Our heartfelt thanks to our Mentone Park families for your support and positive feedback during these months of remote and flexible learning. Our congratulations to you also on your efforts and hard work to ensure that our children are completing all the set tasks and joining the Google Meets sessions on a regular basis. We are proud of the way the Mentone Park PS community has worked together during this time. We are pleased that all Mentone Park PS students are returning to school on Monday, October 12th .

Welcome back to school for this final term of learning!

From Monday 20 July, all students will be undertaking remote and flexible learning.

Students in Prep to Grade 2 have been provided with individual Home Learning Packs, and these are required to be collected and returned each Friday.  A small number of videos have been posted to the MPPS Home Learning Website such as stories and phonic/digraph clips to support the packs.   Students in Grades 3 to 6 will be expected to meet every morning at 9am via Google Classroom, and will utilise this and the Home Learning Website for the setting and submission of work.  Students can ask questions of their teachers via Google Classroom, parents can contact teachers via Compass.

Mentone Park’s Home Learning Site can be accessed here:

The Department has a range of options for you to continue to support your students in their learning, available at the Learning from Home website education.vic.gov.au/homelearning.

The latest information about coronavirus (COVID-19) and schools is on the Department of Education and Training website: education.vic.gov.au/coronavirus

If you, your child, or a family member develops symptoms of a fever, chills or sweats, cough, sore throat, shortness of breath, runny nose, loss of smell or taste, you should get tested at a coronavirus (COVID-19) testing facility and stay at home.  This is vitally important to keeping our school community safe.

If you would like health information from the Department of Health and Human Services, you can visit dhhs.vic.gov.au/coronavirus

Foundation Learning Area

No matter if you are a first time visitor, prospective family or current family, please make sure you visit our new addition to the Foundation Learning Space. This outdoor classroom sits at the entrance to the Foundation Learning Area and will be a wonderfully engaging space for students to learn and families to gather at drop off and pick up. A big thank you to the Hon Mark Dreyfus, Federal Member for Isaacs and his team for providing the well needed funds to assist us with the creation of this amazing outdoor learning space.

Return to On-Site School

Thank you for all your continued support and patience during these past few weeks of remote and flexible learning.  We look forward to welcoming our students back to the classroom!

Following advice from the Chief Health Officer, the Victorian Government has advised that schools can begin a phased return to on-site schooling.  To support all school staff to prepare for this transition, Monday 25 May will be a pupil-free day.  In the first stage, students in Prep, Grade 1 and Grade 2 will return to school from Tuesday 26 May.  In the second stage of our return to on-site schooling, all other year levels will return to school from Tuesday 9 June.

Term 2 Remote Learning

Following advice from the Victorian Government, Mentone Park Primary School will be moving to remote and flexible learning for Term 2.  This is a step all Victorian Government schools are taking to help slow the spread of Covid-19.  This means that all students that can learn at home, must work from home.

Students can access the Mentone Park Primary School Home Learning Site via this link:

WELCOME TO 2020

Welcome to 2020 where the first few weeks of school have been extremely engaging for students, families and staff with Cultural Days, Swimming Carnivals, Information Evenings and “Get to Know You” Interviews, just some of the great happenings at Mentone Park Primary School.

Our students were immersed in Aboriginal culture through the incursion program presented by Western Creation, which included facepainting and traditional Aboriginal art, dance and storytelling. Thanks to all students for their wonderful participation and willingness to be involved and engaged in these important lessons about Australian history and culture.

OUR 2019 GRADUATES

Congratulations to our 2019 Grade 6 Graduates!  We wish them all the best as they embark on their Secondary School education.

DOLPHIN SWIM

Our 2020 Marine Ambassadors were inducted into the program with a boat ride to look for dolphins 🐬 and do some snorkeling. No dolphins unfortunately but plenty of seals, fish and even some sea dragons!  A wonderful opportunity for these students to enhance their understanding of the marine environment.

KINGSTON COLOUR RUN

Our 2019 Kingston Community Colour Run was an HUGE success! We had around 800 people attend and it was truly wonderful to see our school and the broader community come together for such a fun morning! With wonderful feedback from both those outside and within our school community we can’t wait to do it again next year!  A huge thank you to every single person who came along, and to all those who helped in the lead up to the day and who were instrumental in supporting the event on the day. The event simply would not have been the success it was without the involvement and support of our fantastic Mentone Park community!  With an incredible $17,000 raised this will go towards resurfacing the basketball and netball courts and will be an amazing enhancement to our school.

OUTSTANDING STUDENT LEARNING RESULTS!

Congratulations to our Year 3 and 5 students for their wonderful NAPLAN results this year. Not only were our individual results the best we have seen in years but also our growth data was some of the best in the state.

All students at Mentone Park Primary School are given every opportunity to grow with the guidance and support of our wonderful staff and supportive culture of excellence. Come and see for yourself why our students are achieving such great results.

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Calendar Of Events

2020

November

Monday 23                    Book Week Dress Up and Activities Day

Tuesday 24                    Prep 2021 Transition Session 1

Thursday 26                  Prep 2021 Transition Session 2

Monday 30                   Whole School Transition Session 1 2.30pm-3.30pm

December

Monday 7                     Whole School Transition Session 2 2.30pm-3.30pm

Tuesday 8                    Statewide Grade 6 to Year 7 Transition Day

Monday 14                   Whole School Transition Session 3 2.3pm-3.30pm

Wednesday 16            Grade 6 Graduation Celebrations

Thursday 17                 Grade 6 Big Day Out – Gumbuya World

Friday 18                       Last Day Term 4, 1.30pm dismissal

At Mentone Park Primary School we use the Compass student management system.  Compass is an all-inclusive online portal that allows you to report your child’s absences, communicate with your child’s teacher, update your family contact details, download semester reports, track learning tasks, book parent teacher conferences, and pay and provide consent for school activities and fees, all within your personal family portal.

Access Compass on a desktop or laptop via the button below, or download the Compass App to access these features as well as receive all communications from the school, including newsletters and other reminders.

Click on the button below for a Guide for Parents and Families on using Compass