World Teachers Day

Today we celebrate World Teachers’ Day. We are so fortunate at Evatt Primary School to have a wonderful team of staff including our outstanding teachers that do an amazing job helping our students to ‘spread their wings’ each and every day. I personally would like to thank our teachers for their ongoing hard work and going above and beyond for our school community. Your dedication and commitment to our students and families is truly amazing.

Thank you to our P&C who have shared some lovely words and treats for our staff today.

Environmental Upgrades

No doubt you have seen some of the environmental upgrades that are happening around our school. We are very excited about how these are coming along and there are more upgrades planned towards the end of this year and into next. These upgrades continue to enrich the school and provide great spaces for our students to learn and staff to work in. 

Thank you to Jamal See and Rebecca Swiridziuk for all of their relentless hard work in ensuring these upgrades come to life at our school. 

Imagination Library

This morning Evatt Primary was asked to present at the public launch of Imagination Library in the ACT. Evatt Primary is proud to be the first ever organisation to launch Imagination Library within the ACT, and currently has 164 registered children under the age of 5 receiving a free age appropriate book every single month directly to their door. 

It was great to share the amazing things happening at Evatt Primary School through our Family Connect approach. The event was attended by Minister for Education Yvette Berry who was very complimentary of our initiatives.  Currently we have 243 families within the Evatt/McKellar area registered with Family Connect.

Congratulations Rebecca

A huge congratulations to our amazing Business Manager Rebecca Swiridziuk who is a Finalist for the ACT Public Education Awards that will be held tonight. Rebecca works tirelessly with all our staff, families, community partners, contractors and external stakeholders in a highly professional and supportive manner. We wish Rebecca the very best at the awards ceremony tonight.  

A Great Start to Learning Everyday

A reminder about the importance of having your children at school for morning lines everyday. This is where we share important messages about the day and what's coming up later in the week. Straight after this, students head into their classrooms and start learning immediately with their teacher. If your child is 15 mins late each day that adds up to over 8 days of missed learning over the course of a year!  

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.