Combined Band

It was lovely to watch and listen to our Year 5 band team up with Miles Franklin Primary School for combined band this week. They made a great sound and demonstrated how far they have come since starting on their instruments at the start of the year. Thank you to so many parents and carers coming in to watch their mini concert at the end of the morning.  

Save the Dates - Term 4

As we come closer to the end of term three, we are already looking forward to some exciting events happening next term. In addition to all of the great learning opportunities happening in the classrooms, we will be holding some special events for our students and community to enjoy. Some of these include:

Year 6 Market Day – Friday 10 November

EvattFest – Thursday 7 December

Year 6 Graduation – Wednesday 13 December

Keep an eye out for more information to come about these events.

ACT Athletics Carnival

On Tuesday 12 September Rico and Michael M represented the Belconnen Region in two events each at the ACT Athletics Championships. Rico did us proud with a 3rd in the 12 year shot put and 5th in the discus. Michael did a great job with a 100m sprint against 20 other competitors and an awesome 11th in the long jump. We are all proud of you both!!

Is Your Child Leaving in 2024?

If your child or children are moving on from Evatt Primary School for next year could you please let the school know. This will help us with our planning for 2024. Obviously students in year 6 are excluded from this.

We will share some information early next term about parent requests for class placements in 2024. You can let us know by emailing info@evattps.act.edu.au

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. 

A big congratulations to our student winners of puzzle number 6:

-Samaya U

-Evie B

-Xavier E

-Joe M

-Olivia C

-Mackenzie M

And our staff winner:

-Ms Warren 

Have a go at puzzle number 6 with your child and then scroll down for the answers. 

Congratulations also to Paddy V, the first winner of our community Mathemagician competition. See below for your chance to enter this week's community competition. 

Puzzle 6:

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?

Upcoming events

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.