Fitzroy Primary School in Fitzroy, Victoria | Primary School

Fitzroy Primary School

Locality: Fitzroy, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9417 4222

Address: 319 George Street 3065 Fitzroy, VIC, Australia

Website: http://fitzroyprimaryschool.vic.edu.au

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25.01.2022 Rotary Donations in Kind collects reusable school items and gives them to schools in developing countries. This initiative benefits children in developing countries, and provides Victorian schools with a much better alternative to landfill. When recycling FPS furniture earlier in the year, our students learnt about the conditions of their peers in developing countries. They were encouraged to send warm messages to the children who would be receiving their desks. Thank you, Rotary Donations in Kind. What a positive project for our children to be involved in!

25.01.2022 World Teachers’ Day Friday 30th October 2020 This week we are celebrating World Teachers’ Day. ... 2020...a school year with a difference, to say the least! Teachers and students alike have had a challenging time during the past 7 months but have come out smiling despite it all. We are acknowledging all our hard working teachers and ES staff who have put in 150% in everything that they do for our students and our school. We would like to say a huge THANK YOU to all of you at Fitzroy Primary School!! Thank you for your dedication. Thank you for your commitment. Thank you for your perseverance. Thank you for your patience. Thank you for your smiles and encouragement even on the toughest days. Thank you for your hard work planning and executing lessons online, through video links, WebEx and Zoom. Thank you for the phone calls to students and parents to make sure everyone is doing ok. Thank you for being resilient and putting up with internet issues and other technical problems during online learning and still finding a way to teach. Thank you for your kindness and understanding. Thank you for bringing out the best in your students. Thank you for showing up to school early and leaving late, to make sure your students get the best learning opportunities. Thank you for being a teacher THANK YOU - THANK YOU - THANK YOU

25.01.2022 During remote learning, we asked FPS students to share their favourite things about school, and what they were most looking forward to when they returned. Our students were excited to: Play with friends See their teachers Use the school playgrounds... And learn! See more

25.01.2022 Enrolments for 2021 are now open! We invite prospective parents to schedule an appointment with our Principal, Angela Richmond, by contacting the office on 9417 4222. In the meantime, please enjoy learning about our wonderful school through this virtual tour. Les inscriptions pour 2021 sont maintenant ouvertes. Nous invitons toutes les familles intéressées à prendre un rendez-vous avec notre Principale Angela Richmond en contactant la réception au No 9417 4222. Vous pouvez également vous faire une idée de notre belle école en regardant la vidéo de visite virtuelle.

25.01.2022 Some more great pics from today - So great to meet you Tayla Harris! So good to have you as the Active Schools Ambassador

24.01.2022 Thanks to a grant from PROJECT ROCKIT, our Grade 5 and 6 students will soon participate in a series of health and wellbeing webinars (including cyber safety). These workshops aim to empower students to lead positive change at school, online and beyond.

23.01.2022 In case you missed it: Our French Fete (scheduled for this Saturday 21 March) has been postponed. We look forward to holding this fantastic community event later in the year instead. Our silent auction is still running - a great alternative way to support the school! https://www.32auctions.com/2020fps

23.01.2022 Our wonderful teachers are working harder than ever to plan and deliver challenging learning programs, monitor students progress and set goals for their future learning. Thank you (and merci!) to all Fitzroy Primary teachers for your hard work during remote learning 2.0.

23.01.2022 Happy World Teacher's Day to all our wonderful teachers - Thank you for all you do! And what better way to celebrate today than with the Children's Book Council of Australia Book Week Parade! We're excited to see all our students dress up as a character from their favourite book and share the stories in class. Here's Soot, the ghost chimney sweep from David Walliams' Awful Auntie. Who did your little person go as today?

