2025 Newsletter Term 3 Week 3
Term 3 Dates
Take a look at our new newsletter feature, the calendar. The calendar sits in the left side panel of this newsletter (listing the upcoming four weeks) while the 'School Calendar' icon at the top gives you the entire school year. PAM will continue to list activities that have associated permission forms.
2026 Foundation Transition Program
NAPLAN
Student Reports are available for collection directly from classroom teachers. Parents will received a paper copy of the report and we encourage you to place it someone safe as most secondary school request a copy when you enrol for Year 7.
NAPLAN is a national literacy and numeracy assessment that students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 sit each year. It is the only national assessment all Australian students have the opportunity to undertake.
As students progress through their school years, it’s important to check how well they are learning the essential skills of reading, writing and numeracy.
NAPLAN assesses the literacy and numeracy skills that students are learning through the school curriculum and allows parents/carers to see how their child is progressing against national standards and over time.
NAPLAN is just one aspect of a school’s assessment and reporting process. It doesn’t replace ongoing assessments made by teachers about student performance, but it can provide teachers with additional information about students’ educational progress.
NAPLAN also provides schools, education authorities and governments with information about how education programs are working and whether young Australians are achieving important educational outcomes in literacy and numeracy.
Please take the time to read the following information sheet:
2025 School Census
Cyber-Safety: INFORM & EMPOWER
As part of our ongoing commitment to creating a cyber-safe environment for our children to interact with both within and beyond the classroom, we continue to partner with the team from INFORM & EMPOWER. This team have international reach, but were proudly founded by Gippslanders. This month all classes will be participating in their live-streamed Trm 3 webinars building their knowledge and skills in nvaigating the online world. Attached are the Parent Information Sheets about the content covered in each session, and we encourage families to take at look at all levels not just the levels relevant to your children.
Along The Track - God's Own Country
100 Days of Prep
This week the Foundation students celebrated their 100th day of school!
Time flies when you're learning, growing and having fun! We celebrated the past 100 days dressed in style with many fun activities and lots of yummy food. Thank you for all of those who contributed to such an amazing day 
The Potato People Story Book
The Preps have been reading the InitiaLit storybook The Potato People. This week the students enjoyed bringing the characters to life by designing and making their own potato people.
Parents & Friends Fundraiser
Please support our Pie Drive with items made fresh from 'Out of Dough' Morwell. We plan to use the profit to help subsidise our School End of Year Fun day so please get behind this tasty fundraiser.
Orders can be made via CDFPay, today is the last day. Please call by the office if you need any support.
Father's Day Stall
