School News
$400 Payment for Students in 2025
Parents with children at Victorian state schools will receive a one-off $400 payment for school expenses.
The payment is designed to help ease cost-of-living pressures and will also be offered to concession card holders at non-government schools.
The government says the money will be made available as credit that can be put towards educational expenses in certain categories.
Those categories include uniforms, school camps or trips, swimming or sports programs, outdoor education and excursions.
The money can not be put towards school fees or used for household expenses.
Cross Country
On Thursday 20th June WVPS took 4 students to the Western Metro Regional cross-country event. The students involved on the day were Gamya from year 3 and Sharmilla, Issac and Ashton from year 5. It was a cold and wet start to the day but with over 600 students racing across the primary competition. All 4 athletes had strong runs on a slippery and hilly course and should be proud of reaching this stage of the competition and can count themselves in the top 100 runners in the region. A special mention to Issac who placed 5th in his event and will now progress to the state competition mid-July at Yarra Valley Racecourse. A super effort all round by everyone. Well done!
Girls Footy
The penultimate week of term was a busy week for WVPS sport. Not only did we have the cross country event but we had the district girls footy day on Tuesday 18th June. After a rigorous and thorough training camp over 3 weeks the 2 teams of girls were ready to take on the other 10 teams from the district. 140 girls spent the whole day playing 11 games in what was a triumph for girls footy. Both teams had a great day out but there must be a special mention to the A team as they went through the round robin stages with a record of playing 11, winning 11! This was a monumental effort and the girls showed incredible resilience and teamwork. Unfortunately they lost in the grand final to Werribee PS, a team that oozed with Werribee district players. Good luck in the next round girls and enjoy your morning tea!
Our Athletics Days - Monday 24th & Tuesday 25th June
A Day At The Farm - FOUNDATION
Sick Bay – New Procedure for Notifications
From now on you will receive a notification for:
- A student who has soiled themselves, you will also be notified if they have required a change of clothes supplied by the school. Please wash and return any clothes that have been supplied.
- A student who has had a minor incident and visits the sickbay.
You will receive a courtesy notification via SMS and Compass. There is no need to call the school if you receive these messages.
For serious incidents, such as a head injury or severe illness/injury, you will receive a phone call from the school instead of an SMS notification.
The new Compass notifications are to inform parents of student visits to sickbay in a timely manner and to reduce our paper usage.
Do you have any spare school pants?? Sick bay is very short on pants needing sizes up to 8. If you have any you no longer need we would be very grateful if they could be donated for our use.
Yard Duty and Supervision
Student safety at Wyndham Vale Primary School is our highest priority and the safe and appropriate supervision of students is an important element of our duty of care to students. Part of this duty is ensuring parents and students are aware of our student supervision arrangements before and after school.
Before school: School gates are opened, and grounds are supervised at 8:20am until all students have entered classrooms at 8:45am.
After school: School grounds are supervised at the conclusion of the school day at 2:55pm until gates are closed at 3:10pm.
Students on school grounds outside these times will not be supervised (unless they are attending a before or after school care program or supervised extracurricular activity). Parents/carers/guardians are requested to ensure that students do not attend school outside of these supervised times unless they are attending before or after school care, or a pre-arranged supervised activity (i.e. sports practice).
Families are encouraged to contact the school office on 03 8754 0888 or refer to Team Kids for more information about the before and after school care facilities available to our school community or if you would like any further information about our student supervision arrangements.
For a copy of our school’s Yard Duty and Supervision Policy please contact the school office on 03 8754 0888. This policy includes Wyndham Vale Primary School’s student supervision arrangements across the school day, including before and after school.
Michael Laird
Assistant Principal
All late comers need to go straight to Mrs Bebend to be signed in.
Please remember to label your child's uniform with their name. We have many items of clothing in lost property that we cannot return because there is no name on the items.
Road Safety:
Wyndham Council have contacted us to inform us they will be patrolling our school area due to the large number of complaints they have received regarding dangerous driving, parking across drive ways and on the nature strips as well as the school crossings not being used.
We are asking that you are vigilant at all times and role model for our students the following:
Cross at the school crossings
Do not park on the nature strip
Do not park across our neighbors driveways and block them
Do not double park to drop children off/pick them up
Do not speed, be aware of your speed and the speed limit during school hours
Pedestrians are to give way to vehicles at round abouts.
It is in everyone's best interest to keep the students safe and be respectful to those around you and be a good role model for the students -
DO NOT cross the road without using the crossing
