Nerae Preece Principal From the Principal  Tuesday is going to be a very special day. It marks the start of our journey to becoming a school with new facilities, and our grade ½ students are going to be the first group of students to show us how it’s done! Our ½ team have been busily creating a welcoming learning space to bring our students together on Tuesday the 29th of March. This is the day that our students will start their learning in the balit space (Strong in woiwurrung), which is our converted gym. A big thanks to [...]

Nerae Preece Principal From the Principal  Last year I found a new hero. Not my usual type of person that I admire, but nevertheless, one that taught me so many things about being a good person. My hero is Ted Lasso. For those of you that are yet to discover Ted, he is an American football coach sent to England to coach a Premier League football team AFC Richmond. He knows nothing about football (soccer), and I will leave you with the plot there. I’m more interested in explaining what I have learnt from the character Ted. Ted [...]

Nerae Preece Principal From the Principal  In last week’s article I walked you through our proactive behaviour system that we have been using at school. I also mentioned that we were beginning our #Speak Kind Campaign, which was developed by our Respectful Relationships Leaders Mahlea and Rhashidi. Through our classroom meetings that are held in each classroom, we could see that our students were finding the unkind language and the feeling of being “left out” really hurtful. This was where the campaign started. We introduced the campaign on Monday and told everybody that swearing and inappropriate language is [...]