Principal’s Report

We are very excited that the EPS Fair is not far away now! There will be lots of useful information and requests for help coming home over the coming weeks. It is always a great day for our school community to come together and raise funds for the school, to create the best environment possible for our students. Thank you to Peta Woodyard and her amazing team for all of the hard work they are doing in the background to prepare for this fantastic event.

Emerald Primary School, in collaboration with the Railway Dog and Hard Road Brewery are inviting you to a special event Working Bee on the 19th of October from 1pm to 3pm. Following the Working Bee, we will head to the Railway Dog for some well-earned refreshments – with samples being supplied by Hard Road Brewery. Please rsvp via the below link so we can get numbers for catering purposes. Work to be done is laying mulch, chain-sawing, removing branches and weeding. Tools required: Wheelbarrows, Chainsaws, Pitchforks, Rakes, Shovels. It will be a fun event and we look forward to lots of people attending to keep our beautiful school looking its best, and to prepare for our School Fair!
RSVP: https://forms.gle/nGyJ61SZdA1ZqpVf8

Due to price increases in all uniform pieces from the wholesale company, we have had to add a small increase to many of our uniform items. Please see the new price list in this newsletter. As always, let us know if you need any assistance in purchasing uniform, and we will also continue to try to have good quality second-hand uniform items for sale.

Please note that all teaching staff are required to have one further Professional Practice Day for this term, when they will complete assessments, planning and other school tasks for their professional learning. For this term, we will be scheduling this day for all teachers on Monday 4th November. Replacement teachers (mostly whom the students know well!) have been employed for this day, so there will be a school program on this day, however, it will look somewhat different to normal school days. We generally have lower attendance numbers on this day with families using this opportunity to have short holidays. Please contact me at the school if you have any queries.

The new before and after school care service has started this term at Emerald Primary School. It is running out of the Senior Learning Centre in the open space near the Grade 4/Grade 5 classrooms. Please reach out to the school if you have any queries or concerns. If you would like to know more, or enrol your student for this program, which runs from 6.30am to 8.45am, and 3.45pm to 6.30pm, every day, please head to the following website:

https://theircare.com.au/

Please ensure your children have their hats at school from next week onwards and into Term 4 as per our school Sun Smart Policy – hopefully this will encourage the sun to stay out! We ask that students wear their hats in the playground during recess and lunch. As part of our SunSmart Policy, all students need to wear hats in the yard for all of Term 1 and Term 4. We have this school policy of making sure students wear broad-rimmed hats (not caps) for all times outside, to protect from the sun. Besides recesses and lunchtimes, this also includes outside grade activities like games and physical education lessons. We ask that parents support this policy by ensuring your child has the right type of hat (part of the uniform) and please make sure the hats are named and in good condition. Hats are available for purchase from the Uniform Shop for $16.

Pertussis Exclusion Guidelines (legislated for primary schools, recommended for secondary schools but not legislated):

Cases: Exclude the child for 21 days after the onset of cough or until they have completed 5 days of a course of antibiotic treatment (return on day 6). Exclusion can only be enacted for ‘Confirmed’ cases of pertussis.

Contacts: Contacts aged less than 7 years in the same room as the case who have not received three effective doses of pertussis vaccine should be excluded for 14 days after the last exposure to the infectious case, or until they have taken 5 days of a course of effective antibiotic treatment. This also applies to a case’s siblings (if in the same household) if under 7.

From healthdirect.gov.au

Symptoms: Cold-like symptoms including runny nose, sneezing, mild dry cough, fever. The cough may also worsen as time goes on.

It is a contagious illness.

Can cause serious health problems in babies.

Vaccination is the best protection against whooping cough. Pregnant women and adults who have contact with babies should get a booster vaccine.

Please send a message to the school email, emerald.ps@education.vic.gov.au , if you have any queries.

  • Special Event – Working Bee & Beer-Tasting: Saturday 19th October – 1pm to 3pm (see Emma’s report or Compass)
  • Saturday 19th October – Grade 6 H.P.V. team – Casey Fields – 9.00am to 5.00pm
  • Thursday 24th October – Regional Athletics (selected students)
  • Saturday 26th October @ 11.30am – 4pm – School Fair
  • Sunday 27th October – Grade 6 H.P.V. team – Lang Lang
  • Wednesday 30th October – Friday 1st November – Grade 4 Camp
  • Tuesday 5th November – Melbourne Cup Public Holiday
  • Monday 11th November – Friday 15th November – Grade 6 Camp

Emma Clark

Principal

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