2025 Foundation  

Bell times at Kalinda Primary School 

8:45 AM - Staff on yard duty, students permitted to play on school grounds.

8:55 AM  - First bell will ring, and classrooms will open

9:00 AM  - Second bell, students to be in the classroom as attendance roll will be marked

around 10am  -  Brain food - fruit or vegetable snack only.

11:00  AM - Recess Bell, students make their way outside. 

11:35 AM - First bell - time to finish your game, get a drink of water and visit the toilet

11:40 AM - Second bell, enter classrooms

1:10 PM -  Lunch eating in the classroom (no bell)  - In Foundation we usually start eating earlier than this, it takes a while to eat when we've been so busy learning!

1:20 PM -  Outside to play 

1:55 PM -  First bell - time to finish your game, get a drink of water and visit the toilet

2:00 PM -  Second Bell - enter the classroom (attendance roll is marked)

3:30 PM -  Bell - end of the school day, school concludes.

3:45 PM -  Staff finish yard duty, students are to be supervised by parents.

Spartan-Kalinda uniform suppliers

Spartan will be at Kalinda to assist with sizing for the Friday 22nd November session. 

Student houses

Families will be allocated a sports house whilst at Kalinda. You can view which house your child is in, on Compass. On Sports days, students will be encouraged to wear colours from their house. Chisholm is red, McCubbin is green, Melba is yellow and Parkes is blue.

History of Kalinda Primary School 

Kalinda Primary School was established in 1979 (officially ) and opened in 1980 by the late Honorable Sir Rupert James Hamer who was at that time, the Minister of State Development, and the Victorian Premier at that time. 

The first students graduated in 1985, and a photo of the students from the first grade who graduated in 1985 is located outside the school library. There were 41 students at that stage.

Kalinda Road was renamed from Wonga Park Road in 1952.