Principal's Report 

We have had a busy fortnight at Rangeview with so many activities and events. Level 3 and Level 4 have completed their intensive swimming program, our staff have had their annual flu vaccinations, Level 5 have continued with their Life Education sessions, select students have competed in the Maths Olympiad, our staff have participated in professional learning around student engagement and effective questioning with Glen Pearsall and also a refresher PL on the RRRR model, our wonderful P&F Committee have run a hugely successful Mother's Day stall, several teachers from Mullauna Secondary College have visited to look at our Building Thinking Classrooms mathematics sessions, Basketball Clinics have begun in the gym, and we have celebrated National Education Support Staff (ES) Day! 

Level 3 & 4 Swimming 

We began the schools intensive swimming sessions last week with Levels 3 and 4 attending lessons at Aqualink in Nunawading. Just Swimming at Aqualink is an outstanding swim school with a focus on refining and strengthening technique. Students all bus to the pools and the first session is spent grading and grouping the students to ensure the instruction is targeted and the students have opportunity to move up in their skill development. We have had much positive feedback from students at all levels around these sessions and they are returning tired and happy from the pools. 

Thank you to all of the staff who have supported the swimming this year and the parents who have assisted. Thank you to Mitch Clark who organised the sessions and ensured they ran so smoothly. 

Mother's Day Stall

On Friday 9th May our Parents and Friends Committee ran the Mother's Day stall. There was a range of lovely gifts this year with students having the opportunity to purchase something really nice for mum. I managed to get a blue jewellery box this year and was thrilled! Some of our ex-students came to the school at the end of the day after Secondary College was dismissed to ask about purchasing gifts - so lovely that they appreciate this opportunity. 

Thank you to the P&F committee and to Rebecca Peers for her organisation of this event. 

We hope all of our mothers and grandmothers had a wonderful Mother's Day on Sunday. 

Professional Learning with Glen Pearsall

On Wednesday 7th May the staff had the opportunity to have a session of Professional Learning with Glen Pearsall. 

Glen Pearsall was a Teacher Leader and board member of the Victorian Curriculum Assessment Authority. He works throughout the world as an educational consultant. Glen is the author of the best-selling And Gladly Teach (2010), The Literature Toolbox (2014),  Fast and Effective Assessment (2019), Tilting Your Teaching (2020) and Classroom Dynamics (2024) He is the  co-author of Literature for Life (2005) and Work Right (2011.)  His ebook on questioning The Top Ten Strategic Questions for Teachers (2013) was translated into Khmer for Cambodian teachers. Glen is the co-creator of Toon Teach, an animated series on classroom management.

Glen specializes in positive behaviour, feedback and questioning, differentiation, coaching and leadership and teacher workload reduction. He has presented for schools on a range of subjects including High Impact Teaching Strategies, Positive Classroom Behaviours, Assessment and Feedback, Differentiation and the Brain, Leadership and VCE Literature.

Rangeview has worked with Glen a number of times over the last 10 years and his sessions are always as useful as they are entertaining. We know that our teachers and support staff got a lot out of this session to take back to their classrooms. 

Professional Learning RRRR

On Monday May 12th the staff had a Professional Learning on the Rights, Resilience and Respectful Relationships model. This PL was facilitated by our RRRR Leader Danielle Anderson. 

The Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR) learning materials are designed for primary and secondary school teachers to develop students’ social, emotional and positive relationship skills.

The RRRR learning materials include 8 Social and Emotional Learning topics across all levels of primary and secondary education:

• Emotional Literacy
• Personal Strengths
• Positive Coping
• Problem Solving
• Stress Management
• Help Seeking
• Gender and Identity
• Positive Gender Relationships.

National Education Support Staff Day

Today is National ES Day and at Rangeview we are celebrating our wonderful ES in a number of ways. At Rangeview we have ES who work to support students in classrooms with learning needs, we have ES who lead, manage and run our school admin team, we have ES who run our support programs such as Quick Smart Maths, Literacy Intervention and EAL Support, and we have ES who run the Library and fill the role of Social Worker for the whole school. 

We can never thank these people properly for all of the many and varied jobs they fill around the school, but we are attempting to today with cards, gifts and a special morning tea. 

Thank you, wonderful Rangeview ES - we could not run the school without you! 

Open Afternoon

The Department of Education has announced that Education Week will this year be from the 19th to 23rd May with the theme of Celebration of Cultures. We will be holding our Open Afternoon at Rangeview on Monday 19th May. Next Monday!

We will have classrooms open across the school from 2.45pm to 3.30pm for parents and carers to visit. This will include general classrooms and our specialist classrooms. We encourage you to attend to see some wonderful learning and activities in your child's classroom, then move to some specialist rooms to experience the fabulous learning happening in these programs. We will follow this with musical performances from 3.45pm to 4.45pm in the gym. 

Prospective Foundation Families for 2026 can visit our Foundation classrooms from 4pm.  

We hope to see you a Rangeview to experience a bit more about how we learn and grow! 

Marika Ferguson

Principal