21.01.2022 Foundation transitions - In addition to the online transition sessions for children enrolled in the 2021 Foundation year, we’re delighted to say that onsite visits by can now take place too! If you do not know your designated time for Thursday 5th November please call the office. We look forward to welcoming you to the school to meet the teachers in a Covid safe environment. Check out the prospectus here https://www.fitzroyprimaryschool.vic.edu.au/for/enrolments/ Happy Monday!

21.01.2022 Rotary Fitzroy has generously donated $2000 to support FPS families during remote learning. This donation enables us to purchase laptops for a number of families in our community. Thank you to Anthea and the team at Rotary for supporting our school.

20.01.2022 Happy Monday! Brightening up your morning with some bounty from the kitchen garden!

19.01.2022 Following advice from the Department of Education and Training we will be moving to remote and flexible learning from Term 2, to help slow the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). This means that all students who can learn at home must learn from home. This is a very clear directive from the Victorian Government based on the advice of the Chief Health Officer. The Departments latest advice on coronavirus can be found at https://www.education.vic.gov.au/coronavirus It is import...ant that we work together and support each other during this challenging time. We will be in touch with staff and parents and carers shortly with further details of what remote and flexible learning will look like at our school. In the meantime, you might find it useful to look at the Departments Learning from Home website. It provides resources and guidance for teachers and parents and carers. https://www.education.vic.gov.au//Pa/learningfromhome.aspx Please continue to stay safe and healthy.

19.01.2022 Our garden is growing well with plenty of fresh vegies ready to harvest. As we are not using this food for our kitchen garden program at the moment, we are very happy to be working with local group Cultivating Community to donate our fresh produce to community food boxes.

19.01.2022 A lovely video by Tarneit Rise Primary School.

18.01.2022 So exciting for the kids to meet Tayla Harris today along with acting premier, James Merlino MP and Richard Wynne MP as they announce their Active Schools Program. Thank you for the amazing $30,000 grant to help sports to help get us more active than ever!

18.01.2022 Hello FPS community and I hope you've all had a great break. We're looking forward to seeing you all back on Monday 19th for the start of Term2! And just a reminder - Friday 23rd April is a STUDENT FREE DAY so no school that day and a bonus long weekend for our little learners!

17.01.2022 Ever wonder what life was like for Fitzroy kids in the past? Filmed recently at St David Dairy and in the streets near school, this TV episode shows modern day kids attempting to match the busy work day of 1940s teenage milkman Conway Tighe. This is great viewing for FPS students who have finished their remote learning tasks! Available on ABC iview until 25 August.

17.01.2022 Based on the book Curious Creatures, Wild Minds, students in Grade 2 & 3 have been busy illustrating their own curious creatures as part of their class drawing/colouring competition. Such creativity!

17.01.2022 Fitzroy Primary School was officially opened in 1855, and has served the community proudly since then. This collection of class photos from 1921-1923 (kindly shared by the family of former student, Peter Smith) helps us to reflect on our school's long history and imagine life in earlier times.

16.01.2022 Bastille Day French Festival Melbourne recently announced via their newsletter that 2021 enrolments are now open for our French bilingual program. Next year, students in Prep, Year 1 and Year 2 will learn the Victorian Curriculum through French for eight hours per week across three days. Bastille Day French Festival also highlighted that the French Bilingual Association Melbourne - a partner association - has been running lécole du samedi and a playgroup at Fitzroy Primary School on Saturday mornings for the bilingual/ French-speaking community.

16.01.2022 How wonderful to see Anab, our Community Liaison Officer, celebrated in this recent article. Thank you for everything you do in our local community, Anab!

16.01.2022 Learn all about Fitzroy Primary with our new video tour.

15.01.2022 Several FPS families travel from the northern and western suburbs to access our French bilingual program, with some families now house hunting closer to school.

15.01.2022 With the Napier Street site being quieter than usual, it is a great time to refresh our school grounds. Many thanks to Mark at Art in Construction, who has pressure washed the concrete areas and is now beginning on the running track. Art in Construction is a local business that specialises is cleaning a range of corporate and community settings.

