Category: Featured

The Victorian Government has launched an anti-racism campaign that will include television commercials, action plans and a digital engagement campaign.   A number of our students were fortunate to be a part of this great campaign, featuring a former student teacher at GHPS Anita Robi.

GHPS are very proud of our diversity, and humbled by any contribution we could have played in celebrating that message further.

We are all Victorian. And proud of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3_6ahY0C0g&feature=player_embedded

Also see Anita Robi’s story here:

More details can be found on the government’s website: https://proud.vic.gov.au/

We also made it onto the official printed Multicultural Policy Statement which you can read in full here.

 

 

 

On Wednesday, our Year 1 to Year 6 students took part in The Resilience Project. Students where excited and amused by Martin Heppell, who worked with the students on building their resilience skills. Resilience is having the ability to learn from your experiences and to bounce back and beyond (posttraumatic growth), resilience leads to happiness, therefore increased cognitive capacity, and it fosters a growth mindset and increased confidence and self-belief. Please talk with your child about their experience at the Workshop. Teachers are looking forward to using the workbooks throughout the year with the children so that we can continue to build resilience in all of our students. The Preps will attend on Tuesday, 21st February.

The parent night presented by Martin on February 16 in the Wendy Wilson Hall was very well attended and we thank our school community for once again showing their commitment to their childrens’ learning and that wellbeing matters.

 

Domain.com.au have released their annual school zones report featuring school catchment zones across Australia and rising house prices, indicating a relationship between the rate of housing price growth and the quality of state schools in the catchment zone.

Though we’re sure there’s a few other factors involved in housing prices we’re happy to have been mentioned as the “top performing national primary school” by Doctor Nicola Powell, with Glen Huntly leading the national rate of growth.

But of course you already knew we were pretty awesome.

We got a mention on the the Today show this morning and keep an eye out on Ten News tonight for someone you might recognise.

Here’s a photo of Principal Libby Alessi with the Channel 10 news crew.

*Update* Here’s the video courtesy of Ten News.

And here we are too, via 7 News (1:18 minute mark).