School News 

Apply now to enrol your child in 2022

Application for new enrolments in the 2022 school year is now open and should be made by Friday 23rd July 2021. Enrolment forms can be found on our website.Appointments to submit Enrolment Applications can be made between 10:00am - 2:00pm by calling Reception on 9266 6200.

You will need to apply to enrol for 2022 if

• Your child is starting Kindergarten in 2022 (Born 1st July 2017 - 30th June 2018)
• If your child is in Burrendah Primary School Kindergarten in 2021 and you live outside the school intake boundary, you will need to enrol for Pre-primary 2022.

All other children do not need to enrol. We will assume they are coming back to Burrendah in 2022 unless you tell us otherwise. Please inform Reception, if for any reason your children will not be attending Burrendah Primary school in 2022.

Parents of Year 6 students must enrol their students in a secondary school. Please make sure you have enrolled your child at their local secondary school by the end of this term.

School Reception

Just a friendly reminder Reception is open from 8:00am till 3:15pm. Payments for excursions and in-school activities will be taken after 8:00am and before 3:15pm.

History of Faction Names 

To reflect Burrendah’s true pioneering spirit it was decided to choose faction names to acknowledge earlier pioneers in the Canning District. Foundation Deputy Betty Kirk led a research group that uncovered names associated with local history, and the students voted for Gwai, Moreau, Canning and Nairn.

 Gwai Faction

Indigenous heritage is represented by Gwai, which is a Dharawal word for ‘Red’. Gwai nebu, the robin redbreast, was Gwai’s mascot.

Moreau Faction

As part of the French 1801-03 Baudin expedition to map the coast of New Holland, a scientific party aboard the ‘Naturaliste’ explored the Swan River in 1801. They mistook a tributary of the Swan River to be an inlet from the sea. Heirisson, who was in command, called this supposed inlet ‘Entree Moreau’ or Moreau Inlet, in honour of his companion, Ensign Moreau, who was in command of the second fleet. 

Canning Faction

In 1826, Lieutenant Belches, under Captain James Stirling’s command, explored Moreau Inlet and realising it to be a river of some size, renamed it the Canning. This was in honour of George Canning, who had been Secretary of State Home Affairs in Lord Liverpool’s Cabinet for some years. On the death of Lord Liverpool in April 1827, Canning became Prime Minister of England. He died shortly after taking office, and to this day remains the shortest-serving British Prime Minister. 

Nairn Faction

William Edward Nairn (1767 – 1853) was an Infantry Major who arrived in Western Australia in 1831 on the ‘Egyptian’. He soon established himself as an astute farmer and was one of the early entrepreneurs of the colony. Nairn built Maddington Park homestead in 1836, which remains today as an extremely rare, intact early example of a substantial settler’s house. Descendants Bibdi and Karly Nairn were foundation students at Burrendah. Bindi was the first Nairn captain in 1976.