Mr Irwin's Message
Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s newsletter.
We’re now into the middle of term and things are settled and tracking well across the school. Students are well into their novel studies and content knowledge units in Literacy. We finally got to our first assembly for term after our Cross Country events in the first few weeks of term. I was really impressed with on a Friday afternoon how well students engaged and participated in this, particularly Bell Music Karaoke!
Happy Mother’s Day!
I hope all our Mum’s Nan’s and special people had a terrific Mother’s Day on Sunday. We are grateful for the support you give our students and hope they showed you some love and gratitude over the weekend! This week’s newsletter video is of course our Mother’s Day celebration.
A huge thankyou to our PFA helpers for running the Mother’s Day stall on Thursday. It was nice to hear feedback from them about how well students lined up, waited and used their manners at the stall. Our PFA does a wonderful job organising events that support student’s enjoyment of school and are always looking out for more helping hands. This doesn’t mean having to attend every meeting, but if you’re interested in helping out at the occasional PFA activity such as a stall, or lunch order day let the office know of your interest and we can pass along your details.
Senior School Camp
Final details regarding Senior School camp will be sent home shortly. A reminder to families this is on the 18th - 20th of June (Wednesday to Friday). This year’s camp will be at Urban Camp in Melbourne and is a great contrast from the daily life in student’s experience in Teesdale. The hustle and bustle of the city, catching trams and seeing some of Melbourne’s great attractions is a wonderful experience.
Early Learning Centre Enrolments are now live!
Early Learning Victoria is establishing a new early learning and childcare centre at Teesdale Primary School, opening in early 2026. Early Learning Victoria centres are government-run and provide high-quality early childhood education and care for young children.
Waitlist applications for the new centre are now open: Early Learning Victoria Teesdale (interim name) | earlylearning.vic.gov.au
You can contact Early Learning Victoria on elv@education.vic.gov.au or 03 9057 4444 if you have any questions about the new centre or the enrolment process.
We anticipate that recruitment for ECTs, educators, cooks and administration staff will be advertised between August - September 2025. All roles will be posted on our website www.earlylearning.vic.gov.au as well as SEEK and the ECE jobs Board. Prior to formal job postings, expressions of interest can also be submitted through our website. Feel free to contact the Workforce team if you are interested in a role at our centres elv.workforce@education.vic.gov.au
Healthy Eating at TPS
