We are now a 5 STAR Resource Smart School.

It is with great pride that we announce our wonderful achievement of becoming a 5 star school. This demonstrates the fabulous work our whole school community do around sustainability and using resources wisely. For the past five years we have been working on each of the 5 modules as well as demonstrating leadership in this area. Thank you to all the staff, students and families who support our sustainability initiatives. And thank you to Meg who runs these wonderful programs.

Real Schools

Our school has made a very important decision lately and that is to become a Restorative School.  It’s all about teaching students that they are responsible for their own actions, to encourage engagement and build pride, respect and responsibility in each individual student. Restorative Practices seeks to value and support our students so that they feel empowered to take positive action to address challenging situations and move forward.

Using Restorative Practices isn’t something we take lightly.  It aims to build a strong school culture, build effective positive relationships, assist in resolving conflict, improve student behaviour, and prevent bullying.

Working restoratively is really all about asking the right questions to students when things go wrong.  You see, most approaches have us putting our detective hats on and focusing everything in the past.  It really doesn’t get us very far because we never get to the present or the future. 

Put simply, we’ll be asking your children questions like:

• What happened?
• How has that made people feel?
• What action needs to be taken to make that better?

Our ongoing Partnership with Real Schools is supporting and resourcing us to make this change. We will be keeping you updated via Epsilon so stay tuned for more information on this exciting development for our school.

Please contact Jayde Cannon via School office if you have any further questions.

2020 ResourseSmart School Awards

Very proud to be named as a finalist in the 2020 ResourceSmart School of the Year & so proud of our wonderful Meg Moore as a finalist in Teacher of the Year (Primary)
Winners will be announced in an awards ceremony on World Environment Day, 5 June 
Good Luck everyone!

Term 2 School Value - Kindness...stay safe

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Remote Learning Information & Handbook

Following advice from the Victorian Government on Tuesday 7 April, Eastwood Primary will be moving to remote and flexible learning from Term 2 (beginning with a pupil-free day).

This is a step all Victorian government schools are taking to help slow the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). This means that all students who can learn at home must learn from home. This is a very clear directive from the Victorian Government based on the advice of the Chief Health Officer.

We will continue to offer limited on-site learning for those students who need to access this, including for students on days when they are not able to be supervised at home due to their parents working in essential services and no other arrangements can be made.  We will provide further information about this shortly.

The Department’s latest advice on coronavirus can be found at https://www.education.vic.gov.au/coronavirusIt is important that we work together and support each other during this challenging time. We will be in touch with staff and parents and carers shortly with further details of what remote and flexible learning will look like at our school. In the meantime, you might find it useful to look at the Department’s Learning from Home website. It provides resources and guidance for teachers and parents and carers. https://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/department/Pages/learningfromhome.aspx

 

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