Principal's Message

At Wembley Primary School, we acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which our school sits, the Woi-wurrung and Boonwurrung people of the South-Eastern Kulin Nation. 

We celebrate and respect the oldest continuing culture and recognise the importance of education in truth telling, equity and justice.

We pay our respects to Elders past and present and recognise and value the learning that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, colleagues and community bring into our schools.  

Week 7-8 Update

We finish this fortnight celebrating two very important themes: 

• Everyone Belongs - Harmony Week 
• Celebrating Different Minds - Neurodiversity Celebration Week 

Our Diversity and Inclusion Captains spent some of their lunchtimes collecting data from our student cohort about: cultural background, whether they were born in Australia or not, and whether they follow a religion or speak a language other than English at home. This raw data was then shared with classes to be used as part of their core lessons - most commonly, maths, however students also investigated different cultural celebrations as well as spending time sharing personal stories. 

This Friday, as a final celebration, students and staff are encouraged to wear a 'Touch of Orange' and our Junior Choir will sing the song, 'Together' at Assembly. 

Occurring at the same time has been Neurodiversity Celebration Week; I spent time with our Diversity and Inclusion Captains last Friday, as they interviewed a number of people about the importance of celebrating our differences, and what inclusion means to them. Students have been exploring the idea of celebrating our unique strengths and differences. Interested in finding out more? Below is the official Primary School's Powerpoint Presentation: 

Onwards and Upwards Psychology also developed a special Presentation specifically for Neurodiversity Celebration Week: 

It's also been a sports-themed couple of weeks, with 12 of our students participating in the District Swimming Competition, held at Oak Park Sports and Aquatic Centre. See our student celebrations page for full details and results 🏆.  This week we also had several Western Bulldogs players out to visit our Year 3 students. Matthew Kennedy, Rory Lobb and Bailey Dale all engaged our students in heroic footy tales, and hosted an engaging Q&A. 

Finally, this fortnight the school launched a new 'Borrow and Play' system for our students, in order to maximise positive engagement during playtimes - thanks to Simon Zammit's idea! The process is led by our Year 6 captains, and students are able to borrow from a long list of additional equipment, including: volleyballs, velcro throw & catch mitts, skipping ropes and spike ball equipment. So far we've had a total of 370 borrows since we launched, averaging 80 borrows a day! 

Congratulations to all of our Year 3 and Year 5 students who completed their NAPLAN assessments this fortnight - we had a succesful testing period, with all students giving the tests their best go. I'd like to thank  Renee Johnson and Kristen Kosowski in particular, for their oversight of the process. 

We've continued to impress upon our students the importance of displaying safe behaviours in and around the classroom, yard, and of course, toilets. Students have been responsive to an associated House points system, with a dramatic improvement in the overall cleanliness of our toilets and behaviours in and around the space. We have also engaged our Department contractors in a deep clean of the canteen urinals, which we hope will improve students' comfort when using the facility. 

We look forward to a successful and fun final fortnight - thank you to all parents for your encouragement and support thus far in our opening term. 

~ Katie McClue: Acting Principal ~

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