By Callum Ludwig
Millwarra Primary School had an exciting start to the school year for students at both campuses.
Among them were four new prep students at the Warburton East campus and three at Millgrove.
Millgrove Campus Coordinator Skye Clarke said every student at the campus was in attendance for the first day, which was nice.
“We’ve got new faces and new preps who are just so excited to start school, one was walking around showing everyone his uniform and saying ‘I’m like you’ which was absolutely gorgeous,” she said.
“The seniors are getting very excited for their last year of getting ready before high school and are getting back into the system after holidays,”
“There were some tired faces at the start of this week so we’ll see how many make it through the whole week.”
At Warburton East, preps marked the occasion with a memento of the first week, imprinting their hands on a piece of paper they can look back on when their hands are much bigger and then got straight to practising tracing and writing their names. They also did a little counting revision by listening to their teacher Nicole Hajder read One Keen Koala.
In Millgrove, practising names was also the aim for the morning with teacher Teghan Smulders, alongside decorating the first letter of their names with an array of stickers, glitter and other craft materials before they joined older students in the gymnastics room for some rambunctious and acrobatic activities.
Ms Clarke said it’s nice for them to get back into routines, get busy again and get back into normal sleeping patterns.
“Some of them have exciting holidays and they’re exhausted, some have quiet ones and being active is really important if they haven’t been too active over the holidays as well,” she said.
“The students are also very excited for our after-school clubs whether it’s craft, sewing, gymnastics and dance for the juniors after school on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.”
Millwarra Primary School’s offerings at the Millgrove campus don’t end when the bell rings to end the day, with students coming from schools throughout the Upper Yarra to join in the fun with Millwarra students.
