Assistant Principal's Message
Sue Gordon
A message from our Assistant Principal
Winter Wonderland
Congratulations to James, Marlene, My Linh, Anthea, Maricel, Charlei and the team for a fabulous Winter Wonderland evening last Saturday night. There is a great deal of effort and organisation that goes into putting an event like this together. It was a great night! Thank you to everyone who attended the event and bid on silent auction items. It has been a fabulous fundraiser for MPPS. We will let you know of the final figure once it has all been calculated.
Learning & Wellbeing at MPPS
We have recently completed our mid-year Annual Implementation Plan (AIP) review with Rachel George, our Senior Education Improvement Leader (SEIL) and our colleagues from Elsternwick PS and Cheltenham PS, who we are working as a triad to support one another with ongoing school improvement.
Learning
Our AIP Learning Goal is about stretching learning for all students in literacy and numeracy. To monitor progress against this goal we collate and analyse data from a range of sources, including: DET surveys, NAPLAN results, learning walk feedback from our triad schools and tools we design ourselves for real time feedback, such as our stretch to new learning student survey and student focus groups.
Our NAPLAN results for 2025 reflect the climate, culture and learning environment our teachers are creating for high academic performance. In Year 3 and 5, 80% - 90% plus are achieving strong or exceeding in reading, writing and numeracy. These results are well above the State and either in line with or above similar schools (schools with a similar demographic to MPPS).
Our Learning Walk and Professional Learning Culture (PLC teams made up of our teachers) feedback reports consistently strong implementation of teaching practices to support high outcomes for students in all classrooms.
Our MPPS Learning Stretch student survey (completed by all cohorts) provided an interesting and alternate perspective. Students agreed or strongly agreed that teachers provide opportunities for them to be challenged and stretched in their learning in reading, writing and Maths. They also agreed or strongly agreed that they take responsibility for stretching their own learning. Students consistently reported that they don’t like to feel uncomfortable or to find learning too challenging. When these results were unpacked with our Student Voice Council, they explained that students recognise the stretch to new learning opportunities provided and are feeling challenged, but they don’t like to risk getting things wrong. Hence, preferring right or wrong tasks rather than the opportunity to take things as far as they possibly can with open ended tasks. This confirms the staffs’ perception and is a great space for us to continue to work in for the second half of this year. As research and evidence shows, we can only achieve high outcomes and learning stretch when we move out of the comfortable and take risks with our learning. A growth mindset we will continue to promote and develop for our students.
Looking forward to seeing you around school.
Kind regards,
Sue Gordon