Dear Parents and Carers
I would like to thank everyone for a smooth start to our school year. Students and staff have settled well into their new classes and the learning happening across the school is great to see. Thank you for continuing to work with us to have your children at school on time and ready to learn.
Organise – Be on Time
Classrooms open at 8:30 AM, and the first lesson begins at 8:50 AM. Students can use this time to prepare for the day by following their teacher’s morning routine.
We ask for your assistance to facilitate this by informing you of the following:
🔹 Parents are kindly asked to exit classrooms by 8:50 AM.
🔹 The school gates (near Kindy ECE 2, administration and the bike enclosure) will be locked at 8:55 AM.
🔹 Late arrivals are report to the office for a late note before entering the school and going to their classroom via the senior courtyard door in administration.
Why Being on Time Matters:
✔ Maximises Learning Time – No missed instructions.
✔ Builds Good Habits – Teaches responsibility.
✔ Reduces Disruptions – Keeps lessons smooth.
✔ Boosts Confidence – Helps students feel prepared.
✔ Encourages Respect – Shows courtesy to teachers and classmates.
✔ Improves Academic Performance – Leads to better engagement.
✔ Strengthens Friendships – Helps students settle in and socialise.
Thank you for your support in making EVPPS a great place to learn and grow. We look forward to working with you throughout 2025.
Year 6 Assembly
Thank you to our Year 6 classes for hosting this morning’s assembly. It was inspiring to hear all about the many different cultures we have in our school, and how well we all work together to share and influence each other to uphold our CORE values. Our Year 6 Cohort not only outlined ‘Who we are’ but also presented us with a variety of skits to show us how we can work together and make a difference. It is clear they put a lot of time and effort into their presentation, and it was appreciated by everyone. Well done and congratulations to the Year 6’s and to Ms Allan, Ms Cox and Ms Yee on a brilliant assembly.
| Room | Award Winner |
| ECE3 | Parker |
| Room 1 | Henry |
| Room 2 | Ivan |
| Room 3 | Juliana |
| Room 4 | Vyvyan |
| Room 5 | Rose |
| Room 6 | Aya |
| Room 7 | Maggie |
| Room 8 | Alice |
| Room 9 | Casey |
| Room 10 | Keysha |
| Room 12 | Nabeel |
| Room 13 | Jigme |
| Room 14 | Khalessi |
| PE Award | Grace |
Congratulations to our student leaders for 2025, who received their badges at this morning’s assembly:
STUDENT COUNCILLORS
Lance, Mujtuba, Kavithma and Johan
SCIENCE CAPTAINS
Tessa and Charlotte
MUSIC CAPTAINS
Milly and Patrick
CULTURE CAPTAINS
Sofia and Evee
TECHNOLOGY CAPTAINS
Matilda and Hanna
CURTIN CAPTAINS
Jared and Sloanne
FORREST CAPTAINS
George and Issy
STIRLING CAPTAINS
Oliver and Chloe
SWAN CAPTAINS
Theo and Lily
School Development Day
A reminder that next Friday, 28 February is a Student Free Day. There is information in today’s newsletter from Big Childcare, who will be providing their service for the day.
Aspirations for my child, family and community 2025 Survey
During 2024 the school sent out the Community School Culture Survey and when analysing the results we found that parents wanted to be more involved with their child/children’s learning and to be able to share information with teachers about their aspirations for their children family and community. Examples of aspirations might include:
- develop confidence in their learning and achievements,
- to improve their reading comprehension,
- to make friends and broaden their friendship group etc.
Your views are important to us, and we invite you to complete the survey at the link below. Your responses will be forwarded to you child/children’s classroom teacher. If you would prefer to share this information with your child’s teacher, I encourage you to make an a time to meet.
https://forms.office.com/r/wxCnBzvugi
Year 3 and Year 5 students – NAPLAN Week 6 Term 1
In Week 6 of this term, our Year 3 and Year 5 students will participate in the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy – NAPLAN.
All students in Years 3 and 5 in primary schools across Australia do NAPLAN tests in March each year. NAPLAN tests students’ skills in reading, writing and maths, with the test questions presented in Standard Australian English dialect.
