Principal's Message

Funding news!

You may have seen on the news that the Federal government has signed a funding deal for more money for schools like ours over the coming years. This will help us employ more teachers for small groups, more teachers to run specialist programs and to buy more resources to better target learning programs.

For more information: https://theconversation.com/nsw-has-finally-struck-a-school-funding-deal-what-does-this-mean-for-schools-and-students-251271

Leadership at GEPS

What a lovely assembly on Monday to recognise our first Gold Badge recipients, as well as all the leaders in our school.

We officially "inducted" our Student Leadership Team, inviting their parents to pin on their badges, and we acknowledged SRC members who were elected by their class. We also recognised a number of "VIP" roles such as Library Monitor, Tech Leaders, Assembly Crew, Office Support and many more!

Thank you to our families who came along to celebrate with us - what a joyous occasion!

NAPLAN starts next week

All students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 sit the NAPLAN tests. We start with Writing on Wednesday 12 March. Year 3 students will write a text on paper with a pencil, while Year 5 students type their texts on laptops.

The schedule is:

Students need to be at school, on time (by 9am) each day.

Thank you to all of the parents who are using Compass!

We need to have all permission / consent done via Compass.

For excursions, PSSA, events (like discos etc) we are trying to get 100% of families using Compass to give consent online.

If you need help to work Compass, please ring the school office (9637-1562) and Renee or one of the team will work you through it. 

We are also working on sticking to deadlines this year! - So, when we say something is due by Tuesday - we mean it and will not be taking late consent or payment on a Wednesday, for example!

Last year we lost too much money changing bookings to accommodate late payments and lost too much teaching time in chasing late payments.

So - please give consent and pay for things on Compass. The office will still be taking some cash payments as long as you have given consent online.