Important Information

As part of our Duty of Care to your children and to ensure their safety at all times we have a comprehensive Yard Duty and Supervision policy this can be found on the school website and via this link 

Before and after school Mount Pleasant Road Primary School’s grounds are supervised by school staff from 8:45am until 3:40pm. 

Outside of these hours, school staff will not be available to supervise students. Kiss and Drop off is monitored by a staff member as well as a staff member roaming the school grounds including all entries and exits. 

Parents and carers should not allow their children to attend Mount Pleasant Road Primary School outside of these hours. 

Families are encouraged to contact OSHClub for more information about the before and after school care facilities available for our school community. 

If a student arrives at school before supervision commences at the beginning of the day, the Principal or nominee staff member will, as soon as practicable, follow up with the parent/carer to: 

● advise of the supervision arrangements before school 

● request that the parent/carer make alternate arrangements. 

If a student is not collected before supervision finishes at the end of the day, the Principal or nominee staff member will consider whether it is appropriate to: 

● attempt to contact the parents/carers ● attempt to contact the emergency contacts 

● place the student in an out of school hours care program (if available and the parent consents) 

● contact Victoria Police and/or Child Protection to arrange for the supervision, care, and protection of the student.

Mobile Phones in Schools

Some students are wearing smart watches to school with features including messaging, camera and video etc. As in all schools across Victoria MPRPS introduced the Mobile Phone Policy which at our school includes all messaging devices including smart watches and iPad messaging. Please refer to the link here  

or as published on our website. 

We understand for security and peace of mind many students do have these devices and most follow the direction of: Mobile phones brought to school must be switched off and stored securely during the school day. This includes switching off the messaging function of the smart watch during the school day. 

We ask that parents/carers support us with this direction by not messaging or allowing their child to message during the school day. All messages that you need to communicate to your child need to come through Reception. This is to ensure your child’s safety and remove any interruptions to learning.

Assembly

2.45pm every Monday (except last week of the Term.)

Statement of Intent - Term Overview

Each term, teachers spend time reviewing the Victorian Curriculum and MPRPS Scope and Sequences to develop a flexible overview or 'Statement of Intent'. These can always be found on our school website and are available below, outlining the key concepts that students will be focusing on.

Annual Privacy Reminder

Our school collects, uses, discloses and stores student and parent personal information for standard school functions or where permitted by law, as stated in the Schools’ Privacy Policy. Please take time to remind yourself of the school’s collection statement, found on our website. For more information about privacy, see: Schools’ Privacy Policy information for parents. This information is also available in nine community languages.

Yr 3 and Yr 5 Families: NAPLAN Locked Down Browser Download

In preparation for the upcoming NAPLAN Assessments in Week 7 and 8, please ensure that your child/ren in Years 3 and 5 have downloaded the NAP Locked Down Browser 2024 from the App Store. If it is already on your child's iPad, please ensure that it is the most updated version with the 2024 logo shown below. You may also click this image to take you directly to the download page. 

In addition to this, we ask that all students have a set of headphones (and if they wish a keyboard) at school as they will need to use these for many of the NAPLAN assessments. 

Thank you so much for your support in helping to make this process smooth. If you have any questions, please message your classroom teacher via Sentral.