“We would like to acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people, the first people to dream, create, wonder, dance, play and learn on this breathtaking land. This land was cared for and respected for tens of thousands of years. The First Nations people lived in companionship with the animals and the life on this land. We acknowledge that this is stolen land and we pay our respects to elders, past, present and emerging.”

Rayma Atkinson (2023 Suzanne Peterson Award Recipient)

School Leadership 2025

We are happy to announce that Keir will be stepping into the role of acting Principal for the beginning of 2025. Subsequently, Emma Mallia will be stepping into the role of Acting Assistant Principal. Keir and Emma are excited to continue the work that they have been doing with Hannah over the past few years. Our School Council will work with our SEIL (Senior Education Improvement Leader) to undertake a process for choosing the substantive Principal mid to late 2025. Keep your eyes on the newsletter for further information and timelines. In the interim, the focus and feel of the school (that we all know and love!) will continue on as normally as possible.

Parent/Carer 2025 Class Placement Information

Part of our class formation process is inviting parents and carers to provide relevant information for consideration when we are creating classes. We want to assure all parents and carers that we know your children very well and go to great efforts to create balanced classes for everyone. Each year we do an analysis of parent requests to teacher data - the vast majority of parent requests are already in our system by the time our Google form closes. If you feel there is additional information about your child that you need to share, please follow this link to a Google form that will ask you a short series of questions. Providing information about your child does not make any guarantees.

Whether you are sharing information through the form above, or just preparing your child for the changes that are coming, please remember that we face significant complexity when finding the right combinations for our 400 students and for a number of different reasons, some requests cannot be granted. If, after seeing your child’s class list for 2025, you have questions about why certain decisions were made, we are very happy to talk through our thinking and reasoning with families, but we cannot guarantee any appeals will be upheld.

In next week’s newsletter, we will be announcing our 2025 Teaching Teams, as well saying a fond farewell to a few of our 2024 staff members.

TikTok and Social Media Platforms

The school has become aware that there is a Tik Tok account that is tagged to BNWPS. Posts on this Tik Tok account are unkind and do not align with our community values of Authenticity, Respect, Creativity and Connection. We would like to remind families that Tik Tok (and other social media platforms) are not created with children in mind. If this is something that you have questions about, please follow this link from the E-safety Commissioner of Australia about How to navigate key online milestones for your child.

The Nor'Wester

BNWPS is committed to Child Safe Standards and prevention of child abuse

Issue 35 · 11 Nov 2024

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