Community Engagement
St Roch's Parish Primary School 
Parent & Friends Welcome Evening
A warm and welcoming evening was enjoyed by many parents last Friday night in our beautiful school Hall. It is so important to begin the year with a social evening for parents and staff ensuring that new and current families feel a strong sense of belonging to our incredible community. New families were welcomed, the new P&F Committee are formally acknowledged and introduced and the 2026 teaching staff were introduced. There is always lots of opportunities to connect and get to know new families. Enormous thanks to Jess Nichols, Jess Mount and Tahnee Jones, the Year 5 and Year 6 class reps who led this event, transforming the Hall with lights and candles. Thanks to Dave Crew and Will Cheang, the P & F President and Vice President for their support and for the sense of welcome and celebration they provided. Thanks to all of the parents who supported this first P & F event. It fabulous to have the staff join as well in a very relaxed setting. We hope you enjoyed the evening and met someone new!
Open Morning & Afternoon School Tours
This Thursday, 19 February at 9.30am, we are super excited to be holding our first Open Morning for 2026. Our school captains Mia Smarelli and George Bristow will have the opportunity to tour the prospective families through our beautiful school with Angie Mastoras our Principal and myself. Our school captains are always proud to showcase St Roch's. We have four further opportunities to open our classrooms and learning spaces to allow visitors to see our school in action. Please fell free to join any tour and hear our Year 6 students share what is truly special about our small school with a huge heart...St Roch's.
Future Open Day Tours
Monday 2 March 9.30am
Wednesday 18 March 4.30pm - 5.30pm
Monday 27 April 9.30am
Thursday 30 April 9.30am
Friday 22 May 9.30am
Singing Club, Performing Arts Club, Gardening Club, STEM Club and Dance Club
It's all happening at lunchtime at St Roch's! We are pleased to be able to offer extra curricular activities for our students throughout the week during break times. We are very excited to announce two new clubs at St Roch's...Singing Club and Performing Arts Club.
Singing Club with Mrs O'Gorman and an enthusiastic group of students began two weeks ago at first break and will be held every Thursday at 11.10am. Performing Arts Club will commence shortly led by our Arts Leaders Rose, Aira, Olivia, Matilda and Mrs O'Gorman.
Gardening Club is held every Wednesday at 1.50pm and is open to all students from Prep - Year 6. Mrs Meseha has a real 'green thumb' which is rubbing off on our students who love helping her keep our veggie gardens looking amazing! Delicious mud pies were made last week?!?
STEM Club will be led by Mrs Jensen and our STEM Leaders Luka and Conner on Fridays at 11.10am.
Dance Club by Dance Fitness Victoria is held every Thursday at lunchtime and is open to all students.
Please encourage to children to participate in any of these clubs should they wish to come along. The more the merrier!
Icy Pole Friday
Our School Captains Mia and George will be selling icy poles for a gold coin donation at 3.30pm in the playground each Friday afternoon. Last year the money raised helped to fund the installation of a Gaga Pit! Yesterday our students learnt ho to play 'Gaga Ball' with Mrs King who came in especially to teach each class. Thank you Mrs King! Please visit this new addition to our playground. All money raised this year will go towards improving our school.
Nadine Bolton
Deputy Principal, Learning Diversity Leader and Student Wellbeing Leader