What's Happening 

PREMIERS' READING CHALLENGE

The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge is now open and Murrumbeena Primary School is excited to be participating. The PRC application 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. It is not a competition; but a personal challenge for children to read a set number of books by 17 September 2021.

Children from Prep to Year 2 are encouraged to read or ‘experience’ 30 books with their parents and teachers. Children from Year 3 to Year 10 are challenged to read 15 books.

All children who meet the Challenge will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the Victorian Premier and former Premiers.

To read the Premier’s letter to parents, view the booklist and for more information about the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge, visit: www.education.vic.gov.au/prc 

Your child will receive a log in from school with their username and password at the beginning of next term. 

Children will be encouraged to read and add books at school, as well as any additional reading undertaken from home. Children are  encouraged to begin to record books read over the holidays and they can add them as soon as they receive their username and password details. 

We hope all the children at Murrumbeena Primary School embrace and enjoy this challenge.

Jeanette Baker  and Amanda Daemen   

PRC Super Coordinators

EASTER RAFFLE

The Easter raffle was drawn today at a special  assembly. 

Congratulations to all of our lucky (and very excited) winners!

CLASS DOJO REMINDER

The staff at Murrumbeena PS are really excited to introduce Class Dojo as way of sharing what is happening around the school. It is a fun and interesting way for us to share photos, videos and messages about what is happening around the school. 

By now you should have received an invitation to join the school’s Dojo page. So far, a whopping 280 families have joined our school page. 

If you have not received an invitation, but would like one, please send either myself or your child’s classroom teacher a message.

Using Class Dojo, teachers can post announcements, events, reminders, share photos and videos of classroom activities. Families can like and/or comment on photos, videos and events. Messages can be translated, and the story caption can be in your preferred language as needed.

Dojo will not replace Compass, but rather complement it. Compass will be used for all formal communication with teachers, access to student reports, reporting student absences and giving approval for excursions and camps. Dojo is a way of sharing the everyday school lives with family to help improve communication and continue to build a sense of community.

We hope you love our Dojo Page us much as we do!

Fiona Sewell 

Acting Assistant Principal