Important Information

Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge

Mount Pleasant Road is excited to be participating in the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge. The application used this year offers a range of exciting features including:

• access to a library catalogue (including book images and blurbs)
• a modern user-friendly interface
• rewarding  students with badges as challenge milestones are achieved
• the option for students to mark books as a favourite, give them a star rating or complete a book review

The Challenge is open to all Victorian children from birth to Year 10 in recognition of the importance of reading for literacy development. Students may choose to read books in other languages to add to their challenge list. It is not a competition; but a personal challenge for children to read a set number of books by 3 September 2020.

Students from Foundation to Year 2 are encouraged to read or ‘experience’ 30 books and their teacher will add books read in class. Students from Year 3 to Year 6 are challenged to read 15 books. 

This week students will be given a username and password to log into the Challenge website. It would be appreciated if Foundation to Year 2 parents could assist their child in recording books read. Year 3 to 6 students are expected to add their books independently. All children who meet the Challenge will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the Victorian Premier and former Premiers.

Happy reading!

Tania Hosken

Website links

The coronavirus (COVID-19) website gives Victorians access to COVID-19 information through a single destination.

The Health and safety advice for all Victorian schools web page contains health and safety advice for schools to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission within a school environment.

The Department’s coronavirus (COVID-19) advice for schools web page contains information and resources including information about the COVID-19 phone line, school operations and health and hygiene.

Staff, students, and families should be encouraged to regularly check the list of public exposure sites in Victoria (where a person with COVID-19 has attended), and if they have attended a site at the times listed, follow the instructions. Visit the Case locations and outbreaks web page.

Parent/Carer Transport Survey

We (Jacob, Conrad, Isaac, Jude and Eddie in 5/6) have conducted a survey with 100 MPRPS students about how they get to school. We are hoping to collect parent/carer information about how you used to get to school so that we can compare the data. Thank you for participating in our survey. 

https://forms.gle/YZeuZeK5ogvSrot28 

Nude Food

Nude Food doesn't mean you have to go out and buy all new packaging! You'd be amazed with what you can use from home already! 

Tips: 

• Use leftover food from last night's dinner in a thermos!
• Buy a large packet of biscuits and put a few in a small container! The whole packet will last a week, reducing the rubbish!
• Try not to use cling-wrap. A container can be used over and over again without adding any rubbish!