Hello, from Carolyn.

Hello everyone,

Thank you to our choir students, Grade 1/2s and Bridget Finch for a lovely end to our day yesterday. It's always a pleasure to hear our students singing and a special treat having our grade 1/2 students perform their class songs they have been working on. It was great to have such a big audience of appreciative parents and carers too! Thank you for coming along on such a hot day.

STEM 'Circuits and switches' workshops

This year, Gypsy and Audrey have been attending STEM sessions at the Discovery Centre.

Over the year they have participated in a range of different STEM experiments including coding and robotics, circuits and switches and how to drive the Discovery planetarium. Audrey and Gypsy have been outstanding representatives of our school- always respectful, upholding our values and excited to participate and learn.

This week, Gypsy and Audrey planned to take our Grade 3-6 students for circuit and switches workshops in the library. Audrey had a transition session to attend on the day and Ochre stepped in to assist Gypsy. Well done Gypsy on running those sessions so confidently, the students had a great time. Thank you Ochre for assisting Gypsy.

Statewide transition day Tuesday 10th.

Next Tuesday is 'step up' for our students. Our current year 6 students will be visiting their secondary schools and our 2025 Foundation students will be here for the morning. All our students will find out who their teacher will be and which classroom they will be in.

I am pleased to be able to announce our 2025 staffing to you all-

Foundation (Room 10) = Rachel Quarrier

Grade 1/2 (Room 9) = Jack Belsar

Grade 1/2 (Room 7) = Skye Schueller

Grade 2/3 (Room 6) = Bianca Giampaolo

Grade 3/4 (Room 4) = David Morrison-Blunck

Grade 4 (Room 2) = Di Kennedy and Kim Kirkpatrick

Grade 5/6 (Room1) = Jackson Godfrey

Grade 5/6 (Room 5) = Kerry Meaden-Kendrick

Grade 5/6 (Room 3) = Jacinta Condon and Cosima Perley

Art/Cooking = Sheridan Leversha

PE = Laura Hicks

Music = Bridget Finch

Gardening = Daniel Halliday

Chinese = Cecilia Liu

Learning Specialist/EMU (maths intervention) = Kim Kirkpatrick

Literacy intervention =  Lisa Fasham

Disability Inclusion/Mental Health wellbeing Leader = Nicole Lowe

Business Manager = Lou Bray

Education Support = Louise Rodriquez, Julie Guidice,  Danni Ferrari, Lauren Hussey-Makepeace, Danae Francis.

A fabulous team of people working together to support our students to achieve their best!

Next week's newsletter is our last newsletter for the year. Please add the folowing dates to your calendar-

2025.

Tuesday 28 January Staff at school.

Wednesday 29 January ALL students start school, including our Foundation students.

warm regards,

Carolyn.

School banking details.

Westpac.

Bendigo Violet Street Primary

BSB: 033-688

Account number: 93-1292

Payment reference: use your surname and fees.