Empire Vale Public School in Empire Vale | Education
Empire Vale Public School
Locality: Empire Vale
Phone: +61 2 6683 4298
Address: 632 River Drive 2478 Empire Vale, NSW, Australia
Website: http://empirevale-p.schools.nsw.gov.au
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25.01.2022 Our junior class has been very busy this term! Look at all the wonderful reading, maths and technology they've been enjoying!
24.01.2022 Our junior class are master programmers..... just one session with the EV3 robotics and they’ve already got ‘Evie’ following their every command!
24.01.2022 Looking forward to getting back into it next week! Staff are back on deck Wednesday 27 to update training and get classes organised and ready to go. Students in years 1-6 begin on Friday 29 January with our new kindergarten students joining us on Monday 1 February. Take a look through the photos of our STEM robotics challenge at the end of last term
24.01.2022 Wednesday and Thursday saw more bike week fun. We even had to watch out for wildlife on our narrow, one-way, country roads!
24.01.2022 Our sandpit became an Antarctic / Arctic wonderland today thanks to Steve our resident Sand Sculpture Artist! Our ‘up and coming’ Scholastic Bookfair has an Antarctic / Arctic theme and this was a great way to think of what we could come dressed as!
24.01.2022 Beautiful sunset on our recent excursion with Wooli Public School.
24.01.2022 An example of the fitness activities our students enjoy at Empire Vale
24.01.2022 Fantastic day at New Italy Mountain Biking Park last week. Thanks to all the staff for pulling together for a great day and to Nick Hughes for his help on the day. Also a huge thanks to the Northern Rivers Dirty Wheels club for their support of our bike week and our New Italy day!
23.01.2022 All of our wonderful native frogs have been provided with free emergency accommodation during the pandemic. We have skyscrapers, Kermit Towers, penthouse apartments and even smaller castle rooms at a cheap rate. Development applications are being fast-tracked for more apartments to be built in the coming days
23.01.2022 Our senior excursion to Movie World.
22.01.2022 Our Senior Class showing us how 'cool' they look at our Arctic and Antarctic Book Fair Parade!
22.01.2022 Congratulations to our ‘Principal’s Award’ recipients for 2020! What a great day at Wet n Wild Thanks to Carmen and Steve for helping to supervise
21.01.2022 Hope everyone had an awesome Easter and a relaxing end to an ‘interesting’ end of term for parents, students and teachers.
21.01.2022 Local Sandology expert, Steve Machell, was inspired by the students' recently constructed 'Frog Hotels' as the theme for this term's Sandology Workshop with the kids. Students and Staff had a wonderful morning in the sun learning and refining their scrulpting techniques. Thanks again Steve for your continued support of our school!
21.01.2022 Love the 3D art work from our kids! Thanks to our wonderful parents for their commitment to their children’s learning during this unprecedented time in history!
21.01.2022 Riverside Carols Sunday December 9 was a great family event. Thanks to all those who were able to come out on the night. Lovely to see so many of our wonderful ex-students as well!
21.01.2022 Staff and students at Empire Vale PS are looking forward to welcoming our new students and their families. School resumes Wednesday 29 for years 1-6 and Thursday 30 for our new kindergarten students. Staff will be on deck Tuesday 28 for anyone who needs our assistance.
20.01.2022 Our junior class have been building, coding, problem solving and working extremely well in their teams to complete challenges in our robotics classes. What a fantastic session!
20.01.2022 Thank You 'Sandman Steve' for another outstanding Sand Sculpturing Workshop. Words can't describe how much we all love these creative lessons!
19.01.2022 Our students displayed great team work and cooperation in our lesson about the hidden secrets of a computer. Students were gentle in their disassembly and some even expressed an interest in working in the IT field in a few years. (Judging by the final picture I'd be a little cautious about taking my computer to them for repairs just yet...)
19.01.2022 What a wonderful group of 2021 Kinder students! If you have a child who would like to join us, give us a call on 0266 834 298.
19.01.2022 From the staff of Empire Vale..... Welcome to Education Week!! See the Empire Vale / Broadwater display outside Target at Ballina Fair.
17.01.2022 Our students were so inspired by Mrs Titcume’s ‘Tessellating Shapes’ activity today!
17.01.2022 Our Senior Class admiring themselves on the ‘Behind the News’ ABC, TV show. Check us out on the BTN website in Episode 21 around the 15 minute mark. What a bunch of superstars!
17.01.2022 Our frog guests are going 'hopping mad' over our fantastic Frog Hotels! Here are some of our recent 'Amphibian B&B' 5 Star Reviews.
15.01.2022 Lots of reading happening..... keep it up!
15.01.2022 Welcome to our Empire Vale version of bike week! Having fun, learning the road rules and honing our skills ahead of our planned mountain biking excursion.
14.01.2022 Happy and safe holiday to all
14.01.2022 Sandology at Wooli beach with Steve Machell
14.01.2022 Dear parents, We are setting up a closed group (restricted to parents of students only) called Parent & Student Learning Support. This will be one of our ways of supporting the current learning situation at home as a result of COVID19. Please search for the group (it’s linked to our Empire Vale page) and ask to join.Dear parents, We are setting up a closed group (restricted to parents of students only) called Parent & Student Learning Support. This will be one of our ways of supporting the current learning situation at home as a result of COVID19. Please search for the group (it’s linked to our Empire Vale page) and ask to join.
