Ex WPS OSHC Co-Ordinator, Coralie has set up a parent book library with a small collection of her many books. You will find the library in the main office and you are welcome to borrow a book (complete the log with your details) and return (within a month please). Please care for borrowed books as if they belong to you.

Happy Reading

Our uniform shop (located in the main building) is open each Tuesday at 9am and stocks new and second hand uniforms. Second hand uniforms start from $5 per item.

2025 Parent/Caregiver survey

Our school is conducting the annual Parent / Caregiver / Guardian Opinion Survey offered by the Department of Education and is seeking your feedback. The survey is designed to assist schools in gaining an understanding of families’ perceptions of school climate, student behavior, and student engagement. The survey is optional, but we encourage and appreciate your participation.

Our school will use the survey results to assist in identifying areas for improvement and professional development needs in the school, to target school planning and improvement strategies.

The Parent / Caregiver / Guardian Opinion Survey will be open online from Monday 18 August to Friday 19 September 2025.

A random sample of parents / caregivers / guardians have been selected to participate in this year’s survey. Look out for this email if you are selected.

The survey will be conducted online, only takes 20 minutes to complete, and can be accessed at any convenient time on desktop computers, laptops, tablets or smartphones.

The online survey will be available in English and 10 other languages including Arabic, Greek, Hakha Chin, Hindi, Japanese, Punjabi, Simplified Chinese, Somali, Turkish, and Vietnamese. Resources are also available in additional languages to assist parents / caregivers / guardians who speak a language other than English at home. Please reach out to your child’s teacher, or the school directly for survey guides in your language.Please speak to your child’s teacher if you would like more information.

Canteen

WPS use local bakery, Biddick's Bakery, as supplier for lunch orders. Below is a menu of items that are available to order.

You will also need to register with Flexischools (link below) who will handle the online purchase of lunch orders.

https://www.flexischools.com.au/parents

Bushfire Ready for parents

Please read through the relocation process for our school and if you have any questions related to bushfire management at WPS, please feel free to contact the office for more information.

Yard Duty information

Annual privacy reminder for our school community

Our school collects, uses, discloses and stores student and parent personal information for standard school functions or where permitted by law, as stated in the Schools’ Privacy Policy.

Please take time to read our school’s collection notice, found on our website.

We ask parents to also review the guidance we provide on how we use Google Workspace for Education] safely at the school and what parents can do to further protect their child’s information. If after reviewing the guidance, you have any questions or concerns regarding your child using Google Workspace for Education], please contact the school.

For more information about privacy, refer to: Schools’ Privacy Policy — information for parents. This information is also available in ten community languages:

Child safety and wellbeing at Warrandyte Primary School: information for families and the school community

The Victorian Government has announced new Child Safe Standards to further strengthen child safety across organisations, including schools. The new standards recognise the critical importance of families and the broader school community in maintaining and promoting child safety and wellbeing.

Warrandyte Primary School has reviewed and updated our child safety policies and procedures to ensure they meet the requirements of the new standards. These are available to view via our website, and at the school’s front office.

We are committed to continuous improvement in our approach to child safety and wellbeing and welcome feedback from families and members of our school community on ways we can further strengthen our child safety policies, procedures and practices.

If you have any suggestions, comments or questions, please contact Warrandyte Primary School at warrandyte.ps@education.vic.gov.au or by phone on (03)9844 3537.

Develop a love of music with lessons from Wonnies!

At Wonnies School of Music, we aspire to nurture the musical abilities of our students. We are proud to offer instrumental lessons to the students of Warrandyte Primary School. Our students can choose from a range of instruments in which to have lessons with one of our talented music teachers.

Instrumental Music Lessons at Warrandyte Primary

Enrolments are now open for Guitar, Bass, and Ukulele lessons! Lessons are set to begin next week on Tuesday, 4th February. Parents can collect an enrolment form from the reception desk or by emailing Rob at rob.smith.music@gmail.com.

Music lessons are a fantastic way to build confidence and skills—give your child the gift of music!

Cheers,

Rob

Parent Fee Schedule 2025

The 2025 Booklist & term 1 excursion/activites fees can be found in your Compass portal. We ask parents/carers to please pay these fees as soon as possible.

As you can imagine there are many resources required to running a school and providing excellence in learning opportunities for students. Funding from DET does not cover the cost of everything we want to provide to all our students.

Our school now relies on the generous and voluntary support of parents and community members to make up shortfalls in funding.

School Council would be very grateful of your over and above financial support for all students learning in 2025.

If anyone is having financial difficulties, please contact either the office or Nieta, the Principal, for a confidential discussion.

Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund applications

The Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund helps eligible families to cover the costs of school trips, camps and sporting activities.

If you have a valid means-tested concession card, such as a Veterans Affairs Gold Card, Centrelink Health Care Card or Pensioner Concession Card, or are a temporary foster parent, you may be eligible. There is also a special consideration category for asylum seeker and refugee families.

Payment amounts this year are $154 for eligible primary school students. Payments are made direct to the school to use towards expenses relating to camps, excursions and sporting activities for the benefit of your child.

If you applied for CSEF through our school last year, you do not need to complete an application form this year, unless there has been a change in your family circumstances.

If you would like to apply for the first time, please contact the school office for an application form.

You can also download the form, and find out more about the program and eligibility, on the Department of Education and Training’s Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund web page.

Check with the school office if you are unsure, and please return completed forms to the school office as soon as possible.

School Parking/Drop Off

Parents are not permitted to use the school’s main Forbes Street entrance as a drop off (including kiss 'n' drop) or pick up point between 8.20am and 9.30am, and between 3pm and 4.10pm. This area is used in those times for bus and staff access only.

Brackenbury Street is a ONE WAY street during the hours of 8am to 9.15am, and 3pm to 4pm on school days. This means that to pick-up or drop-off children at the school, drivers must proceed up Anderson Street to enter Brackenbury Street.

MORNING PARKING:

· The south side (school side) of Brackenbury Street is for drop off only. No parking is permitted.

· The north side is for 90 degree angle reverse parking only for those parents who wish to leave their vehicle.

AFTERNOON PARKING:

· Reverse angle parking is permitted on both sides of Brackenbury Street in the afternoon.

Security Cameras

As part of our Bushfire management process, will instal a limited number of cameras around the buildings and grounds for us to be able to ensure there are no visitors or people outside during an evacuation or relocation to another school. The Department of Education has given permission for these cameras to be installed and will they be funded via management bushfire funds within the Victorian Schools Building Authority within the Department of Education. Footage will be stored for 31 days at which time we can delete it. No staff will have access to the footage, except via a member of the leadership team.

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