Assistant Principal 

Assistant Principal

Sporting Success

It has been an action-packed start to the term where we have been able to encourage and celebrate our students in a variety of sporting pursuits. Our prep-year 2 students participated in junior athletics day and showed great enthusiasm and skill to bring home some ribbons for their fantastic efforts. It was amazing to see the smiles on faces as the students tried some tricky events and strived to do their personal best. Those senior students who qualified earlier in the year also represented MEPS at division athletics. Well done to each of these students who excelled in their events and qualified to challenge the best from other schools in our area. Congratulations to the senior boys' volleyball team who won their division championships and are preparing to play again at the upcoming regional competition. Excitingly, our year 3-4 girls Hoop Time team played in their regional tournament recently and were successful in being selected to represent our school in the state Hoop Time finals early in December. It is great to see all this sporting success within our community! Not to be outdone, some of our students showed their best with a mental rather than physical challenge. Our second-place finish in the recent Lions Lego Competition was a great showing. Well done to all involved for the great communication and teamwork to build to the design brief. Thank you to all of our fabulous staff and parents who have supported the organisation and delivery of these events that are always highlights of our student's learning year. 

Wellbeing Curriculum

Over the past few weeks, we have been able to further enhance our wellbeing curriculum with the provision of Life Education to all year levels. It was great to hear the way that students thoughtfully participated in conversations focused on personal safety, consent and, for our older students, puberty. The facilitators went out of their way to provide positive feedback about the behaviour and positive participation of our students which is a credit to all classes and teachers! 

Within structured classroom learning, our focus on digital citizenship and wellbeing has also continued with Inform and Empower. Development of these important digital skills and understandings has occurred across all year levels with specific developmental focuses to ensure that the content is engaging and appropriate in each year level. Across our school we have been focusing on:

Prep- Digital Agency- screen time and agency, comfortable vs uncomfortable feelings and managing online challenges.

Year 1/2- Digital Detectives- critical thinking, digital literacy and being a kind digital citizen.

Year 3/4- Being Safe and Secure- settings, keeping information private, navigating unsafe interactions and online red flags.

Year 5/6- Critical Thinking- artificial intelligence, influencers and our values, navigating unsafe interactions, media, scams and hackers and evaluating credibility.

The following tip sheets have been offered as further information for parents and carers to give you additional information about what was covered as well as providing some conversation starters for any further discussion you wish to have at home. 

Upcoming Events

With so many other upcoming events everyone is excited about, there is still alot to look forward to and celebrate together as a community in the second half of the term. Our school's student leadership MEET team has organised our participation in outdoor classroom day on Thursday November 5th. Each class will have part thier learning day connecting thier learning focus to the natural world around and being outside. Apart from the engaging learning, research promotes the positive impacts of additional time spent outdoors on mental health as well. 

Across the school you can feel the buzz leading up to a few big community events the children are already talking about. We are really looking forward to the Colour Run as well as the Prep-Year 2 performance later in the term. Thank you to all those working behind the scenes to deliver these awesome events. We can't wait to share the fun with you later in the year!

Kind Regards,

Darren Thresher

Assistant Principal 

Mount Eliza Primary School