Archive: April 2021

Last week’s Curriculum Day

Last week, Toorak Primary School welcomed literacy consultant Misty Adoniou, to continue building staff capacity in the area of writing. Following on from Misty’s previous work in 2019, staff were shown strategies to enhance writing non-narrative texts. Our teachers were engaged in discussions about the use of quality mentor texts to develop vocabulary, support comprehension…

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Secondhand Snowgear Sale

St Catherine’s School will hold a Buy and Sell your snowsports gear stallat 17 Heyington Place Toorak on Sunday 16 May 10am to 12pm.

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Chess at Toorak PS

Click here to download the Term 2 2021 Chess enrolment form. For further enquires, please email Felix Chandler: felixchandler@mindfulchess.com.au

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TPS: Responsibility Challenge

At TPS, one of our school values is responsibility. Responsibility is having a duty to achieve something and being accountable for an outcome, and we want to foster this within our students. We will be focusing on this with our students in class and have set up a school wide challenge to develop a sense…

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Restorative Practices: A window into our classroom

At Toorak Primary, we have been on a journey over the last few years to implement a restorative framework and school culture that looks to leverage relationships to improve student wellbeing and outcomes. Here is a video from our consultant, Adam Voigt, about high expectations. Teachers take a ‘firm and fair’ approach at TPS. This…

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