Welcome Back!

We’re excited to kick off another busy and exciting term at Rochester Primary School. This term is filled with opportunities for learning and connection, including excursions, incursions, sports, Rochy Playtime, school Disco, Orientation sessions, Assemblies, sleepovers and much more. It all starts this friday out our P-6 Athletics. Students are envouraged to come dressed in their House Colours.

For our Grade 6 students, this marks their final term of primary school. We wish them every success as they enjoy this special time and make the most of their last weeks at Rochester Primary. Throughout the term, they will have many opportunities to reflect on their journey and celebrate the wonderful experiences and memories they have created during their years here.

Parent Opinion Survey

A big thank you to the 56 parents who took the time to complete the Parent Opinion Survey this year. Your feedback is incredibly valuable and helps us continue to make Rochester Primary School an even better place for our students to learn and grow.

As a token of our appreciation, all participating families were offered the opportunity to enter into our Parent Survey Raffle.

🎉 Congratulations to Maddi Foott! 🎉You are the lucky winner of the RBN Voucher! We hope you enjoy your reward, and thank you again for your contribution and ongoing support of our school community.

Thank you!

We had a number of parents, staff and family members volunteer to work at the Elmore Field Days this week. This is a great display of support for our school. Thank you!

Regional Athletics

Good luck to our 18 athletes who will compete in Bendigo on Monday for the chance to make it through to the State athletics. You should all be very proud of making it to this level, it is a huge achievement. Thanks in advance to parents for supporting this event by taking their child on the day.

Uniform - SunSmart

If has been fantastic to see our students taking responsibility for having their blue school hats here this week. Please keep this up as all students need to have their school hat on to play outside at all times during term 4.

A friendly reminder, football shorts and football socks are not part of our school uniform.

Pupil free days - Term 4

Each year schools are granted pupil free days and a Professional Practice Day by the Department. These dates may change each year depending on the needs of the school and must be approved by School Council. We have two pupil free days this term- Thursday 8th October (Today) and Monday 3rd November.

Christmas Hamper Raffle

This week students received a flyer for our Christmas Hamper Raffle. We have 4 amazing Hampers on offer. This will be drawn at our final Assembly on Tuesday 15th December Just scan the QR code or call into the office to secure your tickets.

Kate Whitford

Rochester Primary School Newsletter

Respect, Resilience, Responsibility

Term 4 Week 1 · 08 Oct 2026

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