Students read some of the questions and listen to others with headphones. The tests will get easier or harder, depending on how students are going on the test. There are four different tests:
- Writing
- Reading
- Conventions of language (spelling, grammar and punctuation)
- Numeracy
Students in Year 3 will do the Writing test using pencil and paper and will answer the other test questions on the computer.
Students in Year 5 will answer all their test questions on computers.
Teachers will help students get ready for NAPLAN tests using practice tests.
Schools will get their students’ results and give parents/carers a report showing their child’s results. Parents/carers can talk to the class teacher about these results.
NAPLAN shows how students are going all over Australia. People who work in the Australian Government, state and territory education authorities and schools use NAPLAN results. The results let them see which schools are doing well and which schools might need help and resources.
Today we are sending home an ’Information for Parents and Carers’ brochure with all Year 3 and 5 students. Please read this brochure and talk to your teacher if you have any questions about your child doing the tests.
For more information on NAPLAN, you can also visit nap.edu.au.
Messages from our School Councillors
And finally here are the messages shared by our school councillors at today’s assembly:
Johan: Kaya, and welcome everybody, to the Year 6 Assembly. We hope you had a wonderful start to the new year. Let me introduce ourselves. We are Johan, Kavithma, Lance, and Mujtuba, and we are your School Councillors for 2025! On Wednesday, the Year 6 classes were given a once in a lifetime opportunity to inquire and ask questions to the cherished genius, Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki! It was an exciting experience, and we learnt some new interesting facts. I want to thank Mrs. Walters for arranging the meeting, and all the students who took part!
Lance: We are honoured to be your Student Councillors for our last year at EVP PS, and we hope to explore more opportunities for better learning and future adventures. As we dive into the new year, we want to help improve the environment and experience of the school. We have many ideas in mind that we would like to introduce, and we hope our ideas will help the school in a good way. We can’t wait to take on the role of School Councillor!
Kavithma: Yesterday, we hosted a sausage sizzle, and it was a blast! Lots of people attended and ate, and the parents attended meetings with the teachers, where the students showcased their splendid work. We would like to give out a big thank you to all the staff that had stayed to help with the sausage sizzle. We hope everyone had fun and appreciated the food!
Mujtuba: Next week on Friday, 28 of February, we will be having a Pupil Free Day. Yay! Students gets a day off, so enjoy a day of relaxation, and stay in bed for as long as you like. We look forward to being your School Councillors for 2025!
Finally, I’d like to echo Kavithma’s words of thanks from this morning’s assembly. It was wonderful to see so many families join us for class meetings and the Welcome BBQ. A huge thank you to our dedicated staff for preparing for the meetings and staying late to cook and engage with families. Your efforts are truly appreciated and seeing our school community come together makes it all worthwhile.
Wishing you all a fantastic weekend!
Kim Knowles
Principal
Big Childcare
Third Party Consent
Dear Parents and Caregivers
Our school provides access to Department of Education online services. These enhance the contemporary learning opportunities available to students and the range of teaching tools available to staff to deliver the Western Australian Curriculum. I am writing to seek approval for your child to be given access to these online services.
The Department’s online services currently provide students with access to:
* individual email and calendar accounts
* the internet, with all reasonable care taken by central office and schools to monitor and control students’ access to websites while at school. online teaching and learning services such as Connect, web-conferencing and digital resources
* online file storage and sharing services; and
* these online services at locations other than school.
If you agree to your child using these online services, please accept the Acceptable Use Agreement below. Please explain the content of the Acceptable Use Agreement to your child before permission is provided.
Please note that while every reasonable effort is made by schools and the Department to prevent student exposure to inappropriate online content when using Department provided online services, it is not possible to completely eliminate the risk of such exposure. You should be aware that the Department has the right to review, audit, intercept, access and disclose messages created, received, or sent over Department online services. Logs of email transactions and internet access data are kept for administrative, legal and security purposes and may be monitored. Similar to other corporate records, emails and internet access records are discoverable in the event of legal action and are subject to provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 1992. (www.foi.wa.gov.au). You should also be aware that general internet browsing not conducted via the Department’s network is not monitored or filtered by the Department. The Department encourages close family supervision of all internet use by children in locations other than school, and strongly recommends the use of appropriate internet filtering software. Advice on managing internet use at home can found on the Office of the E-Safety Commissioner website (www.esafety.gov.au/iparent).
Yours sincerely
Kim Knowles
Principal
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