A full calendar of events can be found in the Compass App

13-16 November - Swimming lessons week 1
20 - 23 November - Swimming lessons week 2
28th November - Whole School Photo
1st December - End of Year Concert - 2pm
8th December - Swimming Carnival
13th December - Grade 6 Graduation
14th December - Colour Fun Run
20th December - Last Day of School Year - 1.30pm finish

2024 Learning Friends Survey

A reminder that our Learning Friends survey will close on Friday at 4pm. This is the only opportunity for your child to choose friends for their 2024 class so please take the time to complete it.

End of Year Concert

Time to get excited for our End of Year Concert. Classes are busy practising their performances. Please see the flyer attached for more information.

Curriculum day

Last week, the teachers worked in their teaching teams to deep dive into our student data. They shared work samples, moderated against the curriculum and had discussions about all the learning growth our students have made this semester. What a day! The teachers are now continuing with the report writing process. Reports will go live on Compass on Friday 15th December.

Parent Night

Our Parents Association are hosting a Parent Night at Rutherford’s Wine Bar on Friday 24th November. It will be a great opportunity to celebrate the year and spend a relaxing time together.

Success of the Prep transition

Our 2024 Prep Transitions have now all wrapped up. It has been such a thrill to see our future students make new friends and spend time getting to know their school. We look forward to them coming back again on December 5 for their Meet the Teacher morning.

It Takes a Spark Conference

On Friday the 17th of November, selected grade 5/6 students will be attending the It Takes a Spark STEM conference at John Paul College in Frankston. Ms Pollard and 12 of our very own MVPS students will be presenting a Coding Workshop to other students from across Victoria, where they will demonstrate how to create a chase game using the coding program Scratch. Needless to say, we are so proud of the hard work and dedication of our teachers and students in order to plan and prepare their Coding workshop. Our students will attend other student and teacher run workshops, listen to keynote speakers from the STEM industry and be inspired by the new technology that will be showcased at the conference. We will share student reflections on the conference with you next week.

Amy Tinetti
Principal

Casey Gould
Assistant Principal

Malvern Valley Parents Association and TheirCare are thrilled to invite all MVPS students to participate in a School Color Run. The Run will take place on Thursday 14th of December, on the Oval and playgrounds at MVPS with the event running from 1pm - 3.30pm. Please note: All costs for this event are covered by the PA.

We kindly ask that students bring a change of clothes to school to participate in the event with a suggestion of a white t-shirt and shorts. All powders that we will use are machine washable, non-toxic, safe for the environment and they won't stain clothes, hair or skin.

TheirCare will be supplying a BBQ for the students and teachers for the event, and they will be catering for vegetarians, gluten-free and vegans, but if your child does have a dietary requirement please email the Parents Association (mvps_pa@outlook.com) to ensure we can accommodate their needs.

If you do not wish for your child to participate in this, please let your child's teacher know.

If you have any questions about this, or if you wish to assist in volunteering with this event, please email PA at mvps_pa@outlook.com

Pancake Parlour School Rewards

Thank you to everyone who has signed up to the Pancake Parlour School Rewards. Malvern Valley PS is currently leading the East Malvern league and 12th in Victoria. This is a loyalty program run by Pancake Parlour where the school can earn points and prizes. These can be utilised to support educational projects and extracurricular activities. If you are planning a trip to the pancake parlour please make sure you register via the app or here.

In order to streamline the weekly school delivery run any online orders placed for delivery to school will be delivered by a Spartan driver every Tuesday.

Online orders placed by midday on a Monday will be included in the school delivery the next day. Any orders placed after this time will be delivered in the following weeks run.