Inclusion - Principal's Advisory Group

Recently, Evatt Primary School hosted around 15 principals and senior executives from the Education Directorate to share our approach to inclusion for students and families at our school. This included a tour of the school to look at our learning environments and observation of our teachers and LSAs modelling inclusive and engaging practices. The visit concluded with Jamal and I sharing our approach and vision which will be used to guide the ACT Education Directorates Inclusion strategy that is being developed.

It is always a privilege to share and showcase our wonderful staff and students and the great things that are happening at our school.   

Fathers Day Stall

Thank you to our P&C for running our Fathers Day stall this week. The students have enjoyed picking a gift that I'm sure will be received by their dad or special person on Sunday. Happy Fathers Day to our dads this Sunday!

Hats On

Spring has sprung and hats are back on at school! 1 August is when our UV period increases to a high level. Please make sure your child has a sun safe hat with their name on their hat.

https://www.sunsmart.com.au/

Student Learning Resources

A friendly reminder for families that have not yet paid their Voluntary Contributions or Bookpack funds that part payment options or payment plans are more than welcome. This can be arranged confidentially through the front office. 

The students (and staff) are loving the fortnightly Mathemagician puzzles around the school. Congratulations to this week's winners who received a limited edition rubix cube.

A big thank you to Mika and Mario, our resident Mathemagicians who are providing the challenges and fun for everyone.

See below the puzzles from the past fortnight. Have a go at solving them and don't forget to ask your child for help if you need!

This week we are opening Mathemagician to the Evatt community! Find the puzzle below and a link to submit your answer and enter the draw to win 1 x adult drink and 1 x child drink from Rosie's Cafe at Evatt Shops!

Puzzle 5 answers

Australian Government School Student Broadband Initiative

The Australian Government has established the School Student Broadband Initiative to provide free home Internet for one year for up to 244 unconnected families with school students in the ACT.

To be eligible, families must:

• have a school student at home;

• not have an NBN connection and

• live at an address with access to a standard NBN connection.

For more information see www.infrastructure.gov.au/SSBI

To nominate, please fill in this form: https://forms.office.com/r/kHUg92YZaR

Contributions to the school and school community for 2023 by the P&C include:

• Funding for 5 new sets of readers for the home reading program

• Term 3 disco

• Special lunch days

• Mother’s Day and Father’s Day stalls

• Recognition of the efforts of the fabulous school staff

• Year 6 graduation contribution

• Community and fundraising event – Stomp the Grounds

• Funding to the Imagination Library program

• Running the uniform shop

What activities would you like the P&C run? What would you like the P&C to fund?

Movie fundraiser

The P&C will run a Hoyts movie ticket fundraiser throughout Term 3. Vouchers will save you money whilst raising money for the P&C to spend on benefits for the students and school community. Stay tuned for how to get involved.

Upcoming events

Term 3

• Week 8 – Special lunch day

• Week 9 – Sunday 17 September – Stomp the Grounds (sign up to volunteer:  https://signup.com/go/MQkZBQH)

Term 4

• Week 2 – Thursday 19 October – disco

• Week 3 – Tuesday 24 October – P&C meeting

• Week 3 – Friday 27 October – World Teacher Day

Volunteers needed!

The P&C needs your help! We appreciate that people are busy, but without help to run events, we won't be able to continue to run events for the kids. A lot of work goes into organising events and activities behind the scenes. Not everything is done during the day. We need help for the following:

• Special lunch days - packaging up meals and serving to the kids

• Writing comms on activities for the school community

• What's your skillset, I'm sure we can use it!

Without the help of our community, we can’t run activities and events. If you can spare an hour or two, please contact the P&C at evattpspc@gmail.com.

Contacting the School Board

Messages for the Evatt School Board can be sent to info@evattps.act.edu.au.

This link will also take you to a series of short mindfulness podcast guides. “Mindfulness is the act of attempting to be focussed on where we are and what we are doing in a particular moment. Trying to pay attention to the surroundings and being curious about what we notice. While some people are still when being mindful others may prefer some movement.” 

Your child is also provided with opportunities during the school day to practice mindfulness through a brain break, or mindful movement.  Why not practice with them at home?  It can be as simple as taking a mindful bite of dinner together, smelling the toothpaste when brushing your teeth, or noticing the spring flowers that we’ll soon have blooming around us 😊.