Welcome to Term 1, 2025
Parent Information:
Summer PPSSA Trials 2025
- If your child is in years 3-6 in 2025 and wishes to trial for a PPSSA team, please complete the permission note which has been emailed home.
- Click here for the trial schedule.
2025 Swimming Carninval - Competitors Only
- When: Thursday, 20th February, 2025
- Where: Warringah Aquatic Centre, from 8.30am - 2.00pm.
- Who: It will be for 2025 Years 3-6 students and Yr 2 students who are turning 8 during 2025.
- This year the swimming carnival will be for competitors only, due to the cost and difficulty of securing bus transport. If your child will not be competing at the carnival, they will come to school for a normal school day.
- We are requesting parents of swimmers to arrange for their children to be transported to and from Warringah Aquatic Centre.
- The carnival will start at 8.30am with the open 100m freestyle.
- Parents will need to sign their child in at the desk in the foyer upon arrival and sign their child out at the desk as they leave the pool.
- Race entries must be made online through School Interviews on the link below.
- Entries close on Friday, 6th December, 2024.
- Permission and payment link will then be sent to those competitors. Payment will be for hiring of the pool and facilities. As a sign of our appreciation, we will cover the $4.20 pool entry for parent spectators
- Please ensure that your child is entered in events for the age that they are turning in 2025.
- Please enter every race that your child wishes to compete in as we cannot add students to races once the heats have been formed.
- Click here to enter your child into races.
- Event Code: 4n8ds
- No late entries can be accepted.
Year 3 & 5 Opportunity Class and Selective High School 2026
- The NSW Department of Education has changed the dates to apply for a Selective High School or Opportunity Class for 2026. Applications are now open from 7th November 2024 and close on 21st February 2025. They will not be accepting late applications.
- A guide to Selective High Schools and Opportunity Classes can be found here.
- Students who are in Year 3 2024 and Year 4 2025 can apply for a 2026 OC placement now.
- Students who are in Year 5 2024 and Year 6 2025 can apply for a 2026 Selective High School placement now.
- For more information on the application process and to apply, click here.
From next year, the tests for admission to an Opportunity Class or Selective High School will be completed online.
Information about the new testing format, including practice tests, can be found here.
If you are intending to apply for an Opportunity Class or Selective High School for 2026, please complete the ‘intention to apply’ note and return it to your class teacher.
This is not a registration form for the test; it is just a notification for the teacher. Please click here to download the note. This note will also be sent home in paper copy.
For further information, visit Selective high schools and opportunity classes.