Excerpt from Newsletter 17th October 2019

Year 3 Showcase Dinner

We held the first one of these special events for this year last night. The very first Year 3 showcase dinner is one of my favourite events on our calendar. As always it was a wonderful night with the 60 guests being treated to a fabulous menu, carefully prepared by our students in Grades 3-5 during their kitchen classes this week. For those of you who are yet to experience this delightful night here is a sample of the menu.  

Last night even saw a couple of ‘firsts’ for our Showcase Dinners too. Firstly Jackson entertained the dinner guests to an impromptu piano recital and we celebrated Mia’s mum’s birthday together. Both added greatly to the night. Many thanks again to Nikki and her extensive team of helpers behind the scenes who make this very special event possible.

Written By Maria Shearn - Principal (17th October 2019)

Excerpt from our School Newsletter 13th June

Despite yesterday’s gloomy wet weather, there was high excitement in the air as we readied ourselves for our very special visitor. Our Premier Mr Dan Andrews, accompanied by our old friend, local MP Nick Staikos, was most impressed by our lovely school and was most appreciative of the warm   welcome he received at our special assembly in his honour.

He spoke of how wonderful our whole school acknowledgement to country was and how impressively we all sang both verses of our national anthem. After that we were all treated to a fantastic performance from our extension orchestra led by our wonderful Felicite.

Mr Andrews then spoke of how exciting it will be when our new performing arts centre and classroom building begins to take shape, noting that this was Stage 1 of a 2 stage process to modernise our school facilities.

Written by Maria Shearn - Principal (13/6/19)

East Bentleigh Primary School Zone

The Department has released a new website that helps parents identify their local public school online.

Findmyschool.vic.gov.au was launched on 23 April 2019 and shows every school zone across the state. The new website highlights the choice of public schools available to the Victorian community.

If you’re interested in enrolling at East Bentleigh Primary School please visit the site, www.findmyschool.vic.gov.au

If you have further questions please call our office on 9570 3525.

Capital Works Program - Performing Arts Centre

At our school council meeting on Monday night Mario Duvnjak from ProArk presented the plans for our new building to ‘Schematic Design’ stage, (see photos below). Full plans are available for viewing in my office for anyone interested. On Wednesday, Sue and I attended a PREP meeting at the VSBA where the auditing company, along with representatives from DET and VSBA signed off on this stage. We will now have 8 weeks to work through the     all-important ‘Design Development’ stage where we decide with the architects more specific design features of our new building. Written by Maria Shearn - Principal (18/10/18)