Principal’s Report

Bookings will open next week for the Parent-Teacher Interviews on Thursday 3rd July, between 11:30am and 6:30pm.

We look forward to meeting our families at the upcoming Parent-Teacher Interviews.  Please note that this is a student free day at school as the interviews are held during the day and into the evening. This meeting with your child’s teacher is a great opportunity to:

  • discuss the Semester 1 2025 report
  • learn more about your child’s academic, emotional and social development
  • make plans with the teacher about how you can both support your child with their learning growth

As always, please contact myself or our Assistant Principal, Carice D’Rozario, if you have any general concerns or queries.

ENROLMENT  PROCESS

Our school now uses an online system for new Prep (also called Foundation) enrolments to Victorian government schools, called VicStudents.

To get started:

Visit https://students.educationapps.vic.gov.au/s/ to create an account and complete the online application form by Friday 25 July 2025.  If you would prefer to submit a paper application form, please contact us. We will then review the information submitted and be in contact with you by Friday 8 August 2025.  You should accept one enrolment offer by Friday 22 August 2025. When accepting an offer, you will be required to provide additional personal and health information that will be shared with the school.

Is VicStudents secure?

VicStudents has been assessed by the Department of Education to a high degree of security in line with the Victorian Protective Data Security Standards and is compliant with ISO 27001, the leading international standard for information security.

More information

For more information about enrolling your child into a Victorian government primary school, visit Enrolling in Foundation (Prep).

Please contact us via email: emerald.ps@education.vic.gov.au, or phone 03 5968 4311.  We’re here to help and will get back to you quickly. We look forward to your application and hope you will be joining our school community soon.

PLEASE PASS THIS INFORMATION ON TO ANY FAMILIES YOU KNOW WHO MAY BE INTERESTED.

Please be advised of the following student free days, when our staff will be completing professional learning activities or parent teacher interviews:

  • Thursday 3rd July – Parent-Teacher Interviews.
  • Monday 21st July – Curriculum Day: New Victorian Learning and Teaching Model 2.0
  • Friday 28th November – Professional Practice Day

For those families using the TheirCare childcare service , they are preparing to have students on the 3rd July, 21st July and 28th November dates: https://theircare.com.au/

  • June Events:
    • Thursday 12th June – Regional Cross Country (Selected Students)
    • Friday 13th June – Assembly
    • Monday 16th – Friday 20th June – Swimming Program (Prep – Grade 3)
    • Thursday 19th – Lightning Premierships 2025 – Grade 6
    • Thursday 19th – School Council @ 7.30pm
    • Monday 23rd – Friday 27th June – Swimming Program (Grade 4 – Grade 6)
    • Friday 27th June – Values Awards Assembly
    • Friday 27th June – Dress like a Rock Star or Ninja – Out of uniform day (Gold Coin Donation)
  • July Events:
    • Monday 1st July – EDEC Soccer (Selected Students)
    • Thursday 3rd July – Parent Teacher Interviews
    • Friday 4th July – Term 2 Concludes

Emma Clark

Principal

Upcoming Events …

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.

Community News

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Ever thought you’d like to do a show and not quite sure?

We’re looking for more Oompah Loompahs and Ensemble members for Gemco’s production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I’m sure there are lots of kids from Grades 3-5 at EPS who’d really enjoy being in this show, especially if Mum or Dad or older siblings also joined up.

Rehearsals start in two weeks and performances are in October.

Love to hear from you!

Margie Gemmell ( Musical Director)

If interested call the Director, 

Annette O’Shea on 

0409 899 622

Key Assets Victoria is a not-for-profit foster care agency supporting children in care that operates in all areas of Melbourne and many regional areas.  There is currently 12,458 children in Victoria that need the support of a loving caring foster family.   We would be very appreciative if you would consider placing the attached graphic and notice below in your school newsletter or maybe you would be able to display it on your community notice board.

FOSTER CARERS NEEDED

If you have thought about foster care, please get in touch and

ask the questions you have always wanted to.

Ring: Key Assets 1800 932 237 or 1800 WE CARE

Email: info@keyassets.com.au

Web: canifoster.com.au or keyassets.com.au

Please call if you require any additional information and like us on Facebook and Instagram

Have your say on the future of waste services in Cardinia Shire, including household bin frequency, the proposed glass only service, hard waste collection and green waste disposal.

Council is renewing their Waste Resource and Recovery Strategy. This strategy serves as a 10-year roadmap for the future direction of Council’s waste services, education and advocacy.

Community feedback will help create a draft strategy. In early 2026, the community will be invited to share their thoughts on the draft, before the strategy is finalised.

You can provide feedback until Wednesday 9 July by:

  • attending an in-person pop-up session

More info: Shape our future waste services webpage

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