Welcome Back

A big welcome back to term 4. We hope that our students and families managed some quality time together over the break. We have enjoyed hearing the stories from our students over the past few days about the holiday adventures and we look forward to a great term of learning ahead.

A reminder that The Nest is open from 8.30am every morning. We love seeing families spending quality time together and it's a nice opportunity for our parents and carers to have a coffee or hot drink to start the day. All welcome!

Referendum Day 

A reminder that tomorrow is Referendum Day and we encourage as many parents and carers to come down to Evatt Primary School to vote. Make sure you support our P&C and make a purchase while you are here.

It is not too late to bring along some baked goods or put your name down to help tomorrow. 

- Please drop off wrapped, on a plate, or in a container that is not required to be returned 

- An ingredient list can be provided, but isn't mandatory 

- If dropping off on Friday, please bring to the front office. Or you can bring straight to the stall on Saturday morning 

- Please make sure the items are cooked and not purchased/bought in for sale in commercial packaging 

We are still short some help! If you have a small amount of time, please add your name in the link below. 

https://volunteersignup.org/AJKP4

Students not returning in 2024

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

Parent/Carer Requests 2024

Our wonderful Evatt teachers will soon start to prepare class groupings for 2024. If you would like to share something to be considered in relation to your child and their placement in a class, could you please send this to michael.hatswell@ed.act.edu.au

Student Learning Resources

A friendly reminder for families that it is not too late to pay for your 2023 "Student Learning Resources" contribution or Voluntary contribution.

Your continued support is essential in providing learning supplies to classrooms so we can continue doing great learning. Some of the supplies we have already sourced include: workbooks, pencils, pencil grips, erasers, whiteboards, whiteboard markers, whiteboard erasers, crayons, and more.

Part payment options or payment plans are more than welcome. This can be arranged confidentially through the front office.

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 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.