Glen Gazette
News Updates
Growing People
Welcome to the Glen Gazette – for all the latest updates, insights, and happenings within our vibrant Glen Education community. Here, we strive to keep you informed and engaged with exciting news, educational tips, and inspiring stories that showcase the heart of our organisation. Join us, as we celebrate the growth and potential of every child, and family within our cherished Glen Education community.
Staff Updates
With four new services joining us earlier this year, we have invested in some additional roles to support operations and welcome them to the Glen Education family.
Katherine Karakostas – Marketing, Communications and Events
Kath will be supporting us all in the marketing and communications space and hopes to help deliver some impactful campaigns, fun events, and initiatives and contribute to the wonderful work that Glen Education already does and broaden our families insights to new and exciting educational opportunities, programs and services available to them.
Sabina Bennett – Customer Relation Team
Sabina has had 18 years’ experience working in customer service and working with employers to identify their business needs and coordinating student enrolments for Nationally Recognised Training. Her passion is to provide clients and customers with a positive experience through all interactions and we warmly welcome her to the Enrolments team.
Gabriel Castillo - Finance Team
With over 4 years of experience in the finance environment, Gabriel is dedicated to maintaining a track record of delivering results in payroll processing. He is passionate and always eager to bring his unique blend of skills to aid the team, achieving excellence and driving organisational success.
Annual General Meeting
On the evening of 29th May, Glen Education held their Annual General Meeting (AGM), where members of the community came together to celebrate the achievements of the 2023 year, to answer any questions about the organisation’s performance and to elect office bearers for the 2024 Board. We heard Board Chairperson, Katie Frazer, CEO, Samantha Kolasa and GM Shared Services, John Raciti, reflect on the organisation’s outstanding performance from the 2023 year, against the objectives of our Strategic Plan 2022-2024.
2023 has been a remarkable year for Glen Education, which saw three new services join the organisation, expansion into a new local government area, and the opening a new kindergarten on a primary school site. We also received an unprecedented exceeding rating, for nine out of ten services, that were assessed against the Education and Care Services National Standard. We have continued to think innovatively about our delivery models, how to meet the needs of diverse communities and have faced sector challenges with a solution-focused approach. We have remained true to our core purpose, vision, and values. Our achievements, detailed in our 2023 Glen Education Annual Report is a testament to the commitment, hard work, dedication, and expertise of all the staff at Glen Education.
Celebrating Glen Edithvale Kindergarten
*New service for 2024*
Glen Edithvale Kindergarten have been operating under the management of Glen Education, since the start of the year. Facing closure in 2023, it was the collective efforts of Glen Education, the Department of Education, Victoria (DE), Kingston Council (KCC), local member for Mordialloc, Tim Richardson and families from the community - particularly Aggie Chatz that secured the kindergarten’s future.
Glen Education have a deep commitment to helping kindergartens in ways that ensure we can provide exceptional education to the community through the delivery of high-quality education to young children and their families.
*Edithvale 70th Birthday Celebration*
We welcome all Glen Edithvale Kindergarten families, educators and local community to save the date and celebrate the kindergarten being operational for 70 years.
More details to come in Term 3.