Principal's Message 

Fortnightly reflection and end of year well wishes

Our past fortnight was one of the busiest for the year. 

End of year excursions have been held by a couple of cohorts with more to come, 2025 School Captain speeches were presented with poise and confidence by our current Gr 5s, Grandparents and Special Friends Open Morning to make Christmas decorations was another great success, as was our Carols on the Deck night and our 2025 Class Transition session on Tuesday. 

Being the end of Week 10 means this is our final newsletter for 2024. It’s been another eventful year at Ceres with fantastic growth made by our students in and out of the classroom and extensive upgrades in our yard. 

Thank you to our amazing staff for your hard work, professionalism, and unwavering commitment to our students. Your care and dedication shine through every day. Enjoy a well earned break, and we look forward to an exciting 2025!

To our families, thank you for the support and involvement you have provided all year in your child's education. 

A special farewell to our Year 6 students, particularly those who started with us as Foundies. We wish all of you every success in secondary school. For those students and families moving on to new schools and adventures, we hope you take fond memories of your time at Ceres with you also.

Finally, I would like to wish everyone a very safe and enjoyable Christmas break. Have a wonderful time with loved ones and cherish the time to connect and relax before 2025 begins. 

I look forward to hearing all about everyone's holiday adventures when students return on Thursday, January 30th.

School Council thanks

On Tuesday 3rd December, we held our last School Council meeting for the year and it was a nice way to sign off on 2024 and the achievements that were accomplished.

I would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank our Ceres PS School Council for a very successful 2024. The dedication, enthusiasm, and initiative you have all shown has been quite inspiring. We are so fortunate to have a group of parents and staff determined to make Ceres PS the best school for our students. Thank you! 

Nominations for the 2025 School Council will be released early 2025.

Staffing appointments

We are very pleased to announce that we have appointed a new Dance/Drama specialist teacher to join the Ceres PS community in 2025. We can't wait to introduce you to our new staff member early next year.

Semester 2 Reports 

Staff have been busy assessing children and writing reports for the end of the year. These will be released to you this afternoon. Thank you to the teachers for the time and effort that has gone into writing these reports. 

I hope that you will take the opportunity to sit down with your children and review their report together as there has been some wonderful growth academically and socially made by our students this year. 

***REMINDER***

Start Date 2025

The 2025 calendar is already starting to fill up.

Please take note of what the first week of the year will look like.

Monday 27th January: 

Australia Day Public Holiday

Tuesday 28th January: 

Pupil Free Day- Teachers officially return to school and the office will reopen - Staff will participate in a beginning of year meeting and professional learning for a new spelling approach and reading assessment.

Wednesday 29th January:    

Pupil Free Day - English professional learning for and wellbeing learning for all staff

Thursday 30th January:         

All children return to school. 

Friday 31st January                

Normal school day (No lunch orders). 

Some early dates for Term 1

2025 plans have been well underway for a while now and to ensure no events are missed  we thought we would give you all an early 'heads up'. We have planned an exciting Term 1 and don't want anyone to miss out. Please save a link to our Term 1 Parent Calendar available here

• Assembly will be held 2:30pm on a Friday afternoon fortnightly. Newsletters will be released on the same day (odd weeks in odd terms, even weeks in even terms)

• Information Night on Wed Feb 19th will be held to allow our staff to have an opportunity to inform parents of classroom expectations, routines and general happenings this year in those grades. 

  Times below;

  F/1 (3:15-3:40pm) 

  2/3 (3:42-4.07pm) 

  4/5/6 (4:09-4:35pm)

• Our swimming program will likely be held in Week 6 March 3rd-7th. We will confirm this ASAP in the new year. A one week program will be held once again to lessen the disruption to learning time.
• School Photos will be held on Wed, Mar 12th
• An Open Afternoon for parents to visit their child/ren's class will be held from 2-2:30 on Friday Mar 21s. This will allow parents to view their child's work, informally chat with their teacher and maybe participate in a whole class activity. Our whole school assembly will follow this at 2:30pm

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Reminder: Our student led Assembly is on today at 2:30 pm with the big announcement being made for our 2025 School Captains.

Our assembly is an important part of our school. It is an opportunity to proactively reinforce our school values and expectations through the acknowledgement and celebration of our students and school. 

Tim Callaghan

Acting Principal