Accountability

Yesterday's Voluntary Briefing Summary

Toilets and petition - FYI

As you may be aware, our school has recently been featured on SkyNews and 3AW regarding the new toilet block planned for the next stage of our renovations. Unfortunately, this coverage has led to some abusive messages being sent to our reception, likely from online trolls. We are grateful, however, to the many parents who have taken the time to share their views respectfully and inclusively, even when they do not agree with the chosen model.

We have also been informed that students are being asked to answer a survey as to what kind of toilet facilities they wish to have. Please know that many parents are disappointed that their children's opinions are being sought when their children are not aware of the context and when parents have not given permission for their children's opinions to be used. 

To ensure that the students are informed, Janet and Nancy have spoken to every class today from Year 2 to Year 4 and showed them a map of what the new toilet block will look like.

We explained that these are our priorities when planning toilet facilities:

• safety
• cleanliness

Here's an AI visualisation of what it will look like:

New Classrooms - Site Visits

If you are interested in visiting the new classrooms, we will have an opportunity to do so in week 11. Sue and the leadership will organise sign up sheets. Stay tuned!

2026 Classes and teachers

There might be some last minute changes with classes and teachers. Kim is going through each class list and the final versions will be available early next week (most likely on Monday). Thank you for your feedback, suggestions and patience.

Janet & Nancy

French Running Records Data Input 

Could all French teachers input their running records data for this year please in the following document before the end of week 10:

2025 French Running Record Data - NEW LINK FROM WEDNESDAY 03.12 11.:30am

Please note the document is now in Staff Drive --- Assessments --- French Assessments --- Running Records

Merci!

Nancy

Student Blue Folders

If you require a Student Blue Folder for handover please complete the spreadsheet HERE.

I will do my best to get it to you ASAP.

Thank you

Kelly D

Kinder Transition Appreciation

I know we've said before but we'll say it again - MERCI to everyone who has helped out with the Kinder Transition process. We are nearly at the finish line with classes almost finalised and 2026 Foundation Testing Timetables being drafted. 

The workload for this can be invisible, particularly with the distance between campuses, so I wanted to bring the work of this incredible team to the forefront (though not an  exhaustive list, this gives you an idea of the amount of work that goes into this process):

• Kelly D 
  • Welcoming all parents and kinders each week for various events and transition sessions
  • Creating Compass Tix for all events and collating this information
  • Making posters and QR codes to communicate information at various events
  • Creating transition groups 
  • Sending out all communication to parents 
  • Organising sign in sheets 
  • Being a Google Sheets queen - data galore!
  • Labelling all of the PSW hats (!)
  • Making name tags
• Joy 
  • Enrolments and insight information
  • Communicating with families 
  • Forwarding important enrolment information
• All our wonderful assistantes 
  • Supporting all the transition sessions and events
  • Preparing and organising the transition resources
  • Setting up for the teddy bear picnic and Q&A session
  • Taking transition notes to support with classroom creation
  • Printing and stapling social stories
• Allison, Mickaël, Catherine, Mélody, Stéphanie 
  • Running various events including the story times, kinder observations, teddy bear picnic and transition sessions
  • Reading through transition statements and noting important handover information
  • Supporting with class creation and class solver data input
  • Organising CRT plans or class splits to facilitate transition sessions
  • Setting up and packing down for all of these events
• Eglantine, Jasmine, Rose, Edwige, Erika, Claire, Kim, Angélique
  • Reading at the story time sessions
• Jackie
  • Liasing with incoming parents about medical needs 
• Janet, Nancy and Kim
  • Attending as many events as possible
  • Daily Organisation for CRTs to cover transition sessions/kinder observations/class creation time
  • Meeting with parents of potential students of note
  • Liasing with PSW for second hand uniform sales
  • Reading at story times when we were low on volunteers
  • Setting up for the Parent Information Evening (and thanks to Tim for also supporting with this!)
• Angélique & Amélie
  • Graciously allowing us to use their classrooms during transition sessions
  • Amélie for moving her library time when story time sessions clashed!
• The Year 1 team and Evan
  • Changing their platoon session plans for the Teddy Bear Picnic
• The Year 5 Team
  • Organising the Year 5s for the Teddy Bear Picnic
  • Taking the Foundation students during this time to allow the current Foundation teachers to attend the picnic with the Kinder children

If I've inadvertently missed your name from this list, please add yourself. Your work is not unnoticed (just my brain has run out of cells to think with). This is a huge process that has taken up the better part of the past 6 months and all support, small or large, has been greatly appreciated. 

Alycia E

Leave Loading in next Pay

Your pay in this pay period contains your 17.5% leave loading - this is 17.5% of four weeks of your salary as at 1/12/2025.  The maximum payable is $1,488 in 2025.  If you had time-fraction variations or were on any unpaid leave type between 1/12/2024-30/11/2025 you will be paid pro-rata based on your aggregate of paid service over the 12 month period.

Vicki

Invoices-submit to SC office/Joanna for payment

If you have any outstanding invoices that need to be paid before the end of the year, please submit to Joanna via email or hardcopy as soon as possible.

Vicki

Attention ESS Staff - Please check your WWC details on eduPay before end of this term

From Monday 26 January 2026, eduPay will automatically validate staff Working With Children Checks (WWCC) daily, alerting managers to changes and auto-updating expiry dates. This important initiative strengthens compliance across the department by improving the monitoring and management of WWCC across our workforce.

What do you need to do before end of term 4? All staff who require a WWCC need to ensure their WWCC number and surname details on their physical card are an exact match in eduPay. If the details in eduPay don't match your / staff's physical card - you will  be reported as 'invalid' against the WWCC register in eduPay. There are two support guides to assist you with this short & simple task - a detailed Reference Guide and a quick visual Mobile Guide. 

Please let me know if your details don't match.

Vicki