Myrniong - ELC to Yr6

With Premier Daniel Andrew’s announcement on Sunday framing the weeks ahead, it is confirmed RLP-2 will continue for Prep to Year Six students through to Friday, October 9th.  Our Early Learning Centre will remain open and operating as normal.  This means one more week of Remote Learning this term and the first week of Term Four.  Whilst not the ideal outcome, I have every confidence in our Junior School learning community that we will successfully navigate our way back to face to face teaching.  The theme for this week’s Junior School Assembly was ‘Agility’.  The ability to be agile is an important trait of 21st Century learners. 2020’s Remote Learning windows have provided an ideal opportunity for students, staff and parents to develop skills that will assist us to react and move with changing times.

College Values Hold Us In Good Stead

Throughout RLP-1 and RLP-2, our College values of compassion, gratitude, optimism, resilience and respect have stood us in good stead.  In a recent ABC News article - ‘Why Raising Resilient Kids Could Be As Simple As Doing Nothing’,  Clinical Psychologist Lisa Ford explored the notion that parents (and teachers) need to resist the urge to swoop in to rescue children from their problems.  “When children overcome problems and face difficult situations, they’re really building those pathways in the brain to negotiate bigger stresses when they come along.”

Last week I attended a meeting to look at our 2021 camps offerings for Year Five and Year Six. Resilience, optimism and pushing individual comfort zones are a cornerstone of our Year Five to Year Ten camps program. After many trips to Cape Bridgewater, the Grampians and Mount Arapiles, I can attest to the benefits of these experiences for our students.  Resilience is promoted and developed via a broad range of activities.  Next year we will commence a new two-year cycle of camp experiences.  Year Five and Year Six will be joined together for camps to the Grampians in 2021, and Cape Bridgewater in 2022. 

Welcome Student Teacher Miss Smith

This week we welcomed Deakin University student Miss Amaya Kalima-Smith to the Junior School.  Miss Smith has a two week placement with Ms. Simone Brabham and the Year Two class.  Miss Smith is an old Collegian.  She attended our Early Learning Centre and enjoyed a year in Prep.  RLP-2 provides Miss Smith with a unique opportunity to experience a very different sort of placement.  Certainly one to add to the CV!

Weekly Riddle

At our Weekly online Assemblies, a riddle is given out for Junior School students and families to solve.  Over 40 people responded with the correct answer to last week’s riddle - ‘I have mountains but no trees. I have cities but no houses. I have rivers but no fish-what am?’

Answer - A map

This week’s riddle - ‘What disappears as soon as you say its name?’

Stephen Nelson

Head of Junior School