Congratulations to this week’s Principal Award winners. Click read more for the details and a photo of the winners.
From the Principal
Reports will be available online through our Sentral Parent Portal tomorrow, Wednesday June 24th. In line with guidance from the Department for Education, the end of semester reports will have a different format and content to the ones normally provided at this time of year. This reflects the differences resulting […]
Semester 1 School Reports
Term 2 finishes at 2.30pm on Friday June 26th. With our staggered finish times, the first groups (Bengalat and McLeod) will leave at this time. The remaining groups (Davis and Dan Dan Nook) will finish at 2.45pm. Please note that the school crossing patrols will start at 2.30pm – their […]
Last Day Of Term Pick Up Times This Friday 26th ...
While we are managing the impact of COVID 19 please can I remind everyone that sharing food is not permitted. This includes sending cake or lollies to school for the class to share when it is your child’s birthday. Thank you for your understanding.
Sharing Food
Monday July 13th, the first day of Term 3, is a pupil free day. The teachers will be working in school on our literacy and maths programs. The students will return to school after the mid-year holiday on Tuesday July 14th.
Term 3
Brooke Burgess will be returning from her family leave at the beginning of Term 3. She will be teaching on Tuesdays and Thursdays, working with Amy Wright in Year 2 each Tuesday and a variety of classes each Thursday.
Brooke Burgess
As we come to end of Term 2, I would like to acknowledge the resilience of the school community in responding to the many challenges created by the COVID 19 pandemic. This has been the most unusual term with many unfamiliar experiences and vocabulary: social distancing, remote learning, WebEx. Throughout […]
End Of Term 2
Thank you to all the parents who returned the survey about our school camps. We are expecting further advice from the Education Department about camp programs before the start of Term 3. We will make a final decision about our camp program in the light of this advice and no […]
Camps
Congratulations to this week’s and lasts week’s Principal Award winners. Click read more for the details and a photo of the winners.
Principal Awards
Silvana Deans is retiring at the end of this term. She has been a staff member at Drysdale Primary for 23 years working tirelessly to support children within our Inclusion Program.She has a passion for helping children learn and grow and a dedication to supporting their well-being. We have valued […]
Silvana Deans
Information about school operations is constantly changing in line with advice from Victoria’s Chief Medical Officer. Recent advice from School Sports Victoria is that all inter-school sport due to take place in Term 3 has been cancelled. As a result of advice received via DET, the school’s Swimming Program for […]
Changes to Sports
Many parents have organised payment plan agreements to cover anticipated excursion and camp costs plus Essential Education Items (school fees). This works very well for both parents and the school. However uncertainty about whether or not many of these activities will go ahead means that payment plans will need to […]
Payments Plans for School Charges
As we are all now aware, to reduce the number of adults on school site, our Second Hand Uniform Shop that is usually run by our fantastic parent volunteers has been unavailable. Our Junior School Council have thought up a creative way for families to be able to access second hand […]
2nd Hand Uniform Sale
Reports will be available online on Wednesday, June 24th. In line with guidance from the Department of Education, the end of Semester reports will have a different format and content to the ones normally provided at this time of year. This reflects the differences resulting from the extended period of […]
Important Dates for the Calendar
What a joy it has been to see all our students back on-site for the first time. We have all learnt so much over the last few weeks about ourselves, each other and our community. We have learnt how much we can achieve as learners and the benefits of helping […]
Welcome Back
A number of families borrowed school iPad’s or netbooks to help them with remote learning. Most of these have already been returned, thank you. Please can the last few devices be returned to school as soon as possible. These are part of class sets which are now needed in school […]
Return of Loaned Computer Equipment
After weeks of not needing to wear school uniform during remote learning, please can we remind everyone that we have a clear uniform policy and an expectation that all students wear the correct uniform. In particular please remember that our school colours are gold and brown and that pants and […]
School Uniform
We will continue to run a whole school assembly on Monday mornings. This will be done remotely via our WebEx platform. For the remainder of this term this will only be accessible to classes in school while we test the capacity of the system. Our aim is to make this […]
School Assemblies
Reports will be available online via the Parent Portal (Sentral) on Wednesday, 24th June. In line with guidance from the Department of Education, the end of Semester Reports will have a different format and content to the ones normally provided at this time of year. This reflects the differences resulting from […]
Important Dates For The Diary
Thank you to everyone within our amazing Drysdale Primary community for the way you have all worked together to make remote learning as successful as it could possibly be. The experience has been different for everyone, some things have gone spectacularly well and others have not. These weeks of working […]