Parent Involvement

You may ask, what does the PFA do, and why? Simply put, the PFA is responsible for creating a number of social and fundraising events throughout the school year.

There are two fundamental reasons why PFA do what they do, and they are to:
‍Enhance the school experience of each and every childat ENPS
Raise vital funds to improve the school grounds 

PFA run many events throughout the year. Our events calendar has been built by imaginative parents committed to finding fun ways to engage our children. Our objective is to raise money for the school with each event we run. Much time and effort goes into organising and running an event to maximise the benefits. We raise funds each year with minor and major events to ehance the school for the students. In the past these improvements have included boosting funds for playground equipment and greatly improving the aesthetics of our school.

Our major events which are held every few years include the School Fete and School Movie Night. Other events include the School Walkathon, Special Lunch Days, Icy Pole Days, Footy Day Activities on that ‘one day in September’,  School Disco, Family Camp at Healesville, Easter and Christmas Raffles, just to name a few. These events are so much fun and our children thoroughly enjoy them. This becomes evident in the huge smiles we see, the words of anticipation and appreciation for what we do, and in the cheers we hear, with every event we run. It is heart-warming and is the true essence of why we do what we do.The success of our events is made possible by all members of our school community coming together and working as a team. Our wonderful office team, teachers, and teachers’ aides are always there to lend a helping hand in any way they can. Their support ensures our events run smoothly and maximise the children’s enjoyment. Each event provides an opportunity for parents, teachers and students to connect in a social environment, to build relationships, and ultimately to have lots of fun! Each event is a team effort and our broad team is our school community, one that we are very proud of.

PFA is forever evolving, as parents of old move on, they make way for new parents to get involved. We hope that more of our new parents to the school, become involved in the PFA so that we can continue to provide fun-filled events for our children and continue to create exciting school experiences for all. We welcome anyone in our school community to get involved. It’s such a great opportunity to meet new people, support one another and make a positive difference to our children’s school environment and experience.  There are many ways to get involved, helping your class teacher, running or assisting fundraising events, assisting in the second hand uniform shop, special day lunch assistance and more. We thank all parents, past and current for their continued support of our school through our PFA and welcome any new parents joining ourwonderful team.

Parents of students at Eltham North Primary School are eligible to borrow books from our Parent Library. There are many different titles on a variety of topics relevant to parents. Books can be borrowed by seeing Helen Skerry (our Library Technician). Book loans are for a period of three weeks. More information