Come and meet some friendly faces at Axe Creek Playgroup.

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BYO Picnic Tea, Drinks & Chairs - starting from 6pm Lots of fun for the whole family including our unique "Crazy" Bingo

Bring along some dinner, chairs/picnic rug & drinks for your family starting at 6pm, music, good company & bingo provided.

Crazy Bingo - 
Our Crazy Bingo is a modified bingo game for children of all ages to play.

Each person participating will need to bring two small gifts, to add to the bingo prize pool.  
Gifts need to be wrapped, (newspapper is fine) and need only be small eg: chocolate bar/frog, hair ties, matchbox car, fast food toys, even a funny gift like a roll of toilet paper etc

Gifts can be left in the box located in the school foyer. From Monday 28th Feb or bring it with you on the night.

Come along & join the fun of our family friendly Community Night - a great opportunity to meet & socialise with our school families.


 

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Eppalock Primary School now has funding to establish an Out of School Hours Care program. For more information contact the school on 5439 6366 or Our Patch on 1300 018 310. Or click on the link below.
Our patch – Our Patch

 

 

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Your Brain is like a muscle. When you learn, your brain grows. The feeling of it being hard, is the feeling of your brain growing!

Here is a link to the PDF

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Requirements and guidelines in schools have changed again.  Please read below for the most updated information as at May 12th 2022.

Vaccination requirements for parents and carers attending schools.

A reminder of our Term 2 Covid guidelines.

• Face masks, while recommended, are not required in any school setting. This means students in grades 3 to 6, staff and visitors in primary schools are no longer required to wear face masks. Any student or staff member who wishes to wear a mask may do so, including those who are medically at-risk.
• Students who have tested positive for COVID-19, and have completed their 7-day isolation period, now do not need to undertake rapid antigen test (RAT) screening for 12 weeks after their release from isolation. This was previously 8 weeks.
• Students who are household contacts of a COVID-19 case are not required to quarantine. They may return to school as long as they undertake rapid antigen tests (RAT) 5 times during their 7-day period. They are required to notify the school that they are a household contact.
• Students aged 8 years and above who are household contacts are required to wear face masks when indoors at school unless they have a valid exemption. If a student household contact returns a positive RAT result, they must isolate for 7 days.
• Parents, carers and other adult visitors (not performing work) are no longer required to show evidence of two doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
• RATs will continue to be supplied for the first 4 weeks of Term 2 to support the early detection of COVID-19 in our school.
• The testing recommendations will remain the same this Term for students and staff recommended to test at home twice a week.

Classrooms will still be promoting and using the strategies around hand sanitising and air flow and will still be making use of the air purifiers which have been supplied to schools.

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MENTAL HEALTH LINKS
Resources for your health
The following external resources are available to support your mental health and wellbeing:
Headspace – for family and friends
Beyondblue – COVID19
Lifeline – Mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 outbreak
Additional resources
To share with children and young people
headspace – how to cope with stress related to Novel Coronavirus
ReachOut – coping during the coronavirus
For up-to-date information and advice on coronavirus (COVID-19), visit:
DET coronavirus website
DHHS coronavirus website
F U R T H E R I N F O R M A T I O N A N D S U P P O R T
External support is also available to staff and students, including:
Safe Steps Family Violence, Victoria’s state-wide family violence support service, available 24 hours a day, seven days a
week
Kids Helpline, children and young people counselling support service, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week
Parentline, parenting counselling support service, available 8am to midnight, seven days a week
The Lookout website with information on family violence supports and local services across Victoria
What’s ok at home? website for children, young people and adult allies to support their safety when family violence is
occurring in the home
1800 Respect, national family violence support and counselling service, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week

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Locally owned businesses are owned by your friends and neighbours who live in this community. Local businesses generally

• make more local purchases
• are more invested in our community’s future
• create jobs in your town
• donate more per sales dollar to local nonprofits, events, and teams

       


If you would like to have your business displayed here or would like to update your business details, please call or email the school

• eppalock.ps@education.vic.gov.au
• 5439 6366

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Elections are a fundamental part of our democratic process in Australia and require around 100,000 temporary workers.
Pay ranges from $25.54 to $48.29 per hour, depending on the job.

Working at elections

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