After a term of consultation with teaching staff, parents, (survey and P&C meetings) and schools who currently have an 8:30am start to their school day, the move to an 8:30am start from 2010 has been confirmed. Our decision was based on what as a staff we believe would be in the best educational interests of our students. We believe that through the earlier start we will be able to maximise the prime morning learning time when literacy and numeracy teaching is the focus.

Parent surveys showed that 2/3 of the 180 respondents were in favour of the change.

The timetable will be:

           8:30am - 10:30am          Morning Session

         10:30am - 11:00am         First Recess

         11:00am - 1:00pm           Middle Session

          1:00pm - 1:40pm            Second Recess

          1:40pm - 2:30pm            Afternoon Session

The intensive focused teaching of Literacy and Numeracy will be in the two hour morning and middle sessions.

The high level of participation and contributions of parents and staff in this consultative process was valued and appreciated.