End of Year Assembly
Our end of year Assembly was held on Wednesday and below are our award winners.
| Prep | Grade 1 | Grade 2 | Grade 3 | Grade 4 | Grade 5 | Grade 6 |
Academic | Ezra Whitson | Ariel Ang | Blair Gaylard | Liza McCreedie + Penny Attard | Caleb Ha | Sophie Welshe | Bevan Washington |
Learning growth | Noah Carson | Mason Seater-Burrell | Blair Gaylard | Kaiser Van Veldhoven | Maveric Dunn | Isla Thoren + Rebel Baker | Ned Carter + Ava Martic |
Auslan | Arthur Given | Anaya Sieiro | Navami Navin | Coen Ang | Hugh Wang | Eirene Chethalan | Sara Upton |
STEM | Poppy Middleton | Owen Johns | Archie Scullie | Lachlan Titler-Joynes | Caleb Ha | Hayley Moorfoot | Tara Chaisir |
PE | Louie Dunstan | Asela Boti | Wilma Hassett | Jordan Donehue | Declan Sutherland | Hadlee Sorenson-Fox | Xavier Hudd |
Art | Marni Stokes | Ariel Ang | Lincoln Thompson | Holly Smalley | Savannah Jones | Poppy Crowe | Heidi McCreadie |
Performing Arts | Nora Vilela Croix | Tex Andrews | Harry Laxon | Jasper Johns | Zack Edwards | Molly Moore | Ruby Parker |
RISE | Zane Sorenson-Fox | Whitney Kumnick | Lilly Luke- Allen | Favor Ndaje | Aiden Clarke | Neola Bakasa | Harper Anderson |
Peter Waldie Award, sponsored by Grovedale Lions Club: David Ndaje and Zoe Whitehead.
Grovedale West PS Grade 5 Community Award: Neola Bakasa and Isaac Harriott-Zonneveld.
School Sports Victoria Award: Pulasi Liyanage.
Corangamite Leadership and Community Spirit Award: Alice-May Swaine.
Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Award: Tyga Murphy and Evie Scullie.
We also acknowledged departing staff in Ceridwyn, Ms Kim, Miss Dimitrovski and Ms Larsen.
The 2026 Student Leadership positions were announced:
STEM Leader: Zoe Faithfull and Oliver Coomber.
Arts Leader: Ebony Parker and Penny Britten.
RISE Leader: Hayley Moorfoot and Poppy Crowe.
Sustainability Leader: Elsa Carey and Maddison Turnock.
Landy (blue house) Captains: Oscar Cooper and Rebel Baker.
Mockridge (yellow house) Captains: Ashton Baker and Beau McCarthy.
Redpath (red house) Captains: Matilda Bouts and Isla Theron.
Opperman (green house) Captains: Gem Mayall and Stella Tregoning.
Sports Captains: Harlan Hunt and Mila Anderson.
We thanked our 2025 School Captains and Vice Captains in Mila Simic, Ruby Parker, Levi Hollamby and Heidi McCreadie. They presented their blazers to our 2026 School Captains as they were announced. Our 2026 Captains are Sophie Welsh and Zayla Cleine with Vice-Captains Neola Bakasa and Oakleigh Gosper.
We thanked our departing Assistant Principal in Mrs Ovens and it was terrific to see everyone congratulating Gill on her many achievements during her time in education and when at our school.
