EAL

The year has gone by so quickly and it is hard to believe we are at the time of the very last newsletter of 2022! Isn’t it a great opportunity now to reflect and celebrate the achievements of the EAL faculty in 2022.

Wakakirri Dance Festival has been the absolute highlight of the year for many of our Chin students, or dancers as we should refer to them. They dedicated months of hard work to prepare and eventually present a remarkable story dance piece – The True Cost. The story has provoked the audience’s deep thinking on the real cost behind the fashion industry and how it has impacted the lives of garment workers in poorer countries. A big shout-out to our Wakakirri squad and a well-deserved National Story Award!  

Another program that has finished strongly in Term 4 is the EAL Homework Club. Despite all the interruptions at the beginning of the program during COVID, we continued working closely with MIC (Migrant Information Centre) and CMY (Centre for Multicultural Youth) to bring it back to life in 2022. It is great to see many students utilise the resources from homework club to strengthen their social connections with teachers and peers and improve their work completion/quality. 

Some events to look forward to at the end of 2022 are the Year 7 EAL Parents’ Orientation and the EAL Re-Enrolment for 2023. Both being held on Tuesday, December 13th. Invitation letters have been translated into Hakha-Chin and Burmese and posted to more than 70 EAL households, plus 27 new families who have child/children joining the Mooroolbark family in 2023. On the day, parents and guardians will be given assistance with enrolment paperwork, Compass accounts, CSEF funding forms, and uniform and textbook orders. Our EAL graduates and external interpreters will be around to help as well. We are very excited about this opportunity of meeting all EAL parents in person!  

Yi Jiang

EAL Coordinator