Principal's Update

Angelika Ireland

Industrial Stop Work Action

The Australian Education Union has called on its members (teachers and ES staff) to take strike action on Tuesday, 24 March 2026.   This will result in many of our teachers and ES staff not being at school on that day. If your child’s teacher is taking part in the Stopwork, your child’s class will not be required at school on that day.

We ask that you prepare for alternative care for your child/children on this date if required. 

Parents will be notified via a Compass post after 5.00pm on Friday, which classes are affected.

School Council Elections 2026 - Ballot Results

Thank you to all the parent/carers who forwarded a ballot paper for this year’s School Council elections. We received 167 ballot papers from our families. Vote counting took place at 3pm on Tuesday, 11 March.

I am pleased to announce the outcome of the 2026 School Council elections. The successful candidates will join, or continue on, School Council for the period beginning March 2026 until March 2028. Congratulations to the following Parent Members  - Sandy Grapsas, Asli (Ashlee) Aykac, Linda Alibas and Maria Panev. 

I sincerely thank the parent School Council members Zeliha Tintas and Hemila Hakimelahi for their term on School Council and for their contribution to our community. 

Resignation 

Kristie Hollow resigned from her position on School Council last week due to personal commitments. Kristie has been on School Council since the 2021 elections and has contributed significantly to special events and fundraising, school council operations and has held the role of Treasurer since June 2024.  I thank her for her valuable contributions as a School Councillor.

To fill the remainder of Kristie’s term, School Council has co-opted Hameer Khawaja. We welcome him to School Council.

School Council membership as of March 2026, until March 2027 is as follows - 

Parent Members – Linda Alibas, Asli (Ashlee) Aykac, Maria Dellios, Sandy Grapsas, Zehra Hussein, Hameer Khawaja and Maria Panev.

DET Employee Members - Angelika Ireland, Brett McGinniskin, Gabby Tigafua and Trudy Williams.

Non DET Community Member – Natalie Youkhanna.

Cross Country

Cross country for our Year 3-6 students was held at school last Wednesday 11th March.

Thank you to Andreas Jordanidis for his organisation, to the staff who supported the event and to the parents who came to spectate.

We received a positive email from one of our parents who did attend….

Good morning, I just wanted to take a moment and say thank you for all of your hard work in organising the cross country yesterday. The course was well organised and it was great to see so many students encouraging each other along the course. Another parent was sitting beside me and got so excited when a song was played in Arabic! It’s the little things like that, that make me happy that my children are part of the Greenvale Primary School community. 

Collection of Personal Information

The Department of Education (the department) values your privacy and is committed to protecting information that schools collect.

All staff including contractors, service providers and volunteers of the department, and all Victorian government schools (schools), must comply with Victorian privacy law and this policy.

In Victorian government schools, the management of personal information and health information is governed by Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 (Vic) and Health Records Act 2001 (Vic) (collectively, Victorian privacy law). In addition, the Department and Victorian government schools must comply with the Victorian Data Sharing Act 2017.

This policy explains how Victorian government schools collect and manage personal and health information, consistent with Victorian privacy law and other associated legislation.

Our school collects and uses student and parent personal information for standard school functions or where permitted by law, as stated in the Schools’ privacy policy and the Schools’ privacy collection notice.

For more information about privacy, refer to: Schools’ privacy policy: information for parents. At this link, this information is available in eleven community languages:

( Amharic, Arabic, Chinese, Dari, Gujarati, Mandarin, Somali, Sudanese, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese).

EID

For our families who will be celebrating the end of their fasting this weekend – ‘Eid Mubarak’

Food For Thought: 

Regards

Angelika Ireland