2024 School Leaders

Congratulations to the following students who have been voted in by the students and staff as our Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister for 2024.

Prime Minister - Liam Ezzy

Deputy Prime Minister - Stefan Ilic

I'd like to thank all of the Year 5 students who worked extremely hard in preparing and sharing their presentations with our students and staff.

Evatt Fest

A huge thank you to our wonderful Evatt community for a fabulous turn out at EvattFest last night. It was lovely to see our students perform proudly in front of so many family members and friends.

A big thank you to our P&C for providing free fun options for the kids throughout the night.

Thanks to all the staff at Evatt Primary School who helped to make this event a great success.

FeatherFest Fun Day

Next Thursday 14 Dec will be our FeatherFest Fun Day for all students. Our students have been working extremely hard throughout the term to earn feathers that in turn provides a range of fun options for our funday. Keep an eye out on Seesaw for updates about this next week.

The Nest - Closed for Week 10

The Nest is closed for the remainder of the year. In 2024, The Nest will be relocating to a new location - stay tuned for this exciting project.

2024 School Leadership and Teaching Team

Farewelling Staff

Each and every year we take the time to farewell staff who are moving on for 2024. I'd like to thank the following staff for their wonderful contribution to Evatt Primary School.

We thank and wish the following staff all the best for the future.

• Karen Owens

• Ben Sterland

• Kylie Boyd

• James Keeley

Thank You Evatt Community

As this is our last formal newsletter for 2023, we’d like to share a huge thank you to our Evatt Primary community for the wonderful support through the year. The manner in which our families have worked in partnership with the school has been amazing. We wish all our families a safe holiday break and we are very excited about all of the great things ahead in 2024.  

Term 1 2024 Start Dates:

• Tuesday 30 January: Kindergarten, Preschool (Green Group), New students

• Wednesday 31 January: All Students Year 1 - Year 6

• Thursday 1 February: Preschool (Blue Group)

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

Contacting the School Board

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