Principal's News
Staffing for 2021
Principal: Robyn James
Assistant Principal: Dean Napier
Learning Specialists: Andrea Quinn, Ben Parker, Jill Potter
Prep: Jenny Cracknell (Level Leader), Jill Potter / Kristina Mahon (Moussalli), Adriana Trikolas, Sonia Schinck (Level Leader) and Andie Youren
Year 1: Teresa Ashton, Sarah Duell (Level Leader), Brooke Stirling, Rebecca Gower and Celia Umow / Deb Hall
Year 2: Jacki Anderson, Chris De Lange (Level Leader), Lyndal Heywood, Katherine Lewis and Will Postill
Year 3: Sam Amos, Chelsea Bower / Emma Donaldson, Mary Liolios and James Prantzos (Level Leader)
Year 4: Nick Bugeja (Level Leader), Cadell Duke, Veronica Moloney and Andrea Quinn / Kristina Mahon (Moussalli)
Year 5: Barry Gallagher, Joel Nestor (Level Leader) and Jess Worboys
Year 6: Bessie Considine, Sarah Lee (Level Leader) and Ben Parker / Helen Recht
PE: Barb Byrt and Sarah Giulleaume
Art: Kate Jenkinson (Specialist Leader) and Jana Bennett
Performing Arts: Barb Byrt and Jo Campbell
Mandarin: Iris Lin
Support: Giuliana Bertucci, Jana Bennett and Helen Recht (EAL)
Nurse: Jenny Klein
Office: Jeanette Davies and Craig Kendall
Integration Aides: Heidi Clark, Fiona Clarke, Kerry Hayley, Noah Sims and Rachael van der Geer
Child Safety
The beginning of the school year is a good time to remind parents of the need to educate their child on keeping safe, particularly when they are in public without an adult supervising or online.
Some of our students walk themselves to school and home again and many of our students have or use devices connected to the online environment and it is important for them to have strategies in place for when they feel unsure, uncomfortable or unsafe.
Teachers cover these conversations several times throughout the year, as part of our cybersafety curriculum, during social skills curriculum (including anti bullying) and other child safety curriculums (including stranger danger), also when we are alerted to potential or possible situations in the local area.
Some of the strategies we will talk to the students about include:
- Being alert and aware of the environment around you
- Nothing is ever so awful that you can’t tell someone
- Recognising the signs your body has to alert you to possible dangers
- Who are the people you can trust and tell things to
- The safety of moving in groups
- Not talking to strangers
- Not accepting gifts from strangers
- Not accepting friend requests online from people you don’t know
- Avoiding online chat rooms
- Don’t give personal details to anyone over the internet
- Being assertive
- Being resilient
- Being a good friend
- Inappropriate touching
Parents can also support their child by having regular discussions around personal safety, including online. There are several websites that provide support material for teachers and parents, please find some of them listed below.
https://www.safety4kids.com.au/safety-zone_stranger-danger
If parents have any questions, please speak to your child’s classroom teacher.
Child Safe at School
Malvern Primary School takes the responsibility of protecting the children in our care seriously. As part of our Child Protection responsibilities the school has developed a Child Safe Policy and Child Safe Code of Conduct. All staff and parents volunteers are required to sign the Child Safe Code of Conduct and follow the policies and procedures.
The Child Safe documents are designed to promote respect and understanding and protect children from abuse.
Copies of these documents are available on the school’s website, along with a number of other policies designed to protect our children including: Anti-Bullying, Anaphylaxis, Asthma, Administration of Medication, Camps and Excursions, Duty of Care, External Provider, First Aid, Mobile Phone, Student Engagement and Wellbeing, Sun Smart, Type 1 Diabetes, Visitors, Volunteers and Yard Duty.
Robyn James