a big impact in a short space of time at our school. 

As I mentioned at the school concert last week, this year we are farewelling the following staff who have had a huge impact on our school and have supported many students across the years and we hope that whatever the next chapter brings, it is a positive and successful step for you all.

Miss Maddi Rhodes- 1/2A

Mrs Brodie Saunal- French

Mr Will Jacobs- 5/6B

Miss Jess Ljubic- Ed Support

Mrs Bree Anderson - 1/2B

STAFFING PLAN 2026-

Next year at MPS, we are fortunate enough again to have a growing middle leadership team at our school in addition to myself and Erin Gleeson. 

Learning Specialist (Maths)- Dale Evans

Learning Specialist (English)- Ryan Fischer

Learning Specialists in 2026 will teach in their classrooms for 4 days each week and be released for 1 day each to enable some priority work to be undertaken across the year in both English and maths.

Mental Health and Wellbeing Leader- Dani Mather

Prep Team Leader- Ash Merchant

1/2 Team Leader- Emma Rodgers

3/4 Team Leader- Kerri Burns

5/6 Team Leader- Dale Evans

Please see below what 2026 will look like across our school I am hoping that our staffing profile will remain as is, however in schools there are often last minute changes that are unforeseen and if that occurs, I will keep families updated as much as possible.

 Moriac PS Classroom Teachers 2026

Farewell to the following families-

For some families, Moriac PS has been a big part of their lives across a long period of time as they have seen their children through the Primary School journey from Prep to Year 6. Many families with siblings before them meaning their time at our school was even longer. The following families are finishing up at MPS as their children venture off into the Secondary School setting and we wish them all the best as they move into this new era. 

Thank you for your support and contributions to our school, you will be missed-

Ciecura family

Fraser family

Hunt family

Lupton family

Maugeri family

McPhee family

Menzies family

Merry Christmas to all our Moriac families! We hope that you have a safe and magical time, that Santa brings you something you've been hoping for, that your time with your families is relaxing and well spent and that you switch off from the craziness that this time of year brings. 

We look forward to seeing you all in the new school year!!