Hi All
I am pleased to be able to announce that I will be continuing as acting Principal at East Devonport Primary until the end of 3rd term. I am really excited to be able to continue to work with our students and broader community for this time.
As always it has been an incredibly busy time here at EDPS. This has been highlighted by our SRC executive meeting with The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia Her Excellency the Honourable Ms Sam Mostyn AC. Whilst this was a brief meeting, her excellency was very interested in the day-to-day activities of our school and especially our hot lunch program.
We had an excellent day for our school Cross Country Carnival with the weather doing the right thing for us. It was amazing to see so many of our students giving their best effort on the day. I was extremely proud of how our students were so encouragingand supportive to each other. Can I also thank all those parents who made the effort to come along and watch on the day, it certainly added to the atmosphere and made it a great event. A special mention must go to Miss Sharman for organising such a wonderful day.
The outstanding effort continued at the All Schools Cross Country carnival at Ulverstone where 32 of our students represented our school with great pride. It was wonderful to get such positive feedback from not only our teachers who attended but also the organising committee around our East Devonport students’ efforts and behaviour on the day. Well done to all our students who went to the all schools carnival.
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The Devonport Playhouse was abuzz with excitement on Friday with the launch of 'Let's Get Talking', an initiative of the Devonport Collective Primary Schools (Devonport, Hillcrest, Miandetta, Nixon St., East Devonport, and Spreyton) and The East Devonport CFLC. This project is a transformative initiative designed to empower families with young children by emphasising the importance of oral language development at home during the crucial 0-5 years age. This initiative aims to make a meaningful impact in the local community, ensuring children have the foundational language skills needed for lifelong learning and success.
As part of the School Association role, we continually need to update policies that support how our school operates. At our last meeting we endorsed our new uniform policy, to bring it up to date and in line with requirements from DECYP. We have sent out via Seesaw some parts of this policy and a full copy of the policy is available either in paper form from the school office or via email. This update was the result of an extremely rigorous process, involving community, teachers, students and the guiding policies of the Department.
Excitement is certainly building towards our 1st ever school colour fun run to be held on Friday the June 20. In anticipation of the day several teachers have “volunteered” to be slimed as we reach certain fundraising targets. We are certainly looking forward to the event and hope that everybody can be involved.
