Following on from feedback from the Strategic Review process earlier in the year our school timetable will be restructured next year to maximise teaching and learning opportunities at our school.

In 2026 our school will begin a new daily timetable structure, which will involve a 25-period week; students will attend 5 one hour classes per day, with a 30 minute recess (Break 1) and a 40 minute lunchtime (Break 2).

Our recent School Strategic Review highlighted some opportunities for improvement in terms of curriculum delivery, and the new daily timetable structure will provide a timing reset to allow these opportunities to happen.

Features of this new schedule:

• An increase in primary literacy and numeracy teaching time to a required 120 minutes and 60 minutes every day of the week
• A re-balancing of subject offerings for Year 7-1 0 students, with slightly less time for Humanities and Chinese, slightly more time for PE and Health/Respectful Relationships, and a much wider range of electives choices at Years 9-10
• Additional time for PE classes in Years F-10 so that minimum physical activity standards are being met. This will include one hour of combined Year 7&8 Sport each week with three teachers working with smaller groups, and a compulsory Sport elective for Year 9-10 students
• Hour-long sessions that will provide extra time for sustained reading, writing, practical work or problem-solving across all year levels
• Creating consistency and predictability with class length over the course of each day, with students and teachers knowing that each lesson has a full hour available.

2026 Timetable 

Form Assembly	9 - 9.08 am
Period 1	9.10 - 10.10am
Period 2	10.10 - 11.10am
Break 1	11.10 - 11.38am
Period 3	11.40 - 12.40pm
Period 4	12.40 - 1.40pm
Break 2	1.40 - 2.18pm
Period 5	2.20 - 3.20pm

Music will still be used as a prompt for students to move straight to classes, and will occur at 9:08am, 11 :38am and 2:18pm. The music will signal the start of the last two minutes of Break 1 and 2.

Break times will be a little later than they are this year, and students will benefit from having more substantial food to eat following the first two hours of the day (Break 1 will be at 11 :1 0am to 11 :40am) and snacks after the fourth hour of the day (Break 2 will be at 1 :40pm to 2:20pm). The canteen will reorganise its food offerings to match this next year.

Please contact Mr Ralph at school if you would like to talk about these changes.