Principal's update

Hello everyone, 

Here is the newsletter for week four:

The five minute gardening club

We’ve had loads of fun adding gardenesque slogans to our t-shirts at the 5-minute Garden Club. Come for the merch, stay for the weeding! Happening again Thursday from 3.15-3.30 - all parents and carers welcome. You’ll spot us just inside the gate. - Sam

Mothers Day stall and raffle

Thank you to everyone who was able to help with the stall by providing produce, donating to the raffle and staffing the stall. 

The raffle will be drawn on Friday - tickets available from the office or the gate after school

Open Day 15th of May

On the 15th of May, state schools across the Shire of Mount Alexander will be holding open days for prospective parents to tour local schools. If you or anyone you know is looking at schools for 2025, please come along for a look in our classrooms between 9.00 and 11.00. I will be available to answer questions and share information.

If you are unavailable on this day, we can make arrangements for another time.

Year 6-7 transition

Year 6-7 transition information and forms were sent home on the 15th of April via Compass. I have attached the information again below. Please return the forms to Helen or drop them at the office. Forms are to returned to Taradale PS no later than Friday 10 May. Any questions, please see Helen or Chris

Breakfast Club 

The volunteer roster is completely empty! Without the help of wonderful volunteers we are unable to run the Breakfast Club

If you are available to help out this term, please add your name to term two roster via the link below.

The more days we can run Breakfast Club, the more often children attend. You can use the link below to add your name. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lpb0Xy9bmjXjt-wPEwoyi4xl7_c1A4lkowDNP-YqIJc/edit?usp=sharing 

upcoming dates

• Wednesday 15 May Open Day 9.00-11.00
• Friday 28 June end of term 2 2.00pm dismissal

Volunteers

We welcome volunteers at our school. Volunteers can assist in many ways at the school including working bees, listening to children read, helping in our SAKG gardening and cooking classes. 

Our SAKG classes run each week on Tuesday. The gardening classes run for an hour and the cooking class is for the morning. You can volunteer as a one off or as many times as you would like to. Mel and Chris do all of the planning and organising, volunteers support Children with activities and tasks. 

If you are interested in volunteering, please see Chris

2024 and beyond enrolments

We are now taking enrolments for 2024 Preps and other years. We have an open day on Wednesday 15 May (see above).

If you know of anyone looking to enrol at Taradale, please let them know we aren't full and that we can accept enrolments from outside the neighbourhood catchment.

Chris

Christopher Burgess

Principal