Principal's update
Hello everyone,
Here is the school newsletter for week two of term three.
At the Lyell St entrance, the support poles for the new shade sails have been installed, the workers will return once the concrete is set to instal the sails.
There is a Parents & Friends Group meeting tomorrow, all welcome see P&F page for details.
We have a working bee this Sunday - see below and the parent WhatsApp group for details.
I have added some new parenting related events on the Community updates page that may be of interest to parents.
If you have any questions or comments about anything, feel free to contact me.
Community composting
From Eve; Are you interested in dropping off your food scraps at the school to be turned into beautiful compost and worm castings? We are setting up a community composting hub with a bucket swap-and-go system. We’ll be using Bokashi, a microbial powder, so that all food scraps including meat, cooked food, orange peel, onions etc can be included. If you are interested please let us know so that we can gauge interest. It would be free to participate apart from the purchase of the bokashi powder from the school ($15 for a packet that will last about 3 or 4 months on an average family’s food scraps)
Volunteers
Thank you to the many volunteers that we have at the school. This includes people helping in the library, Breakfast Club, cooking, gardening, listening to children read and more. We welcome more volunteers at the school.
To volunteer at a school you require a working with children check. This can be completed for free online.
Garden working bee this Sunday
Wellbeing
We now have a wellbeing page on the newsletter that I will use to share relevant wellbeing information and resources that we come across that may be useful at home or give greater understanding of some of the language children may come home using from school. I will use the school's website as an archive for the resources for future reference.
2026 enrolments
Last term I received a number of prep enrolments for 2026 as well as enrolments for students starting this term.
We are currently running tours of the school and taking enrolments for 2026.
With a large year 6 cohort leaving at the end of the year, next year we expect to be under our enrolment capacity and welcome enrolment enquiries from near and far.
If you or anyone you know is interested in knowing more about enrolling at Taradale PS, please contact me.
upcoming dates
- 25-27 August yr 3/4 camp to Swan Hill (info to be sent home soon once details confirmed)
- 01-05 September whole school swimming programme
- 11-12 September yr 2 camp to Boomerang Ranch
- 19 September end term two 2.00pm
- 06 October start term 4
Chris
Christopher Burgess
Principal