Principal's Report

2025 Student Leaders

We have recently completed applications for 2025 Student Curriculum Leader positions and we are very excited about their role in 2025, which includes visiting and providing feedback to classrooms on a weekly rotation and working closely with staff members in specialist areas to improve student voice and agency. 

Leaders will be officially announced at our last Whole School Assembly for the year on Monday 9th of December.  

A big congratulations goes to:

2025 School Captains – Sophie & Zena

2025 School Vice-Captains – Manuli & Rashdan

English Leader - Ekam

Mathematics Leader - Kathy

ICT Leader – Mithun

Music Leader - Zara

Art Leader - Grace

Auslan Leader - Abby

Wellbeing Leader – Kahlia

Sports Leader - Rhys

Sports Leader - Laikyn

Sports Leader - Cohen

Sports Leader - Zane

These students will receive their official badges at the first assembly in 2025.

Christmas Raffle

Thank you to all of our families who have donated items for our upcoming Christmas Raffle. We have now received a number of items that will be made up into hamper prizes. The raffle will be drawn at our Christmas Carols on Thursday the 5th December.  Tickets are 1.00 each / $10.00 for the book and more tickets are available from the school office.  If you are unable to attend the event, we will notify you the following day if you have won.

Christmas Carols Night

We are one week away from the best family night on the school calendar.  On Thursday 5th December, we invite families to join us on the school oval from 5:30pm for a BYO picnic.  Bring along some nibbles, a picnic rug or camp chair and find a spot to watch the carols from.  Please note this is a pet, alcohol and smoke and vape-free event.

Picnic before the Carols 5:00-6:00pm

Bring your own picnic and enjoy this before the show starts at 6:00pm.

Sausages will also be sold on the night, (until sold out) to raise funds for our school. 

The canteen will also be open and selling drinks, ice creams and snacks between 5-6pm.  

Raffle tickets can also be bought during this time.

6:00-7:30 (approx) Concert

The Concert will begin at 6:00pm with Junior and Senior Choir followed by class groups performing one Christmas song each.  Students will be required to sit with their classes at the front of the stage area during this time.

During the evening, our Christmas Raffle prizes will be drawn. Raffle tickets have been sent home and are currently on sale. You can ask for extra tickets from the office.

 A very special guest is also expected to visit us on the night. The event will finish by approximately 7:30pm.   

It is important to note that after receiving some feedback from previous years Carols, this year there will be a change to the seating arrangements for the event.  As you can see below we will be having two separate seating areas to choose from.  You can choose to sit on a chair around the outside of the field  (please see pink shaded area below) or you can choose to sit in the middle area towards the back on a blanket (please see blue shaded area below).  These changes have been made to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to see their students perform without hinderance, these seating arrangements will be strictly enforced on the night.

Colour Run for Fun

On Wednesday 20th November, we held our annual Colour Run for Fun and it was such a fun day! Each year level got to run around our field and basketball court, get wet and coloured!  It was great to see so many kids laughing and having fun with their friends and classmates.

At the end of the day, students that raised over $150 got the opportunity to slime a teacher, twice!

Thank you to everyone that fundraised, we raised a total of $13,013 for our school, which will go towards play equipment in our Junior school area.  

A huge congratulations to the following top Fundraisers:

Stevie  - $630

Zoe  - $585

Byron  - $450

4A were the class that raised the most, raising $1375 in total!

We look forward to doing it again next year, even bigger and better!!

Staffing News

It's a very busy time of year for organising staffing for 2025, as yet we have not informed our teachers which classes they will be teaching in 2025.  However, students will know their class teacher by our last transition session on Tuesday 10th December.

Sadly, we will be saying goodbye to Mrs G, our music teacher at the end of the year.  Mrs G has done a terrific job in the past couple of years in teaching an engaging music program as well as supporting and leading a number of school performances.  We wish her well for her future, as she moves to a school a bit closer to her home and family.

We also farewell Mr Legge at the end of the year.  Mr Legge has taught a number of students at our school in recent years, developing wonderful relationships with many of our students and families.  We wish him the best of luck in his new P.E teacher role at Topirum Primary School.

Ms McLeod is also leaving Clyde PS at the end of 2024 to return to her previous school, Clyde Secondary College.  Ms McLeod has taught Year 4 this year and will be missed by our school community.

And finally, we are thrilled to announce that Miss Crow  and her partner Craig are expecting their first child in June next year.  Miss Crow will return at the beginning of 2025, before taking her Family Leave.

Principal's Award Recipients

Foundation PLT Award Recipient was absent, photo to come next newsletter.

Important Dates

Library books must be returned before Friday 6th December (next week)

Our last day for the canteen is Friday 15th of December.

School Saving Bonus

Please check your emails for your individualised code for the $400 School Saving Bonus.  You may use the School Saving Bonus on the following: 

• School Uniform (including the 2025 Yr 6 uniform)
• Camps, Sports, Excursions and Incursions. 

The School Saving Bonus cannot be used to purchase: 

• Stationery (this includes the 2025 booklist)
• Laptops/Devices

2025 Booklists

The school recommends you purchase a stationery box from Office Corporate for your child to individually own and use.  Log into https://www.booklistorders.com.au/ to create a new account, use school code CPS25. Detailed instructions are attached. Orders placed by 5th December will receive free delivery to the school or incur freight costs of $9.95 if delivered to your home.  School deliveries will be delivered to your child’s classroom on 28th January, in preparation for the school year. Books will be labelled by students and teachers in their classroom, you do not need to label or cover your books. 

Orders received after the 4th December will not receive the discounted packing costs.  Orders received after 18th January cannot be guaranteed delivery by the 29th January 2025.

The following items are available to purchase from the school office.

• School Bag - $45.00
• Hats - $11.00
• Library / Reader Bags - $8.00
• Headphones - $10.00