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triva night — I hope you have booked your table for Trivia Night which is happening this Friday beginning at 7pm. Tables consist of eight people and can be booked through Try Booking. There are just a couple of spaces left. The dress up theme is Sports Stars. There are lots of great […]

Trivia Night – This Friday 18th August

sticker-35mm_principalsaward — Congratulations to this week’s recipients of a Principal’s Award;

Principal Awards

The first market of the new season will be on Sunday September 17th at the market site next to the Drysdale Football oval. The market was started by the school more than thirty years ago and is still run by the School Council through our organiser, Bre Gage, with the […]

Drysdale Market—begins September 17th

book week — Next Monday, 21st August, marks the start of Book Week. This year our theme is Escape to Everywhere. There a lot of events happening throughout the week beginning with our Assembly Parade on Monday 21st August where children are invited to come to school dressed as a favourite book character. […]

Book Week – Assembly Parade 21st August

science week — This week you will find lots of Science based activities and learning taking place throughout the school to mark Science Week. Our two Science Specialists, Simone George and Kellie Thomas, have been working with the different year group teams. Yesterday the Year 2 children, teachers and parent helpers were enjoying […]

Science Week

Educational Support Staff — This week we are celebrating the work of our Educational Support Staff. This team includes the Aides who support children in our Inclusion Program, the office staff and Gail, our Librarian. These are indispensable members of the Drysdale Primary School teaching team. Without them we would not be able to […]

Educational Support Staff

sticker-35mm_principalsaward — Congratulations to this week’s recipients of a Principal’s Award;

Principal Awards

WoolworthsEarnLearn — Woolworths is currently running its annual Earn and Learn promotion. The school is registered and is collecting Earn and Learn Stickers. If you would like to donate any stickers you receive to this school, please can you collect a sticker sheet from the store. Completed sticker sheets can be sent […]

Woolworths Earn and Learn

CampFeePayment_Evergreen — We have recently sent out letters to parents of children in Years 3 to 6 who have paid a deposit for a place at their child’s camp. Details of the amounts due for final payment were included in these letters. Parents are able to pay through any of the usual […]

Camp Payments for Years 3 to 6

parent survey — This year’s Parent Opinion Survey is now available to the parents who were randomly selected to participate. If you were one of these parents you will have received an e-mail from the school last week with details of how to access the survey. I would strongly encourage you to participate […]

Parent Opinion Survey

parking — There continues to be some issues with parking in the Stonehouse Place area before and after school. The good news is that our building work at the front of the school is coming to an end which will allow the staff car park there to be reopened. Please can I […]

Parking

athletics-2 — Last Wednesday our senior students went to Landy Field to compete in our annual house sports. It was an excellent day superbly organised by Mr Kennedy. The children represented themselves, their house and the school with distinction as we have come to expect of them. Overall the House Shield for […]

Senior School House Sports

Tball — Congratulations to our girls T Ball team who represented us in the South Western Regional Competition yesterday. This is one level below the state final. Our girls performed magnificently to be runners up, narrowly losing in the grand final. This is an outstanding achievement. My thanks to Mrs Croxford for […]

South Western Region Girls T Ball Final

parents — Each year the Department of Education and Training (DET) organises a survey of every school’s parent community. This year the survey will have some significant differences. A higher proportion of families will be asked to complete the survey. This will make the outcomes more representative of the views of the […]

Parent Opinion Survey

vic prem reading challenge — The Premiers Reading Challenge finishes for Drysdale Primary in one month’s time at the end of August. This allows us to make sure that all the children’s reading records are up to date and ready for submission. The Challenge has been taken up by so many children across the school […]

Premiers Reading Challenge

2010_LOGOS — The certificates from the ICAS tests taken by the children last term in Digital Technologies, Spelling and Science have arrived back at school. These will be presented in assembly next Monday 7th August to all the children who took part. The Reading test took place this morning. The certificates and […]

ICAS Certificates

thank. you — Every Friday a team of people meet in the school’s staff room to prepare the fresh fruit that is provided to each class. I would like to thank Andrea Nisbett Dianne Redmond and Diane McKenzie for giving up their Friday mornings to do this. There is always a lot of […]

Fresh Fruit Friday

build — The roof is nearly on our new extension which will allow the builders to move inside and complete that part of the work. The relocatable classrooms, currently occupied by Year 6, are being removed on Monday September 10th. Work will then move to the central part of the school to […]

Building Work

IMGP0279 — Congratulations to this week’s recipients of a Principal’s Award;

Principal’s Award

school banking — Each week a dedicated team collect the children’s school banking, count the money, make sure it matches the deposit information and then take this to the bank. I would like to acknowledge the support of Jenna King, Michelle Monaghan and Renee Colley for their voluntary support of this program each […]

School Banking

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