Mullum Matters

From Marie

TERM 2

Shop For Your School

We are very excited to announce that Mullum Primary School came second in the Shop for Your Schools competition and have received $4000 to put towards the purchase of new reading material for Grades 3-6 and maths resources for all classrooms.  We would like to thank all of our families, and their extended families, who ensured we were in the running for a major prize, for all the time spent uploading receipts.  We would also like to thank Eastland for their support of local primary schools in Maroondah.

 

Easter Raffle

A huge thank you to the parent community and Parents' Association for a successful Easter Raffle.  We had thirteen wonderful prizes to raffle off due to the generous donations of everyone in the school.  Ticket sales raised $1635 for the school.  Congratulations to Nick (5/6Y) for taking out the first prize.

 

ANZAC Day Dawn Service

On Friday 25 April, our School Captains represented Mullum Primary School at the Dawn Service held at the Ringwood Clocktower, last Friday morning at 5:30am.  It was lovely to see a few other Mullum PS students and their families in attendance.

 

Dates for your calendar

Please check out the "Dates for your Diary" section of the newsletter each fortnight for updated information about events and happenings at school.  Each fortnight I mark new additions to the calendar with (NEW), making it easier to scan for new events to add to your calendar.  

 

Golidlocks has been into Foundation!

Oh boy!  Has Goldilocks made a mess in Foundation!  As part of the fairytale story telling unit, Foundation students were surprised and shocked to see that Goldilocks had recently come to their classroom and broken a chair.  Stop signs were also made to keep Goldilocks out of the classroom.  Check out the new chairs designed and constructed by our Foundation students:

 

F.R.O.G's Launch

Do you love growing your own vegetables and sharing your harvest with others?  There are other families at school who also love to this and are ready to launch a new opportunity to be involved in our school community.  The FROG's launch is this Friday at 2:15. Check out the Stephanie Alexander Kithen Garden page of this newsletter for more information.

 

School Production 

Not long to go now.  Only 12 more sleeps until we are on stage at Karralyka Theatre with our school's performance of Ali Baba and the Bongo Bandits.  Tickets are now on sale at the office, or via the paper order form sent home last week.  Each seat is $30, with children 2 years and under, to sit on a knee.  Check out the designated page in this newsletter for more information

 

Foundation 2026

Enrolments for Foundation 2026 are now open and a link was sent home via Compass on Tuesday.  We have some upcoming Foundation 2026 events that you may be interested in:

  • Monday 19 May - 7:00pm - Parent Information Night - Teachers will be taking you through the teaching of literacy and numeracy in Foundation.  This may be different information for you depending on when your other children went through Foundation.  Worth coming along and hearing about the work in this space.

  • Tuesday 27 May - 4:00pm - Bring along your child to the Foundation classrooms for an hour of activities, please stay and meet and greet other families who are interested in our school.  Following this event at 5:00-6:00 is an Open Night at school for all other classes.  We look forward to you joining us for both.

  • We also conducting tours of the classrooms on Tuesdays and Fridays (or any other time in between).  You may like to invite friends and neighbours to check out our school too.

New boats and seats

Over the holiday period there was some maintenance work undertaken in the playground, with new boats and seats installed.  The Junior School Council completed fundraising in 2024 with our Colour Run raising money for new seats around the playground, which were installed during the Easter holiday period.  The new boats were donated to the school by friends of Mullum Primary and have replaced an older boat.  Check out these happy sailors and the comfy chairs for two:

 

Junior School Council are happy!

We gathered together all Junior School Council members from the last three years who came up with the idea of the benches (2023), raised money for the benches (2024) and then finally they are installed (2025).  Congratulations and well done JSC!

 

ICAS Assessments

In August, we are excited to be offering external assessments conducted by International Competition and Assessments for Schools (ICAS) for families of students in Grade 2 and above.  This is an optional activity and has a fee associated with each assessment.  Please check out the designated page in this newsletter for more information and information coming out tomorrow on Compass.