From our Principal

This Week... 

Senior Secondary students enjoyed asking peers and staff about their favourite sporting activities and created a graph.  Students across the school continued to have fun in specialist programs.  It's been pleasing to see many students starting to show more confidence and skill development in the pool program.  There were many Principal Awards given out today to students for their great work in the swimming program.  

We recognised teachers for World Teachers Day; our Education Support staff acknowledged our teachers great work by catering for morning tea and writing thoughtful awards for each teacher.   

Communication

Home/school respectful partnerships are important to us as we know working in collaboration builds shared approaches to best support students to achieve success and grow. Teachers are looking forward to catching up with parents and carers at SSG meetings over the next couple of weeks to share student progress and attainment of IEP goals, and hear from you about the progress at home.  

While SSGs provide a good opportunity to share information once a term, we encourage parents and carers to keep teachers informed of important information and ask questions in other ways; this can be by sending messages via Compass, writing in a student's communication book, and phoning the school.     

If you would like to follow up on matters further or would like additional support, our leadership team are also available to assist.  We encourage you to reach out to them via Compass or phoning the front office.

• EEP / Primary Leader - Jess Mooney
• Secondary Leader - Nick Borthwick
• Senior Secondary Leader - Sam Redenbach
• Specialist Leader - Lauren Shannon
• Allied Health Leader - Julie Hughes
• Assistant Principal - Judith McDonald
• Principal - Christine Pillot

School office phone no. 9725 4933

Staffing

2025 has been a year of many unplanned staff changes across the school.  For various reasons, we have recruited new teachers and education support staff to fill vacant positions.  We have also seen staff leave to pursue other work beyond education and care for family members. We understand students respond well to staff consistency and have worked hard to recruit and place staff in roles and classrooms that not only best match staff skills with student needs, but also limit disruption to structures and routines.    

We understand that these changes have impacted on some home/school partnerships, however we would still like to build and maintain positive and open home / school relationships.  We aim to communicate staff changes as soon as possible once we have all placements in place.  

Please reach out to Judith or I if you have any questions about classroom staffing.  

2026 Parent Payment & Policy

School council approved parent payments for 2026.   Please see attached letter outlining parent payments for 2026.  I encourage you to reach out to Val Maher, (Business Manager) if you would like to discuss this, phone 9725 4933.

School Policies 

Earlier this week, School Council reviewed a number of policies in line with Department of Education policy updates.  The following policies have been updated:  

• Administration of medication
• Anaphylaxis
• Asthma
• Duty of Care
• First Aid
• Health Care needs
• Personal Property 

• Working With Children's Clearance

   

All school policies can be found on Compass under the Community Tab - School Documentation, and on our school website.