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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 [...]

Principal's Report EPS School Leaders  Last Friday we congratulated and recognised all of our 2025 Grade 6 School Captains (Mia, Lachie, Reece and Elleny) and School Leaders, including our Grade 6 Councillors, Library and Art Squads, and our Grade 3 and 4 Student Action Team. What an amazing group of young people we have in these roles! Mrs. D’Rozario and I are looking forward very much to working with them all this year to hear their ideas and the actions they would like to take to improve our school, and to watch their leadership grow throughout the year. As [...]

Principal's Report We are making a further call for nominations for Parent Category positions on School Counci and I hope you might consider nominating yourself or another parent in our school community. Nomination forms are available at the office or attached to this message. Please drop completed forms back to the office or email to emerald.ps@education.vic.gov.au Nominations opened Monday 24th February and closed on Monday 3rd March at 4pm. A further nomination period is open until Tuesday 11th March at 4pm. Positions on School Council are elected on a 2-year basis in 2025. If a 2-year position cannot be completed then [...]

Principal's Report On behalf of the students and staff at Emerald Primary School, I am proud to announce that our School Captains for 2025 are: Lachlan A Mia D Reece B Elleny S We have 4 Captains at EPS, rather than 2 Captains and 2 Vice Captains, so that the workload and responsibility can be shared. Well done and thank you to all applicants and short-listed candidates – the speeches were very outstanding and it was wonderful to hear from the students about how passionate they are about EPS, their hopes and dreams. Well done to this team of [...]

Principal's Report Please be advised of the following student free days, when our staff will be completing professional learning activities or parent teacher interviews: Friday 21st February – Curriculum Day: Inquiry Task Planning and new Victorian Curriculum 2.0. Thursday 3rd July – Parent-Teacher Interviews. Monday 21st July – Curriculum Day: New Victorian Learning and Teaching Model 2.0. For those families using the TheirCare childcare service , they are preparing to have students on the 21st February, 3rd July and 21st July dates: https://theircare.com.au/ One further day may be announced for Term 4, I will be in touch about that as soon as I can. [...]