NAIDOC WEEK

Throughout last week, our school was abuzz with a variety of activities designed to deepen our understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, languages, and history. Following the performance at Monday’s assembly, students participated in storytelling and discussions surrounding the history and the significance of NAIDOC Week. We learnt about this year’s theme, Keep the Fire Burning, and connected the theme with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture.

Thank you to our community for helping us celebrate such an important week. Let us continue to Keep the Fire Burning!

$400 Payment for Students in 2025

Parents with children at Victorian state schools will receive a one-off $400 payment for school expenses.

The payment is designed to help ease cost-of-living pressures and will also be offered to concession card holders at non-government schools.

The government says the money will be made available as credit that can be put towards educational expenses in certain categories.

Those categories include uniforms, school camps or trips, swimming or sports programs, outdoor education and excursions.

The money cannot be put towards school fees or used for household expenses.

Sick Bay – New Procedure for Notifications

From now on you will receive a notification for:

A student who has soiled themselves, you will also be notified if they have required a change of clothes supplied by the school. Please wash and return any clothes that have been supplied.
A student who has had a minor incident and visits the sickbay.

You will receive a courtesy notification via SMS and Compass. There is no need to call the school if you receive these messages.

For serious incidents, such as a head injury or severe illness/injury, you will receive a phone call from the school instead of an SMS notification.

The new Compass notifications are to inform parents of student visits to sickbay in a timely manner and to reduce our paper usage.

Do you have any spare school pants?? Sick bay is very short on pants needing sizes up to 8. If you have any you no longer need we would be very grateful if they could be donated for our use.

Yard Duty and Supervision

Student safety at Wyndham Vale Primary School is our highest priority and the safe and appropriate supervision of students is an important element of our duty of care to students. Part of this duty is ensuring parents and students are aware of our student supervision arrangements before and after school.

Before school: School gates are opened, and grounds are supervised at 8:20am until all students have entered classrooms at 8:45am.

After school: School grounds are supervised at the conclusion of the school day at 2:55pm until gates are closed at 3:10pm.

Students on school grounds outside these times will not be supervised (unless they are attending a before or after school care program or supervised extracurricular activity). Parents/carers/guardians are requested to ensure that students do not attend school outside of these supervised times unless they are attending before or after school care, or a pre-arranged supervised activity (i.e. sports practice).

Families are encouraged to contact the school office on 03 8754 0888 or refer to Team Kids for more information about the before and after school care facilities available to our school community or if you would like any further information about our student supervision arrangements.

For a copy of our school’s Yard Duty and Supervision Policy please contact the school office on 03 8754 0888. This policy includes Wyndham Vale Primary School’s student supervision arrangements across the school day, including before and after school.

Michael Laird

Assistant Principal

All late comers need to go straight to Mrs Bebend to be signed in.

Please remember to label your child's uniform with their name. We have many items of clothing in lost property that we cannot return because there is no name on the items.

Road Safety:

Wyndham Council have contacted us to inform us they will be patrolling our school area due to the large number of complaints they have received regarding dangerous driving, parking across drive ways and on the nature strips as well as the school crossings not being used.

We are asking that you are vigilant at all times and role model for our students the following:

Cross at the school crossings

Do not park on the nature strip

Do not park across our neighbors driveways and block them

Do not double park to drop children off/pick them up

Do not speed, be aware of your speed and the speed limit during school hours

Pedestrians are to give way to vehicles at round abouts.

It is in everyone's best interest to keep the students safe and be respectful to those around you and be a good role model for the students -

DO NOT cross the road without using the crossing

Important Dates