Principal’s Report

Parent-Teacher Interviews – Thursday 3rd July

Bookings are now open for the Parent-Teacher Interviews on Thursday 3^rd 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.

2026 Enrolments – Now Open!

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.

Voluntary Contributions Are Helping To Run Our School

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.

Student-Free/Curriculum Days 2025

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 28^th 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 28^th November dates: https://theircare.com.au/

Exciting Events & Must-Know Dates!

June Events:
- 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:
- Wednesday 2nd July – EDEC Soccer (Selected Students)
- Thursday 3rd July – Parent Teacher Interviews
- Friday 4th July – Term 2 Concludes – 2.30pm Finish

Emma Clark

Principal

This Week …

Upcoming Events …

Smile Squad is coming to Emerald Primary School

Dear families,

The Smile Squad team from EACH are coming to our school from Wednesday 30^th July 2025.

Smile Squad is the Victorian Government free school dental program.

This means all students can get a free dental check-up, preventive services, and treatment at school.

How to access free dental care

We need your consent before we can provide services. Consent is usually provided by a parent or guardian.

Please complete and submit the consent form, this will be sent directly to EACH.

Paper copies of the consent form are available. Please contact the school office if you would like to request one.

The electronic consent form can be translated into more than 100 languages, and the paper form is available in 13 languages.

Do you have cans, bottles, and juice boxes laying around?

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.