13.01.2022 What a wonderful show of sportsmanship at Monday’s Small Schools’ swimming carnival! Congratulations to all our swimmers and a huge thanks to their cheer squad. Fletcher came away with the 11yrs boys championship and Matilda and Taj were runners up in their divisions. We also had students willing to go beyond their comfort zone and being rewarded with ribbons! A great day all around
12.01.2022 Just look at that wonderful strategic thinking! You could almost hear a pin drop in the Senior Class today as they focused on their games of Chess and Draughts.
12.01.2022 We LOVE Solid Mob! Our whole school enjoyed participating in a range of dynamic health promotion activities. We would like to thank 'Solid Mob' for also supplying us with a healthy lunch!
12.01.2022 Microsoft and Adobe software is available to all students with an @education.nsw.gov.au email address. If your computer needs a Windows 10 upgrade or you’ve alw...ays wanted to try Adobe Photoshop Elements click on the link below or search the Department of Education website for the software hub. See more
12.01.2022 Principal’s Award / Year 6 Farewell at Wet ‘n Wild. What a great day!
12.01.2022 Our Junior Class created magical bottles of Fairy Dust, Love Potions and Floo Powder as part of our 'Fairy Tale' unit. They loved layering the coloured sugar to create enchanted artworks. Hmmm, now all we need to gather are six mice and a pumpkin....
11.01.2022 Students and staff are getting excited about our Arctic/Antarctic BookFair adventure on September 1st! Check out the student book reviews.... there are snow many great books to read!!
11.01.2022 Stop the Press! Stories about our clever students and their innovative Frog Hotels can be found in the latest issue of The Northern Rivers Times and the Northern Rivers Review. This morning our students were also praised in a Green Innovations interview with Dr. Bridie Cullinane on Paradise FM Radio. Go Team Empire Vale!
10.01.2022 You've probably heard about social distancing, but how exactly is it defined and who should be doing it? While practising social distancing, people can travel t...o work (including public transport). For non-essential activities outside the workplace or attendance at schools, universities and childcare - social distancing includes: - Avoiding crowds and mass gatherings. - Avoiding small gatherings in enclosed spaces. - Attempting to keep a distance of 1.5 metres between themselves and other people where possible. - Avoiding shaking hands, hugging, or kissing other people. - Avoiding visiting vulnerable people. If you have travelled to another country in the past 14 days you should self-monitor for symptoms, practice social distancing where possible and immediately isolate yourself if you become unwell. Social distancing is NOT enough for people who have travelled to a higher risk country. Read more advice from NSW Health: https://bit.ly/2PXYCP7
10.01.2022 Congratulations to our environmentally friendly students for becoming finalists in the 2020 Green Innovation Awards and for winning the ‘Five Best Photographs’ category. Here is our delightful video about our Frog Hotel Project. We all believe that the true winners are our frog guests! Enjoy!
10.01.2022 We had an artistic break from bike week today when Steve and his pet dragon Wally (his name not mine ) came to hang out at Empire Vale!
10.01.2022 Our teachers and support staff got all 'chilled out' at our 'Arctic and Antarctic' themed Book Fair Parade today.
10.01.2022 Another fantastic Silk Art workshop for our year 6 students with Kim Toft at Sea Silks Gallery, Ballina. We worked out today that Kim has been doing our year 6 workshops for 22 years! (Since her daughter Casey was at Empire Vale PS.) I’ve been fortunate to have been there for 20 of them
10.01.2022 More Book Fair Fun...
09.01.2022 A bit of water fun to see out the 2019 school year!
09.01.2022 Firstly, many of us are aware that we finished last week with a scare for one of our families where father and son were being tested for possible COVID-19. At 2:40pm today we received the fantastic news that both tested ‘negative’ and are in the clear! Latest: Empire Vale school remains open. We understand and support all families who are choosing to follow the Premier’s advice and keep your children home. With 50% of our families already working from home, teachers h...ave developed a ‘Student Learning Pack’ to guide students and families in continuing their children’s education. Learning activities will be provided in a variety of ways to cater for different learning styles and varying access to technology. - Google Classroom - activities set online for grades 3-6 - Work sheets provided - Readers provided - Cards and Dice provided with instructions for games to support number development - Online programs such as Mathletics and Reading Eggs - Suggested apps - TV/ internet i.e. Behind the News .......As well as a variety of learning tools (pencils etc) and fun items (handball, cards etc). Teacher are still on duty and will continue to provide education for students at school and at home. We are available by phone and email to support learning. Packs are available for collection for those who don’t yet have them or if you contact the school we can arrange for them to be dropped off. Keep safe and keep learning
09.01.2022 The junior class have been exploring their sounds through the use of play dough and their shapes through the use of technology. They even had a bit of extra time for some poetry!
