2023 Final Message and Important Information for 2024
Thanks again to our Elevation community for their commitment to building a great school. Its been a wonderful year with lots of exciting new programs and achievements – along with taking possession of our new buildings and facilities.
I’d like to thank our entire teaching staff, Education Support staff and Executive Team for their outstanding work again this year.
Staffing
As we add another cohort of students in 2024 and continue to grow, we welcome a number of new staff to the school as well as farewelling a number of staff.
Taking leave during 2024 will be Alice Hu, Alicia Farley, Sarah Darling and Stacey Cartwright Smith and Faye Ghane. We excited to see you all back in 2025.
Recently this term we have already welcomed LUKE HANLON, JILLIAN MCGINLEY and ELLA FRANCIS to the English and Humanities teams at the school.
For 2024 we will also welcome:
| SARMAD ORAHA | Classroom Aide | MICHELLE NAPOLITANO | English | KAYLA DONOGHUE | Psychology and Humanities |
| NAOMI HALL | Classroom Aide | RAYANNE CHEBBOU | English and Psychology | NICOLE GRIFFIN | Maths |
| SHARMEN DABARERA | Laboratory Assistant | JASON STRADELLA | Psychology | KATRINA ZUK | English |
| CHRIS ANDERSON | Literacy and Library | SIMON WILSON | VCE Music | CALVIN FRENCH | Health and PE |
| LOLA PANUCCIO | Careers | MARIA RUAN | Chinese Mandarin | SISI CHEN | Chinese Mandarin |
| CHRIS HODGKINSON | Maintenance and Facilities | JESSICA SMITH | Maths and Physics | STEPHANIE HANNA | Visual Arts |
| COURTNEY GORHAM | Food Tech and Junior School Leader | TRAVIS UNSWORTH | Health and PE | NOVA MCNAMARA | Science |
| BRANDON MCLARTY | Health and PE | BONNIE-RAE DUNCAN | Year Level Coordinator | KYLA BOKELUND | Psychology and Science |
| BRENT BARBERA | VCE Maths | GREGORY WILSON | Biology and Science | CHUANSHUANG ZHANG | Chinese Mandarin |
| EMMA PRICE | Maths and Business | MEHMET CICEK | Computing and Maths | DOMINIQUE CERA | Maths |
| MARCUS NOEL | Humanities and Legal Studies | JEREME FARRELL | Maths | GEORGE POULAKIS | English and Media |
| ETHAN WELKER | Humanities | GEORGIA WHEATON | English |
We’re really excited to welcome these teachers to our community for 2024.
Farewells
We’d also like to farewell the following staff who are moving on to new challenges in 2024: Noah Johnstone, Sarah Stone, Peter Jurasek, Albert Juma, Isabella Ganino, Amitesh Prasad, Agathi Koroneos, Jason Haggerty, Lui Foloi, Jacqui Hunter.
Key dates
January 24th – School Office Opens from 10am
Tuesday January 30th – First day for Year 7 only
Wednesday January 31st – First Day for Years 8 – 11 students
Tuesday 20th February – Curriculum Day (student free)
Monday 11th March- Labour Day public Holiday
Wednesday 27th March – Student Learning Conferences (11:30am – 7:30pm)
Thursday 28th March – Last Day of term 1 (early finish)
Monday 15th April – Term 2 commences
Thursday 25th April – ANZAC Day public holiday
Friday 7th June – Whole school Athletics Carnival
Monday 10th June – King’s Birthday public holiday
Friday 28th June – Last day of term 2 (early finish)
Monday 15th July – Term 3 commences
Thursday 1st August and Friday 2nd August – Student learning Conferences and Subject Selection meetings
Monday 12th August – Curriculum Day (Student Free)
Monday 20th September – Last day of term 3
Monday 7th October – Term 4 commences
Tuesday 5th November – Melbourne Cup Day holiday
Friday 29th November – Curriculum Day (student free)
Tuesday 10th December – Statewide Orientation Day – (2025 year 7 students only)
Friday 20th December – Last Day of school (early finish)
A comprehensive list of all 2024 important dates will be published on Compass in the new year
2024 – Reminder of changes to PE Uniform
A reminder to all families about changes to the uniform policy adopted by School Council in 2022 and communicated in 2022 and 23.
The old teal PE jacket has been replaced by the new black jacket which can be worn on either Academic Uniform days or PE days. 2023 was the changeover year for this process meaning students could still wear the teal jacket in 2023, however this has now ended and the teal jacket is no longer part of the school uniform.
PE Uniform is no longer part of the Senior School Uniform (Year 11 and above). As VCE PE is a theory based subject – students in Year 11 and 12 are not permitted to wear PE uniform at all. Classroom teachers of VCE PE will communicate directly to students about materials required for occasional practical classes.
Wishing the entire Elevation community a restful break over the festive period and we will see you all back in 2024.
Welcome back Compass messages will be sent out late in January with final reminders for the 2024 school year.