Principal’s Report
Emma Clark
Principal
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This week …
Today is World Maths Day. We have celebrated at EPS with a prep and ½ shape scavenger hunt, Maths jokes from the Year 6 leaders on the hour every hour and lots of Maths fun in our own classrooms.
If you would like to do some more Maths at home, please click the World Maths Logo and it will take you to some problems for P-6.
Thankyou for celebrating Maths with me!
♥ Mrs Porter
The Cockatoo Little Athletics Club will have the canteen open this Thursday 27th March for EDEC athletics. The school sports are our biggest fundraiser and allows us to maintain and buy new equipment for the athletics club and our local schools to use and enjoy. We would love you to support us.
On Tuesday, 25th March, Year 6 students had their “Election.”
This term, we have been completing a Civics and Citizenship unit where we have been learning about the different levels of government and how they all work together to run the country. As part of this learning, we held a Year 6 election where each class created a different ‘party.’
The three parties in the election were:
- Porty’s Purple Party: Makes you feel seen, heard, and valued, and can lead you with fun, fundraising, and education.
- Pink People Party: Leads you with persistence, determination, and resilience.
- Green Applebeans: Can lead you with kindness, respect, and all the ‘nesses’: friendliness, kindness, inclusiveness, friendliness, happiness, and ‘Applebeanness.’
During the day before the election voting, we also had a ‘Party Debate’ session, where each party’s ministers stood up and presented their policies in the key areas of education, sport, environment, and finance. The Deputy Prime Ministers also spoke about their party values.
The Year 4s are also learning about civics and citizenship, so we invited them along to watch all the speeches in the ‘Party Debate’. For example, the sports teams from each party had to choose one of the sports members to present their ideas in front of the whole of Year 4. Afterward, the Year 4s were given time to think about which party they wanted to vote for. After lunch, they came back and voted separately on which party they thought had the best policies.
Porty’s Purple Party were the winners of the inaugural Year 6 election. However, the votes were very close, and we congratulate all three parties on their campaigns. Not just the Purple Party, but all three parties led with kindness and determination on the day.
Finally, we decided no election is complete without a ‘Democracy Sausage.’ We started off by writing a letter to Woolworths, explaining our unit of work and asking for a donation for our election day. We ended up getting the sausages and bread for free. We had some teachers cooking the barbecue, and two of the teachers were in charge of the sauce. A big thanks to Emerald Woolworths, teachers, and staff for making this election possible.
By Shaye, Chloe T, Sophie and Ellie 6P
EarlyAct is underway for 2025 and we have an exciting project coming up but before we can get started we need your help.
We require about 25 empty plastic 2 litre drink bottles.
If you have any that you could spare, please leave them outside Mrs Forsythe’s classroom.
We look forward to sharing our new project with you very soon!
If so please bring them to the Emerald SES to be recycled. Emerald Primary School is now a registered donation partner with the Victorian Container Deposit Scheme. So your rubbish can be recycled and each empty container earns 10c. Please donate the money you collect to our school, so we can fundraise for more drink taps on the school oval.
If you pack a juice box or an up and go in your child’s lunch box, please inform them that there will be a designated bin in their classroom for the ten cent bottles and cartons to be collected in.
In addition, parents can donate eligible containers from home directly to the SES and nominate EPS to receive the funds. This is a great opportunity to support our school.
Kind regards the Early Act Team
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