Principal's Message

I would like to warmly welcome everyone back to the 2025 school year. 

Both teachers and students have had a busy first few days back.  We are gearing up for a busy and exciting year of learning. I would like to welcome our new students and their families to the Eglinton Community.  

This year, due to student numbers, we are able to commence with straight year classes across the school, except for one composite class in stage 1. 

6K - Kerrie Charlton

6C - Bronwyn Carlisle

5M -  Elizabeth Miller (Stage 3 Assistant Principal)

5EC - Cheryl Cluff/Hayden Ellis

4M - Mrs Michael (Stage 2 Assistant Principal) 

4P - David Peters

3O - Cheryl Owens

3F - Yvonne Franklin

1/2S - Meleesa Smith (Stage 1 Assistant Principal)

2A - Renata Astridge

2B - Sophie Bellamy

1C - Sigourney Conroy

1G - Amelia Garner

KC - Sue Craft (ES1 Assistant Principal) 

KH - Janean Hanlon

KB - Madison Lomer

K-6F - Carolyn Flanagan (Support Assistant Principal)

K-6D - Bronwyn Davey

K-6V - Renee Van Dyke

K-6M - Reace Milgate

K-6W - Daniel Wharton

Student Learning Support Officers: Trent Brown, Hailey Franke, Jay Cashen, Catharine Riini, Rich Murphy, Ashlea Bogie, Emily Brabham, Kierin Thornton, Louise Farry, Steve O'Brien

Admin staff: Leesa Lepaio, Angela Best, Cathy Zammitt, Catharine Riini, Carrolyn Halsey

Learning and support: Michelle Taylor (Assistant Principal), Hayley Eriksson, Heleena Peters, Kristy Rich

Release from Face to Face: Lindsay Marsh, Marilyn Johnston, Katie Bourke, Ella Barwick, Elly Lea, Lucy Flynn

General Assistants: Gavan Wicks, Barry Thorn

Principal - Kaileen Carr

Reminders:

• Please ensure you use the school crossing when picking up and dropping off your children.

• Check the school calendar found in School Bytes and the Newsletter for all upcoming  events

• Emails are sent out with permission notes and payments through School Bytes for events. Please make sure you have returned your child's permission note before the cut off date. This makes it easier for staff to coordinate events. 

• If any student information has changed , please notify the office staff.

• All items of clothing and personal belongings should be clearly marked with your child's name.

• All students are required to wear a broad brimmed school hat each day.

• All gates are closed during school hours. Please head to the Admin gate and press the buzzer and the office staff will open the gate. All parents and visitors must report to the office on arrival.

Communicating with our school

We are thrilled to share some really exciting news with you. Our school has made the important decision to partner with Real Schools.

Real Schools will walk alongside staff, students and the parent/carer community to enhance all the great things that are already happening in our school. There are already so many amazing things happening across our school community. What this partnership will do is further elevate that work. But there are also some things that we will be focussing on that will help us to further develop the culture at our school.

The way that we are going to do this work together is through what Real Schools call their partnership model. The partnership works over a three-year period and each year they will be supporting our whole school community to be able to get the gains that we want, and of course, deserve.

Each year of the partnership, Real Schools will facilitate a professional learning day with all of our incredible staff. There will be an in-class support day where we will be in classrooms modelling, co-teaching and providing feedback to our amazing teachers. Additionally, we want parents on this journey as well, so each year Real Schools facilitates a parent information session, along with articles, newsletter inserts, short videos and social media posts to keep you up to date with the partnership journey. This information is designed to build your understanding of the great work that our school will be doing to support and guide our most precious resource – your children – but will also provide practical tips for parents to utilise in the home environment.

Now, you may be asking, what is the focus of this work? Well, it is around building a restorative school community through a framework called RP2.0 designed by Real Schools CEO and Founder Adam Voigt. We are going to unpack this further in future articles, but just to give you a little taste, restorative practices are about explicitly focussing on building strong relationships with all our stakeholders (staff, students and parents) across our school and leveraging those relationships for amazing things to happen in terms of not only the social-emotional development of your child but also in terms of their learning outcomes.

Congratulations to our school leadership team for 2025. I am looking forward to working with these students. 

WOW! What a wonderful day we had at the school swimming carnival on Tuesday. This year all students in years 3-6 were able to attend. This year we are striving to build a school culture where students support each other, feel proud of their school and each other and build a sense of belonging.  It was a great opportunity for all students to support all our competitive swimmers and be able to cheer on the House groups. Thank you to Mrs Cluff and Mrs Jackson for organising this event.