Dear School Community Members,

Education Week:

Our school, along with many other schools, will celebrate education week next week. This is an opportunity for our community to celebrate the wonderful opportunities, experiences and achievements our students undertake on a daily basis at Manifold Heights Primary School.

Our key events next week are:

Education Week launch at assembly: Monday, 18th May 9:05am
School Tours for Prospective Families: Tuesday, 19th May 9:30am

Wednesday, 20th May 12noon

Open afternoon for current families: Wednesday, 20th May 2:30pm

We warmly encourage all families to join us at any of the activities throughout the week.

Racism:

Mano has zero tolerance to racism!

In Victoria in 2025, 17.2% of students reported they experienced racism.

Racism refers to a variety of practices, beliefs, social relations, and phenomena that work to reproduce a racial hierarchy and social structure that yield superiority, power, and privilege for some, and discrimination and oppression for others. It can take several forms, including interpersonal, institutional, systemic, structural, internalised, and ambient racial discrimination.

Manifold Heights Primary School has a zero tolerance to racism. Our process in responding to an experience of racism is:

Student or parent/guardian report racism to a staff member
Member of leadership informed
Member of leadership respond promptly to student (victim) and parent/guardian
Contact Koorie Education Support Officer (KESO)
Prioritise time to meet with victim and perpetrator
Listen actively to victim and perpetrator
Act
Communicate openly and transparently
Check in regularly with victim

I encourage students and families to contact us promptly if you are aware of incidents of racism.

Mano has zero tolerance to racism!

Mano School Review:

This week, our school has participated in the School Review process. This is an exciting opportunity to celebrate the many achievements and improvements our school community has accomplished over the past four years, while also looking ahead to identify our priorities and improvement agenda for the next four years.

The review process provides an important opportunity to reflect on the outstanding learning opportunities, wellbeing supports, and community partnerships that make our school such a positive place for students to learn and grow. We are proud of the progress we have made together and look forward to building on these successes into the future.

We would also like to sincerely thank the families who participated in the Parent Focus Group. Your feedback, insights, and perspectives are highly valued and play an important role in helping shape the future direction of our school.

We look forward to sharing the outcomes of our School Review and working together as a community as we continue striving to provide the very best outcomes for our students.

Active Travel to School – safety:

It is fantastic that we have so many students who travel to school actively – walking, riding or scooting. With this in mind, it is essential that we promote and maximise safety so that students can continue to walk, ride or scoot to and from school. Recently we have had some incidents where a student or community members safety was compromised due to not using the crossings on Strachan Avenue or Minerva Road. I encourage families of students who travel to and from school on a bike or scooter to regularly remind them of the importance of always utilising the crossings on Minerva Road and Strachan Avenue, and walking their bike or scooter across the road after looking both ways multiple times.

Thank you for supporting our school and have a great week.

Christian Smith

PE News