Hello, from Carolyn.

Hello everyone,

Please take note- 

Monday 18th is 'Wear your favourite clothes day'

Tuesday 19th is 'Casual dress day' and the last day for our students, finish time of 3:10pm.

Collection of book packs.

Book packs have arrived and are ready for pick up from the library at the following times:

Monday 8.30-9:00am & 2.15 - 3:30pm

Tuesday 8.30-9:00 & 2.15 - 3:30pm

If these times do not suit, please ring the office on 5443 6411.

Emergency evacuation drill on Monday.

On Monday, we practised evacuating over to the Hockey Field facilities, which is our off-site evacuation site. I was very impressed with the calm, orderly manner in which our students moved to the multipurpose room and then walked over to the hockey field. It took us approx. 3 minutes to be in the multipurpose room and then about 23 minutes to all be sitting down inside the hockey clubroom. Once we were inside, we discussed the different reasons as to why we might need to evacuate offsite and the importance of calm, orderly behaviour. We regularly have emergency drills at school to practise a range of different scenarios so we can be as prepared as we can be for the unexpected!

Grade 6 Graduation night.

Congratulations to all our year 6 students on successfully completing your primary school years. Graduation was on Wednesday evening and was a wonderful celebration of our year six students and all they have achieved. 

Congratulations to our award recipients-

Arts Award- Luelle Green

PE Award- Ely Vincent

Rotary Award- Shane Martens

Technology Award- Harrison Turnbull

Mathematics Award- Jonothan Peters

Peter Krenz Award- Ingrid Van Maanen & Cooper Myers

Literacy Award- Luke Bennett

Jane Heyward Award- Hadley Green

Bob Campbell Citizenship Award- Luke Bennett

We wish them all the very best for the future and success with all their future learning and adventures. Thank you, Jacinta Condon for organising the graduation and working with our students to have them ready for the evening.

Our last newsletter for the term! 

Thank you all for your support over the year. We have had parents and carers who have helped with Breakfast Club, Working bees, gardening club, whole school BBQs, the discoes, fundraisers, reading in classrooms, helping on camps and generally keeping an eye on our wonderful school- thank you! It is especially exciting to have such a keen group of parents/carers involved in re-launching our Parents & Friends group- thank you P&F team!

Thank you to our school councillors for their support and commitment to working together to keep making our school a great place to be.

The biggest thank you is for our amazing staff! Our teachers and ES staff who continue to go above and beyond to ensure our students are supported to be their best, and, who also support each other and myself, so we can all be our best too! It really is true- Team work DOES make the dream work!

We have some staff leaving us at the end of the year. Thank you and all the very best to   Laura Trembath (F/1T), Prue Clarke (ES) and Caitlin Wilson (ES). It has been wonderful to have you here supporting our students. 

To the families who are finishing their time at Violet St primary school, thank you for being part of our school community and I wish you all the very best for the future.

Have a safe summer break everyone. Try to find some time to do something that re-energises you, spend some time in nature, and spend some time with a good book! I have quite the stack of books waiting for me, and I am looking forward to some holiday reading.

See you all in 2024!

warm regards,

Carolyn.

Start of the 2024 school year.

Add these dates to your 2024 diary-

Monday 29th January Teachers are back at school.

Tuesday 30th January all our students are at school including our Foundation students. (Foundation students will be with us for the four days, Tuesday to Friday, then have Wednesday's off for February.)

School banking details.

Westpac.

Bendigo Violet Street Primary

BSB: 033-688

Account number: 93-1292

Payment reference: use your surname and fees.