From the Head of Junior School

From the Head of Junior School

Term 4 Charity and Service Learning

This week Churunga House hosted our Junior School Assembly following their recent chapel service. It was a beautiful assembly where our Churunga Service Captains launched the charity for this term, The Indigenous Literacy Foundation. You will receive information as to how the girls are supporting this important charity and our thanks to parents to assisting your daughters to support this worthwhile cause.

 

Year 4 to Year 6 Parent-Daughter Sessions

This week, in partnership with Rowena Thomas from Amazing Me, our Year 4 to Year 6 girls and their parents and carers were offered the opportunity to participate in information sessions about puberty. These evening workshops are offered as part of our Personal Development and Health program taught by our Junior School PDHPE staff.

 

Administration News

Today we say thank you and farewell to our Campus Administrator Alyson Arestan. Alyson has been an outstanding asset to our Junior School administration team and will be greatly missed. We wish her well. Our new Campus Administrator will be joining us at the beginning of the new academic year.

 

Year 6 Events

On Thursday evening Year 6 were on the dance floor at the much anticipated Year 6 Social, hosted by Trinity Preparatory School at Trinity Grammar Summer Hill. Year 6 cohorts from Trinity Junior and Trinity Prep Schools, PLC, Newington, Meriden and MLC School were all in attendance. It was pleasing to see the fun time they had as they reach the concluding stages of their final years of primary education.

Next week a significant highlight in the Junior School calendar is the Year 6 Dinner at The Daphne Line Hall. This dinner marks their milestone of completing their primary years of education. At our approaching Speech Day, the girls will be formally farewelled from the Junior School.

 

P&F News

Today we hosted our annual general meeting for our Junior School P&F. Under the leadership of our President, Sarah Prince, I cannot thank this dedicated committee enough for the support of our School. Working alongside our committee members are our parent ambassadors. We are very fortunate to have a strong home-school partnership at MLC School and this is reflected in our wonderful parent volunteers.

Our Junior School P&F Committee and Parent Representative Members for 2023 are:

Junior School P&F Committee 2023

  • President (Convenor) – Sarah Prince
  • Vice-President (Deputy Convenor) – Cassandra Bourke
  • Treasurer – Emma Munro
  • Assistant Treasurer – Martyna Angell
  • Secretary – Lauren Hutchins
  • Assistant Secretary – Maria Bongiorno
  • Junior School Community Relations Officer – Rebecca Lim
  • Ordinary Committee Member – Book Club Coordinator – Cassandra Black

P&F Year Representatives 2023

  • Pre-Kindergarten – Karina Sumantri
  • Kindergarten – Jessica Tregeagle
  • Year 1 – Billie Ashour
  • Year 2 – Kacie Tulliani
  • Year 3 – Baneesha Narang
  • Year 4 – Pornsakol Coorey
  • Year 5 – Stephanie Kazacos
  • Year 6 – Ming Ng

I look forward seeing many of our Year 1 and Year 2 parents at String Concerts next week.

– Daniel Sandral
Head of Junior School