A Message from 

Hannah & Keir

“We would like to acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people, the first people to dream, create, wonder, dance, play and learn on this breathtaking land. This land was cared for and respected for tens of thousands of years. The First Nations people lived in companionship with the animals and the life on this land. We acknowledge that this is stolen land and we pay our respects to elders, past, present and emerging.” 

Rayma Atkinson (2023 Suzanne Peterson Award Recipient)

Transition Inquiry 

As you may be aware, BNWPS teachers and students are planning for our new Inquiry journey this week. For the rest of the term, and, as a whole school, we will be exploring and unpacking ‘change and transition’. Our school wide key understanding for this Inquiry is;  

Change is constant and everywhere. We respond to change by valuing our relationships and tuning into our emotional awareness and our mindset.

Together, teachers and students will dig deeply into this understanding as a means of ensuring that students are aware of the strategies that they can bring to new and challenging situations. Students will be working on the creation of an ‘artifact’ that they will be able to hand over to their 2023 teacher to help them get to know each other. 

One component of this Inquiry will be the change and transition sessions that will take place every Monday starting 11 November. These sessions will involve students going into mixed groups that represent the cohort that they will be in next year. These groups are not the 2024 classes, and these teachers are not the teachers that students will have in 2024. The focus of these sessions is to apply the tools that are highlighted in the key understanding in a real -life ‘change’ situation. 

Teachers Day 

In Victoria, and at BNWPS, we celebrated World Teachers’ Day on Friday 25 October.

World Teachers Day was a chance to recognise and celebrate all of the amazing BNWPS  teachers who make a huge impact on our lives on a daily basis. 

Let’s give all of the teachers at BNWPS a huge round of applause and a big Hip-Hip-Hooray for the brilliant work that they do in our community.