Hello everyone,

Chicken helpers for the holidays please!

If you can be a chicken check in person over the holidays, please let me know when you are available. Checking on the chickens involves making sure they have water and food and you get to collect any eggs! Send me an email with your availability and I will put together a roster of helpers.

2026 Grade structure and staffing.

Next Tuesday is 'step up' for our students. Our current year 6 students will be visiting their secondary schools and our 2026 Foundation students will be here for the morning. All our students will find out who their teacher will be and which classroom they will be in.

I am pleased to announce our staffing for 2026.

Foundation- Bianca Giampaolo

Grade 1- Jack Belsar

Grade 2- Jackson Godfrey

Grade 2/3- Rachel Quarrier

Grade 3/4- Skye Schueller

Grade 4/5- David Morrison-Blunck

Grade 5/6- Jacinta Condon + Cosima Perley

Grade 5/6- Kelsie Rowlands

Specialist subjects-

Art and Cooking- Sheridan Leversha

Music- Bridget Finch

PE- Laura Hicks

Chinese- Cecilia Liu

Gardening- Chelsea Petersen

ES staff-

Danni Ferrari

Danae Francis

Julie Giudice

Paw Lui Hae (Lulu)

Samantha Humble

Lauren Hussey-Makepeace

Kobe McCaig

Miv Ollis

Louise Rodriquez

Principal- Carolyn Tavener

Business Manager- Lou Bray

Learning Specialist/EMU (Maths intervention)- Kim Kirkpatrick

Literacy Intervention- Lisa Fasham

Wellbeing coordinator- Nicole Lowe

Wellbeing Officer- Cate Burns

A fabulous team of people working together to support our students to achieve their best!

Last Breakfast Club for the term- Family Brekkie Club!

Time to return all Library books please!

If you could all please have a big search at home and find any school library books and return them next week. Julie will be doing the last library tidy up for the year and we need all books back safe on their shelves. Thank you!

Colour Fun run.

Our Parents & Friends group are organising a colour run for the last day of term, it was so much fun last year! They need helpers so please add your name to the list.

Next week's newsletter is our last for the year, have a great weekend everyone!

Date to add to your diary-2026 Wednesday 28 January all students start school.

warm regards,

Carolyn.

School banking details.

Westpac.

Bendigo Violet Street Primary

BSB: 033-688

Account number: 93-1292

Payment reference: use your surname and fees.

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