Thank You

The end of school is a perfect time to reflect on our achievements throughout the year and to show gratitude for the work and support of the community. I’d like to thank the school community (staff, students and parents) for their support throughout the year.

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday time planned, with the opportunity to recharge.

Year 6 Farewell

To our Year 6 students, we wish you all the very best next year in secondary school. We have a number of Year 6 families leaving our school, they are: Bell, Brown, Campbell-Smith, Claringbold, Clark, Coldwell, De Silva, Deacon, Diamond, Embelton, Farmer, Ford, Haberfield, Handbury, Howard, Hu, Kloszynski, Lee, Maguire, Mangukiya, Marshall, Nguyen, O'donoghue, Preston, Pulverman, Richmond, Robinson, Rodd, Schinck, Staple, Varon-Gerrard, Wickramasinghe, Willee, Woolnough, Yeo, Young.

I wish you good luck in the future and remind the students not to be strangers.

Farewell to Staff

The end of the year is a time we farewell staff as well. We wish the following staff all the very best in the future:

Sam Amos - transferring to Wonthaggi Primary School

Joel Nestor - transferring to Canterbury Primary School

Saniya Chan - transferring to McKinnon Secondary College

Nerida Roe - trasnsferring to Campberwell South Primary School

Helen Recht - retiring

Helen Recht's Retirement

Helen Recht began her teaching career in1980, with 33 years at Malvern Primary School.

Helen has seen many developments in education during that time and seen many teachers come and go from our lovely school.

Helen spent most of her career teaching in Year 5 and 6, where she has had a significant impact on countless students and teachers.

Helen has decided to retire at the end of this year and we wish her all the very best in her retirement, I know she has some exciting travel plans ahead.

Staffing for 2024

I am pleased to announce that we will have two Assistant Principals in 2024. Dean Napier is still Acting Principal at Hughesdale Primary School so Cadell Duke and Ben Parker have both been appointed as Acting Assistant Principals for 2024.

Teachers for 2024

Prep: Amy Steele, Jill Potter / Deb Hall, Rebecca Gower, Brooke Stirling and Andie Youren

Year 1: Sophia Anderson, Sarah Duell, Jana Bennett / Teresa Ashton, Mary Liolios and Jaryn Rambaran

Year 2: Jacqui Anderson, Chris De Lange, Barry Gallagher, Claire Robertson and Sonia Schinck / Deb Hall

Year 3: Chelsea Bower / Kristina Mahon, Lyndal de Vries and Sarah Lee

Year 4: Peter Mantzouris,Veronica Moloney and Andrea Quinn / Giuliana Bertucci

Year 5: Adriana Trikolas, James Prantzos and Cheryl Saaksjarvi

Year 6: Nick Bugeja, Bree Davey and Jess Worboys / Chelsea Bower

PE: TBA

Visual Arts: Kate Jenkinson, and Georgia Canterbury

Performing Arts: Jo Campbell, Georgia, Canterbury and Victoria Muller

Mandarin: Iris Lin

Science: TBA

Support: Giuliana Bertucci and Teresa Ashton

Support Staff for 2024

Business Manager: Vicky Cai

Admin: Jeanatte Davies

Integration Aides: Emily Chessum, Kerry Hayley, Anne Fischer and Juvi Mae Pacana

Nurse: Jenny Klein

Parent Association Thank you

Our Parent Association is an important team of parents who volunteer their time for the benefit of the whole school community. This year they have run several very successful events that have raised valuable funds for the school and supported our community to stay connected.

Thank you to all the parents involved for their support of our school community. I would also like to thank the school community for their support of the events run by the Parent Association.

Our two Parent Association Presidents are retiring at the end of the year after two years in the job. Thank you to Bree Stevens and Cherie Paterson for their tireless work, which became even more important as we moved out of covid and reconnected our community. Their committment to and care of our school community has been appreciated.

I would also like to thank Georgina Akkerman for her time as Parent Association Secretary and generally for her time on PA and committees such as Spring Fair. Again her tireless work for the improvement of our school is deeply appreciated.

School Council Thank You

The School Council's last meeting for 2024 was on Monday night. We had a number of new members join this year and we have some members leaving at the end of this year. I would like thank all members for their support and work on both the School Council and Committees.

This is the last newsletter for 2023 and I would like to wish all our families a very happy and safe holiday and New Year on behalf of the staff!

Robyn James

Robyn James

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