Hesket Primary School News

Friday 29th August 2025


Important Dates to Remember

September
Thurs 11th - Full Dress Rehearsal at Romsey Mechanics Institute
Thurs 11th - School Concert @ Romsey Mechanics Institute - Evening Performance (Save the date!)
Fri 12th - Curriculum Day
Sun 14th - Tournament of Minds, State Competition
Wed 17th - Annie, Princess Theatre Excursion
Thurs 18th - Science Incursion - Wild Action Zoo
Fri 19th - Footy (or favourite sport) Dress Up Day and Last Day of Term Three

Other Significant Dates

12th – 14th November - Whole School Camp – Phillip Island


From the Office

Notices Sent Home This Fortnight
- Rehearsal - Destination Hesket @ Romsey Mechanics Institute

School Concert - 'Destination Hesket'
 
As always we try to keep costumes and props from home to a minimum so there isn't much we're asking to send along for your child. If there is something that you do not have, please let your child's teacher know. 

All students are required to wear a black base costume on the day/evening of the performance. 

Junior T 
- Nothing extra required.
Middle W
- Nothing extra required.
Middle D 
- Cool hip hop gear - backwards caps, hoodies with shorts, basketball kit, jeans, parachute tracksuits etc.
- A plain coloured t-shirt (preferrably pastel coloured). If your child doesn't have one, they could wear a tshirt with a logo inside out. 
Senior R
- A beanie or scarf
- Brightly coloured tops or bottoms (matching).

We shall be in contact via Seesaw if there are any small additional costumes or props required. 

Please no Cash uneccessarily
Where possible, could you please make payments by EFT or Bpay and if cash is unavoidable, please try to keep it to notes and not small change. The Woodend Post Office will no longer allow us to deposit coin, which means Di has to go to the CBA in Kyneton to deposit even small amounts of change.  

Exclusion Periods for Sickness
As with every winter there has been illness through the school. Please familiarise yourselves with this link so you are aware of the school exclusion periods for illnesses:  https://www.health.vic.gov.au/infectious-diseases/school-exclusion-table#exclusion-periods-table

From the Students

Book Week
Last Friday at Hesket we had Book Week Dress Up Day. It was amazing, especially because we got to act like the character for the day. My favourite costume on the day was:
  • Heidi who was Bright Bill from The Wild Robot - Ita
  • Micah who was Will from Ranger's Apprentice and Jasper from Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Sidney C
  • Flossy and me who were both dressed as Spiderman - Bjorn
  • Tarquin who was a whale from The Whale and the Snail - Caleb
  • Max who was dressed as The Saucepan Man - Bailey
  • Hannah L who was a puppy .... - Emily A
  • Phoebe and Alice who were both dressed as Dog Man - Malakai
  • My favourite was Tarquin too - Grace G
  • Zoe H, Adeline and me who were all Harry Potter characters - Raffi
  • Raffi who was Harry Potter - Wilbur
  • Ariella who was the cicada from Cicada - Ginevra
  • Annabel who was dressed as The Wild Robot - Oscar C
  • Jobe, who was Bunny from Bunny v Monkey - Alice
  • Flossy and Bjorn who were dressed as Spiderman - Hettie
  • Annabel, who was dressed as The Wild Robot - Flossy

Tournament of Minds - Art Team - By Emily
Staying inside during winter is one of the best benefits of Tournament of Minds. Then there’s the before school cereal, the holiday cheese sandwiches and the weekend brunches, but the obvious choice is the feeling of standing on that square, reciting your lines to a grinning audience. On the 16th of August my team and I competed at the Regional level of T.O.M. We walked into the building full of teams practising and nervously reciting their lines, made some frantic last minute costume adjustments and then hauled our stuff upstairs. We began our performance full of anxiety and finished full of pride. The moment we left that room, finally finished, we were filled with relief. The rest of the day was spent laughing about minor mistake and costume failures.

Courtesy of Ada, we all got to spend the night celebrating all of our hard work together at an after party. It was the perfect ending to a hectic month.

Thankfully the judges didn’t keep us waiting for our results long. On Monday, Zoe got a message from Geraldine saying that the Arts team won! And to somehow make things even better, not long after, we got our more detailed feedback, announcing that we did an incredible job in all aspects of the competition.

I feel that I speak for everyone on the Arts team when I say that, we can’t wait for the next round!

Tournament of Minds - Language Literacture Team - By Micah
This year in Tournament of Minds, the Language Literature team worked hard on reimagining the book Cicada by Shaun Tan. We came into school on the holidays and every recess and lunch leading up to the competition. Everyone had a great time making props, costumes and writing the scripts.

On the 16th of August we went to La Trobe University.  First, we watched the Arts team perform first and then we went to our performance. We had a great time performing to friends, families and judges.  

Then we went onto our spontaneous challenge. Our challenge was to figure out who took the number eleven away from the world and why. When we finished the judges looked at us in a way that didn’t give us any clue as to how we went.

To finish up, we had a wonderful after party at Ada’s house to celebrate all our hard work. And a few days later we got the results. (Drumroll please) all the hard work that we did paid off. We won!

Athletics Day - By Ada
Last Athletics Day was so fun, and some of us did so well, we’re going to the next level. Amelia, Hannah, Ivy, and Ada are all going to the next Athletics Say. Amelia and Ivy are going to compete in the 100-metre sprint, Ivy is competing in the 200-metre sprint as well. Hannah will run in the 1500-metres, and Ada is going to compete in shot put. We are all going to be training for the competition in two weeks. The next round of athletics is still at the La Birpa Bendigo Athletics Complex, like last time. The Athletics Day is going to be on the last week of school and the day after Tournament of Minds, so everyone’s going to be so tired by the school holidays!

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Congratulations to the following students on some amazing milestones over the last fortnight:

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