Welcome back to everyone in the Mooroolbark College community. It has been a minute!  As many of you may have been aware over the last few newsletters of 2022, we were looking at starting this year with some big and exciting changes and this has certainly been the case. What… Read More

As we establish a new team part of the Duke of Edinburgh program in 2023 we have been completing many trust, teamwork and leadership activities. We have discussed what it means to be a part of a team and the importance of understanding our uniqueness.  We also had our first… Read More

A big welcome back to all of our Mooroolbark community from the Humanities Faculty. We’re ready and raring to get into things with all the new Year 7s in both Geography and History. The team in the Discovery Centre have already put in some great effort to set up our… Read More

Welcome to Term 1. I hope all students and their families have had a restful Christmas and New Year break.  During Term 1 students in Year 7-10 participate in a Fitness and Minor Games unit. The unit is designed so that students can get to know each other and their… Read More

Welcome back to Maths for 2023!  We have started the year off strongly across all year levels. Classes have been completing hands-on activities, building fluency by completing practice questions and developing their problem solving and collaboration skills during our Numeracy lessons.  Each newsletter we will highlight some of the fabulous… Read More

from the Languages Team for the first time for 2023!  Well, here’s a big welcome to all our new Year 7s, new arrivals in Year 8 and an equally big welcome back to everyone else! We hope you had a restorative break over Christmas and every opportunity to catch up… Read More

Year 7  Our new Year 7 students have made a flying start in English this year, they have been creating Zines on a topic of their choice as part of their orientation unit and are now beginning their creative non-fiction writing folio which will see them explore autobiographies, biographies and… Read More

It has been a fantastic start to the year for The Arts. Our students and staff are well rested after the break and can’t wait to create some amazing artworks and performances this year. This year we welcome Megan Furphy, Paige Carr, Jacob Ellum, Kailey Scott, Michael Jones and Bradley… Read More

SCIENCE

It’s been a busy start to the year, as always in Science. Our Year 7 students have enthusiastically been learning about laboratory safety and learning to select the correct equipment fit for purpose. They are putting this knowledge into practice when doing experiments, and students will be gaining their Bunsen… Read More

Demonstrations of excellence have not been difficult to find this year. What better representation to highlight such work is the annual night of excellence. It was a tremendous success, and it was fantastic to see work from both health and physical education students on show. The students should be extremely… Read More