What's On?

Prep Parent Pancake Breakfast 

Let the teachers and EPS staff cook you up a storm on the 21st of February at 8:00 am. Hope to see you there!

NAPLAN

Wednesday 15th March - Monday 27th March 2023

National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy Information for parents and carers

• All students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 in Australia do NAPLAN tests in March each year.

• NAPLAN tests students’ skills in reading, writing and maths.

• The test questions are 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 in the test.

• Students do four different tests. 

The names of the four tests are:

• Students in Year 3 will do the Writing test using pencil and paper. Year 3 students will answer the other test questions on the computer.

• Students in Years 5, 7 and 9 will answer all their test questions on computers.

• Teachers will help students get ready for NAPLAN tests.

• Schools will get their students’ results. The school will then give parents/carers a report showing their own child’s results.

• Parents/carers can talk to the 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.

Talk to your teacher if you have any questions about your child doing the tests.

For more information on NAPLAN, visit nap.edu.au.

ALTERNATIVE LUNCH PROGRAM (ALP)

Monday - Friday @ lunch time & recess

Epsom Primary School provides students with an Alternative Lunch Program, which is a place for students who may be having some difficulties building relationships, positive behaviours, or confidence out in the yard. 

During ALP, students will be alongside teachers and peers playing games and participating in different activities in a small, monitored social setting to learn different skills when working with others. 

ALP is a safe space for students who might find being out in the yard overwhelming at times and a place to engage in play with other students to develop skills and positive relationships with others, with an aim to transition these social skills back into the yard. 

CLUBS ARE BACK in 2023...

The 2022 Junior school Counsellors enacted their student voice by surveying students across the school to suggest what clubs should run for 2023.

Alongside our more traditional student groups, such as Green Magpies, Band and Junior School Council, our students have selected the following clubs for Term 1 2023...