Prep to Year 6 · Wattlebrook, Victoria
Two classes in each year level, a kitchen garden the whole school looks after, and teachers who stay. Prep 2027 enrolments are open now.
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Starting school
Enrolments are open. Come to the information evening on Wednesday 4 November, or book a tour first and see a normal morning.
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Come and see
Tuesday and Thursday at 9:30am, with the principal, while classes are on. Bring your child along.
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Already here
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This week
The Years 3 to 6 swimming program starts Tuesday 13 October. Permission and payment can be done online or with the paper form from the office. Talk to the business manager in confidence if cost is a worry.
Walk around the school with the principal while classes are on. Tours run at 9:30am and take about 45 minutes. Book a place on the tours page, and bring your child along.
The school is closed to students on the first Monday of Term 4. Out of School Hours Care is running a full-day program; bookings close Friday 2 October.
A day at Wattlebrook
From breakfast club to the last bell. Every class follows the same rhythm, so children always know what comes next.
Breakfast and quiet games in the hall, run by our care team.
Students settle into class. Teachers are at the door if you need a quick word.
Reading, writing and spelling in small groups, every morning.
Fruit first, then the oval, the courts or the library.
Hands-on maths, then practice at the level each child is ready for.
Eating together in class, then play. Garden club meets on Tuesdays.
Music, PE, Indonesian or visual art, with specialist teachers.
Pick-up at the front gate, or after school care until 6:00pm.
Learning
Literacy and numeracy every morning, taught at the level each child is ready for. Then music, sport, the garden, and care before and after school.
Two hours every morning in small groups, with extra help or extension where it is needed.
Music every week for every class. Ukulele from Year 3, the school band from Year 5, and the concert in November.
Each class looks after a bed. What we grow goes into Friday cooking and the canteen.
PE twice a week, swimming in Term 4, and the athletics carnival on our own oval.
Open every lunchtime. Take-home books are matched to the level each child is reading at.
On site from 7:30am to 6:00pm, with breakfast in the morning and a snack after school.
From the principal
Families tell us the same thing after a tour: it feels like a school where the children are known. That is what we work at every day.
Helen Marsh
Principal
From the classrooms
Two sittings, ticket numbers, and what each year level is working on between now and the end of November.
Read moreTwo weeks, daily lessons, and a lot of questions from families about what to pack. Here is the whole thing, start to finish.
Read moreThe books that come home are not chosen at random, and they are not chosen by age. Here is what the levelling actually means.
Read moreQuestions families ask
Yes. Families who live in the zone are guaranteed a place. Families outside it are welcome to apply, and we take as many as we have room for. The office can check your address.
Doors open at 8:45am and the day finishes at 3:15pm. On the last day of each term we finish at 2:30pm.
Yes, on site from 7:30am until 6:00pm, with a full-day program on curriculum days.
From September to the end of April, and whenever the UV is 3 or above, students wear a broad-brimmed or bucket school hat outside. The Sun Smart Policy has the details.
Call the office on (03) 5550 0143 before 9:30am, or reply to the morning text message.
Tours run on Tuesday and Thursday at 9:30am and take about 45 minutes. You will see classes as they really are, and you can ask the principal anything.