Principal's News
Year 6 Farewell
To our Year 6 students, we wish you all the very best next year in secondary school. We have a number of Year 6 families leaving our school, they are: Alam, Bekiaris, Cole, Cullen, Davison, Do, Elkington, Fredericks, Gerbino, Gilfillan, Goss, Harris, Karabelas, Kidd, Le, Leong, Liu, Mann, Markey, Ord-D'cruz, Osborne, Pan, Riley, Samuel, Sanchez, Sironic, Spatt, Stubbings, Tran, Wright, Yin and Zheng.
I wish you good luck in the future and remind the students not to be strangers.
Farewell to Staff
The end of the year is a time we farewell staff as well. We wish the following staff all the very best in the future:
Emilie West (Year 3) - transferring to St Joan of Arc (Brighton)
Billie Milner (PE) - transferring to St Joan of Arc (Brighton)
Joel Nestor (Year 1) - transferring to Blackburn Primary School
Dr Steph Spincer (STEM)
Russ (Maintenance)
Jana Bennett and Bec Gower - Leave in 2026
Staffing for 2026
Principal: Robyn James
Assistant Principals: Ben Parker and Cadell Duke
Learning Specialists: Andrea Quinn, Jill Potter and Nick Bugeja
Teachers for 2026
Prep: Andie Youren, Jill Potter, Ruby Hardy, Sascha van Wijk and Tina Tran
Year 1: Brooke Stirling, Chloe McIlwraith Mary Liolios, Sarah Duell and Skye Allen
Year 2: Barry Gallagher, Bree Davey, Claire Robertson and Peter Mantzouris
Year 3: Chelsea Bower / Deb Hall, Nick Bugeja / Deb Hall, Sarah Lee and Shaun McBrearty
Year 4: Andrea Quinn / Giuliana Bertucci, Nicole Sharp, and Veronica Moloney
Year 5: Adriana Trikolas, Ben Malysiak and Cheryl Saaksjarvi
Year 6: James Prantzos and Jess Worboys
PE: Deb Hall, Sonia Schinck and Victoria Muller
Visual Arts: Kate Jenkinson and Georgia Canterbury
Performing Arts: Georgia Canterbury and Victoria Muller
Mandarin: Catherine McCarthy and Mia Huang
STEM: Celina Umow, Chris De Lange and Jo Campbell
Library: Chris De Lange, Catherine McCarthy and Teresa Ashton
Support: Teresa Ashton
Support Staff for 2026
Business Manager: Amelia Parker
Admin: Jeanette Davies
Speech Therapist: Gemma Bowen
Integration Aides: Anne Fisher, Kerry Hayley, Jess Henry, Sue Davies and Tia Huang
Nurse: Jenny Klein
Maintenance: Patrick O'Keefe
2026 Grade Placements
On Tuesday next week the students will be introduced to their teacher and class for 2026.
The staff have taken feedback from students and parents, and used their own knowledge of the students to place them in the best possible grade for 2026.
Every student has been placed in a grade with at least one friend they work well with and know well. As you can imagine the teachers have poured many long hours into the careful construction of these grade lists. We have many competing requests that we have balanced for the best possible placement of all students.
If your child comes home on Tuesday expressing any concerns please be assurred that every student has at least one friend they know well in their new grade. It may not be their absolute best friend, and this is where you can assist them to develop resilience and learn to expand their friendship group, which is essential for their ongoing success. Encourage them to look at the people in their new grade and create connections with them. Reassure them that they can still play with other friends at recess and lunchtime. If you are positive about the new school year, so too your child will be.
Parent Association Thank you
Our Parent Association is an important team of parents who volunteer their time for the benefit of the whole school community. This year they have run several very successful events that have raised valuable funds for the school and supported our community to stay connected.
Thank you to all the parents involved for their support of our school community. I would also like to thank the school community for their support of the events run by the Parent Association.
In particular I would like to thank the outgoing presidents (Jess Mitchell and Brigid Jellis) and executive (Merrin Will and Wing Tan) for their hard work and committment to our school community.
School Council Thank You
The School Council's last meeting for 2025 was on the 26th November. I would like thank all members for their support and work on both the School Council and Committees.
This is the last newsletter for 2025 and I would like to wish all our families a very happy and safe holiday and New Year on behalf of the staff!
Robyn James