St Angela of the Cross Primary School - Warragul
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181 Mills Road
Warragul VIC 3820
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Phone: 03 5622 9800

Principals Message

Dear Parents,

Welcome to Term 4!

I hope you had enjoyable holiday period with your families.

Earlier this year the staff at St Angela of the Cross were fortunate to complete training on an evidence based Social Emotional Learning program through Pearson.

Parents and educators play vital roles in teaching kids important social skills. These skills help them handle stress, enhance their learning, and build strong friendships. The program, backed by research has created easy-to-use tools to help identify and strengthen 30 essential social skills. These include listening, paying attention, taking turns, staying calm in tough situations, and respecting others. Such skills are crucial for positive interactions, which are needed now more than ever.

Many of these skills are part of what we call Social Emotional Learning (SEL). By investing just a small amount of instructional time, these programs can have a big impact on our children, boosting their social skills, reducing behavioural issues, and increasing their engagement in learning.

All classes at St Angela of the Cross will begin lessons based on the Social Emotional Learning Program this term and the focus for these lessons will be shared with parents via Seesaw.

Grade Structures 2025

In preparation for the 2025 school year we are close to finalising our school budgets and student numbers. In 2025 we will move to a 12-grade structure and begin with approximately 275 students. The class structure outlined below enables us to have the lowest class sizes possible.

  1. Foundation
  2. Foundation
  3. Foundation
  4. Grade 1
  5. Grade 1
  6. Grade 1
  7. Grade 2
  8. Grade 2
  9. Grade 3/4
  10. Grade 3/4
  11. Grade 3/4
  12. Grade 5/6

We are still finalising our staffing requirements and will advise parents of new appointments and teacher grade allocations in due course.

Welcome New Staff

This term we have two new staff members commencing with us. Ms Cassie Kennedy will join our administration team and Miss Jas Irwin will join us as an Education Support Officer. I’m sure you will join me in welcoming Cassie and Jas into our school community.

Uniform

A reminder that term four is Summer Uniform for all students. Students must wear a hat when outside at recess and lunch times. Sunscreen is available for student use within classrooms, however, if your child has allergies to particular sunscreens, please feel free to provide an alternate option from home.

Mr Greenwood Long Service Leave | Staffing Changes

As previously advised for the last 8 weeks of term 4 beginning Friday 25th October, I will be taking long service leave. Mrs Rachael Williams will be Acting Principal in my absence and Miss Danielle Kemp will be Acting Deputy Principal.

As a result of this change, Ms. Kemp will have additional duties she will need to manage and will no longer be able to continue her regular teaching schedule. To ensure a smooth transition and maintain consistency, we have made the following adjustments to the Foundation K classroom:

  • Miss. Danielle Kemp will continue to teach on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
  • Ms. Jacqui Dennis will take over the teaching responsibilities on Tuesday and Friday.

For the remainder of the year Mrs Mickey Davies will now teach 5/6 M on a Tuesday.

Regards,

Justin Greenwood | Principal