The Principal's View

Great news for Tania Mclaren 

Tania McLaren, our relieving Head Teacher Support, has been successful in gaining a permanent Assistant Principal position at Wyong Public School. A permanent substantive position is great news for Tania who has worked so hard at Mount View High School over the last two years establishing two additional support classes into a new facility while driving faculty based and whole school initiatives like Trauma Informed Practice and introducing COGS units into support teaching and learning programs. Mount View students and staff will miss Tania and would like to thank her for her contribution, especially to that of students in our support faculty.

Thank you Amanda Percival 

Amanda Percival, one of our long term school administrative officers, will be leaving MVHS at the end of this term after working with us since 2017. Amanda has been an integral member of our front office team demonstrating exemplary efficiency and accuracy in all that she does. Her warm and caring personality has endeared her to staff, students and the wider school community and she will be very much missed. 

Improving attendance; a school, regional and state priority.

The second 5 weekly attendance reports have been sent home this weekend. Attendance reports form part of improving student wellbeing by Taking Notice and planning to ensure that we Keep Learning to our potential. This report has been supported by a video that seeks to help explain the rationale:  

https://youtu.be/oXquUtUe4uI. 

At school this week, check-In teachers will be asked to review each student's attendance percentage in the morning check-in class. Conversations between check-In teachers and students aim to be supportive and focused around what we can do at Mount View High School to help students come to school or attend class more often and what attendance target is each student going to set for themselves moving forward.

The Five Ways to Wellbeing - A focus in Term 2

Take on the teacher

The 'Take On The Teacher' program aims to encourage both students and staff to Be Active and make new Connections. This week, Table Tennis was the battlefield with Cooper Bailey and Preston Metcalf announced as the representative student team to 'Take on The Teachers'.

Each week a different sport allows students to compete against each other to decide the premier student team that then take on the teachers in a lunch time exhibition match. The program is proving highly succesful across both the student and staff groups.

Running Score, Students - 2 (Oztag and Netball) Teachers - 2 (Volleyball and Ping Pong).

Shave for a cure

A huge thank you to the staff, students and community at Mount View High School for all of your support and generosity as we practiced our 5 Ways to Wellbeing in The World's Greatest Shave by Taking Notice, Giving and Keep Learning!!

Our brilliant student leadership team collected donations and ran the BBQ whilst the senior executive provided running commentary during the hair cutting. Mrs Jeffery even demonstrated her skills as a hairdresser. Watch out Mr Jeffery!!

Special thank you to Mr Lindsay, Mrs Heyes and Miss Ferguson for their leadership and organisation. Well done to Mr Watts, Miss Ferguson and Jace Arthurson for giving up their hair, and right as we head into winter!!!

An extra huge THANK YOU to Jane Sams for refining the hair cut Miss Ferguson was initially gifted by our fabulous students.

We look to have smashed our goal, raising over $2300. Anyone still willing and able to donate can do so on the following link: http://my.leukaemiafoundation.org.au/teamkunarr.

Biggest Morning Tea

On Friday, Mount View High School staff came together to GIVE by raising money for the Cancer Council through the Biggest Morning Tea and our Great Faculty Bake Off.

The event was back in 2021 bigger and better after COVID prevented the event from running in 2020. Every faculty is responsible for making a cake which is then auctioned off at a morning tea.

Brian Means and the TAS team for hosted the event, turning a classroom into a cafe along with manning the coffee machine throughout. Thank you to Julie Myers for her organisation in ensuring that we returned to such a quality event.

Well done CAPA who take the 2021 prize. Their guitar cake was auctioned off for $200 thanks largely to some internal bidding from current and ex (Mrs Jeffery) CAPA staff!!