Harkaway Hills College - upcoming July information sessions

Next information seminar - Sunday 12 July

You are warmly invited to our next information seminar, where we will be pleased to welcome again Marina Haines.  

Marina will give a detailed presentation on the curriculum for the early primary years, focusing particularly on the Spalding approach to literacy, to which much time and effort is devoted in these foundational years.  With her day to day experience of successfully growing a very small school and enjoying outstanding academic results from day one, she is the perfect speaker to answer all questions about how a small school operates and how a full range of learning experiences can be provided in these first years.

Marina recently retired as principal of Montgrove College, a PARED school in Sydney's western suburbs. Marina was the first principal of the then-called Orchard Hills Preparatory School, which opened in 1999 with 15 children in foundation (prep). Orchard Hills Prep has now grown into Montgrove College for girls and Wollemi College for boys.

When: Sunday, 12 July 2015 at 2pm

Where: Damien & Tatiana's home 

RSVP: Monday 6 July.  

For babysitting purposes, please advise whether your children will be attending and, if so, how many and what ages they are.  We will ask for a donation towards babysitting costs.

Information sessions in local areas

All families are most welcome to attend these sessions, held in the homes of interested families around Melbourne, which will be small and intimate.  They present an opportunity to ask any and all questions that families may have about the College and the PARED philosophy.

Sessions have been held already in Wheelers Hill and in Montmorency, and two more have been planned.

In Keilor, at the home of Natasha and Joshua Peart on Saturday, July 4 at 2pm.

In Lysterfield South, at the home of MariaJose and Ricardo Peralta on Saturday, July 25 at 3pm.

Please email paredschoolmelbourne@gmail.com for details.

Also, if you live elsewhere and would like us to host a session in your area, we would be happy to do so - please get in touch.

We look forward to seeing you at one (or more!) of these sessions soon.

Harkaway Hills College update - new website! Also, school motto, tax deductible donations etc

We are delighted to share some significant announcements, including...

            1.  Tax deductible donations
           

            2.  Launch of new school website

            3.  Announcement of school motto

Tax deductible donations

We are very pleased to announce that the ATO has approved our building fund for the receipt of tax deductible donations.  We can use this tax deductible fund for building expenses related to education.

We invite you to consider whether you would like to make a tax deductible donation to the College's building fund, to contribute to the enormous and exciting task of building an amazing school with wonderful facilities, to benefit students and families for many decades to come!  

(Though please note that we are also in need of donations for expenses such as the land which are not tax deductible.) 

If you would like to contribute financially to the school please contact: Tatiana or Damien Burger or Pat Coyne.

School website

We are excited to launch an official website for Harkaway Hills College - please see www.harkawayhills.org!

It features information about our vision, mission and values, about the character education we offer and our curriculum, and our Catholic ethos.  It also includes the blog that we will continue to maintain and links to Youtube videos of our previous seminars.

School motto - VERITAS ET VIRTUS - Truth and Virtue

Our school motto has been chosen to reflect clearly and simply the main focus of the school's efforts, which is to assist families so that each member can grow in truth and in virtue.

Upcoming information sessions

We will forward another email in the coming week announcing details of an information seminar focussed on curriculum which will take place in July, and of local information sessions planned for Keilor and Lysterfield South.

Enrolments

As you are no doubt aware, we are receiving applications for enrolment of families with children in foundation and grade 1 in 2016.  If you are intending to apply for enrolment in 2016 and have not commenced this process, please make contact with us ASAP!

We will continue to update you on the progress we are making on a regular basis.  If you have any questions or would like to get in touch, please email paredschoolmelbourne@gmail.com