Forest Crescent PS

Thornlie SHS Transition Day
2025-11-26 | Thornlie Senior Highschool, Ovens Rd, Thornlie, 6108, Australia

P&C Association Meeting
2025-11-26 19:00 - 20:30 (Australia/Perth) | Forest Crescent Primary School, 83 Forest Crescent, Thornlie, WA, 6108, Australia
The Parents & Citizens’ Meeting is held in the staffroom.

R 2 Junior Assembly
2025-11-27 08:45 - 09:45 | Forest Crescent Primary School, 83 Forest Crescent, Thornlie, WA, 6108, Australia
Room 2 presents their item, and Honour Certificates are awarded. All honour certificate recipients would have had an email, teacher, or SMS message sent to their parents beforehand.

Walking Bus
2025-11-28 08:00 - 08:30 | Forest Crescent Primary School, 83 Forest Crescent, Thornlie, WA, 6108, Australia
Following the success of the Walking Bus for National Walk Safely to School Day, Forest Crescent Primary will be organising another Walking Bus experience. More details to follow

TAGS Drama Excursion
2025-12-01
For TAGS Drama Students. More information to follow.

School Board Meetings 2025
2025-12-03 19:00 - 20:30
The FCPS School Board Meeting will be held in the staffroom.

Teacher Staff Meetings 2025
2025-12-04 15:15 - 17:15
Term 1, (Week 3, 7)

Staff Meeting: 3:15-3:45pm
Curriculum Meeting: 3:45-5:15pm

Term 1 (Week 5)

Staff Meeting: 3:15-4:15pm

Term 2 (Week 3, 8)

Staff Meeting: 3:15-3:45pm
Curriculum Meeting: 3:45-5:15pm

Term 2 (Week 5)

Staff Meeting: 3:15-4:15pm

Term 3 (Week 3, 9)

Staff Meeting: 3:15-3:45pm
Curriculum Meeting: 3:45-5:15pm

Term 3 (Week 5)

Staff Meeting: 3:15-4:15pm

Term 4 (Week 3, 8)

Staff Meeting: 3:15-3:45pm
Curriculum Meeting: 3:45-5:15pm

Term 4 (Week 5)

Staff Meeting: 3:15-4:15pm

Kids4Kids Fun Day
2025-12-05
Teachers bring out their class for your allocated period, during which you can be involved in games to win prizes. They will need their hat and money from home with them. The activities are in the undercover area, the lawn outside the music room and the paved area outside the admin. More information to follow.

2025 Concert Night
2025-12-09 17:45 - 20:00
Students arrive in classrooms at 5:45 p.m., where they get changed and organised. Teachers then bring the classrooms out to the stage area to be seated for the official ceremony, which will start at 6:15 p.m.
Concert Night is a non-smoking and non-alcohol event, so we would appreciate it if you do not smoke or consume alcohol on school grounds out of courtesy to other people.
At the end of the evening’s program, students will return to their classrooms with their teacher. Parents will then be able to collect their children from the classrooms. After tonight’s events, we would appreciate any assistance packing up.

Campion School Book 2026 Pickup
2025-12-11 08:30 - 09:30
If you have ordered your child’s school materials for 2026 through Campion and selected school pick-up, your pre-packaged items will be available for pickup from the undercover area from 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, December 11th.

Whole School Book Awards 2025 Assembly
2025-12-12 08:45 - 09:45
The school comes together for our final formal assembly when teachers present class book awards. The Junior and Senior Primary BeYou Book Awards (awarded by the Gosnells Lion Club) will be presented to recognise a primary student with citizenship qualities within the school community. In addition, the 2026 student councillors and faction captains will be announced.
More information to follow in the newsletter.

Kindy 2A Class Concert
2025-12-15 14:30 - 15:00 | Forest Crescent Primary School, 83 Forest Crescent, Thornlie, WA, 6108, Australia
More details to follow

Year 6 Graduation 2025
2025-12-15 17:15 - 21:30
The Year 6 Graduation Ceremony will be an evening ceremony held at Forest Crescent Primary from 5:20 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., followed by a dinner off-site until 9:30 p.m. More times and details will follow.

