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Principal's Report We were very excited to have the EPS Disco last Saturday. The disco ran from 4pm to 8pm in the EPS Stadium, with food truck options available, but also families brought picnics – which was lovely to see! A very large thanks goes to Peta Woodyard, our School Council Fundraising Co-ordinator for organising such a fun event for everyone. Thank you also to the team who supported her! Any families considering enrolling their children at Emerald Primary School for Prep 2025 were invited to visit our school yesterday for our Open Day. We held school [...]

Principal's Report We are very excited to be holding the EPS Disco on this Saturday 4th May. The disco will run from 4pm to 8pm in the EPS Stadium, with food truck options available, but also families are welcome to bring picnics. Tickets can be booked via this link: www.trybooking.com/CQLFO A reminder that the Swimming Program is on for Grades Prep to 6 this term – please see Compass for further details. The School Captains, myself, Lisa Ward and a group of EPS students, staff and families represented our school last week at both of the [...]

Principal's Report What a fun day last Friday was! With everyone wearing lots of fantastic hair styles and the special “hair-cutting” event at assembly, it was wonderful to hear about the results of the fundraising efforts by Mrs. Sascha Opperman towards cancer research, via Carrie’s Beanies 4 Brain Cancer Foundation. A total of $560.50 was raised from the raffle held to give EPS students a chance to cut off a braid of Mrs. Opperman’s hair, and $595.50 was raised from gold coin donations on the day – well done EPS! And well done and thank you to Mrs. [...]

Principal's Report This term is full of lots of excitement – with the Swimming Program, Grade 6 Production and the 2024 EPS Community DISCO!! We are looking forward to all of this and more, as the term progresses. To stay in touch with the events and arrangements, please continue to check Compass and Class Dojo. Stay tuned also for a Working Bee date coming very soon! At the end of last term, we finalised our new School Council Team for 2024. On behalf of Council and the school, I would like to thank Belinda Smullen and Katie Weerasinghe [...]

Principal's Report We were very excited to hold our first-ever Junior School House Sports Carnival last Wednesday 13th March. Thanks to the Grade 6 House Captains, Grade 6 Student Council and the Grade 6 teaching team, this fun event ran from 12pm until 3.30pm. Craig Appleby and Ben Kolb planned the day for all Junior School students (Prep to Grade 2), with activities taking place on the School Oval and in the Stadium. All students rotated through all of the activities – from throwing rubber chickens, hurdles to over-under tunnel ball. The focus of the day was having [...]

Principal's Report Congratulations to the following amazing participants in the recent Divisional Swimming Carnival, after their successes at the EDEC Swimming Carnival: Rainger K,  Jude O, Ollie D, Riley S, Alex K, Ashley T, Will R-S, Matilda-Maple C-C, Isla H, Imogen B, Elena R, Abigail B, Tiago F, Miles G, Odin S. The girls’ team came first in their Medley relay and second in their Freestyle relay. Matilda came first in both individual Breaststroke and Backstroke. Matilda and the girls’ relay team will all now compete in the Regional competition on Friday 22nd March - congratulations! We are [...]

Principal's Report We are very excited to be holding our first-ever Junior School House Sports Carnival next Wednesday 13th March! Thanks to the Grade 6 House Captains and the Grade 6 teaching team, this fun event will run from 12pm until 3.30pm next Wednesday. Craig Appleby and Ben Kolb will be running the day for all Junior School students (Prep to Grade 2), with activities take place on the School Oval and in the Stadium. All students will rotate through all of the activities. The focus of the day will be FUN and encouraging everyone to try their best, [...]

Principal's Report Welcome & Congratulations – Grade 6 School Captains 2024! On behalf of the students and staff at Emerald Primary School, I am very proud and excited to announce that our School Captains for 2024 are: Ethan Bowles Maximus Willis Mia Castricum Eliza Watson At EPS, we have 4 Captains, 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 impressive and it was wonderful to hear from the students about how passionate they are [...]