Principal's Message

Welcome to the end of term 3

We have had a very busy term 3 this year so as you can imagine both kids and staff are running out of energy right about now! 

Its been a great term where staff and students have worked together to achieve some great things, including our RU OK day celebrations, camps and excursions. There are many examples of student achievement at PLSC but the most important things is the way that staff and students treat one and another everyday.  There is a real culture building of mutual respect and care for others. 

We will have our Year 12 Graduation coming up in term 4 which is a highlight for our school community. 

Rewarding good behaviours 

This year our focus has been on improving our attendance. To support this, we have introduced the AAA awards (Triple A).

This stands for Attitude, Attendance and Achievement, we present tasty truck vouchers weekly and larger prizes at the end of the term for those students who attend regularly, do their work and do their best at all times. This has been very popular and much sought after. 

Interim reports

Our staff are currently completing some interim reports on how your child’s learning is progressing. Please take the time to go through it with them and call us if you feel you need help with putting plans in place to get them back on track or keep them on track, we are here to help.

School Review

We are about to begin our school review as all schools do every four years. One of the highlights will be the increased level of attendance shown by all students and the implementation of the new VM curriculum.  We have high levels of student engagement that exceed most other network schools and like schools and this is a credit to our staff and students for the way they work together – the review will formulate the basis of the next strategic plan – 2025-2028.  A big thanks to all of our members of the school community for the way you have supported the direction of the school over the last two years……… 

Building program 

Thanks to Colleen and school council we are actively pursuing our second stage of the new build and are endeavouring to work with our local member, Bronwyn Halfpenny and the regional office to make sure we at least have our needs considered for the next state budget. Our aim is to have our new VET buildings and General Office built which is stage 2 of the project.

Planning for 2025

This is underway with school tours and a visit from a surrounding with another to come later this week from Edgars Creek. 

We have put indicative numbers for 2025 on the system as the same as for this year, but it is a conservative estimate.  We are anticipating strong growth in enrolment numbers again. 

I want to wish you all the very best for the September holidays.