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.

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Responsibility - Inspiration - Strength of Character - Empathy

Issue 41 · 19 Dec 2025

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