Across Oliver's Desk 

Dear Parents/Guardians, 

We can finally let you know where all our teachers have been placed for 2022. Students will find out who their teachers are and which children are in their grade on Tuesday the 7th of September, “step up day”. 

Prep A – Lisa Syme

Prep B – Jess Lowe

Prep C - Jess Howe/Zena Earsman

Prep D – Bonnie McKercher

1/2A – Rachel Cantwell

1/2B – Libby Bemrose

1/2C – Amy Cleary

1/2D – Sophie Young

1/2E – Katie MacDonald

3/4A – Ben Eaton

3/4B – Katherine Bolton

3/4C – Penny Trueman

3/4D – Rachael Falls

3/4C – Sara-Jane Vaughan

5/6 A – Jess White

5/6 B – Elyse Newman

5/6 C – Ash Shanks

5/6 D – Danielle Marnock 

P/E – Ash Gibbons

Art – Clive McArthur 

German/Cooking – Sandy Walter

Science – Fiona Eckhardt 

LLI – Mary Menta

Learning Specialists (teacher coaches) – Rachel Ward & Jess Wallace

Tutors – Lucy Derix, Nat Telpuk, Stephanie Verhoef

Teacher Aides – Robyn McMurray, Carol Gerrard, Cheryl Sinclair, Bree Valentine, Josie Venville, Kristy Malcolm, Michele Callaway, Shelly Holt

Administration – Natalie Potter (Business Manager), Ellen Largue, Libby Potter

New Staff for 2022

Next year we are growing one grade and we are losing a few staff that will be on maternity leave. Deeon Toogood, Vicky Barnard and Rachel Ward after term 1 will be staying at home looking after their new family additions. Therefore, we have some new teachers starting their Woori journey next year.

Elyse Newman – A former Woori Yallock Primary School student. Currently working at Albany Rise Primary School.

Penny Trueman – Will be in her first year of teaching.  However Penny worked at the school as a pre-service teacher under Jess White’s eye, therefore we already know she is a very skilled practitioner.

Rachael Falls – Rachael has been working at the school for most of the year in some capacity. Rachel has already had experience at a number of schools and we were lucky to win her services for next year.

Also most importantly, Flick will be back as Assistant Principal after her stint as Acting Principal of Mount Evelyn P.S. 

Grade Six Graduation Dinner

We did have a scare last week when there was an announcement around unvaccinated 12 to 15 year old's not being able to go to restaurants or excursions. Thankfully the Department of Education clarified this issue late Sunday night. Grade six students will be allowed to attend their graduation and end of year excursions. Unfortunately unvaccinated parents will not be able to attend due to government restrictions. Sadly even if we held the dinner at school the same restrictions would apply.

When – Thursday 16th of December

Where – Killara Winery Seville East

Time – 5:15pm

Prep transition activities and dates

We are looking forward to our new preps coming to have their first visits to the school. 

• Friday November 26th        9:30 – 11am
• Friday December 3rd           9:00 – 11am
• Tuesday December 7th (step up day)       9:30 – 12:30pm

Breakfast Club

Breakfast club is back from 8am Tuesday and Thursday. 

Reports

Teachers are currently finishing off a few assessments and are busy writing reports. Reports will be released to parents via compass on Monday 6th of December. This year’s, reports will be similar to last years ‘remote learning’ condensed reports. There will be no specialists’ reports this semester due to remote learning.

Parent Teacher Interviews

Parent teacher interviews will be conducted on Monday 6th and Wednesday 8th of December. Parents will have the option of a face to face interview or an online interview. We will send you more information about interviews next week via compass. 

Please make sure you look after yourself this week as we head into this really busy period for everything! I’ll see you at the kiss and drop.