Case study · Mossgiel Park Primary

“Our school is no longer the same school it was.”

Three years. One principal who said yes. A whole staff who wouldn't go back. Here's what happened when Mossgiel Park made play a practice, not an event.

Victoria, AustraliaGovernment primary · Years P-6Multi-year partnership
Mossgiel
At a glance

100% whole-school adoption, and it held.

Daily five-minute play rituals across every classroom, a student-led wellbeing voice, calmer playgrounds and 30+ hours of staff PD across the year.

100%
Whole-school adoption
30+
Staff PD hours
Daily
Five-minute rituals
Student-led
Wellbeing voice
In the room

The principal, and the corridors.

Mossgiel Park Primary · Principal Lynn Ordish · 2024
A paper gratitude tree titled The Mossie Tree of Gratitude on a school corridor wall at Mossgiel Park Primary
Mossgiel Park Primary
Gratitude question prompts and a take-one tray on a noticeboard at Mossgiel Park Primary
Mossgiel Park Primary
The story

Three years. Four chapters.

From a first FunShop that left staff laughing to a culture that runs without Dale in the room. This is how it unfolded.

2022

The first yes

Principal Lynn booked a FunShop after seeing Dale speak. Forty-eight staff. A wet Tuesday. By 11am the room was unrecognisable.

2023

The curriculum lands

Whole-school PEGG rollout across Terms 1-4. Daily rituals led by teachers, then by students. Staff absenteeism dropped. Parent feedback spiked.

2024

Students take the keys

Year 6 students run PEGG for the junior school. A whole-school Giving Day built by kids, attended by 200 families. Covered in local media.

Today

The culture holds

Three staff changes. Two new prep cohorts. The practices kept going. Lynn calls it the first program that outlasted the program.

“Our staff turn up for each other now. That's the thing.”

Lynn Ordish, Principal, Mossgiel Park Primary

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