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Principal's Report WE WANT OUR PARENTS / CAREGIVERS / GUARDIANS TO TELL US WHAT THEY THINK! Our school is conducting the annual Parent / Caregiver / Guardian Opinion Survey offered by the Department of Education and is seeking your feedback. The survey is designed to assist schools in gaining an understanding of families’ perceptions of school climate, student behavior, and student engagement. The survey is optional, but we encourage and appreciate your participation. Our school will use the survey results to assist in identifying areas for improvement and professional development needs in the school, to target school planning [...]

Principal's Report As with many of our Emerald Primary School families, we were surprised and disappointed to hear that the before school and after school care program would not be continuing after the end of this term. We were initially told it would be at the end of the year. Since hearing of the potential closure of the program, I have been beginning the process with the Department of Education to see if we can run a similar program ourselves, or accommodate a program on our school grounds. School Council has supported this and I will be reporting [...]

Principal's Report All families who have applied via the Student Insight Platform to enrol their Prep 2025 students at Emerald Primary School should have a notification email now and can proceed to accept the offer and enter the required information. We are looking forward to meeting all of your new (and returning!) families! If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us at school. Following are the instructions on how to accept the enrolment offer, taken from the Digital Enrolment Parent/Carer Quick Reference Guide. Accept or do not accept an enrolment offer IMPORTANT NOTE: Enrolments [...]

Principal's Report All families who have applied via the Student Insight Platform to enrol their Prep 2025 students at Emerald Primary School should have a notification email now and can proceed to accept the offer and enter the required information. We are looking forward to meeting all of your new (and returning!) families! If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us at school. Following are the instructions on how to accept the enrolment offer, taken from the Digital Enrolment Parent/Carer Quick Reference Guide. Accept or do not accept an enrolment offer IMPORTANT NOTE: Enrolments [...]

Principal's Report Everyone may have noticed that the “Spider” climbing frame has been removed from the Adventure playground as it had been vandalised and was unsafe. Thank you very much to John Cornell for offering to remove it for us, to make way for another exciting addition to the playground – stay tuned! Thank you also to the Weir family, Patric Soussan and Julie Bowyer for their continued efforts and planning to improve our schoolgrounds. All families who have applied via the Student Insight Platform to enrol their Prep 2025 students at Emerald Primary School should have a [...]

Principal's Report So much happening this term for our EPS students! This term we are looking forward to our special visits with Murrundindi during NAIDOC Week, our Olympic Games dress-up day, lots of sporting events and Grade 6 Production for Grade 6 students, 100 Days of Prep learning, Book Week and Science Week! Our Grade 4 students will also be participating in a program called “Zones of Regulation”, to support their emotional wellbeing and resilience, and Grade 6 students will be working through a Kids Helpline activity called “Peer Pressure” and with a representative from Optus on Cyber [...]

Principal's Report Reminder: Tomorrow  Thursday 27th June  is our Parent-Teacher Interview Day.  It is a great opportunity to discuss your student’s report and progress. Please note the different hours for this event for 2024 – 11.30am to 6.30pm.  This is a Student free day. A reminder that this Friday 28th June is our fabulous Mrs. Smith’s last day at EPS after 42 years!!! We are farewelling her in style at a whole school assembly - 9.15am on Friday. There will be singing, confetti cannons (please be aware for young children) and some past EPS famous faces! In a [...]

Principal's Report The next Parent-Teacher Interview Day will be held on Thursday 27th June. It is a great opportunity to discuss your student’s report and progress. Please note the different hours for this event for 2024 – 11.30am to 6.30pm. Bookings will open in the next couple of weeks via Compass. This is a Student free day. Thursday 20th June - Grade 5 Market Day Tuesday 25th June @ 4.00pm - Semester 1 Reports available on Compass Thursday 27th June - Parent-Teacher Interview Day (11.30am to 6.30pm); no students required at school Friday 28th June @ 9.15am - “FAREWELL POLLY/MRS. [...]

Principal's Report The next Parent-Teacher Interview Day will be held on Thursday 27th June. It is a great opportunity to discuss your student’s report and progress. Please note the different hours for this event for 2024 – 11.30am to 6.30pm. Bookings will open in the next couple of weeks via Compass. This is a Student free day. Friday 14th June @ 9.15am - Whole school assembly Saturday 15th June - Working Bee from 1pm to 3pm Monday 17th June - School Photos Thursday 20th June - Grade 5 Market Day Thursday 20th June @ 7.15pm - School Council [...]