Andrew King on Leave

Thank you everyone for the very warm welcome last week during my first couple of days at Eppalock PS. As I mentioned on Friday morning at Assembly, I am really looking forward to joining you all for a couple of weeks whilst Andrew is away from school on leave.

It was great last week to come in and see the business of a production entering its final stages and I’m looking forward to a great community event this Thursday evening.

Thank You Barbecue – Friday

To celebrate everyone’s efforts supporting and participating in our production, we will be having a celebration barbecue lunch on Friday afternoon at our normal lunch time of 1.30pm. All welcome.

School of Gepparock Production - Thursday the 17^th

On Thursday we will spending the day at Mandurang Hall to rehearse our production ahead of our performance Thursday evening. We will be travelling to Mandurang Hall, leaving school at 9:30am for a rehearsal of the School of Gepparock Production and will return to school at around 3:00pm ready for normal end of day pick up. Please ensure you have given consent for this excursion on uEducateUs. Please consider sending students along with some extra snacks on Thursday.

Inter-School Cricket

On Friday 25^th of October some of our Grade 5/6 students will be heading to Catherine McAuley College to participate in the Grade 5/6 inter-school cricket. More information on this event is contained in the uEducateUs event. Cost for this event is $10 per student please. 

Swimming at Gurri Wanyarra

From Monday November 4^th to Friday November 8th, we are travelling to Kangaroo Flat to participate in swimming lessons at the Gurri Wanyarra Centre. Please ensure you have completed the Ability Form from Gurri Wanyarra and also given consent for your child to participate on uEducateUs. Our swimming program will cost $11 per student, with payments to made on My School Connect please.

Ability Form: https://forms.office.com/r/i7cpH61cbJ

After School Care

We encourage all families to enrol their children into the program (just in case) and this process can take a bit of time. Enrolments can be completed online at:

https://oshcadventures.com.au/

Permission Notes
Athletics - uEducateUs - Whole school 
Cross Country - uEducateUs - 3-6 students

Both payments are to be made on My School Connect unless you plan on using SSB or CSEF. 
Please contact Nikki via email if you would like to use SSB or CSEF 



2026 Curriculum Contributions and Voluntry Contributions can be pd via MSC.  Thankyou to those that have already paid.  These contributions help to go towards the cost of implementing the programs the students use every day.   
                           

HATS 

Hats are required in TERM 1 and can be purchased via MSC anytime.  We now also have a larger size hat that can be purchased through the MSC site.  
Hats and Beanies will still be required to buy through MY SCHOOL CONNECT until we have no stock on site then we will have hats and beanies available on the new EDUTHREADS uniform store. 


NEW ONLINE UNIFORM STORE

You can now order the new uniforms through here

 https://eduthreads.com.au/collections/eppalock-primary-school 






 
                                                                     

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