Principal's News

Tennis

This week Milo has been here running coaching sessions for our P/1 classes and training the grade 5/6 students who are representing our school at the team tennis regional event next Thursday. We wish them good luck!

Community Clubs

Don't forget our community clubs sessions for this term start tomorrow. All students have selected their club, which has been a difficult choice with such great options to choose from (Cooking, bike riding, scooters, beading, nature walks, chess/board games, guided drawing). If your child is leaving the school grounds for their club you will receive a notification on XUNO - no permission is required as it is a local excursion.

School Closed 

A reminder that the school will be closed on Monday November 3rd and Tuesday November 4th for the pupil free day and the Melbourne Cup  holiday.  Our next Pupil free day for your diary is Friday 5th of December.  Each year schools are granted pupil free days and a Professional Practice Day by the Department. These dates may change each year depending on the needs of the school and must be approved by School Council.   

School Council

The October meeting of School Council is set down for next Tuesday, October 28  at 6:30pm in the staffroom.

Classes 2026- Student Placements 

Staff  will soon begin the conversations and work around class groupings for 2025. If your child will not be attending Rochester PS next year or you know of somebody who is yet to enrol could you please contact the office ASAP.  If you have any specific requests regarding the placement of your child for 2026  please make contact to discuss before Friday 31s  October.  

Our 2026 classes will consider parent request along with student needs from a social, academic, wellbeing and behavioural perspective. Teaching teams, Specialist staff, ES staff and Leadership review all classes to ensure the most appropriate placement of all students. 

A range of factors are considered in the process of forming each class:

• an academically and wellbeing compatible balance
•  a ‘social behaviour’ balance
• Children need to be placed with familiar faces while at the same time acknowledging that some children work better with certain students than others irrespective of friendships. 

Intentions to Leave?

If any families are intending to leave our school community and won’t be returning in 2026 because of relocation or other reason, could you please advise us as soon as possible. A phone call to the office, or an email to the school  asap would be most appreciated.

Christmas Raffle

Don't forget to collect and sell some tickets for our Christmas Raffle (formally known as Monster Raffle). Thanks to Nichol Trading for their generous donation of all 3 RBN vouchers. We have 10 prizes in total and the raffle will be drawn at our  End of year Assembly on Tuesday 16th December (save the date)!Please contact the office to collect a book of tickets. Tickets are in books of 5 and are $5 each. Any unsold tickets must be returned.

 Kate Whitford