INFORMATION FOR PARENTS
School Tours International Students Before and After Care Pastoral Care Well Being
School Tours
Tours for Foundation will commence in 2025.
Click on the link below to make bookings.
Please contact the school on 9555 1101 or moorabbin.ps@education.vic.gov.au if you would like a tour and your child is not starting Foundation
Enrolment forms for 2025 are due Friday 26th July 2024
Enrolment Applications - birth certificate and immunisation history must be attached
Enrolment Form
School enrolments can be submitted online, via post or you can drop it to the school office. Please ensure that birth certificate and immunisation history is included in your enrolment application.
Moorabbin Primary School: 61 Worthing Road, Moorabbin VIC 3189.
Completed forms and attachments can be emailed (birth certificate and immunisation forms) to the school via: moorabbin.ps@education.vic.gov.au
Only parents/carers and the potential prep child are to attend tours. We cannot have any siblings or other family/friends attend tours as our numbers are limited. Thank you for your understanding.
International Students
At Moorabbin Primary School we are committed to our school developed Authentic Inquiry Curriculum which prepares students to be active participants in their learning, as an inquirer both in the classroom and as Global citizens.
We pride ourselves on the pastoral carer of all our students. We maintain small classes to enable students to work closely with their classroom teachers who become very familiar with the individual needs of each child and their families. EAL literacy support staff are employed to assist international students with language acquisition.
Moorabbin Primary School is committed to providing, personal and cultural education to its international students, meeting all Department of Education policies and guidelines in relation to their needs.
The school leadership team are responsible for monitoring all academic progress and welfare of students. International students would have the opportunity to share in the fun of learning English alongside our students and would be able to participate in many whole school, wellbeing and community-based activities.
Cultural exchange with local students, buddy programs and special interest activities such as sport, incursions, visual arts, performing arts, ICT, Science, Our TERRIFIC Values and student leadership would all be provided to our international students as well as customised special interest/cultural tours when possible.
International Student Coordinator: Mrs Noxia Angelides, Principal Tel: 95551101 or email: moorabbin.ps@education.vic.gov.auy
More information related to the International Student program can be obtained by visiting. study.vic.gov.au or contacting the Internation Education Division.
TeamKids Before & After Care,Vacation Care.
TeamKids is the premium provider that exists to enrich children’s lives before school, after school and throughout the school holidays.
When attending TeamKids before and after school care, your children are in remarkable hands. Our full-time Director of Service is highly experienced in the field, and their number one priority is fun – your child will love the experiences we have on offer every day at TeamKids.
When children join our team, not only are they able to explore their world through our designated activity zones and TeamKids Clubs, but they’ll get to connect, collaborate and learn with others in a supportive and nurturing environment that fosters their individuality and own unique interests.
They’ll also enjoy an incredible menu, jam-packed with nutritious and delicious food. One thing is for sure, your child will not go hungry.
From the moment you walk through the door, TeamKids provides an atmosphere that is welcoming, relaxed and inclusive. At every opportunity, we aim to promote child agency and help to shape their innate leadership skills through a variety of in-house leadership opportunities and fun, engaging rewards programs.
We offer industry-leading educator to child ratios of 1:10 (industry standard is 1:15), resulting in safer, better supervised experiences for all involved.
All of our programs are fully approved under the National Child Care Subsidy (CCS).
We’re excited and look forward to welcoming you to the TeamKids Family.
Before School Hours:
6.45am till 8:45am
After School Hours:
3:30pm till 6:15pm
Find out more:
1300 035 000
Pastoral Care
Pastoral Care builds and supports the entire school community, making connections between our students, staff and wider community. It encompasses all aspects of school life through a combination of structured activities and personal relationships. Pastoral Care at Moorabbin Primary School is concerned with the total well being of individuals within the school community and with the development of the whole person.
Pastoral Care is organized around the classroom teacher who is responsible for getting to know each individual child in their class, fostering their potential as a learner, encouraging positive behaviours and being alert to difficulties the students in their care may be experiencing. If there is a risk a child may be struggling with learning or personal circumstances, the teacher can call on the Principal and the Assistant Principal.