09.01.2022 Our students have had some great successes in debating and public speaking in the last weeks of term. Congratulations to our debating team who represented us at the Premiers Debating Competition and to our public speaking competitors who were chosen to present their speeches (via video) at this year’s Premiers Multicultural Public Speaking Competition. Also to our competitors who competed in the Southern Cross Community of Small Schools’ Public Speaking competition via Zoom! ... Our debaters were successful in defeating Alstonville PS with a strong case for adding weekly mental health lessons in schools. Well done on a great debate. In the public speaking competitions, a special congratulations goes to Matilda D and Harry H for their impressive effort in being awarded Highly Commended by the Arts Unit judges in the Premiers competition and to Harry H for his impressive effort in being selected as the Stage 2 Runners Up in the Small Schools' competition. A fantastic effort from all of our speakers.
09.01.2022 Our Empire Vale Community Carol Evening is being held this Monday night starting at 6pm for a delicious P&C BBQ, with the student led carols beginning at 7pm. All very welcome. Please bring your whole family, a comfy picnic rug and your angelic singing voices!
09.01.2022 Power’s out tomorrow (Tuesday 26) but it’ll be school as usual! We have a generator to run the water pumps and other essentials so it’ll be ‘back to basics’ in the classrooms . (Might miss the air conditioner though...)
06.01.2022 A great first week of Swim Scheme and what a bonus that we were in the pool on those hot days last week!
05.01.2022 Today our Junior Class were treated to some very special news when two beautiful bunnies hopped in for ‘show and tell’. We all loved Coco and Peter Rabbit!
05.01.2022 Congratulations to our relay team for their second place in yesterday’s District Swimming Carnival. Three of our boys were Senior Champion, Senior Runners Up and Junior Runners Up at our recent Small Schools carnival! We are proud of all our students who swam and encouraged others at our carnivals.
05.01.2022 Our senior class reviewed polygons in maths, created covers for their books and expanded their knowledge of Microsoft Word and its drawing features. Thanks to Odynn and Fletcher for taking over from me and running a ‘Master Class’ on some of the features their class mates were less familiar with Our mathematical artwork has brightened our books and will be a reminder of our shapes.
04.01.2022 Our Junior Class had a wonderful time making Gingerbread Man action figures as part of our Fairy Tale unit.
04.01.2022 We had the 'coolest' day at our Arctic & Antarctic themed Book Fair. Here are some pictures of our Book Parade, starting with the Junior Class on parade.
04.01.2022 Day 2 of our bike week saw two of our youngest riders successfully hit the track without helpers or trainer wheels!! We also opened up the ‘skills track’ with students having fun learning to balance.
03.01.2022 The Southern Cross University ‘RoboCup Challenge’ was a fantastic extension of the robotics program we have in the senior class.
03.01.2022 Our Senior Class are busy brushing up on their Chess and Draughts strategies in preparation for the Southern Cross Community of Small School’s tournament. They really want to bring back home the winning shield that they won last year!
03.01.2022 From May 25, here’s the plan for a full-time return to schools for NSW students. Find out more: https://bit.ly/3e9Zief
03.01.2022 Our Carols Evening with our Kinder and year 6 presentations and raffle prizes galore!
03.01.2022 Our whole school sported fine mustaches today to support Movember. Together we raised over $50 to help support Men’s Health Charities. Thank you to our website guru Tom for inspiring us to support the Movember Charity by growing a mustache to help others. Have you visited our website? Go to https://empirevale-p.schools.nsw.gov.au and have a look.
03.01.2022 Our year six students had a fabulous silk art workshop with Kim Toft last week! The finished artworks will be unveiled and presented at our end of year Carols Evening on Monday 16 December. Thanks Kim for your ongoing association with our school dating back over two decades!
03.01.2022 Empire Vale Public School is open as normal today. The NSW Department of Education is closely monitoring the COVID-19 situation. Events with more than 500 people will be cancelled until further notice. NEW: Friday’s Cross Country and Thursday’s SXCSS General Knowledge Day have been cancelled. Planning for all other future events outside the school will be put on hold until further notice in the hopes of minimising any impact of the virus on students, staff and our community.... What you can do to help..... - Don’t panic! Or panic our students..... much of the advice given are normal hygiene precautions. BUT.... if all healthy people are vigilant in slowing down the spread of the virus it will help protect the more vulnerable in our community. - Inform the school immediately if you have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive to COVID-19. - Wash your hands, cover your cough and stay home if you’re sick. Get the latest COVID-19 advice. - Teach/remind your children good hand-washing techniques. - Practise ‘social distancing’. - Students exhibiting symptoms of being unwell should remain at home. Parents are to make their own decision regarding their children’s attendance at school if they are not unwell but please inform the school if the decision is to keep them home. - As an additional precaution the communal drinking fountains will be covered and not in use - please ensure students have their own refillable water bottle. Thank you for your understanding and support.
03.01.2022 Great News! Empire Vale Public School has enrolment vacancies available for 2021. We hope you enjoy our fun information video created to assist our new Kindergarten students to learn more about our wonderful school.
01.01.2022 Lovely to see the confidence and the fun the kids had at the Tree Tops on their senior excursion
01.01.2022 Our senior excursion to Sea World.
