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GRADUATING CLASS OF 2021

We congratulate our amazing Year 6 students as they come to the end of their Primary School Journey! We wish you the very best for the next chapter at your High Schools! Be sure to come back to South Melbourne Park to visit us! 

REFLECTIONS FROM A YEAR 6- BY MIA

I still remember painting and drawing on the first day of kindergarten, finger painting with pinks and blues. Playing with multiple different sized blocks as well! Always so noisy all the time. Kindergarten went so quickly; I feel like it was yesterday when I walked through the big red door and met my teachers! But at the same time, it felt as if it has been so long ago. And children. Many of them…just…like me! 

Two years later I began Primary School (Richmond West). It was the total opposite of kindergarten. So many kids, lots of them, to me it like there was billions of them, always crowding over you. Well for me, I guess I’ve always been short. I think I’ll always be short forever! Unfortunately. 

A few years went by and I was in grade 3. I felt so old already. At the end of the year, I moved schools, left everything I liked, I left my friends and started a new chapter of my school life. Here at the school, I am today, South Melbourne Park Primary School. Brand new as well, had just been built…but still no friends. Finally, I made some, but then lost some and found more too! 

The next year I was in grade 5, second last year of Primary School. Then came lockdown! If I could describe it, it was a child and parent stressing prison camp at home. We couldn’t go anywhere, nor could we go outside! This was all of course because of Coronavirus. Many upon many people died or got sick, masks became compulsory. From my point of view, I hated it. The whole thing was just a bug, gigantic, NO!

Year 6, top of the school and last year of Primary. Happy, nervous, daunting, scared and starting another new chapter of school life. Next year is going to be much harder than Primary, and extremely harder than Kindergarten of course. I’m looking forward to high school, its going to be fun but at challenge. As in (challenge) I mean homework! No one I my class likes homework. But I guess, I will unfortunately have to deal with it. 

Two weeks to go until hot, sunny days, slurpees, pools, beaches, and no school, well, Primary school that is! I’ll be off and away so now is the time to make the most of it because I don’t have much time before I leave. Leaving friends is big for me, because most of my beloved friends are in year 5 or 4. I guess they will be my wonderful excuse to visit the school sometime! 

GRADUATION CELEBRATION

A wonderful celebration, with lots of fun and laughter!