Principal's update
Hello everyone,
Here is the newsletter for week eight of term four. I hope the rain last night was as welcome at your house as it was at mine. We had one medium sized tree split at school due to the rain, unfortunately it will need to be removed as it is now unsafe.
2025 prep transition and 2025 enrolments for all year levels
Further to last week's newsletter, we have continued to received enrolment enquiries for all year levels with more school tours being undertaken. We continue to have enrolment capacity in all year levels, if you know of anyone looking for a great school, please let them know we are still accepting enrolments .
Today we held our second formal 2025 prep transition session. It was wonderful to see the new students having an enjoyable time at school.
We have two more prep transition sessions:
- Tuesday 03 December 9.00-11.30
- Tuesday 10 December 9.00-1.00
Please share this transition information with anyone you know who may still be undecided about prep for 2025.
Respectful Relationships
The DoE has released an updated Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships curriculum for Victoria Schools. These resources, updated by Emeritus Professor Helen Cahill and Honorary Associate Professor Debbie Ollis, and are designed to strengthen consent education and better meet the contemporary needs of students.
The updates include age-appropriate lessons plans for all students from Prep to Year 12.
The updates ensure the resources are inclusive of all students, including students of all genders and sexualities, students with disability, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.
The updated resources will help teachers give students skills to:
- build and maintain respectful relationships
- explore healthier masculinities
- address hate speech
- strengthen their understanding of consent
- safely navigate the online world.
As a Respectful Relationships Lead School, Brita and I attended a two day Professional Learning with Professor Helen Cahill on Monday and Tuesday at Bendigo to learn more about and explore the updated resource. Members of the regional RR implementation team will join Taradale school staff at a staff meeting to explore the updated resource prior to implementation in classrooms. Below is an attachment with further information about the updated RR resource
Grade 6 graduation
Our grade 6 graduation will be held on Monday 16 December 11.30-12.30 at the Taradale Hall. All school families are invited to attend.
The grade 6 graduation dinner will follow on Monday 16 December from 5.30-8.30.
SAKG cook Chris will prepare the meal, but we would love to have parent helpers to assist with preparing and serving the meal as we have done in previous years - please let us know if you can help out.
Open classrooms
We invite all school families to visit our classrooms for an open morning on Monday 16 December 9.30-10.30 as our students showcase some of the great work they have achieved this semester. This will be followed by the year 6 graduation at 11.30 at the Hall
Drama performances
Hi families,
Not long to go until out end of year drama performances! Many of us are starting to feel the buzz of excitement and nervous anticipation as the date fast approaches.
Here are just a couple of quick reminders for students and families.
- Could students please bring in their costumes by next Monday 2nd December in a clearly labelled bag with their name? Costumes will be stored in the drama room until the performance on Thursday.
- We will also be having one more set/prop making working bee at the Taradale Hall this Thursday 28th November from 3.45-5pm for anyone who is able to lend a hand. I'll bring along some snacks to share. 🙂
- Please contact Charmaine if you're able to help out with setting up chairs, pack up or backstage on the day of the performance, or if you have any questions.
Performance reminders
Year 4/5/6 Alices In Wonderland performance times: Thursday 5th December @ 9.15-10.30, Taradale Hall
Year 2/3 What the Ladybird Heard Next times: Thursday 5th December @ 2.45-3.30, Taradale Hall
Year P/1 Join us for a fun hour of drama games, activities, songs and entertaining short performances on Monday 16th December @ 9-10 in the drama room
Taradale Cricket Club - junior introduction programme - only four spots left!!
The Taradale Cricket Club will be running the junior introduction programme to cricket at Taradale Rec Reserve for 8 sessions split across Nov/Dec and Feb - for 5-10 year olds.
Cost is $66 - includes a cricket set and personalised shirt.
Registration link here https://www.playhq.com/cricket-australia/register/e3eb8e
Castlemaine Food Pantry
See the community update page for details of the community food pantry at Castlemaine Community House. Access to the pantry is free and anyone is welcome to use it.
Breakfast Club - term four roster
The link to the term four roster is below if you are able to assist:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lpb0Xy9bmjXjt-wPEwoyi4xl7_c1A4lkowDNP-YqIJc/edit
All dates for helping at Breakfast Club are currently available
upcoming dates
- Thursday 05 December yr 2-6 drama performances
- Monday 16 December open classrooms 9.30-1.30
- Monday 16 December year 6 graduation 11.30am
- Monday 16 December year 6 graduation dinner 5.30pm
- Friday 20 December end of term four 1.00pm
- other dates to be added soon
Chris
Christopher Burgess
Principal