Principal's update
Hello everyone,
Here is the school newsletter for week six of term three.
If you have any questions or comments about anything, feel free to contact me.
Swimming
Next week we will be participating in a whole school swimming and water safety programme Monday to Friday at the Kyneton Aquatic centre. Please refer to information sent by jane on Compass for more information
Parent/Caregiver/Guardian Opinion Survey
Earlier this week I sent a link via Compass for school families to complete the 2025 Parent/Caregiver/Guardian Opinion Survey, as of this morning we have had 9 responses. It would be great to hear from more families
Spare school clothes
With the wet weather this week many students have found the puddles too tempting to ignore resulting in some very wet children! Whilst we do have a supply of spare clothes at school, it is handing for the students to have some extra clothes in their bags for when they are having a lot of fun in the water.
Save Our Wildlife Student Art Exhibition
Grade 5/6 students have been working hard in Art class to curate a whole school Art exhibition to raise money for Red Box Wildlife Shelter in Elphinstone.
See the 'in our classrooms' page for full information
Library fundraiser
Thank you to all the very generous peoples who have been contributing to our library fundraiser. If you'd like to contribute, Please have a look at the Parents and Friends Page for more information
Wear it Purple Day - Today - Friday 29 August
Each year we celebrate Wear it Purple Day by inviting students and families to wear as much or as little purple to school to celebrate diversity and inclusion. Taradale is an inclusive school and welcomes everyone. Part of being inclusive is to do so visibly. At Taradale you will see an acknowledgment of country on the front gate as well as the Aboriginal flag, we also fly the inclusive rainbow flag on the pole that was donated to us by Chillout Festival to show our support for LGBTQIA+ students, families and allies.
Community composting
From Eve; Are you interested in dropping off your food scraps at the school to be turned into beautiful compost and worm castings? We are setting up a community composting hub with a bucket swap-and-go system. We’ll be using Bokashi, a microbial powder, so that all food scraps including meat, cooked food, orange peel, onions etc can be included. If you are interested please let us know so that we can gauge interest. It would be free to participate apart from the purchase of the bokashi powder from the school ($15 for a packet that will last about 3 or 4 months on an average family’s food scraps)
Year 2 camp 11-12 September
Students in year two have the opportunity to travel to Daylesford for our overnight horse riding camp with Chewton PS 11-12 September. We will send home permissions forms, details and costings shortly. The school saving bonus can be used for this camp.
Volunteers
Thank you to the many volunteers that we have at the school. This includes people helping in the library, Breakfast Club, cooking, gardening, listening to children read and more. We welcome more volunteers at the school.
To volunteer at a school you require a working with children check. This can be completed for free online.
Wellbeing
We now have a wellbeing page on the newsletter that I will use to share relevant wellbeing information and resources that we come across that may be useful at home or give greater understanding of some of the language children may come home using from school. I will use the school's website as an archive for the resources for future reference.
2026 enrolments
Last term I received a number of prep enrolments for 2026 as well as enrolments for students starting this term.
We are currently running tours of the school and taking enrolments for 2026.
With a large year 6 cohort leaving at the end of the year, next year we expect to be under our enrolment capacity and welcome enrolment enquiries from near and far.
If you or anyone you know is interested in knowing more about enrolling at Taradale PS, please contact me.
upcoming dates
- 29 August Wear it Purple day
- 01-05 September whole school swimming programme
- 11-12 September yr 2 camp to Boomerang Ranch
- 19 September end term two 2.00pm
- 06 October start term 4
Chris
Christopher Burgess
Principal