Category: Assistant Principal’s News

Welcome back!

We are excited to welcome you to all back to Toorak PS for the 2020 school year. We look forward to commencing the educational partnership with our new families and strengthening connections already made with our existing families. Throughout this year students will build their capacity to be active learners who are directly involved in…

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2020 Grade Requests

A reminder to parents to please email the school, Attention: Julie Manallack, if there are special requests to be considered in placing your child into a class for 2020. In the coming weeks, staff will meet to allocate students to their 2020 classes based on a series of criteria. Once students have been allocated to…

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Tuning into Kids – A parenting program teaching skills in emotion coaching

Registrations are now open for our Term 4 program of Tuning into Kids, a six-week evidence-based program that teaches parents skills in emotion coaching. Emotion coaching is the ability to recognise, understand and respond to children’s emotions in an accepting, supportive way; which, in turn helps the child to understand and better manage their emotions. Outcomes of…

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Welcome Back!

Term 4 commenced last Monday and what a start it was with the Grade threes heading off on their first ever school camp. An amazing time was had by all, with the students involved in a myriad of activities (low ropes, initiative activities, geo caching, flying fox to name a few) which focused on building…

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Learning starts at 9am at Toorak PS

The teaching staff has raised some concern that many students are arriving late for school on a fairly regular basis. Unfortunately, this is a situation that can have a negative effect on the education of not only those students who are late, but also the other students in the class.  Did you know that a…

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What a night!

A massive thank-you to everyone who attended our inaugural Family Maths last night. The evening was a huge success with parents, teachers and students engaging with the wide range of activities and sharing their understanding. Research shows that families are the most significant influence on their children’s learning so we hope that after last night,…

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