Principal's Report

Reminders

With only 2 weeks left of this term, I have a few reminder for all students and their families.

My first reminder is about hats. We follow advice and recommendations from the Cancer Council's Sunsmart program. In Victoria, UV levels can be unpredictable and therefore students will require their hat to be available at school, year round, as we may experience a day of high UV levels at any time of year.   

I also want to remind families of the following important dates as we get closer to school holidays. 

Term 1 finishes on Friday 4th April - all students finish at 2:30pm

Term 2 starts on Tuesday 22nd April

In the first week back of Term 2, we are only at school for 3 days, as the Monday and Friday are both Public Holidays.

On the first Thursday back of Term 2 we will be holding our ANZAC Day Service.

Assembly

We have our final whole school assembly for the term on Monday 31st March at 9:10am.

Parents are welcome to attend.  This will include the badge presentation to our Student Representative Council (SRC).

NAPLAN 

A huge well done to our Year 3 and Year 5 students for completing NAPLAN! We know these tasks can be challenging, but our students tackled them with resilience and a positive mindset.

To start each day right, Clyde Primary School provided a delicious breakfast to fuel their minds. A big thank you to our amazing staff for making sure our students felt prepared and supported.

Parent Conference Bookings

Parent Conferences need to be booked in before 4:00pm next Wednesday 26th March.

Your child’s teacher will have sent you a direct Compass message explaining one of the 2 options below:

1)Your attendance is encouraged as I wish to discuss child’s progress this term. 

or, 

2)You are welcome to attend if you wish to discuss anything with the teacher, however at this stage, the teacher does not have any specific areas of concern about your child's progress this term.

To make things a little easier there are different ways we can conduct the conference. If you would prefer a phone or WebEx conference, please contact the teacher directly by compass message or email clyde.ps@education.vic.gov.au with your request.

School Wide Positive Behaviour Supports

Our school has just been awarded Silver level of achievement in the Department of Education's School Wide Positive Behaviour Supports program (SWPBS).

Silver level of acknowledgement recognises that our school focuses on teaching and encouraging positive behaviour, supporting all students, and providing extra help to those who need it.  

Implementing SWPBS is a multi-year journey, typically taking between 3 to 5 years.  Our next steps include:

• reviewing our program and identifying strategies for improvement
• employing a Youth Worker to run small groups programs focused on Respect and Resilience
• continuing to build expertise in behaviour support among staff
• using yard duty data to identify issues in the school yard and solve problems
• provide training and coaching to help teachers improve their responses to behaviours

Whilst Mr Russell leads the School Wide Positive Behaviours program at Clyde PS, it takes a whole school effort to understand the strategies and practice the behaviours. Our students have shown a terrific understanding of our school values of Respect, Resilience and Responsibility, and what these look like in certain areas of our school.  They also work very hard to display these behaviours, which are rewarded in their classrooms on individual token boards. Ch

Staffing News

This week, Mrs Foden, who teaches 4A has announced she is pregnant, with her third child. Mrs Foden will start her Family Leave in early Term 3, and we wish her all the best for the upcoming birth.

Aboriginal Cultural Incursion

All students are invited to attend a workshop incursion on Wednesday 2nd April with Ganga Giri. Ganga Giri, will transport our students through his demonstration of the

 unique sound of the didgeridoo, animal sounds and solo rhythms accompanied by dynamic, original, electronic beats. 

Apart from Ganga’s interactive musical performance students will also enjoy learning about the history of the didgeridoo and its making, other traditional musical instruments, hunting tools, and more! Payments and permission are due on Compass by Wednesday 25th March. 

Easter

From next week, raffle tickets are being sold outside the office every morning (8:45am-9am) and every afternoon (3:15pm-3:30pm). 

Donations are still needed! 

School Photos

Last Wednesday 12th March, individualised photo order forms were sent home with your children. This had their order code on them. 

If you have miss-placed this order form, you can request your child's code at the office. 

Please remember that the School Photo Day is next Tuesday 25th March.

Students must wear full school uniform and should be neat and presentable. 

SRC Free Dress Day

The SRC are proud to present their first fundraising event for 2025:

2025 Premiers' Reading Challenge

The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge is now open, and we are very excited to be participating. The Challenge is open to all Clyde Primary students from Foundation to Year 6 in recognition of the importance of reading for literacy development. It is not a competition; but a personal challenge for children to read a set number of books by the 5th of September 2025. 

Children from Prep to Year 2 are encouraged to read or ‘experience’ 30 books with their parents and teachers. Children from Year 3 to Year 6 are challenged to read 15 books. 

All children who meet the Challenge will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the Victorian Premier and former Premiers. 

Your child’s login details will be sent home this week so you can visit the PRC website https://vprc.eduweb.vic.gov.au/home and your child can:

• log their books as they read
• earn badges as challenge milestones are achieved 
• mark books as a favourite, give them a star rating or complete a book review 

To read the Premier’s letter to parents, view the booklist and for more information about the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge, visit: https://www.vic.gov.au/premiers-reading-challenge

This year, the Challenge is celebrating its 20th anniversary with the theme ‘20 years of words and wonder’ and a year of special activities. For details, follow the Premiers Reading Challenge Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/VicPRC/

Should you have any questions regarding the Challenge, please speak with your child’s classroom teacher, or contact our school’s Challenge coordinators, Sharon Barker (Year 2) and Ben Hale (Year 6).

Happy reading everyone!!

2026 Foundation Enrolments

The Department of Education has released the statewide Foundation (Prep) enrolment timeline for the 2026 school year.

The timeline advises families when and how to enrol their child into Foundation at a Victorian government primary school, including Clyde Primary School. The timeline also applies to online enrolment.

All government primary schools will follow the timeline in 2025 to support Foundation enrolments for the 2026 school year. You can find information and resources about the timeline, including factsheets and a poster at: Enrolling in Foundation (Prep).

You will be able to apply to enrol your child in Foundation 2026 at Clyde Primary School from 22 April 2025.

What you need to do:

1. Download the Foundation enrolment information pack from Enrolling in Foundation  (available from 22 April 2025).

2. Submit your online application for Foundation by Friday 25 July 2025.

3. You will be notified of the outcome of your application between Monday 28 July and Friday 8 August 2025. If you receive an enrolment offer, you should respond to the offer on VicStudents by Friday 22 August 2025.

4. Take part in enrolment information and transition sessions during Term 4, 2025.

5. Prepare your child to start Foundation from Wednesday 28 January 2026.

Enrolment applications submitted after 25 July 2025 will be processed by our school as they are received, in accordance with the department’s Placement Policy.

To commence online enrolment Visit students.educationapps.vic.gov.au/s/ to create an account and complete the online application form. Please ensure that all documents required are attached to the application.

If applying for Foundation 2026, applications open on VicStudents from 22 April 2025.