Principal's Report

Welcome to the end of 2024

We have had a very busy term 4 this year so as you can imagine our staff are running out of energy right about now! 

It’s been a great year where staff and students have worked together to achieve some great things, including our celebrations, camps and excursions.  There are many examples of student achievement at PLSC but the most important things is the way that staff and students treat one and another everyday. There is a real culture building of mutual respect and care for others. 

It’s incredible to look at the progress of our school over the year.  We have had a school review this term which sets up our direction for the next 4 years.  One of the things it pointed out is that the school is a real community and in 99% of cases we work together and if we don’t then we can have an honest conversation because we have built a learning partnership together.

Reports

Our staff are currently completing some reports on how your child’s learning is progressing. Please take the time to go through it with them and call us if you feel you need help with putting plans in place to get them back on track or keep them on track, we are here to help.  They will form the basis of discussions at three-way conferences at the beginning of 2025.

Staffing and student numbers in 2025

We have advertised all of our positions and made the following appointments 

• Salon Assistant – Connie Nikolovski
• Beauty – Hulya Dilek
• Sport and Rec – Liam Hunt 
• Health services – Stephanie Gesovski
• VM Classroom – Christine Paizes
• VM Classroom   - Tracey Parker 

We farewell – Abby Grindrod, she is off to teach in the NT.  We thank Abby for her time with us over the last two and bit years. We also farewell Sian Gregory this year, we thank her for her last two years with us.

In terms of our student numbers….

• We are anticipating 120 VCE VM students in 2025
• We are expecting 360 plus VET students at the school 
• We will have 560 students attending ONTTC from our and other schools  - that is a credit to Adrian and the team at ONTTC.

We are just putting the finishing touches in a few areas. In all of these things there may be some future movement that every school undergoes at this stage of the year, often when people’s personal circumstances change, which is unavoidable. 

If you have any questions or queries please do not hesitate to get in contact with us at the school, we are only too happy to assist you.

Graduation 

Thanks to the staff for the wonderful organisation of the night, for their care and compassion for the students and their families. There are many people who have made contributions to getting the students to their end goal of completion and graduation that we need to acknowledge as well as teachers in 2024.  It’s also important to acknowledge the fact that for some our students the journey has not been easy which makes the celebration even more meritorious. 

Our sincere thanks 

With only a few days left of 2024 we want to take the opportunity to say thanks to you all for your work this year.  We acknowledge the fact that you have chosen our school to educate your child at the business end of things and for this we are thankful. 

No doubt 2025 will have its own set of challenges and with all of our VET courses basically full and our VM places rapidly filling up the school is in a good place going forward – this is no small part due to the way staff and students work together- we are thankful for that.   

We have great staff here at the school and they work together with your children to get the best outcomes they can for them – a big thanks to all of my staff here at PLSC. We are also really well supported by a wonderful School Council.

We will be looking for new members of school council in our parent category for 2025. We are having our parents finishing up this year as their students finish at the school. This makes them ineligible for school council.  We will be calling for nominations in February 2025.  Prior to that if you are interested then please contact me via the school office on 9464 0122.

Enjoy Christmas and see you in the new year