Mr. Carlyle's Message

Hello families, and welcome to this week’s newsletter,

It was a very settled return to school for all students last week. Teachers spent time across the school revisiting expectations and routines before promptly diving into learning in Literacy and Numeracy. Visiting classrooms around the school and spending time with students across the week, I was impressed with how the term has kicked off and look forward to this continuing. 

Class Considerations for 2026 

Later in the term, we go through the process of creating class lists for the 2026 school year. This process is extensive and involves many hours of staff time. 

We also provide the opportunity for families to relay any considerations they have for next year. As we have a process for considering student peer choices, please be aware that we don’t take peer requests from families. However, if you have other circumstances you believe are exceptional that we do need to consider or to be placed front of mind, these can be emailed to the school by Friday, October 24th.  If you have already had some preliminary contact regarding 2026 considerations, you do not need to raise these again as part of this process.   

Please email ballan.ps@education.vic.gov.au  

Family Considerations for 2026 

As a school community we experience many new families moving into and away from Ballan every year.   As we are planning for next year, we would appreciate any families that have planned changes that may see them moving away form the school, to please reach out and let us know.  This is so we can more adequately and accurately plan for 2026.