Principal’s Report
The Victorian Government is delivering the School Saving Bonus (SSB) – a one-off $400 support for government school students from Prep to Year 12 in 2025.
From Tuesday 26 November 2024, you will receive an email from the Department of Education with your unique $400 School Saving Bonus code.
The School Saving Bonus will help families cover the cost of uniforms, textbooks, excursions, activities and more.
If you have multiple children enrolled in Victorian government schools for 2025, you will receive one School Saving Bonus code email per child. These emails might arrive on different days. Please make sure to check your spam/junk email folder.
Parents and carers can use the School Saving Bonus code in store at school-nominated suppliers. Parents and carers can also choose to access the School Saving Bonus online system, where they can allocate part or all the $400 bonus to use at school nominated-online suppliers or for school activities. To learn more about the School Saving Bonus, visit School Saving Bonus | vic.gov.au (www.vic.gov.au). A step-by-step user guide will be available on the webpage on 26 November.
If you have not received your School Saving Bonus code via email by Friday 29 November, please contact the Department of Education by emailing school.saving.bonus@education.vic.gov.au
NB. At EPS, we are currently working on addressing a glitch on the school side of things, to ensure that a some or all of your SSB money can be used at our uniform shop, so we have had to pause uniform sales using this method at the moment – our apologies.
We are once again excited to be holding our Grandparents’ and Special Friends’ Day on this Thursday 28th November.
Everyone is welcome to arrive any time from 11.30am, which is a little while after Recess finishes.
The meeting point for your children and their guests to find each other will be outside their classrooms. Guests can go straight there, or if not sure where to go, attend the Main Office and student helpers will be there to guide them.
From there, everyone is welcome to pop-in to classrooms, complete the EPS Treasure Trail and visit the Book Fair.
Sausages in bread and drinks will be available for purchase at the Sausage Sizzle.
The event will finish at 1.00pm, the start of our school Lunch break.
Please RSVP via this link, and also indicate if you are able to help with the Sausage Sizzle or at the Book Fair on the day:
https://forms.gle/fXScAG8JALqABLPp7
Friday 29th November will be a gold coin donation free dress day, with the proceeds going to The EB Foundation. Epidermolysis bullosa (EB) is the name for a group of rare inherited skin disorders that cause the skin to become very fragile. Please come to school in free dress on this day with a touch of blue and/or wings to show your support. One of our students experiences this condition and her family supports us to conduct this fundraising for this day, which goes to the wider cause to find treatments and cures. The Walk for Wings event was held back at the end of October for this cause, and our funds raised will go towards it also.
The year has flown by! As we head into the last few weeks of the school year, when look forward to reflecting on students’ achievements and the fun we have had through the year, here are the arrangements to finish up the term:
- Tuesday 10th December – EPS “Step-Up to 2025” morning
- Friday 13th December – Grade 6 Graduation
- Thursday 19th December – Student Reports available
- Friday 20th December – Last day of term; Assembly at 9.15am; School finishes at 2.30pm.
- Monday 25th November – Friday 29th November – Our Annual Book Fair
- Thursday 28th November @11.30am – Grandparents’/Special Friends’ Day
- Friday 29th November @9.15am – Whole School Assembly
- Friday 29th November – EB Fundraiser Day Free dress day – Gold Coin Donation
- Tuesday 10th December – EPS “Step-Up to 2025” morning
- Friday 13th December – Grade 6 Graduation
- Friday 13th December @9.15am – Whole School Assembly
- Thursday 19th December – Student Reports available
- Friday 20th December @9.15am – Whole School Assembly
- Friday 20th December – Last day of term 4; School finishes at 2.30pm
Emma Clark
Principal
This week …
Our Annual Book Fair is on from the 25th – 29th November in the Basketball Stadium Foyer and will be open to purchase books between 8.30 am – 9.am and 3.15pm – 3.45pm each day.
We will also be open on Grandparents/Special friends Day from 11.30am – 1.00pm.
Each grade has had time to browse through the book fair on Monday and Tuesday and have made a wish list (I do explain to them it is a wish list not a I will get list) with any books that they like.
Any purchases will help us buy new books for our school library.
If you have any enquiries please contact Kerrie Eva via the front office.
We look forward to seeing you all there!
Kerrie and Peta
Upcoming Events …
Student Action Team Items!
Community News
Canteen News!
Friday Meal Deal
Curried Sausages
and rice
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Chupa Chups Icypole
$7.50
As we approach the end of the school year, we wanted to advise you that some items in the canteen may become unavailable as we begin to wind down stock levels for the holidays.
We appreciate your understanding and encourage students to have alternative options in case their preferred items are unavailable.
