Dear Families, 

This is our last newsletter for 2025! I would like to sincerely thank all families for their commitment and support to Beveridge Primary School throughout the year. We have had a fabulous year with so much growth in learning, exciting whole school event days and activities. I am really looking forward to seeing the school and students flourish in 2026.

Teaching Teams

I am very happy to be able to share with you all our teaching teams for next year. We have a mixture of full and part time classroom and specialist teachers.

*new staff listed in bold. 

As our school continues to grow, we are experiencing the same challenges currently affecting schools across the state—a shortage of teachers combined with rapid increases in student enrolments at Beveridge PS. As a result, we are still actively seeking to employ additional teachers to support our students and maintain the high standard of teaching and learning we value.
While every effort is being made to keep classes and teaching teams as planned, families may notice some changes to teaching teams at the beginning of the school year. These adjustments are made carefully and with students’ wellbeing at the forefront, ensuring continuity of learning and strong relationships remain a priority.
We thank our community for its understanding and ongoing support as we navigate this period of growth.

Farewell to the following staff

We are also saying farewell to Miss Teagan Denny and Mrs Shae Chisholm at the end of this year. I wholeheartedly thank them for their contributions to BPS and wish them all the best for their next chapters at their future schools. The following staff will also be on extended leave in 2026: Adelaine Matthews, Virginia Greenwood, Luke McMurray (Term 1) and Helen Bouris. 

I hope you will all have a restful holiday break and enjoy some much deserved down time. 

I look forward to seeing all Grade 1-6 students back at school on Wednesday 28th January 2026 and our new Foundation students on Thursday 29th January. 

Merry Christmas!

Yours sincerely, 

Silvia Menelaou 

Acting Principal

DECEMBER

• December 19th: Last day of term 4 - early finish 12pm/12:15pm
• December 19th: 2026 booklist orders close
  
  

JANUARY

• January 28th: First day of term for students in Gr 1-6
• January 28th: First day of term for Foundation students 
  
  

FEBRUARY

• February 4th, 11th, 18th & 25th: Foundation students only required at school for testing
• February 6th: Swimming Carnival @ Mandalay 2-6
• February 9th: Campus Assemblies - Ambrosia 9:10am & Arrowsmith 2:40pm
• February 11th: Meet & Greet 3:45-6pm @ Arrowsmith
• February 12th: Meet & Greet 3:45-6pm @ Ambrosia
• February 18th: Meet & Greet 3:45-6pm @ Ambrosia
• February 19th: Meet & Greet 3:45-6pm @ Arrowsmith

MARCH

• March 9th: Labour Day public holiday
• March 13th: School Photo Day 

A final reminder that the 2026 booklist can be ordered at https://booklist.paperchase.com.au/ and need to be ordered by TOMORROW, Friday 19^th December 2025 in order for your child/ren to receive their books ready for the start of the 2026 school year.

2026 booklists can be found here.

The Smile Squad free school dental program is coming to BPS!

The Smile Squad team from DPV Health will be attending BPS in 2026 - the junior campus towards the end of term 1 and the senior campus at the beginning of term 2 (specific dates will be confirmed closer to the program).

Smile Squad is the Victorian Government free school dental program.

This means ALL students can get a free dental check-up at school and will be able to attend DPV health clinics with a parent or guardian for free preventive services and treatment.

How to access free dental care

We need your consent before we can provide services. Consent is usually provided by a parent or guardian.

Sign up to Smile Squad at: https://bit.ly/smilesquadvic

Please complete and submit the consent form online by 6^th of February 2026

Please ensure you list your child's 2026 homegroup when completing the online form.

We are looking forward to having the Next Athletics program back at Beveridge PS in term 1, 2026.
The term one program will start on Wednesday, 4 February.

Wednesdays, 3:45pm-4:45pm

Dates: 4th February – 25th March (8 weeks)

Location: Senior Campus, 30 Ambrosia Way

Link to book: Level 2 (age 5-8/P-2)

Link to book: Level 3 (age 8-10/Yr 3-4)

Flyer attached

The Christmas Raffle was drawn earlier this week by our School Captains. We had 12 lucky winners for our amazing hampers made up by our Parents & Friends Committee.

We would like to thank each and every family that donated items for the raffles and for purchasing raffle tickets. 

Congratulations to the following winners:

• Grace P
• Indegeet K
• Dylan A
• Brooklynn B
• Ranvijay G
• Ellie B
• Maxine C
• Nate S
• Charlotte D
• Eleesha S

Thank you for your support with this fundraiser.

We hope everyone has a great Christmas!

Summer holidays are an important time for kids with asthma. 

During all the festivities, please don’t forget to keep up your child's asthma management and medicine as prescribed. Good asthma management over the holidays means less time off school when kids return in the new year, and less time off work for you.

To make sure your child stays as healthy as possible over the break and into 2026, you can take the following steps:  

• Check your child’s medicine(s) to make sure they’re still in date.  
• Keep using your child’s preventer medicine as directed over the summer holidays, even if they’re feeling well.   
• If you’re leaving the house or going on holiday, make sure you pack your child’s asthma medicine(s) and a spacer.  
• Book an Asthma Review with your doctor to get an updated written Asthma Action Plan during the holidays - you'll need this for Term 1 2026. Book in early as doctors can have limited appointments over the Christmas period. 
• Use Asthma Australia's School’s Checklist for parents and carers: https://asthma.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AA_BTS2022_Asthma-Checklist__digital.pdf