Class formation

As a public school, our doors are open to any child who lives in our catchment area. Therefore our numbers are not capped for year groups. When planning staffing and classes at the end of each year, we do our very best to ensure classes are tentatively formed. However over the holidays, and the first couple of days of school, we can receive new enrolments that can change our end of year plans. Over the holidays we did receive new enrolments, which is absolutely wonderful, and these additions must be factored in to the final classes. This is why we do not share the teachers and classes at the end of the year...best laid plans can, and often do, change things.

All NSW Department of Education Schools are staffed based upon a formula where each grade is designated a number and then that number is multiplied by the number of children, resulting in a total number. This determines the number of class teachers we are allocated as a school. We must 'fit' the children into those classes. Often parents ask why we have composite classes (1/2, 3/4, 5/6) or these composite classes are across a stage (K/1, 2/3 or 4/5). It is based upon the staffing formula and as a school we have to work within that final number. Therefore, each year there can be a different number of students in each grade, necessitating a different class structure.

Teachers spend hours at the end of the year looking at the formation of classes and a number of factors are discussed, such as:

~ a balanced distribution of student’s abilities and genders across classes

~ needs of individual students, these may be social, intellectual, emotional or physical

~ student relationships and social cohesion

~ allocating students to a particular class, not to a teacher.

During the Parent Information Evening the stage teams will be providing further information on how we cater for composite, and cross stage classes. Our teachers are very familiar with teaching stage based classes and are able to plan and program for the different needs of students, regardless of the mixture of grade or stage.

Staff and classes for 2024

Acting Principal Mrs Karla Wilson

Acting Deputy Principal Mrs Allisse Schafer

Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 Assistant Principal - Mrs Brooke Patterson

KP Mrs Erin Parker (Mon-Wed) & Mrs Nicole Ganiatsos (Th & Fri)

KS Mrs Victoria Salerno

K/1M Mrs Ashleigh Maclachlan (Mon-Thurs) & Mrs Genevieve Lempriere (Fri)

1K Mrs Tracey Krivacic

1M Mr Todd Lawson

2K Miss Constandina Kostaglou

2P Mrs Jo Hofmeier (Mon & Tues) & Mrs Brooke Patterson (Wed-Fri)

Stage 2 Assistant Principal (Relieving) - Mrs Kirby Dalton

3/4D Mrs Angela Overall (Mon & Tues) & Mrs Kirby Dalton (Wed-Fri)

3/4R Miss Danielle Ryan

3/4S Ms Janet Stephen

3/4Z Mrs Natalie Zell (Mon-Thurs) & Mrs Bess English (Fri)

Stage 3 Assistant Principal (Relieving) - Mrs Tracey Partridge

4/5N Mrs Joanna Nunez

5/6A Mr Andrew Kikilas

5/6K Mrs Andrea Kerasis

5/6P Mrs Renae Kleeman (Mon-Wed) & Mrs Tracey Partridge (Thurs & Fri)

5/6S Ms Lindsey Shing (Mon-Wed & Fri) & Miss Natalia Bozic (Thurs)

Support Unit Assistant Principal - Ms Martina Zanetti

Bronze Mrs Nicole Myers (Mon & Tues) & Ms Martina Zanetti (Wed-Fri)

Silver Mrs Sally McLennan

Gold Mrs Leanne Campbell (Mon & Tues) & Miss Constance Miliatis (Wed-Fri)

Platinum Mrs Laura Pozoglou (Mon-Wed) & Mrs Atu Pollard (Thurs & Fri)

School Learning Support Officers - Support Unit

Bronze Ms Peta Dzokoski

Silver Mrs Pam Banbury

Gold Mrs Samantha Stephens

Platinum Mrs Rhonda Ternan

Additional support Ms Biljana Naumovska

Assistant Principal Curriculum & Instruction Mrs Merryn Whitfield (Mon-Wed) & Mrs Fiona Dickson (Thurs)

Librarian Mr John McLeod (Tues-Fri)

Equity Team Team Leader - Mrs Rebecca Parsons-Tran

English as an Additional Language/Dialect Mrs Tavy McLennan

English as an Additional Language/Dialect Mrs Andrea Casciato

Learning Support Mrs Genevieve Lempriere

Learning Support Mrs Dominique Jones

School Learning Support Officers - Equity Team

Mrs Sue Heslop

Mrs Vanessa Bennett

Mrs Eileen Liu

Miss Sasha Sarafoski

Miss Ayah Kordi

Mrs Angie Wongin

RFF

Mrs Danielle McEvoy

Miss Constance Miliatis

Mrs Jo Hofmeier

Mrs Angela Overall

Mrs Vivien Phillips

Mrs Alberta Valentin

School Counsellors

Mrs Chris Tsekas (Thurs & Fri)

Mrs Kristy Stack (Fri)

Administration Staff

Business manager/School Admin Manager Mrs Sophie Minas

School Admin Officer Mrs Sarah Jones

School Admin Officer Ms Whitney Hood

General Assistant Mr Archie

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