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Mental Health in Primary Schools Survey

dlong / / Uncategorized

Hi all,

Our school is included in the 2023 phase of the state-wide roll out of the Mental Health in Primary
Schools (MHIPS) program. The Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) will be evaluating the
program as it expands across Victoria and I am writing now to invite you to participate in two online
surveys (term 1 and term 4) as part of the evaluation.

The Victorian Department of Education (DE) is funding all government and low-fee non-government
primary schools to employ a mental health and wellbeing leader (MHWL) as part of the MHIPS program.
The role of the MHWL is to build the capacity of the whole school to support student mental health and
wellbeing. The program is being delivered by Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and
Melbourne Graduate School of Education (MGSE) at the University of Melbourne in partnership with DE.
The research study aims to evaluate the program as its scales up state-wide. It will focus on the
implementation and impact of the program.

Our school has agreed to participate in staff surveys at two time points (Term 1 and Term 4) as follows:
 a 15-minute online survey to be completed by all relevant staff (teachers, leadership, wellbeing
and education support staff).
 the online surveys include demographic questions about the individual, as well as questions
about student mental health and wellbeing and what student mental health supports exist in
your school.
 the Term 1 survey is due on Friday 24 March – please see details below.
To access the Participant Information and Consent Form and complete the survey, please click here:
https://redcap.link/mhips2023
The research study has approval through the Royal Children’s Hospital Human Research Ethics
Committee (RCH HREC: 65924) and the Department of Education Research in Schools and Early Childhood
Education process (RISEC # 2020_004332). If you have any questions about the research, please contact
the MCRI research team at mhips@mcri.edu.au or call 03 9936 6072.

Please note that participating in this research is completely voluntary and will not impact on your
relationship with the Department.

Thanks

Davis

Tonight’s PLT

dlong / / Uncategorized

Hi all

Tonight’s PLT will be held in the MACPAC and will be spent completing the Mandatory Reporting online module (please bring your laptop). Please see the link below to the agenda which contains the link to the website if you haven’t received the email. A reminder to that tonight’s meeting finishes at 4:15 due to the 5:15 finish tomorrow.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17xti3TbwEAAd8E9dHD6PmpN5phqqYWD_o8pygtZcaGU/edit

Thanks

Davis

IMPORTANT Update information regarding NFORMA

chriss / / Uncategorized

Our version of Nforma will be offline for the next 24-36 hours while the software company performs some major upgrades.

Over the next 2 days, please use the CRT Roll to make your rolls. That link is on the Staff Desktop under forms – 2023 CRT Roll 

Once I have been notified that the rollover has been done and has been tested successfully, you will receive an email from  no-reply@nforma.com.au. This will contain a temporary password link that when clicked, will allow you to reset your password. I will also send you out a ‘Teachers Guide’ for the new version of Nforma.

Please note that if you try to log in while the rollover is happening, you will be denied access until I send you the new log on information. If you have any questions, please drop me an email.

 

Safer Internet Day

dlong / / Uncategorized

Hi all

Next Tuesday, Feb 7 is Safer Internet Day. This year it would be good to participate to help raise awareness around safe internet usage.

In the Wellbeing folder in the Planning Drive, there is a Safer Internet Day folder with slideshows for Yrs 1-2, 3-4 & 5-6. These slideshows have discussion points around the internet along with notes on how to lead the conversation. I know that it is short notice, but could I ask that on Tuesday next week, each class spends time going through the slideshow for their level?

Safer Internet Day Slideshows

We will send some communication home to parents about it shortly.

Thanks

Davis

Admin update

dleao / / Uncategorized

Hello everyone,

An update from the front office.

We’re currently in the process of handing out the red CRT folders. Apologies for the delay, this is due to ICON not having children in the correct classes at rollover, as far as we’re aware this has now been corrected but please let us know of any discrepancies as soon as possible.

These folders must be kept in the clear holder mounted to the wall in your classroom so if a CRT or Specialist teacher is in the room, they know exactly where to find it. We understand that some of the ‘Temporary’ rooms may not have the clear holder – please just ensure it is easily located in your room and is in plain sight at all times.
Please take the time to go through the CRT books and familiarise yourself with the contents. In particular: medical conditions & evacuation codes/procedures found on the Dynamiq flyer.
The contact details for each of your students are in the folder for when you need to contact families eg. extended unexplained absence, forgot glasses/lunch etc
When you are emailed an updated yard duty/specialist timetable please print it out and replace the old ones in your folder.
There are copies of the paper roll in the back of your folder, you can print more from the staff desktop as required (2023/7.Staff Admin)
If we are informed of any changes in family details or medical conditions we will send you updated copies – please replace them in your CRT folder promptly in case of emergency.
There is space in the folder for you to make any notes you would like a CRT to see regarding your class, please note anything you think may assist your special needs kids or students that are particularly helpful when a CRT is in the room.
If you would like to take these folders to excursions to have contact details/medical conditions onhand, you are welcome to do so – just make sure they’re returned to the clear wall pocket on your return. Although all of this information is available to you online.
If you have any suggestions around the CRT folder please let us know – it’s always a work in progress and we would like it to have as much info as you would want, if you were to walk into a classroom you have never been in before. There were 3 folders that were not returned at the end of last year. If you have one at home or find one in the school, please return it to the office as soon as possible.
N-forma
– When marking the roll, if you see there is already an entry there please do not amend it – contact the office. We enter extended leave forms as they’re received so we have often entered a family holiday or medical leave ahead of time and this information is lost if you change the reason to unknown. 
– If you’re coming back to the roll after a minute or more away, please click the refresh button so any changes that have been made elsewhere are saved. If you do not refresh, any updates the office has made are wiped and we would not be aware this has happened meaning it will reflect incorrectly on the student reports. 
– Please take care to mark the roll as accurately as possible, if a child is marked absent with the reason unknown, the parent will receive a text message asking them to explain the absence. Often we have panicked parents calling to say they dropped their child off and have now received that message
If you have any Year Level specific information to send out we can send it through Skoolloop, just send a copy of the blurb to the office. Anything for the whole school we will post on Skoolloop and also on the Parent community website. If you have a query from Parents asking for the password to the Parent Community website it is currently SGPterm3 – it changes a few times a year so we will update you when that happens. 
The phone list and map have been updated and are on the Staff Admin drive 
A reminder to please let the office know if you have any classroom events that we may get calls in the office about, the more informed we are, the more we can assist our families.
Many Thanks
The Admin Team

 

 

veggies

gstepnell / / Uncategorized

I have just put a container of veggies in the fridge. There are tomatoes, zucchini,

cucumber and couple of squash. Don’t forget your small change.

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Also there are some dried herbs and seeds which I have collected from Geoff’s Patch on the staff room bench, your coin goes in the jar in the fridge.

cheers      Geoff

Nforma and Class Lists

chriss / / Uncategorized

We have been made aware of issues with student’s showing on your Nforma Class  Roll but they are not on your class list that you were given at the end of last year. It appears that this is an ICON issue. Leah is currently going through each class list and comparing it to the list in Nforma (the spreadsheets used to create the rolls come from ICON) so that we can lodge a support request with ICON to get this sorted.

I will let you know as soon as we find out any further information.