Principal’s Report

Congratulations to all of our competitors in the Regional Cross-Country event last week. We now wish Ollie D. of Grade 6 all the very best, as he finished 4th in his age group and qualified for the State Cross Country event on 24th July. Go Ollie!

Thank you to all our families who have made voluntary contributions to our school this year for your support and generosity. Parent contributions enable us to provide high quality teaching and learning programs and resources to support your children’s education. Your contributions allow us to provide all classroom stationery and materials, resources for literacy and numeracy (readers and maths equipment), support our Specialist programs, and provide whole school activities. With the extra funding provided with the School Savings Bonus towards uniforms and school activities, we hope that families will consider supporting the school by making a parent contribution.  If you have yet to make a contribution and would like to do so, please remember you are able to make a payment at any time through the Compass Payments Centre, or you are welcome to come into the office to pay via EFT or cash.

Bookings will open this 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:
    • Monday 16th – Friday 20th June – Swimming Program (Prep – Grade 2)
    • Thursday 19th – Lightning Premierships 2025 – Grade 6
    • Monday 23rd – Friday 27th June – Swimming Program (Grade 3 – 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 – 2.30pm Finish

Emma Clark

Principal

Star of the week!

For being a superstar Prep learner in our class, she tries her best in everything she does. What a MEGA star!

For making a huge effort with reading. Giving all words a go.

For her great achievements with addition and subtraction problems when using a number line.

For showing dedication to every task, encouraging classmates with kindness, and sharing clever, creative ideas to our class directions.

For your impressive show and tell this week. You are so creative!

For doing a really good job finding information for her Biome Project. Well done Kelsea!

For consistently demonstrating excellent manners towards others.

For her positive approach to all new challenges and her sensational TEEL paragraphs.

For showing persistence, drive and hard work in all his classwork, especially inquiry.

For showing an amazing growth mindset by tackling challenges with a positive and never give up attitude! You are a STAR!

For having outstanding entrepreneurial skills during Market Day. Your calm, kind and organisational skills allowed your group to excel as a team, enjoy the day and make a profit! Well done.

For the level of detail, creativity and great use of citations in her ‘Creating a Society’ project titled, ‘Chilliopia’.

For your highly informative and creative project about ‘Nuggetlandia’. I loved reading about this new country and understanding how it runs.

For showing such independence and resilience with her morning drop offs at school. What a SUPER star!

For your determination in your writing to construct more lengthy, complex sentences. What a writing STAR!

For consistently trying her best and improving her focus with all tasks always with her bright, happy smile.

For confidently working on every task this week, showing quiet focus, independence, and pride in her work.

For listening and working hard and for her excellent bar graph about ice cream flavours.

For extracting excellent information for her Biome Project and putting it into her own words.

For his increasing growth mindset and willingness to join in new experiences.

For always being a friendly, happy and positive person in our class.

For championing her peers, supporting everyone’s learning and being an amazing role model.

For all of your hard work towards Market Day with planning, organising and your enthusiasm ensuring the day ran smoothly. You are all Market Day Business SUPERSTARS!

For your willingness to give everything your best effort and focus. You are a learning superstar!!

For her terrific use of complex sentences in her persuasive piece, ‘Why Netball is the best sport!’. Awesome!

For going above and beyond as part of your Library Captain role and having such a dilligent approach in class to your learning.

For working hard and doing her best with all of the tasks.

For always taking the time to add those extra details to your work to ensure it looks superb! What a STAR!

For their amazing efforts keeping our playground tidy!!

For always keeping your learning space neat and clean! So organised.

For his wonderful writing this week and last week. Beautiful handwriting and great sentences about his hunting weekend.

For being a proactive leader in the classroom. She inspires others through her responsibility, teamwork and positive attitude.

For always having insightful comments and sharing his knowledge with the grade.

For brilliant writing about snow leopards in Nepal and awesome persistence in maths.

For being such an amazing representative of E.P.S. with your outstanding running skills at regional cross-country. You are a running star!

For being a superstar retailer on Market Day. You were responsible in your interactions with customers and displayed outstanding accounting abilities in determining profits.

For her consistently positive attitude, helpfulness and great ability to keep persisting! We love seeing your improvements as a Maths star!

For your well-written Gothic Fiction piece. You used a range of emotive language, eerie descriptions and really set the mood! You should be very proud.

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

Share This Newlsetter!

Canteen News!

Friday Meal Deal

Nachos

With salsa, cheese & sour cream

&

Jelli pop icypole

$8.00

SCHOOL EVENTS

Calendar of Events

M Mon

T Tue

W Wed

T Thu

F Fri

S Sat

S Sun

0 events,

0 events,

1 event,

1 event,

1 event,

0 events,

0 events,

0 events,

0 events,

0 events,

0 events,

0 events,

0 events,

0 events,

0 events,

0 events,

0 events,

0 events,

0 events,

0 events,

0 events,

1 event,

1 event,

0 events,

1 event,

0 events,

0 events,

0 events,

0 events,

1 event,

1 event,

1 event,

1 event,

0 events,

0 events,

View Calendar

Recent News