Principal's Report
Final School Council Meeting for 2024
Last night was our final meeting for 2024. Once again, the School Council has worked productively, ensuring the school is constantly looking to improve and is meeting its obligations to the school community and government.
A big thankyou to Graeme Benn, who has served again as president, but also to other parent members (Debbie Rybicki, Kartya De Graff, Adrian Liston, Linda Wight, Jane Gilbert, Amy Walker and James Jess) and staff members (Paula Dekok, Ana Anderson, Jarrod Morgan and Narelle Sullivan).
Allocating Roles to Staff –We are now in a position to share more details regarding organisation for 2025, including staff roles. See below for a full rundown.
Buninyong Campus | ||
Year Level | Number of Classes | Teachers |
Prep | X3 | Lauren Riordon, Ela Bourke-Finn (sharing with Sarah Tuddenham) & Paula Dekok |
Grade 1 | X3 | Abra Gould, Nicole Healy (sharing with Jordon Smith) & Renee McCormack |
Grade 2 | X3 | Ana Anderson (sharing with Jess Donald), Celeste Vermeend & Kelly Geddes |
Grade 3 | X4 | Daniel Spalding (sharing with Belinda Hargreaves), Tarryn Connor, Bec Wood & Paul Wilson |
Grade 4 | X3 | Mark Muldoon, Abby Cummins & Nick Gonzalez |
Grade 5/6 | X6 | Georgina Richardson, John Oellering, Barb Brokenshire, Maggie Cooper, Bryan White & Dani Eddy |
Scotsburn Campus | ||
Year Level | Number of Classes | Teachers |
Junior Class | 1 | Chelsea Connor (sharing with Beth Murphy) |
Senior Class | 1 | Jarrod Morgan (sharing with Liz Morgan) |
Scotsburn Specialist | Liz Morgan & Rachel Middlin | |
Other Roles & Staff | ||
Specialist Staff Buninyong Campus | Music – Steve Skilbeck Art – Michelle Noyce & Liz Morgan PE – Claire Morris Japanese – Leah Cray STEM – Rachel Middlin & Jordon Smith | |
Disability & Inclusion Leader | Jarrod Rodgers | |
Mental Health & Wellbeing Coordinator | Will Georgiou | |
Tutor | Kate Miller | |
Relief Staff | Joy Hoey, Belinda Hargreaves & Jess Donald | |
The next step over the coming few weeks will be to ensure each of our teaching teams are ready to hit the ground running at the start of next year. That includes gathering each of the 2025 teaching teams next week for a full day of planning.
Budgets for 2025 – Last week our Finance Committee met for a half day to take a good look at our cash budgets for 2025. These were presented to School Council for approval last night. As per usual, we struggle to make ends meet with our cash budgets and have limited control over our big ticket items, those being cleaning, utilities, casual relief teachers and maintenance.
School Council also approved parent contributions for 2025 and hope that the vast majority of parents will elect to pay those. This will enable us to continue to run existing programs.
Scholarship Program Applications
A reminder that 2025 Scholarship Program Applications close this Friday, November 29th. These applications are open to all students who will be in years 4, 5 and 6 in 2025.
As previously mentioned, programs on offer are Art, Master Chef, Music, Photography and STEM Extension.
In previous communication we mentioned that there would be more information to come regarding the STEM Extension Scholarship Program. To further clarify, any students wishing to apply for the STEM Extension program, please see the attached flyer.
Energy Breakthrough
Congratulations to our 2025 Energy Breakthrough Team who pulled off a very successful EBT campaign last week. Thanks to Mr Bryan White, Mr Jayke Arnold, Mr Jarrod Rodgers for all their efforts in preparing students for the event and organising all the logistics of the campsite set up and packed up. Thank you also to Mr Jordon Smith and Ms Rachel Middlin who also contributed. A big thanks to Emily Gilliland who prepared and cooked up a storm to feed everyone over the three days. Finally, sincere thanks to all the parents and carers who assisted along the way and headed across to Maryborough to support the event. EBT is a massive undertaking and we’re sure all staff, students and parent volunteers slept soundly on Friday night. We look forward to doing it all again in 2025!
