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Principal's Report Congratulations to all of our competitors in the Regional Cross-Country event last week. We now wish Ollie D. of Grade 6 all the very best, as he finished 4th in his age group and qualified for the State Cross Country event on 24th July. Go Ollie! Thank you to all our families who have made voluntary contributions to our school this year for your support and generosity. Parent contributions enable us to provide high quality teaching and learning programs and resources to support your children’s education. Your contributions allow us to provide all classroom stationery and [...]

Principal's Report Bookings will open next week for the Parent-Teacher Interviews on Thursday 3rd July, between 11:30am and 6:30pm. We look forward to meeting our families at the upcoming Parent-Teacher Interviews.  Please note that this is a student free day at school as the interviews are held during the day and into the evening. This meeting with your child’s teacher is a great opportunity to: discuss the Semester 1 2025 report learn more about your child’s academic, emotional and social development make plans with the teacher about how you can both support your child with their learning growth As always, [...]

Principal's Report Thank you to the EPS community and the local Rotary Club for getting behind this cause last Sunday and supporting me to slide! The Emerald and surrounds community came out in force to support the “sliders”. It was a fun afternoon, but also an excellent opportunity to learn more about this disease and the fight to find a cure and treatments. A final fundraising total will be announced on Friday. Congratulations and thank you to the to staff and parents who ran an amazing camp recently for our Grade 6 students at Camp Woorabinda in Yallourn [...]

Principal's Report We are excited to announce that the Swimming Program will be occurring in Weeks 9 and 10 of this term! If you go into Compass you will see how to register your student/s and pay for them to participate in the program this year, which runs from Grade Prep to Grade 6. Students will participate in 5 swimming lessons over a week. Please contact us if you have any queries. Registrations and payments need to be completed by Friday 6th June 2025. Breaking news - I am participating in the Big Freeze 2 to Fight MND [...]

Principal's Report We are excited to announce that the Swimming Program will be occurring in Weeks 9 and 10 of the term! Please stay tuned for a message via Compass re: how to register and pay for your student/s to participate in the program this year. Thank you to everyone who attended and helped out at this wonderful festival this year – so much talent and amazing music! A BIG thanks to Dan MacEoin for overseeing the whole weekend of festival activities, and a special thank you to Peta Woodyard for her co-ordination of all things food and [...]

Principal's Report There is a lot happening at the moment around EPS! Well done to all of our competitors on this past Monday at the EDEC Cross-Country – some students also made it into the next round (Divisionals)! Grade 6 Camp leaves for Woorabinda in Yallourn North next Monday – we hope you have an amazing time! This weekend we are looking forward to the Hills Ukelele Festival (HUF) – for all information on tickets and free sessions, please follow this link:  Hills Ukulele Festival Next week we are participating in the National Simultaneous Storytime with the picture book [...]

Principal's Report 2025 Attitudes to School Survey (AtoSS) – Grades 4, 5 & 6 - A message from the Department of Education About the survey The AtoSS is a voluntary student survey offered by the Department of Education every year to help schools and the department understand students' experiences of school. We will ask your child about their thoughts and feelings about their school, their learning, relationships with other students, resilience, bullying, health and wellbeing, physical activity, and life in general. ORIMA Research Pty Ltd has been contracted by the department to manage the collection of the online survey [...]

Principal's Report Thank you to Lisa Dangerfield and family (Mia, Noah and Jason) for their support to run the Wear Blue Day today for the Make-A-Wish fundraiser. I am pleased to let everyone know that we raised $507.75 today as a school, through gold coin donations to donate to this charity, which helps to bring wishes to life for critically ill children. Well done EPS! We are looking forward to meeting some new families to our school next week at our annual Open Day, where School Tours are conducted all day for families new to the area, or [...]

Principal's Report What an amazing afternoon we had at the end of last term when we all ran around the oval and got colourful! It was so much fun - and the fun did not finish for Mrs. D. and myself - when we got surprise slimed!! Thank you to Mr. Appleby for hosing us down so we could at least enter the buildings! A big thanks to the parents who were able to help on the day and a very special thank you (except for the slime!) to Peta Woodyard for all of her fantastic co-ordination of this [...]

Principal's Report We are all very excited for the Colour Fun Run tomorrow – Thursday 3rd April. Just a reminder for students to come to school wearing clothes and shoes that they are prepared to get colourful and possibly stained. It has been recommended that white is the most effective to highlight the vibrant colours of the powder. Parents are welcome to attend and running kicks off at 2:00pm Please note for Friday the last day of term students are to wear their school uniform and it is early dismissal at 2:30pm Teachers have completed Progress Reports for [...]