Excellence in remote learning Remote learning has been a challenge for everyone, with our school being no exception. However, our teachers are constantly pivoting to try to improve how students learn from home by adjusting their teaching style accordingly. Sometimes ongoing changes have been frustrating, but I understand the reason for the school leadership’s focus on the continuous improvement of the way it supports it’s students. Thanks to Microsoft Teams, leadership… Read More
Remote learning has been a true challenge to many but nothing the English faculty and students could not handle, nay flourish in! We are amazed by the resilience and efforts students in English have shown and hope that this continues. We hear from some of our finest, as they recount some of the online accomplishments… Read More
We know that mental health of adolescents is particularly vulnerable during these uncertain Covid 19 times and with recent cases of Covid19 in our own neighborhood, some of our young people may be feeling an even greater sense of uncertainly and anxiety. What was ‘way over there” now feels ‘much closer to home’. Dr Michael Carr Greg, one of… Read More
SRC This month the SRC had a red-hot-go at meetings during isolation. Planning and coming up with wild and wide-eyed plans for ways to connect the caring community of Mooroolbark College in this raised eyebrow experience, we call Remote Learning. Word on the street is that very soon, there will… Read More
Remote learning has been challenging for everyone, however we would like to acknowledge the added layer of complexity many of our EAL families are facing during this time. We have continued to see outstanding work from students during remote learning. The following two pieces of work are just two examples of the wonderful work being completed by our students. Biak… Read More
VCAL Completing your senior years of high schooling can be challenging at the best of times. As we all know the class of 2020 has had to adapt in ways that we never even really considered possible. The VCAL students have been valiantly demonstrating the College values throughout their Remote… Read More
Student Voice While back on site at the end of Term 2, the Leadership Team ran focus groups of students across all year levels to gain feedback from their time during Remote Learning. Several important changes were made when planning and implementing Remote Learning 2.0 as a result of listening to our… Read More
Music News With the beginning of Semester 2, we again found ourselves working from home with Remote Learning. While things may be a little different to our normal onsite schooling, music lessons are running as usual using TEAMS just like in other subjects. It’s great to see our music students… Read More
English It is great to have all students back learning in one way or another! The English KLA has been working hard to emulate as much of the liveliness of a classroom as possible, albeit in a remote setting and the English teachers look forward to guiding students with their studies this term. We would also like to give… Read More
Calendar Monday 7th September - MCPA meeting Read More
