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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 [...]

Principal's Report Our rescheduled first Working Bee for the year is on next weekend, Saturday 5th April. We are planning on having a BBQ on the day and an Easter Egg Hunt! It will be held from 10am to 1pm, and we will be doing mulching, weeding and maybe even some construction! We hope to see lots of families there for a day of fun and fruitful hard work! Last Friday 21st March, members from the local Emerald and District Rotary Club joined our assembly to present the new 2025 Early Act Club members with their certificates and [...]

Principal's Report Please come and join us for a Working Bee session followed by a BBQ on Saturday 22nd March, from 9.30am to 12pm. You are welcome to join us at any point during the morning. Jobs will be weeding, clearing of Frog Bog, mulching and some structural work around the veggie gardens down the back. Come and join the EPS Parent Community Team and help to beautify our schoolgrounds for Autumn! Hope to see you then! At Assembly this Friday, members of the Rotary Club of Emerald and District will be joined by Daniela De Martino, State [...]