Principal's Report 

Welcome to the final newsletter of 2025! We are having a fabulous end of Term 4 and a very merry end of year. In the recent weeks we have run Wellbeing Week for both students and staff with activities and special events across the school, student represented Rangeview in the Junior State Final Hoop Time, our teachers met in their new teams for a planning week for Term 1, Level 1 and 2 students had a Dinosaur Disco, School Council met for the last meeting of the year, our Senior Rock Band went on Tour, Some of our Level 6 students received awards at a Special Assembly attended by Michael Sukkar the Member for Deakin, our students across Foundation to Level 5 had a Transition session to meet their new teachers, Our Level 6 Students attending Government Schools went to the State Wide Orientation Day, students performed in Creative Music Concerts,  Level 3 and 4 had a Fish and Chip Lunch excursion, Staff vs Students in a Volleyball match, and we Celebrated Whole School Carols at the Round.

Next week to end the year we will publish student reports on COMPASS on Monday, have the whole school Student Leaders Assembly, hold the Run Club Breakfast on Tuesday, unveil the new School Values and our recently commissioned Aboriginal Artwork, Grade 6 and Grade 5 will have their end of year Excursions, celebrate Level 6 Graduation at Box Hill Town Hall, hold the whole school last day Assembly on Friday morning, and then a whole school Guard of Honour on the grassphalt at 1pm to farewell our Level 6s. 

Teaching Teams 2025

We have completed our 2025 teaching teams and students had the opportunity to meet their new teacher and their new classmates on Thursday at our Transition Session. Each year we move students around in grades to support the growth of friendships across a level, and each year there is some change to the teaching teams. 

We are excited for our new teaching teams and to be welcoming some new teachers to the school. 

Families will note that we are moving to 4 Foundation classes. As we have had an Enrolment Management Implementation Plan for this year, we are not able to accept any enrolments from outside our school zone. This is a Department of Education support to ensure that schools with growing enrolment numbers do not grow too large. We have declined the enrolment application of over 50 students for 2025 into Foundation. 

The new teaching teams have been built and are listed below with the class names. 

Whole School Carols Night

Our entire School Community came together on Wednesday night to celebrate our annual School Carols. This incredible event saw performances by our school band, string orchestra, choirs, rock band, individual performers, and each class as Levels. It was a truly spectacular event and was described by a new teacher to the school as very 'bougie' which the dictionary defines as “luxurious in lifestyle yet humble in character,” - which I love! 

We extend our heartfelt thanks to Ms Tzimos and Ms Geilings for MCing, Ms Bonte and Ms Powell for conducting the Choir, Mr Anderson and Mr Godwin for running the Rock Band, Ms Bell for leading the Rangettes, Mr Bunston for conducting the String Orchestra, the sound and lighting techs - Mark Grummisch and Peter Lyons and their families, all of the Rangeview staff for supporting the students to performs so well, and last but not least, our wonderful Megan Campbell - who creates this amazing event and literally brings it to life. 

Awards and Recognition 

On Monday this week we acknowledged a number of Level 6 students with awards. Some awards are part of the traditional Deakin Shield Awards and were presented by the Member for Deakin, Michael Sukkar. Others are school awards and were presented by Rangeview Staff. The recipients were as follows: 

Deakin Shield Academic Award                       Nina Da Matta Kirk

Deakin Shield Visual Arts Award                      Angus De Vos

Deakin Shield Music Award                               Matthew Foo

Deakin Shield Civics and Citizenship Award Matilda Tang

School Sports Victoria Award                            Riyon Ranasinghe

Rangeview Sport Awards                                    Jared Sim, Arya Lyon and Eleanor Hall

Rangeview German Award                                 Jeremy Lai Shing

Rangeview Level 6 Award                                    James Kerr

Rangeview Academic Award                              Edie Williamson

Rangeview Citizen Award                                     Lucas Xing

Rangeview Principal's Award                              Isla Tobin

In a separate ceremony Henry Anderson was awarder the Rotary Youth Achievement Award. 

One of our Level 6 students - Avish Lakhani - represented Victoria at the National finals and was a part of the team becoming National Champions. 

One of our Level 5 students - Crosby Whitbread - competed in a team at the National First LEgo League Finals and placed first for Core Values. The team - Non-Stop - will now progress to the Asia Pacific International Tournament in July 2025. 

Two of our Level 5 students - Harliv Kaur and Diva Shukla - received Superspeak awards for Public Speaking. 

We are so proud of all of our Rangeview students for these many and varied achievements. 

School Council

Our Rangeview School Council met on Tuesday 3rd here at School and we held our final meeting for the year. We used the new school pizza Oven and the dinner was declared delicious! 

We thank all of the members of the 2025 School Council - Simon Davies, Sartaj Singh, Cassie Morris, Jess Mckay, Lauren Harbeck, Maxi Bennett, Leigh Newton, Michelle Cook, Paul Wong, Ambrin Ali, Mitch Clark, Kate McLeod, Liam Sommers, Trudy Turner, and Jo Davidson. We extend special thanks to Sartaj Singh who has acted as treasurer for a number of years and will be leaving the school at the end of this year. We wish him all the best for the future schooling of his daughters. 

Lost Property

In Term 1 2025 we will be trialling a new model for the management of the school's lost property. Families will have the option of using a new alerts system which will notify parents when items are found and added to the lost property collection. It is hoped this will alleviate this issue of searching through the items and not finding anything. More details on this new system and how to use it will be sent to families directly. 

Holiday Program - TheirCare

Our wonderful Before and After School Care Program will be running a Holiday Program from 6th January in the Gym. Any families who need holiday care can book into this service. 

The last day of the school term is Friday 20th December. There is a 1:30pm finish on this day and Theircare will be available for those families that need it. 

We wish all of our families a safe and happy holiday period and we look forward to more learning and fun in 2025! 

 

Marika Ferguson

Principal