Category: School News Blog

125th Anniversary Back to the Future

As part of our 125th celebrations on December 3rd the staff will be conducting lessons from different generations of the school’s past. Different year levels will be representing different decades and it will be fun for your children to guess the decade. Your child may find themselves back in the 1980s, 1950s or learning about the 1920s….

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Grade 1 Excursion to Werribee Zoo

On Monday both Grade 1 classes headed to the Werribee Zoo for our final excursion for the year! We came armed with hats, sunscreen and plenty of water to survive the gloriously sunny day. There were many animals to be seen and everyone enjoyed the bus ride around the park. We got very close to some…

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Celebrate good times!

As part of our Foundation History Unit, students have been exploring different cultural celebrations! Such as: Divali German Lantern Festival Chinese New Year Tibetian Prayer Flags Students have been making symbolic representations of these celebrations. We were lucky enough to have four talented Grade 2 girls share their Tibetian knowledge with some of the Foundation…

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BOUNCE BACK – Key messages to communicate to your child about being optimistic

Key messages to communicate to your child about being optimistic Look on the bright side. This means being positive and expecting that things will work out well or get better. When you look on the bright side you believe that good things CAN happen and you don’t give up easily. It’s good to be a…

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Year 3 Student Netbook Program 2016

Dear Year 2 Parents, Please find details about the Grade 3 netbook program attached. Toorak Primary School BYOD information Sheet for Parents Nov 2015 Important Notes: Please take note of the Delivery Schedule: Orders received and payment made by November 26th will have the devices imaged and delivered to school in December for set up….

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Principal Update

Thank you to the Toorak Primary School community for your messages of sympathy on the recent passing of my beloved mother. She had a long and fruitful life. I was fortunate to attend the Victorian Principals’ Association conference in East Melbourne recently titled,”Leaders-Believing in Self”. The conference focussed on staying resilient in our role as…

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