Dear Parents/Guardians,

Volunteer’s 'thank you' morning Tea

We are extremely fortunate to have such a supportive community that is willing to help out in so many ways. We will be holding a ‘Volunteer’s Morning Tea’ on Monday 9th December in the Library at 11:00 am. If you have assisted in any way this year we would love you to join the staff to celebrate a successful year. ( Morning reading, excursions, sports days, school council etc.)

Assembly (Monday 9th) - TIME CHANGE

Please note our Assembly next week has changed to 10:30am in the BER - just before our volunteers morning tea.

Grade 3/4 Camp

Our Grade 3/4 students have had a great time on camp, testing their skill and courage on the adventure challenges.

Grade 2 Sleepover

Good luck to our Grade 2 students who travel to Bendigo today and return to school for a BBQ tea and their sleepover.

Whole School Transition Day

The State-wide Transition Day falls on Tuesday 10th December this year. On this day our students from Grades 1 to 6 will step up to their new grade for the morning and meet their new teacher for next year. Our 2025 Preps will also be joining us on this day. Please mark this day in your calendar.

Final Assembly

We are excited to invite families to a special awards assembly on Monday 16th December at 2:00pm to celebrate the end of the year. The assembly will be held on the front lawn (weather permitting) so please bring along a chair (or a shade). This will move to the undercover court if needed.

Out of School Care - Grant

This week we were notified that our grant submission for money to continue our after school care partnership with Theircare was successful. At this stage this means our current program will remain unchanged and available for our families in 2025.

End of Year arrangements

As we near the end of the year we have some notices and dates for your diaries-

Monday 9th December- Volunteers Morning tea at 11am.

Assembly changed to 10:30am.

Monday 16th December - Final whole school assembly at 2pm

Final day for normal classes.

Student Reports live on XUNO.

Tuesday 17th December- Xmas family event 5-7:30pm

Wednesday 18th - Thursday 19th - Clean up, mixed-age activities.

Friday 20th December - Last Day, Dismissal at 1:20pm.

*If your child's last day at school will be the Monday or Tuesday and they are starting their holidays early please let the office know so we can record this correctly on XUNO and can make sure we send home your child books and other personal belongings.

Monster Raffle: Tickets available from the office. Call in and grab a book to sell or to purchase a ticket yourself. Check out the great prizes up for grabs! Families are asked to collect a book to sell. These are available for pick up from the office. All funds raised will go towards supporting students, programs and activities at our school. This will be drawn at our final assembly on Monday 16th December.

School Savings bonus

All Parents should have received an email from the Department of Education by Friday containing a Bonus code to access the online system -

The $400 Bonus helps cover cost of uniforms, excursions, and activities. It cannot be allocated to student school fees.

More information can be found -https://www.vic.gov.au/school-saving-bonus

If you have not received your School Saving Bonus code via email, please contact the Department of Education by emailing school.saving.bonus@education.vic.gov.au

Kate Whitford

Rochester Primary School Newsletter

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