Mr Irwin's Message

Term 1 Week 3

Hello families and officially welcome back to the 2020 school year. A particular welcome to our new families be it in prep or who’ve joined us across the school. We have started the year on 187 enrolments, which is the biggest enrolment the school has ever had.

I’ve been really impressed by the way students have settled into the school year.

We started the year a little differently in 2020 with our Learning to Learn program. The first 7 days of school were designed around ensuring we developed a consistent, safe, orderly and engaging learning environment for the year. Students were part of developing the routines and expectations in their class. It was fantastic to see so many parents take us up on the invite of our open classroom on Friday. Both the junior school and senior school were buzzing with students keen to share what they’d done.

A learning to learn booklet was sent home with students. Take the time to look and refer to this throughout the year.

Please note the school newsletter is the official method by which school communicates to parents. We try to include all relevant dates of events and happenings around the school. Please make a point of reading the digital newsletter fortnightly on a Tuesday. Families who have provided an email address have been subscribed to iNewsletter and will receive an email when the newsletter is available to view. Alternatively, the latest newsletter and past editions can be viewed on our website and click on the 'Newsletter' tab. If you use Facebook and don’t follow our Facebook page I'd encourage you to do so as it provides a great lens into what happens in class on a daily basis.

Below this video I've added some information about our new discoveries approach for 2020. This is a change we’ve made in 2020 to providing subjects across the school. The feedback initially seems positive from students, families and teachers about discoveries and we look forward to sharing more with you about them during the year.

Welcome to our Preps!

Preps looking a little weary on a Tuesday afternoon. Looking forward to a day off!

Healthy Lunch Box Choices

For more information go to: https://heas.health.vic.gov.au/schools/healthy-lunchboxes