From the Head of Junior School

Parent Visitors to the Junior School 

It was wonderful to see so many parents visit our special Kindergarten to Year 5 Celebration Assembly on Thursday with our Principal, Lisa Moloney, in attendance. Our School Value focus for Term 4 is ‘Growth’, as we acknowledged and awarded girls across the Junior School for their achievement in growth and in other domains. It was a fitting day to celebrate growth as it was also the day our Pre-Kindergarten to Year 5 girls (and staff – who knew so many want to be MLC School students!) dressed up as someone they wish to be when they grow up. Our thanks for your donations to Leawarra’s Christmas appeal for the Rev Bill Crew’s Foundation, and to those families who attended our Leawarra House Chapel last Sunday.

Year 3 to Year 12 String and Band Soirees  

On Monday and Tuesday evenings our Music department hosted our string and band soirees. One of the many joys of being in a Pre-Kindergarten to Year 12 school is the opportunity our Junior School girls have to watch and be inspired by our Senior School students. Congratulations to our Music department and all the students who participated.  

Year 6 Social  

Year 6 had much fun on the dance floor at the greatly anticipated Year 6 Social, hosted this year by Newington Junior School. Newington, Trinity Prep, PLC, Trinity Junior, Meriden and MLC School Year 6 cohorts come together for a fun evening. It was wonderful to see the girls enjoying this memorial event during their final weeks of primary education. Next week we look forward to our Year 6 Musical performances.  

Orientation Day 

Today we welcomed our new 2025 girls to Junior School. Orientation Day is a special event all the girls very much look forward to. Our current girls and the new girls joining us in 2025 have a sense of anticipation, trepidation and excitement. For our current students, it involves the thrill of ‘bumping up’ to the next studio or the Year 6 Centre or joining the Senior School for our Year 6 students. Our current girls have the opportunity of getting to know new girls who will be joining them in their learning journey next year. We endeavour to keep the current grade teachers in their classes so that our current girls really feel they have bumped up to the next grade for the day. For our new girls, it is an opportunity to become familiar with new surroundings, a new environment and make new friends, particularly their special buddy.  

This year we hosted for the first time our Co-curricular Expo on Orientation Day. Our co-curricular program is the envy of many schools and it was wonderful to see so many of our popular activities on display.

Next Tuesday evening, (26 November) we look forward to our co-curricular Kindergarten to Year 2 Dance Twilight Recital.

– Daniel Sandral
Head of Junior School