At Mooroopna Park P.S. we provide the best opportunities for successful life-long learning. Students are empowered to strive for excellence by taking responsibility for learning and decision making. Students, teachers and parents are proud to form a partnership for the future.Mission StatementMooroopna Park Primary School is committed to developing respectful, responsible and resilient students who perform academically to the best of their ability, in a safe, friendly and caring environment. We support our students to develop the necessary skills and knowledge to become valued members of the community. LOCATION PROFILEVisionAt Mooroopna Park P.S. we provide the best opportunities for successful life-long learning. Students are empowered to strive for excellence by taking responsibility for learning and decision making. Students, teachers and parents are proud to form a partnership for the future.Mission StatementMooroopna Park Primary School is committed to developing respectful, responsible and resilient students who perform academically to the best of their ability, in a safe, friendly and caring environment. We support our students to develop the necessary skills and knowledge to become valued members of the community.ValuesAt MPPS we embrace 3 core values:Friendly, Persistent, CaringMooroopna Park Primary School prides itself on being a very inclusive school. We have high expectations of ourselves and others and this is demonstrated in our school expectations of `treating others as we would like to be treated¿. We persist with our learning and care for ourselves and our school. We value diversity and our school motto of ¿growing and learning together¿ underpins the core values of the school. Staff and students work together to develop emotional intelligences so that students understand how to have self-control, self-awareness, be motivated, manage relationships and develop empathy and skills of being friendly, safe and strong.SCHOOL PROFILEMooroopna Park PS is a school of 153 students serving the greater Mooroopna area, a large provincial town within the City of Greater Shepparton. The school, established in 1980, is set in a park like environment with spacious grounds.In 2024 there are three straight grade classrooms and four composite classrooms. With a growing enrolment we will have eight classes in 2025. The school has a staff of approximately 30 including ancillary staff. The senior classrooms are in a module building and we have the Foundation and grade one classes in the new BER Learning Centre with the middle years located in stand alone classrooms. The school has a Student Family Occupation Education Index of 0.7216. Approximately 35% of our students are Koori students.We have started our journey towards aligning our curriculum, instruction and assessment practices to the Science of Reading including explicit, synthetic phonics instruction in Prep-Year One. We have introduced a Structured Literacy approach across the whole school focusing on a knowledge-rich curriculum, vocabulary instruction, syntax and morphology. In the junior years we focus on phonics supported by the Little Learners Love Literacy and our Year 4-6 have focussed on encoding supported by Spelling Mastery. Our numeracy Instructional model includes Explicit Instruction alongside Daily Reviews.Our school takes a proactive approach to a supportive and caring environment through our Student Wellbeing Program, which is supported by a full time Student Wellbeing Coordinator. Our Wellbeing Program consists of our Oral Language Program, Play Therapy, School Chaplain, School Community Hub, Paediatric Clinic, Healthy Food Program, visiting Dental, Vision and Hearing checks and supports for families such as food and grocery hampers. The school strives to build pro-social behaviours for students to develop emotional intelligences.A big part of our Wellbeing Program is our Healthy Eating Program where our fulltime Chef provides breakfast, lunch and morning and afternoon tea each day for all students free of charge. We are proud to have been recognised for our efforts in this area by winning the Australian Education Awards for the Best Wellbeing Program in 2020, 2022 and 2023 and the Victorian Early Years Award for Promoting Student Health and Wellbeing in 2023.We have a number of community partnerships which see volunteers from local businesses and service organisations helping out with reading, wood work, `Build a Bike¿ and gardening. We also offer specialist programs such as art, music, wellbeing and physical education. We have a Wellbeing Teacher who is implementing the Resilience Project and full time Speech Therapist who supports our staff and student and oversees speech therapy student placements. Mooroopna Park PS is a place where learning is valued and is supported by all, and we develop in all students a sense of belonging and inclusion. We strive to develop the three-way partnership of the student, parent and teacher to better create and achieve successful learning opportunities for all students.Mooroopna Park Primary School has won a number of awards in recent years for our Wellbeing Programs including the Victorian Education Excellence Awards for the Best Education Support Team and our Foundation teacher was a finalist for Outstanding Teacher of The Year. We have an excellent group of experienced teachers and friendly support staff. Our school is a great place to work, where you will be supported and welcomed.Please visit www.mpps.vic.edu.au for further details about our school. Be careful - Don't provide your bank or credit card details when applying for jobs. Don't transfer any money or complete suspicious online surveys. If you see something suspicious, report this job ad . Sign in to start saving jobs in your profile.Don't have a Jora account? Register with:Do you want to receive recommendations for similar jobs?
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