Mooroopna
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Initial implementation – Step Four
bookmarksSite priorities
- Learning and social opportunities in the early years.
- Children are engaged and supported in their learning.
- Access to health and wellbeing support for children’s development.
- Families are happy, healthy and well and able to get help when they need it.
- Connecting families to community learning and employment pathways.
groups Site Partnership Group
Mooroopna Primary School, Department of Education, Department of Families, Fairness and Housing, Greater Shepparton City Council, Primary Care Connect and Colman Education Foundation (Our Place).
attach_money Funding Partner
Brian M. Davis Charitable Foundation (2023) and Department of Education (2024).
>18,968
attendances in 2023
An attendance happens each time a person attends a service or activity.
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Moving Forward keyboard_return
- Early Years Forum: Focusing on supporting cultural awareness in the early years and transitioning from cultural safety to cultural security. The forum brought together the Mooroopna Primary School’s Marrung Lead and Early Years staff and has supported a crosssite approach to cultural awareness, which is a priority in the Site Implementation Plan.
- Speech Pathology support: Facilitated a relationship with the school Speech Pathologist to enable service provision for kindergarten children.
- Family connections: Partnered with Best Start to provide informal weekly family information sessions, supporting
connection to services and building relationships. Organised a family games night in early Term 4, which has resulted in a regular Thursday family night supported by the parents who attend. - Early learning: Implemented the Talk, Talk, Play program on-site each term through Greater Shepparton City Council. The program is facilitated by a Speech Pathologist and Audiologist who provided play-based learning strategies.
- Access to financial support: Brokered access to funding for parents requiring financial support to access specialist reports supporting NDIS applications.
- Continuity of Learning: Progress implementation of Continuity of Learning with site partners and include
strategies from the Berry Street Education Model. - Adult learning: Extend on-site opportunities for work and learning through collaborations with Learn Locals, the GO TAFE and Brotherhood of St. Laurence.
- Health services: Extension of health services on-site, including innovative approaches to service provision.
- Support for new parents: Exploration of Baby College implementation on-site.
- Family engagement: Broaden engagement with families and increase participation in site opportunities through a coordinated approach to increasing the number and diversity of opportunities on site.
- Key Age and Stage checks: Collaborate with Maternal and Child Health and kindergarten staff to ensure all children have undergone 3.5-year Key Age and Stage checks before attending school.