Semester Two Reports Home via Connect
2025-12-16
All students will have their Semester Two reports sent out via Connect.

Kindy 1A Class Concert
2025-12-16 14:30 - 15:00 | Forest Crescent Primary School, 83 Forest Crescent, Thornlie, WA, 6108, Australia

Year 5 End-of-Year Excursion
2025-12-18 | Point Walter Reserve, Honour Ave, Bicton, Western Australia, 6157, Australia

Year 6 End-of-Year Excursion
2025-12-18

Final School Assembly
2025-12-18 08:45 - 09:45
Whole School Assembly, reintroduce the 2026 Student Councillors and Faction Captains. We hear the whole school song and the Year 6 graduation song

Kindy 1B Class Concert
2025-12-18 14:30 - 15:00 | Forest Crescent Primary School, 83 Forest Crescent, Thornlie, WA, 6108, Australia

Christmas Holidays 2025/2026
2025-12-19 - 2026-02-01

School Development Days 2026-Students Do Not Attend
2026-01-29, 2026-01-30 | Forest Crescent Primary School, 83 Forest Crescent, Thornlie, WA, 6108, Australia
School staff participate in six professional development days for up-skilling on school priorities, data review and planning each year. Students do not attend these days. Two of these days are before the school year starts for students, and one day is after the school year ends for students. A Department term dates calendar can not be provided, as each public school develops its own calendar.

There are six school development days that students do not attend:

Two of these days are before the school year starts for students, and one day is after the school year ends for students.
Each school schedules another three days throughout the year in consultation with its school council/board and school community.
Please view the Forest Crescent Primary Website Calendar or contact your school directly for more information about its specific dates, including school development days.
Students start the school year on Monday, 2nd February and end the school year on Thursday, 17th December 2026.

2026, Term 1, School Starts
2026-02-02 | Forest Crescent Primary School, 83 Forest Crescent, Thornlie, WA, 6108, Australia
All Pre-Primary to Year Six students are back for the start of Term 1, 2026. Kindy classes start according to your Group A & Group B programs. Classes open at 8:30am for students. Pickup at 3pm.

Labour Day-Public Holiday
2026-03-02

NAPLAN 2026 Testing Window
2026-03-11 08:45 - 15:00, 2026-03-12 08:45 - 15:00, 2026-03-13 08:45 - 15:00, 2026-03-16 08:45 - 15:00, 2026-03-17 08:45 - 15:00, 2026-03-18 08:45 - 15:00 | Forest Crescent Primary School, 83 Forest Crescent, Thornlie, WA, 6108, Australia
The following information is for parents/guardians with a child in Year 3 or Year 5. Students will be sitting NAPLAN 2026 starting in Term 1- Week 6, Wednesday, 11th March, with the NAPLAN window open until Week 8, Monday, 23rd March. In consultation with the school, students whose parents have applied for withdrawal will not be sitting for all or some of the NAPLAN assessments. Confirmation of your child’s withdrawal will be sent to the parent’s email address or made by phone.
NAPLAN assessments are scheduled in a specific order and held in the Library with a dedicated LAN network.
More information for parents about NAPLAN is below. However, all parents should have received a hard copy of “NAPLAN Online: Information for parents and carers” by Week 3. You can download it here if you didn’t receive it or misplaced your document. In addition, please take the time to read the information below, most of which is taken from the NAPLAN website. You can also access these documents via the following links.
NAPLAN 2026 Parent Information Brochure
Below is the mandated NAPLAN assessment sequence. The school’s NAPLAN schedule for individual classes will be posted closer to NAPLAN week.

Download the above test window infographic.
NAPLAN Online test window
The NAPLAN Online test window is nine days. Day 1 is a Wednesday (11th March), and Day 9 is the Monday of the third week of NAPLAN (23rd March)
The Year 3 writing test must be completed within four days, the Year 5 writing test within two days, and schools must schedule writing from the first day of the appropriate two-day test window. For Year 5, the writing window is Days 1 and 2.
The tests need to be taken in a specific order.
For Years 3 and 5, the online test sequence is as follows:

Writing (paper for Year 3 only)
Reading
Conventions of language (spelling, grammar and punctuation)
Numeracy.
