Market Day

Well done to our year 5/6 students who ran a wonderful Market Day today. All of the students at Evatt Primary School had a fantastic time making their way around the different stalls and enjoying the activities on offer. 

This day was designed and run in conjunction with the year 5/6 HASS Economics unit of work. Our students have loved the hands-on approach to their learning.

Thank you to our P&C who ran the special lunch order day today.

‘The Evatt Way’

All families new and current are invited to attend an information session next week about how teaching and learning looks at Evatt Primary School. This will be facilitated by Jamal See and myself.

We will also have some time to address specific information for students starting in Kindergarten in 2024. Details are below;

When: Thursday 16 November

Where: Evatt Primary School Library

Time: 5pm

Move Up Day

Our move up / transition session for Kindy, new students to Evatt and all current students will be Week 9 Thursday 7 December 12.15-1.15pm. This is where all students attend without parents and spend an hour in one of the kindergarten rooms for 2024. For all new students to the school bring your child to the front office and executive staff will take them to their classroom. 

Congratulations Josh and Lachlan

Congratulations to Josh and Lachlan Scarth who both competed at the Australian BMX Championships in Shepparton, Victoria, last week. Both boys rode their hearts out and can be very proud of themselves. Overall Josh finished 6th in the 9 years boys category and Lachlan 15th in the 12 years boys category. Well done boys.

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?

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.