Dear Parents/Guardians,

Welcome Back

Welcome back to the last term of 2024. With so much going on last term it passed very quickly. This term promises to be just as action packed. We have excursions, incursions, 3/4 Camp, Grade 2 sleep over, Whole school and Regional Athletics, Rochy Playtime, Orientation Day – just to mention a few of the many events and experiences that our students across the school will be involved in. The term has started smoothly despite the weather! For our Grade 6 students, it is an exciting time as it is the last term of their Primary schooling and we would like to wish them the very best and trust that you will have an enjoyable and productive time over the coming weeks, as well as reflecting and celebrating the wonderful memories you have from your time here.

Parent Teacher Interviews - Bookings open

Our second Parent teacher interviews will be held on-

Monday 21st October (2:30 - 5:30pm)

Tuesday 22nd October.(3:30 - 4:40pm)

Booking times are now open and available on XUNO. Click on the 'School' tab then 'Parent Teacher Interviews'. If you have trouble booking please contact your child's teacher or the office as soon as possible.

Thank you!

We had a number of parents, staff and family members volunteer to work at the Elmore Field Days. This is a great display of support for our school. Thank you!

Regional Athletics

Good luck to our 8 athletes who will compete in Bendigo on Monday for the chance to make it though to the State athletics. You should all be very proud of making it to this level, it is a huge achievement. Thanks in advance to parents for supporting this event by taking their child on the day.

Uniform

If has been fantastic to see our students taking responsibility for having their blue school hats here this week. Please keep this up as all students need to have their school hat on to play outside at all times during term 4.

A friendly reminder, football shorts and football socks are not part of our school uniform.

House Athletics

We are very excited to hold a House Athletics carnival next Thursday the 17th October at the Windridge. We love having supporters at this event so it would be great to see parents come along. Our first events starts before10am with relays beginning

around 1pm, to finish off the day. Thanks to Mr Rasmussen for his work in preparing the event.

Pupil free days - Term 4

Each year schools are granted pupil free days and a Professional Practice Day by the Department. These dates may change each year depending on the needs of the school and must be approved by School Council. We have two pupil free days this term- Monday 4th and Monday 25th of November.

Classes 2025- Student Placements Staff will soon begin the conversations and work around class groupings for 2025. If your child will not be attending Rochester PS next year or you know of somebody who is yet to enrol could you please contact the office ASAP. If you have any specific requests regarding the placement of your child for 2025 please make contact to discuss before Friday 25th October.

School Grounds

Our school grounds look fantastic at the moment. A shout out to Temptation for their ongoing work and to Nichol Trading for fertilising our oval at no cost. This is very much appreciated.

Monster Raffle: Please collect from office.

Raffle tickets are now available for our 'Rochester Primary School Monster Raffle'. Check out the great prizes up for grabs! Families are asked to collect a book to sell. These will be available for pick up from the office next week. All funds raised will go towards supporting students, programs and activities at our school.

Kate Whitford

Diary Dates