14.01.2022 This afternoon Angela Richmond and Matt Willis met with Richard Wynne MP and Sheena Watt (Member for the Northern Metropolitan Region) to receive the incredible news that the school is going to receive $9.272 million to upgrade and modernise the school. We are all so excited and grateful to Richard Wynne MP for continually putting Fitzroy PS forward for opportunities such as this and can't wait to get started!

13.01.2022 Many thanks to the French Consulate in Melbourne for sharing this update on our school.

13.01.2022 FPS families, have you tuned into Penguin TV this week? At sunset every night, the world's largest colony of Little Penguins waddle up Phillip Island's floodlit beaches to their homes. As Phillip Island Nature Parks cant welcome visitors at the moment, they are live streaming the penguin parade for free each evening instead.

12.01.2022 Were so excited about todays Cultural Day event! Well done to our Junior School Council for bringing students together in such an inclusive way.

12.01.2022 Tune in to the Channel Nine News at 4pm and 6pm today to see our school featured! Reporters are sharing the excitement about students returning to school tomorrow.

11.01.2022 Fitzroy Primary School is very grateful to be a recipient of a $250 Merit Grant from the Victorian Schools Garden Program. We are so excited to see the projects that Joanna and Linda will implement with the help of this grant.

10.01.2022 Joyeux Noël! Want to celebrate the festive season with some French Christmas traditions? Christmas Eve, ‘Le Réveillon de Noël’, is the night when gifts are exchanged and the biggest meal of the holiday is eaten, rather than on Christmas Day (jour de Noël) Dishes might include roast turkey with chestnuts, oysters, foie gras and even lobster! For dessert, a chocolate sponge cake log called a bûche de Noël is normally eaten. Another celebration, in some parts of France, is that 13 different desserts are eaten! Bon appetite!

10.01.2022 Happy Easter break everyone! See you all for a 2.30pm pick-up today and back at school bright and bouncy for Term 2 on Monday 19th!

10.01.2022 Fitzroy Primary parent Marine spoke to SBS French about our wonderful school today.

10.01.2022 We wish you all a safe and happy holiday! And a huge high five and thank you to all the teachers, office team, support staff, students and parents for all your hard work and support. We leave you with the 2020 Kitchen-Garden harvests and highlights. Enjoy time with friends and family. Rest well and rejuvenate. See you all back on site Thursday January 28th. Bonnes vancances!!

08.01.2022 Following recent advice from the Victorian Government, some students will be returning to school from Tuesday 26 May. The Victorian Chief Health Officer has advised that it is safe for students and teachers to return in a two-staged approach: Stage 1 from Tuesday 26 May: Early years students (Prep to Grade 2) and senior secondary students (Year 11 and 12) and all specialist school students will return to on-site schooling. All staff will attend on-site.... Stage 2 from Tuesday 9 June: Grade 3 to Year 10 students will return to on-site schooling, subject to health advice. It is important that we work together and support each other during this challenging time. We will be in touch with staff and parents shortly with more details. The Departments latest advice on coronavirus can be found at www.education.vic.gov.au/coronavirus

07.01.2022 Our school community is starting to plan for a new chicken coop in the Napier Street grounds! Foundation students Felix and Lucie shared their ideas in yesterdays Kitchen Garden class. With these designs, the chickens would have leafy gardens to explore, food and water, a comfy place to sleep, and secure fences to keep them safe.

06.01.2022 With Term 2 finishing today, we are halfway through the school year! We wish our students, families and staff an enjoyable and safe school holidays. Avec la fin du 2ème Term aujourdhui, nous sommes à la moitié de lannée scolaire! Nous souhaitons de très bonnes vacances aux élèves, familles et enseignants.

06.01.2022 Merci Ambassade de France en Australie for the invitation and opportunity to share the news and the success of the school’s bilingual program!

