Principal's News

Reports

Teachers have been working very hard assessing students and writing the Semester One reports.  Reports will be published for parent viewing on Thursday June 27th.  Parents will receive a notification when this has happened.  The reports will provide a range of information regarding student progress as well as reporting on student Personal and Social Capabilities.

2025 Prep Enrolments

Information regarding enrolments can be found at https://pakenhamhillsps.vic.edu.au/enrolment/.  The school conducts pre-enrolment meetings to gather as much information as possible to support your child's transition from pre-school to foundation.  Please use the link on the school's enrolment page to submit an enrolment enquiry.

End of Term

Term two ends on Friday 28th of June at 2.30pm.  Please ensure you are at the school ready to pick up your at this time please.  Our OSH program will be running after school as usual.

Term three begins on Monday July 15.

Synthetic Phonics Mandated Across Victoria

The Minister for Education, Ben Carroll, has announced this week that all schools will be mandated to undertake the teaching of synthetic phonics in Foundation to Grade 2. This direction has been initiated due to the evidence clearly showing that this approach is highly effective in the teaching of reading and spelling. It is a really exciting step forward with a minimum of 25mins of daily, explicit teaching of phonics and phonemic awareness mandated in all schools. 

This announcement ties in really nicely with the current literacy work in our school.  We have been implementing "Jolly Phonics" for a few years now and have improved what we do through addition of strategies and processes from the "Science of Reading" and also "Direct Instruction."