Malvern Valley Primary School
Welcome to the Malvern Valley Primary School website. We hope you find it to be a comprehensive overview of the outstanding educational opportunities we provide for each of our students.
Visit: Abbotsford Avenue, Malvern East, VIC, 3145
Call: (03) 9569 5820
A day at Camp….
As our students didn’t get to go to camp due to COVID 19, the 3-6’s had a day camp right here in our amazing school grounds. Camp is all about being outdoors, showing teamwork and being independent. Classes undertook scavenger hunts (apparently very hard!), enjoyed marshmallows around the campfire (imaginative), played some cooperative games and then had to use some smart thinking to get everyone across a crocodile infested river (the sandpit) with only a few pieces of bark to help. After lunch they got to enjoy a movie and snacks.
Set a Goal, Aim for it, Ready your Mindset, Have a Go, Evaluate, and Try Again!
MVPS Students are encouraged to have their goals in sight, take aim to achieve them, take a moment to get in the right mindset, then give it a go with all their abilities. Perhaps they met their target, perhaps they didn’t, either way, evaluate and try again! It's all about developing that Growth Mindset.
Social Inclusion Week - 21 - 29 November, 2020
Throughout primary school, feeling included in the playground is essential to a student’s self-confidence and the development of their social and emotional well-being. The diversity of MVPS’ playground areas and lunch-time activities caters to the individuality of our student's interests and social interactions.
Social inclusion does not mean that children have to play with everyone all of the time, but it does mean they have to know how to make others feel welcome and included in the same shared playing space of the playground.
Through MVPS’ wellbeing program, students talk about and are encouraged to act with empathy, work in teams, look for opportunities to help others, and develop positive communication skills that support social acceptance in the playground and throughout their lives.
1:1 Laptop Program in 2021!
From 2021 every student in Grades 3 to 6 will have a laptop allocated to them. This will enable teachers to continue to use many of the innovative platforms that have been so successful throughout remote learning, ensure parents are able to maintain a strong level of engagement in their child’s learning through the use of Google Classroom, and ensure each student continues to be supported in their development of 21st-Century skills.
Joshua Rowlands Toby will be thrilled!
Focus on Positive Relationships - Empathy
Empathy is a crucial skill for building and maintaining Positive Relationships. Students are born with the capacity for empathy, but it needs to be nurtured throughout their lives. Learning empathy is in certain respects like learning a language or a sport. It requires practice and guidance. Regularly considering other people’s perspectives and circumstances help make empathy a natural reflex and, through trial and error, helps children get better at tuning into others’ feelings and perspectives. Our students practice empathy by identifying others’ emotions, actively listening, and recognizing different points of view.
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