Welcome to the second half of Term 3! What a week we have had this week with Book Week, Vietnam Veterans Day, Community Reading Day, Dress Up Parade, Poetry Walk and Lightning Premiership!

As we look ahead for the remainder of Term 3 we have lots of upcoming events. With Fathers Day Stall, Fathers Day Breakfast, Athletics Day, EMMAC Excursion and the Year 5/6 Production Foodbank Food Fight all still to come this term we are all looking forward to the next few weeks! Please keep an eye on Compass and Facebook for all of our updates.

Year 5/6 Production: Meet the Cobblestones

Cobram Primary School Grade 5/6 students proudly present our 2025 Grade 5/6 Production on Thursday 18th September at 6.00pm: Meet The Cobblestones, just an ordinary Stone Age family of cave folk living on Stoney Street, Rock Bottom! But when cave boy inventor Bobby Cobblestone hatches his very first good idea, he's whisked off to work for none other than the beautiful celebrity Lady Lava! Unfortunately, BC is soon up to his neanderthal neck in trouble when he discovers his new boss hides a dark secret that will rock Rock Bottom to its foundations. With mysterious monsters terrorising the town and a volatile volcano ready to blow its top, can BC become a little boulder and hatch a plan to save his family, his friends and his very own precious Rock Bottom? Only time will tell...

A cast of crazy cave folk join in the neolithic naughtiness, not to mention a flock of prehistoric birds, two dippy dinosaurs, a vacuum-cleaning mammoth and a sabre-tooth tiger called Tiddles! With eight toe-tapping songs to get you rocking like a rolling stone and a puntastic script as sharp as a flint, one thing's for sure - the Stone Age rocks!

All grades from Foundation to Grade 4 will also be performing with their classes before the main show starts.

Tickets are on sale now via this link: https://events.humanitix.com/grade-5-6-production-rock-bottom

Personal Safety and Prevention

Each year we have BraveHearts come and speak to our Prep to Year 2 students, but its also important that students across all year levels understand how to keep themselves safe. Please see the parent information sheet below from Brave Hearts, which also includes links to some extra resources.

Pre-Prep Program

We are very excited to be offering our Pre-Prep Program again in Term 4! Enrolments are closing soon for all 2025 Foundation students. This program has proven to be successful in giving students the opportunity to experience school life and become confident in a school setting. This leads to a smoother transition to their Foundation year and commencement of their schooling journey. All Foundation students enrolled for 2025 have automatically been enrolled in the Pre-Prep Program, if you have not yet enrolled and would like your child to complete the Pre-Prep Program please contact the office on 58721374.

2025 Parent/Caregiver/Guardian Opinion Survey

Our school is conducting the annual Parent / Caregiver / Guardian Opinion Survey offered by the Department of Education and is seeking your feedback. The survey is designed to assist schools in gaining an understanding of families’ perceptions of school climate, student behaviour, and student engagement. The survey is optional, but we encourage and appreciate your participation.

Our school will use the survey results to assist in identifying areas for improvement and professional development needs in the school, to target school planning and improvement strategies.

The Parent / Caregiver / Guardian Opinion Survey will be open online from Monday 25 August to Friday 19 September 2025. A random sample of parents / caregivers / guardians have been selected to participate in this year’s survey. The survey link and password will be emailed to the randomly selected families next week.

The survey will be conducted online, only takes 20 minutes to complete, and can be accessed at any convenient time on desktop computers, laptops, tablets or smartphones.

The online survey will be available in English and 10 other languages including Arabic, Greek, Hakha Chin, Hindi, Japanese, Punjabi, Simplified Chinese, Somali, Turkish, and Vietnamese. Resources are also available in additional languages to assist parents / caregivers / guardians who speak a language other than English at home. Please reach out to the school directly for survey guides in your language.Please speak to the office if you would like more information.

Have a great week!

Claye Runnalls

Principal

Cobram Primary School Newsletter

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Issue 13 · 22 Aug 2025

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