Principal
Mr Chris Grimmer
Child Safety & Wellbeing at Merbein P-10 College: Information For Families
Merbein P-10 College is committed to providing a child safe and child friendly environment, where students are safe and feel safe.
Our child safety and wellbeing policies (found on the college website) outline the measures and strategies we have in place to support, promote and maintain the safety and wellbeing of our students:
- Child Safety and Wellbeing Policy
- Child Safety Code of Conduct
- Child safety Responding and Reporting Obligations Policy and Procedure
- Complaints Policy
- Student Wellbeing and Engagement Policy
- Bullying Prevention Policy
- Volunteers Policy
- Visitors Policy
- Digital Learning Policy
As valuable partners in promoting and maintaining child safety and wellbeing at Merbein P-10 College we welcome and encourage your feedback.
If you have any suggestions, comments or questions in relation to our child safe policies and practices, please contact our principal, Chris Grimmer on 50 252501.
Building Update
Since our last major newsletter there has been a lot of work completed on stage 2 of our building project. Internal sheeting has been completed, new windows fitted and a new concrete ramp poured.
The images below have been provided by the architects and depict what the new staffroom and staff planning spaces will look like when stage 2 is completed, hopefully by the start of Term 4.
2023 Parent/Caregiver/Guardian Opinion Survey
From the start of next week, our school is conducting a survey to find out what parents / caregivers / guardians think of our school. The Parent / Caregiver / Guardian Opinion Survey is an annual survey offered by the Department of Education that is designed to assist schools in gaining an understanding of families’ perceptions of school climate, student behavior, and student engagement. The survey is optional but we encourage all families to participate. Our school will use the survey results to help inform and direct future school planning and improvement strategies. All families will be invited to participate in the survey by email, so if you see a message from the school email address, that will be what it is referring to – it is not spam. The email will contain a direct link to the survey and a PIN number for families to access the survey for our school.
The Parent / Caregiver / Guardian Opinion Survey will be open from Monday 7 August to Friday 8 September 2023.
The survey will be conducted online, only takes 20 minutes to complete, and can be accessed at any convenient time within the survey period on desktop computers, laptops, tablets or smartphones. The online survey will be available in English and 10 other languages including Arabic, Greek, Hakha Chin, Hindi, Japanese, Punjabi, Simplified Chinese, Somali, Turkish, and Vietnamese.
Reminder - Student Free Day Wednesday August 9th
Wednesday August 9th will be a school council approved student free day. We have presenter, Janelle McGann, from Hawker Brownlow, who will be working with our secondary staff on ‘differentiated practice’. She will be coming from Melbourne and will spend the day with our staff at the new Academy of Teaching and Leadership in Mildura. Our primary staff will be working on ‘Cognitive Load Theory’ and the implementation of ‘Learning Sprints’ (Simon Breakspear’s work) as part of their professional learning cycle.
No students from P-10 will attend school on this day.