Welcome to Emmaus Catholic Primary School…

Emmaus Catholic Primary School ensures the care, safety, wellbeing and protection of its students in keeping with the Catholic tradition, which celebrates the sanctity and unique dignity of each person.

View fullsize Earlier this week, four students represented our community at the Buninyong Mt Helen Lion’s Club Public Speaking Competition. Participating schools in addition to Emmaus, included Buninyong Primary School, Mt Clear Primary School and Napoleans
View fullsize Girls just want to have fun….and learn and create and innovate, and problem solve and invent. A group of Year 5 & 6 girls from Emmaus have taken part in an initiative offered by Federation University called ‘GALS’. The progra
View fullsize Socktober Day is a day for crazy socks and crazy hair. As part of Mission Month, today we celebrated Socktober by raising money to help improve areas where there is great difference. This year monies raised will go directly to supporting those chil
View fullsize Yesterday marked a memorable day in the story of Emmaus Catholic Primary School, where we unveiled and blessed a Peace Pole that now stands proudly in our school grounds as a place to contemplate peace in our world. The Peace Pole movement was star
View fullsize Our Year 6 community have spent three days this week at Cave Hill Creek Camp, fifteen minutes from Beaufort. The camp setting sits on the border of the lands of the Wadawurrung, Djab Wurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung peoples. Our Year 6 campers were imme
View fullsize Four children from within our community have progressed through to the Victorian Athletic State Championships. In Term 1 we held our school based athletics carnival at Llanberris Field and Track Reserve in Ballarat and since this event these childr
View fullsize Yesterday our Year 4 community engaged in an extended day camp at Adekate Camp in Dean. Foci included relationship building, risk taking and collaboration, with a variety of outdoor activities set within such beautiful natural bushland. Having stud
View fullsize Throughout the past fortnight at Emmaus we have immersed ourselves in a festival celebrating the Performing Arts. Children from Foundation to Year 6, chose workshops to attend daily to further explore and develop their skills and understandings in th
View fullsize As a school community we have contributed to the beautification of the land adjacent to our school grounds this week. We have planted native trees along the creek bed, in partnership with Hygge Property. Approximately 5,400 trees are being planted
View fullsize This week is Teacher Aide Appreciation Week celebrated annually in schools across Australia. Here at Emmaus we refer to our colleagues as Learning Support Officers. We choose to acknowledge, appreciate and recognise the positive impact and crucial
“We are the Authors of our Own Future

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— Professor James Conroy
“There is no power for change greater than that of a community discovering what it cares about.”
— Margaret Wheatley
 
 

Watch how the creative use of technology is embraced at Emmaus in the presentation above. This was created as part of our Apple Distinguished School renewal process.

Emmaus celebrated 10 years in 2017. View our story at the time, produced by H Studios in Ballarat.

Emmaus Catholic Primary School acknowledges that the land on which our beautiful school sits is the country of the Wadawurrung people. 

We pay respect to their elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge the memories of their ancestors and celebrate their continuing culture.

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