Congratulations to this week’s Principal Award recipients;
From the Principal
We have now set a date for the second of our four pupil free days which will be Tuesday, June 11th. This is the day after the Queen’s Birthday public holiday. During the morning of the 11th the staff will be given additional professional development in meeting the needs of students who have […]
Pupil Free Day – Tuesday June 11th
There will be two open classroom times during Education Week. These will be on Monday at 9:50a. immediately after the special assembly and at 2:40pm on Wednesday afternoon. You don’t need to be a trained parent helper to join in these sessions, this is an opportunity for all parents, grandparents, […]
Education Week Assembly Open Classrooms
Next week is Education Week. We will be celebrating our school value of Success with a focus on the many different ways in which our amazing students demonstrate success at school. On Monday we will be holding a special assembly at which we have invited one student from each year group […]
Education Week Assembly Monday at 9:05am
At the start of the year we introduced School Wide Positive Behaviour. This formalizes the philosophy used at Drysdale Primary of rewarding the good behaviour of the vast majority of our students to improve the behavior of all students. A part of this approach is the creation of a behaviour […]
School Wide Positive Behaviour
Congratulations to this week’s Principal Award recipients;
Principal Awards
Each year schools hold an Annual General Meeting at which the School Council presents a review of the previous year. This year our AGM is being held in the Year 6 space on Tuesday May 21st starting at 7pm. It will last approximately 30 minutes. There will be brief presentations […]
Annual General Meeting
Each year we offer the opportunity for children in Years 3 to 6 to take part in the ICAS testing program organised by the University of New South Wales. Children who thought they might be interested in taking part took home a letter at the end of last week. Further […]
ICAS Tests
We have now set a date for the second of our four pupil free days which will be Tuesday June 11th. This is the day after the Queen’s Birthday public holiday. During the morning of the 11th the staff will be given additional training in meeting the needs of children […]
Pupil Free Day – Tuesday June 11th
On Thursday almost fifty of our children in Years 4 to 6 will be representing the school at the District Cross Country in Eastern Gardens. These are the children who qualified by coming in the top eight for their age at our school cross country last term. I would like […]
Cross Country
On Friday twenty of our children from Years 3 to 6 are taking part in this year’s Indonesian speaking competition, Sayembara Lisan. It is very exciting to see how positively all the children have embraced the opportunity to participate including both those who put themselves for selection originally and those […]
Sayembara Lisan
Next week the children in Year 3 and Year 5 will be taking part in the National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests. The tests themselves happen on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday with the option for children who have been absent on any of these days to catch up […]
NAPLAN Week
Congratulations to this week’s Principal Award recipients;
Principal Awards
We have now set a date for the second of our four pupil free days which will be Tuesday June 11th. This is the day after the Queen’s Birthday public holiday. During the morning the staff will be given additional training in meeting the needs of children who have experienced […]
Pupil Free Day – Tuesday June 11th
We are looking to increase the number of books available for children to read in their classroom library. The school will be buying some new books to add to the libraries. We also wondered if there any books at home that children have grown out of that can be donated […]
Classroom Libraries
Many thanks to all our generous parents and friends who helped raise money through our Obstacool event at the end of last term. This was a hugely successful day and raised $10,100 to help convert the area behind the football goals at the Clifton Springs Road side of the oval […]
Obstacool Fundraiser
Tomorrow, May 1st, is school photo day when we have both individual and class photographs taken of all the children. Our school uniform policy distinguishes between an informal (every day) uniform and an official uniform that is to be worn on specific occasions. One of these occasions is school photo […]
School Photos – 1st May
Thank you to everyone who attended this year’s ANZAC Day commemorations. There were many members of our school community directly involved in events during the week, especially our four school captains. On ANZAC Day Zahra, Harry, Liv and Dom were a central part of the Drysdale Community commemorations, first in […]
ANZAC Day Thursday April 25th
We have three new teachers starting at Drysdale Primary School today. Caitlyn Evans is taking over from Jackie Smith as the teacher of 2A while Nicole Alonso continues as the school’s Acting Assistant Principal leading our inclusion program. Steff McGeorge has moved to a new position with the South West […]
Staff News
School will be closed on Thursday for the ANZAC Day public holiday. I hope that many of our community will join us for the Drysdale commemoration service organised by the local RSL. This starts at 10am in the school’s hall before moving to the Drysdale War Memorial on the High […]