Principal's Message
By Jenny Hassett
Welcome Back
Welcome back everyone to Term 4. Here's hoping for amazing weather so we can spend time in the sunshine. For our current Grade 6 students, this is their last term in primary school before they move on to secondary school where they will experience lots of new and exciting adventures. Enjoy your last term at Rollins and the friendships you have made over the past 7 years.
2025 Student Placement
At Rollins, we work thoughtfully to build future class groupings. Teachers work together (literally for hours) forming classes for the coming year. They consider student learning styles, behaviour needs, student personalities, gender (even numbers of boys and girls) and many other factors to create classrooms where students will work well together and with their teacher. It is a complex process. Our goal is always to create the most balanced classes possible.
Parents are invited to advise us of any considerations that they would like us to take into account for student placement in 2025. If you would like to take this opportunity, I ask that you provide your thoughts in writing to me, no later than Friday18th October 2024. Unfortunately, we are unable to consider requests after this date. Please note we cannot meet requests for specific teachers and, although we try our best to meet all requests, we cannot give guarantees. As always, please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions or concerns.
Please Notify Us!
If your family is moving out of our area or your child will be attending another school in 2024, could you please contact the office and let us know as soon as possible. We have a waiting list of families wanted to enrol in our school.
Busy Term 4
Term 4 is notoriously a busy term. Each level has sent out a term last week explaining the “happenings” during Term 4. Please note the excursion dates and place them in your calendar. COMPASS is our main communication method so please check regularly and if you are experiencing any technical issues please contact the office for assistance.
End of Year Finish
Please note, the last day for students at Rollins P.S will be Wednesday 18th December. Students will be dismissed at 3.30pm. Thursday the 19th December and Friday 20th December are allocated Professional Development days that have been approved by School Council. During these days staff will undertake First aid qualifications and upskilling, whole school Literacy and Numeracy planning and preparation for the 2025 school year.
Geelong Cup Holiday
Please note that Wednesday 23rd October is Geelong Cup Day which is a scheduled public holiday in the City of Greater Geelong. Please be aware that as a school we do not have any choice in this matter and apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Body Image and Eating Habits of Adolescents
Last Wednesday afternoon we held a staff/parent session on Body Image and Eating Habits of Adolescents. It was great to see how interested everyone was and hopefully gave us all many insights into how we can support our young people. We hope to hold an additional session for our senior students early next year. Many thanks to those parents who came along that afternoon.
Jenny