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 As we approach the halfway mark of the school year, we are in the midst of meeting with families in learning conferences, and sending home formal semester reports. These both present opportunities for students to be surrounded by their important peo
View fullsize We are so proud to announce that we are participating in the National River Detectives program as part of our commitment to Wadawurrung country. Throughout the year children in Yr 1/2 in Kanamo (meaning love in Wadawurrung language) will collect sa
View fullsize The theme for National Reconciliation Week, ‘Now More than Ever’, is a concept we draw our attention to, in being a part of the healing process with our First Nations People. Emmaus is committed to the work of truth telling and reconcilia
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View fullsize At Emmaus we choose the quality first phonics program Sounds Write, as a highly effective approach to the teaching of reading, spelling and writing. It is a clear, cumulative, sequential and structured phonics program, all the time focusing on workin
View fullsize The Emmaus Foundation students are currently participating in a six week Gymnastics program. The program is led by our Physical Education and Sport teacher, Laura Hutchinson. The program focuses on the basics of gymnastics and is providing students w
View fullsize At Emmaus, it has always been an important part of our story to celebrate those who play a motherly role in the lives of all within the Emmaus Catholic Primary School community. With joyful love and gratitude we gathered together today to celebrate M
View fullsize We are the authors of our own future; beginning from Foundation…
View fullsize This year the Diocese of Ballarat acknowledges and celebrates 150 years of Catholic Education. This week we have celebrated Catholic Education across our diocese. The Ballarat Diocese extends from Swan Hill and Mildura down to Portland, and all the w
View fullsize Yesterday at Emmaus we had the great privilege of hosting one of the most eminent scholars and educators in the world, Finnish expert, Pasi Sahlberg. Pasi is a former director general of Finland's Ministry of Education, a Harvard Professor, and now
“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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