Principal's Column

Below is a message for parents and carers from the Hon. Ben Carroll MP. 

2024 ANNUAL IMPLEMENTATION PLAN (AIP)

This year as part of our school improvement work we are working on building our capacity to:

• intentionally use the High Impact Teaching Strategies (HITS) to meet the needs of all learners, particularly in Mathematics.
• intentionally use the High Impact Wellbeing Strategies (HIWS) to meet the needs of all learners, particularly the strategies related to building student capability.develop,
• implement and monitor high quality Individual Education Plans (IEPs), which support the learning and wellbeing needs of all learners.
• embed School Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS) practices across the school.
• monitor and refine whole school attendance practices.

STAFFING UPDATE

This term we will be farewelling one of our ES, Trudy Price. Trudy will be transferring to Manor Lakes P-12 College towards the end of May. We wish her all the best on her new venture and role and thank her for all her contributions to our community!

ANZAC SERVICE

On Wednesday 24th April we held an ANZAC Day service. The service was led by our student leaders and during the service each class placed a wreath at the base of the flagpole. We thank the families that joined us.

2023 ANNUAL REPORT

Each year school's present an Annual Report to the community which outlines their progress and highlights the school improvement work that occurred throughout that calendar year. Parents/carers will be able to view the report on our home page of our website shortly (https://www.westgrps.vic.edu.au/about). 

MOTHER'S DAY STALL

On Thursday 9th May we will having our annual Mother's Day Stall. Pre-purchasing of vouchers can be made via QkR. If you would like to volunteer on day please contact the office (you will be required to have a Working With Children's Check). A big thank you goes out to some of our lovely parents who have been setting up the stall.

2024 Grades 4-6 Attitudes to School Survey

The Attitudes to School Survey (AtoSS) is a voluntary annual student survey (Grades 4-12) offered by the Department of Education to assist schools and the department to gain an understanding of students' perceptions and experience of school. We value student voice as a means to improving student engagement, wellbeing and quality instruction and will be asking your child about their thoughts and feelings in relation to their school, their learning, peer relationships, resilience, bullying, health and wellbeing, physical activity, and life in general.

This year we will be conducting the survey from the 6th of May until the 20th of May. Information has been posted on Compass to all our Year 4-6 families.

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS UPDATE

We continue to have a number of works occurring at our school to improve our grounds and facilities.  

Flooring & cabinetry upgrade

Over the recent break we had the flooring (carpet & vinyl) and cabinetry (teacher offices & sink areas) replaced in rooms 1-4 and the cabinetry replaced in the Art room. Here are some before and after pictures:

Basketball Court Shade Structure

In addition, the footings for the new shade structure on the basketball court has been completed and we hope to have the the structure itself installed in the coming weeks.

Administration Building Upgrade

We have continued to meet with the VBSA and the Project Design Consultant for administration building upgrade to improve the security of the building and access to the school grounds. We have moved to the elevations stage, which we have put up in the hallway of our administration building for your reference (colours are not finalised).

2025 PREP ENROLMENTS

Our Prep enrolments are now open for 2025. We encourage families to contact the office for an enrolment form and to get further information about the documents you require to enrol your child. Should you know anyone outside of our school zone that may be interested in enrolling at Westgrove, please direct them to the office for an Out of Zone application form. 

DISTRICT CROSS COUNTRY

On Tuesday we had 42 of our strongest long distance runners represented our school at the School Sport Victoria, District Cross Country at Presidents Park. 

Our students performed extremely well and they all should be very proud of their performance. Overall, Westgrove finished 3rd (out of 8 schools!) – an outstanding result and a testament to all the hard work the team did in the leadup – well done team!​

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Wyndham Division Cross-Country will be run on Tuesday 28th May at President’s Park. Congratulations to ten of our students who have qualified and will represent, not just Westgrove but the entire Werribee District who will run to qualify for the Western Metro Regional Cross-Country later in the term.