When our students enrol at the school each one becomes a member of a House which reinforces a sense of belonging to the community. In the Senior School, a Tutor Group system operates within each House. The houses are: Dendy, Hawker, Lowden, and Sadgrove. Structured and informal activities include: House Meetings and House sporting events, Physical activities, charity work through our very active Student Representative Council and special celebrations throughout the school year.
Promoting leadership opportunities is an important aspect of pastoral care at Moorabbin Primary School. Activities include monitoring and the buddy system (in the Prep Year levels), the Choir, sporting and cultural activities, social action as well as Circle time activities, and the SRC. The marking of special calendar events such as Anzac Day, Easter and Christmas offer students many opportunities to initiate, organize and design presentations and to take leading roles in the life of the School.
Pastoral Care is implicit in the care taken to teach students the importance of reliability, punctuality, meeting deadlines, taking care with personal and work presentation as well as recognition of achievement in academic, sporting, cultural and/or services to the community. Pastoral care is implicit in events that involve families such as welcome evenings for parents, family chapel services, family gatherings, and parent information evenings. Above all, pastoral care is the daily caring involvement of the student, teachers, in particular, and generally, all staff who work with students in either an educational, administrative and/or supportive capacity to nurture each child's potential for a productive and satisfying life at Moorabbin Primary School.
Well Being
Through Restorative Practices we seek to enhance relationships among students, and between students, teachers, and parents, so as to nurture our sense of community at Moorabbin Primary School. The Restorative Practices philosophy, which is in keeping with our TERRIFIC values and our approach in dealing with behaviour management, provides MPS students with the opportunity to develop self-discipline and positive behaviours in a caring, supportive environment.
A positive school climate, in which our students feel connected, is the best environment for learning. Our aims are:
to educate students towards self-directed appropriate behaviours
to promote, nurture and protect healthy relationships among members of our community,
to enable students to be accountable with real consequences.
We believe that our approach to student behaviour management should primarily be an educative one. That is, the fundamental aim of our behaviour management philosophy and practice should be for students to learn to be responsible for themselves and their actions and to make genuine, positive contributions to their community. A Restorative approach sees conflict or wrong-doing firstly as an opportunity for students to learn about the consequences of their actions, to develop empathy with others, and to seek to make amends in such a way as to strengthen the community bonds that may have been damaged.
We do this by:
having high expectations and insisting upon high standards of behaviour, and
providing high levels of support and care for individuals.
Valuing both a strong sense of community and appropriate behaviours based on sound moral principles, Moorabbin has high expectations of all its community members. Students are called to high standards of personal behaviour and are challenged when these expectations are not met. Through developing empathy for others, students learn to become more positive, supportive and contributing members of our community.
Students perceive this approach as being ‘firm, but fair’. Being ‘firm, but fair’ involves:
clearly articulating and reinforcing expectations,
adhering to fair process in dealing with all cases of conflict and wrong-doing, and
recognising that wrong-doing primarily causes harm to relationships, and that this harm must be repaired in order to move forward.
A Restorative approach:
encourages students to appreciate the consequences of their actions for others,
enables students to make amends where their actions have harmed others,
requires students to be accountable for their actions,
encourages respect for all concerned,
A Restorative approach values the person while challenging negative behaviours, echoing Moorabbin’s TERRIFIC School Values.
How does it work?
The students involved agree that a conflict or issue has taken place and agree to try to fix things.
All those involved have a chance to tell their side of the story in a restorative chat.
All those involved have a chance to say what they think should happen to fix the relationship.
An agreement is reached between the students and relationships are healed where possible.
The staff member involved facilitates the discussion but it is driven by the students. Agreements are decided upon wholly by the students.
Disciplinary procedures may still be involved depending on the incident.
What questions are involved in a restorative chat?
What has happened?
Who has been affected or harmed?
How can we fix it?
How can we do things differently in the future?
Individual conference
John, we need to talk about………
John, what were you feeling or thinking about when you….?
What made you decide to do that?
What have you thought about since?
When you …………., who was affected by your behaviour?
In what ways?
How has this affected you?
What do you need to do to fix things?
What can I do to help you?
Below is the “script” that all staff at Moorabbin Primary school use when they are involved in a conference or Restorative Chat