06.01.2022 In the latest improvement to our school grounds, new flag poles have been installed in the George Street grounds. Thank you to the office of Richard Wynne MP for providing our new flags.

05.01.2022 CALLING ALL STARGAZERS We have a chance to see the International Space Station in the Melbourne sky this evening!

05.01.2022 Sending out a very big 'thank you!' to our wonderful Literacy and Numeracy consultants from school ED Consulting, who have continued working alongside FPS teachers during this challenging time. They have helped our dedicated teachers thrive during the transition to remote learning (and back again!), and we look forward to our ongoing partnership.

05.01.2022 Following last week’s amazing announcement, we'd like to share Richard Wynne MP's letter to the parents. The investment of 9.272 Million Dollars is an unbelievable turning point for Fitzroy Primary School. For years our staff have worked tirelessly, selflessly and thanklessly, ensuring our cohort receives every possible opportunity for good quality education, with the tools available to them - putting students and the community first. We are a proud of them and the community and we look forward to shaping our future through this incredible investment in our children's education. Once again, we express our sincere gratitude to Richard Wynne MP, Sheena Watt and their teams for continually putting Fitzroy PS forward for opportunities such as this.

04.01.2022 Our information booklet for prospective parents was recently updated and is looking fantastic! Download your copy here. https://www.fitzroyprimaryschool.vic.edu.au/for/enrolments/

04.01.2022 Another post for as we're thrilled to announce that in 2021 the school will receive $40,000 from the Department of Education to strengthen and expand our French bilingual program in 2021. This additional funding will be used on classroom resources, staffing, professional development and engaging with expert consultants in bilingual education. Thank you Department of Education! We're ending 2020 on quite the high

04.01.2022 Today marks the 100th day of school for our lovely Foundation students! A very big congratulations to you, your families and your teachers.

03.01.2022 Today were saying a very big thank you (and merci!) to FPS parents and carers for your patience and flexibility during remote learning. We are so grateful that families have created time, space, and routines for home learning while also juggling work and other responsibilities. ... We truly appreciate you and your support!

03.01.2022 We can't quite believe it's the last day of Term tomorrow with an early finish of 1:30pm! I think we can all say we’re looking forward to a break!

03.01.2022 A huge thank you to local restaurant Charcoal Lane's executive chef Greg Hampton for an inspirational afternoon of food and culture. As part of NAIDOC Week, Year 2/3 students were delivered a ‘mystery box’ of edible native ingredients and via Webex ‘Chef Greg’ shared his knowledge of the ingredients and how he uses them in his cooking. The kids loved the experience, so thanks again Greg! https://www.charcoallane.com.au/

02.01.2022 We are lucky to have such an established kitchen garden program at FPS. Learning is guided by seasonal harvest, student interests and the festivals and events which are important to our community.

02.01.2022 Thank you to our wonderful support staff for the important work they do at Fitzroy Primary. Hatice, Mary, Susan, Anab and Emma, we greatly appreciate everything you do to support our students in their learning!

02.01.2022 Today were saying a very big thank you to our wonderful FPS students. We know you miss your school, teachers and classmates, but you're all working hard to adapt to remote learning. Were so proud of you!

02.01.2022 Teachers and staff are so excited to welcome our lovely Years 4-6 students back to school this morning! We hope you have a great day.

02.01.2022 The Fitzroy Primary School Council is very pleased to announce that Angela Richmond has been appointed in the permanent role of School Principal. This is a fantastic result for Angela, and for our whole school community. Angelas commitment to staff, families, students and our local community will ensure that Fitzroy Primary has a robust and thriving future. Congratulations, Angela - we wish you every success!

01.01.2022 Teachers and staff are so excited to welcome our lovely F-3 students back to school this morning! We hope you all have a fantastic first day.

01.01.2022 ......and in the classroom! https://au.news.yahoo.com/aflw-star-joins-vic-active-025401