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Principal's Report The Grade 4 and Grade 6 students have returned from their respective camps over the last few weeks – exhausted and tired, but full of excitement over their experiences at Sovereign Hill and Woorabinda camps. I wanted to say a BIG thank you to the staff, both Teachers and Education Support Staff who attended and make these wonderful opportunities for our students possible every year. The year has flown by!  As we head into the last few weeks of the school year, when look forward to reflecting on students’ achievements and the fun we have had [...]

Principal's Report We are once again excited to be holding our Grandparents' and Special Friends' Day on Thursday 28th November. Everyone is welcome to arrive any time from 11.30am, which is a little while after Recess finishes. The meeting point for your children and their guests to find each other will be outside their classrooms. Guests can go straight there, or if not sure where to go, attend the Main Office and student helpers will be there to guide them. From there, everyone is welcome to pop-in to classrooms, complete the EPS Treasure Trail and visit the Book Fair. Sausages in bread [...]

Principal's Report We decided to move our Fair Day a bit earlier this year and we struck it lucky with amazing weather and of course, wonderful community support. It is a fun day for the school community to come together and work to raise funds for improving our school and its surrounds for the students to enjoy. A BIG vote of thanks must go to our Superstar Fair Co-ordinator, Peta Woodyard – she has been working on the event almost for the whole year, and did a fantastic job bringing it all together on the day. We are [...]

Principal's Report This is a notification that the Canteen will be closed on Monday 4th November – so there will be no lunch orders that day, and the Canteen will not be open at recess or lunch. Please note that all teaching staff are required to have one further Professional Practice Day for this term, when they will complete assessments, planning and other school tasks for their professional learning. For this term, we will be scheduling this day for all teachers on Monday 4th November. Replacement teachers (mostly whom the students know well!) have been employed for [...]

Principal's Report Only a few more sleeps to go until the highly anticipated Emerald Primary School Fair! Don’t forget to purchase your bargain $35 Unlimited Rides Wristband. Pre-orders close at 11pm on Wednesday 23rd October. To purchase your $35 wristbands please follow this link https://www.trybooking.com/CTNRO After Wednesday they will only be available on Fair Day for $45 each. Thank you to those who have already signed up to help on your grade stall on the day, we still have lots of places to be filled to be able to operate the stalls for the day. Please go to https://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/hdqtk to sign up [...]

Principal's Report We are very excited that the EPS Fair is not far away now! There will be lots of useful information and requests for help coming home over the coming weeks. It is always a great day for our school community to come together and raise funds for the school, to create the best environment possible for our students. Thank you to Peta Woodyard and her amazing team for all of the hard work they are doing in the background to prepare for this fantastic event. Emerald Primary School, in collaboration with the Railway Dog and [...]

Principal's Report We are very excited that the EPS Fair is not far away now! There will be lots of useful information and requests for help coming home over the coming weeks. It is always a great day for our school community to come together and raise funds for the school, to create the best environment possible for our students. Thank you to Peta Woodyard and her amazing team for all of the hard work they are doing in the background to prepare for this fantastic event. Emerald Primary School, in collaboration with the Railway Dog and Hard [...]

Principal's Report As per recent notifications to families, we have been working through a process to try to put a Before School and After School Care provider in place for students to access a care program onsite at EPS, for the start of Term 4. I can let you know now that we have been successful in engaging a provider. Thank you to all families who were able to give their input and feedback on this topic and the needs for our community. TheirCare is running an information session online tomorrow night (Thursday 19th September). Please reach out [...]

Principal's Report As per recent notifications to families, we have been working through a process to try to put a Before School and After School Care provider in place for students to access a care program onsite at EPS, for the start of Term 4. I can let you know now that we have been successful in engaging a provider. Thank you to all families who were able to give their input and feedback on this topic and the needs for our community. We now need to wait for the government approvals process to occur – this will [...]

Principal's Report Due to the pending closure of the local before and after school childcare program, the school is investigating options onsite at school. We are looking to see if there is any further interest in the EPS community for using such a service if it was offered on the schoolgrounds, from next term and into 2025. Please note that your answers to the survey via the link below are confidential and will only be used in summary to help inform decisions moving forward. You do not need to enter personal details, name etc., if you do not [...]