Critical and Creative thinking  skills are essential in this world where we are subjected to advertising, propaganda, untruths, and misinformation on a daily basis.  Through the explicit teaching of the Critical and Creative Thinking Capability at Mernda Primary School students develop the skills to examine information critically and to ask: Is it true? Is the […]

What is PSC? The Personal and Social Capability is essential in enabling students to understand themselves and others, and manage their relationships, lives, work and learning more effectively. The capability involves students learning to:  recognise and regulate emotions, develop empathy for others and understand relationships establish and build a framework for positive relationships  work effectively […]

Intercultural Capabilities At Mernda Primary School, students from Prep to Year Six participate in  an Intercultural unit of work that encompasses the Intercultural Capability which is a part of the Victorian Curriculum.  The students explore cultural diversity, acceptance of other cultures, investigate their own cultural identity and explore how they celebrate different traditions and cultural […]

Science Technology Engineering Art & Mathematics At Mernda Primary School, we provide students with the opportunity to participate in the STEAM Program. This program encompasses and integrates all the elements of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics and aims to close the gap between how all these elements work together to conceptualise, design, develop, create, […]

中国普通话 Zhōngguó pǔtōnghuà Mernda Primary School strives towards developing their students for Global Citizenship. Teachers include in the daily curriculum many intercultural opportunities in order to prepare students to work and live in a multicultural community with different cultures and customs. To support our students towards global citizenship, Mernda supports the mandatory curriculum expectation that […]