“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Carl Sagan

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

NAPLAN assessments continue this week with the students completing tasks in Language Conventions and Numeracy. A big thank you to the classroom teachers, Mr Albers and Mr Eykman for the smooth running and organisation of these assessments. The results will be available later in the year.

Next week the Year 3 and 4 students begin their swimming program at GESAC. The students will be involved in an intensive 5-day swimming program. The students that are not attending will be learning about the importance of water safety.

This year the enrolment procedure is slightly different for the 2023 preps. We urge you to enrol any children as soon as possible if they are siblings of children already at our school. This is very important as it allows us to understand how many vacancies we have to offer other potential enrolments. Thank you for your assistance.

Enjoy the rest of your week,

Ron
Principal

TERM DATES / QR CODE

SCHOOL MATTERS

ELECTION DAY BBQ, CAKE STALL & COFFEE FUNDRAISER – VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED

OSPS Parent Group will be holding an election day BBQ, cake stall and coffee fundraiser and we would like to welcome all parents interested in volunteering for the event or assisting by baking something for the cake stall on the day.

Today your youngest child will come home with a yellow Election Day Cake Stall Notice with a Food Handling Info Sheet. These are also attached to this Compass for your information. Baked goods can be dropped to the school Friday 20th May (please take them straight to the staff room), or delivered to the hall before 10am on Saturday 21st May.

We require 6 parent volunteers for each time slot to help make the fundraiser successful and look forward to the support of our OSPS community.

Please click on the link below to select your time slot and where you can help.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jR80j2VR4h7IIep81chMbvwRzI1mtnqq/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107923446188610856794&rtpof=true&sd=true

Thank you so much in anticipation of your support.

OSPS Parent Group

osparentgroup67@gmail.com

SMILE SQUAD

The team from Smile Squad have finished the dental check-ups of the children who participated in the program.

The mobile treatment van should be arriving onsite at the end of next week. The Oral Health Therapist will be seeing any students who still need to be seen for dental check-ups (mostly in Grade Prep) and she will also provide treatment to a handful of students where parents have consented. The majority of students have already been to our base clinic in Clayton to have their treatment done.

Thank you to every family who utilised this service. It has been a fantastic government initiative and very well supported by our community.

The Victorian Government offer a Sports, Camps and Excursions Fund for families who hold a valid means-tested concession card are eligible to apply. A special consideration category also exists.

A payment of $125 for eligible primary school students and $225 for eligible secondary school students will be paid directly to the school to be used toward camps, sports and excursion costs for the student’s benefit.

CSEF payments to schools will commence from 1 March onwards. Schools are able to continue processing applications until the end of Term 2.

Click here for further information CSEF Website

Please click here to apply – https://www.education.vic.gov.au/PAL/csef-application-form.pdf

STUDENT SHOWCASE

YEAR 2 SWIM PROGRAM

The Year 2 students were so excited to complete the swimming program in week 2!

For the first time ever, we had almost the entire year level joining the swimming program, which was amazing! There were many ‘firsts’ experienced throughout the week; the first time on a school bus, organising their belongings and even the first swimming lessons for some! A big, BIG thank you to the parents who joined us on the bus and who met us at the swimming pool. The program would not have run as smoothly as it did without your help.

Here are some reflections on the week from the students…

At swimming I learnt to do backstrokes and freestyle. I had an amazing time and my favourite was the sinkies. I loved them! I also loved the rope where our teacher pulled us with the rope and we had to act like we needed help. After the lessons we dried ourselves off and changed into our clothes. Ryan 2AP

I was so excited for swimming! My favourite part was when we went to the deep pool. The challenge was to get the toy at the bottom of the pool. We practised torpedo swimming, soldier kicks and a little diving. I am very excited for future swimming lessons. Aaron 2TM

My favourite part of swimming was playing with the sinkys. It was a lot fun because I love diving! I learnt that swimming is good for you because there is water everywhere in Australia. Clover 2LW

My favourite part of swimming was doing the torpedo. It was awesome. I learnt how to bubble, bubble breath and that is very important for swimming. Ivy 2LW

I loved being in my level and going in the deep end – it was fantastic! I learned a lot, it was indeed very fun. Amish 2MG

When I was at GESAC, I started on blue team, it was a bit challenging in my opinion but I’m not sure for everybody else! After I was on Pink team and it was even more fun! Nadia 2MG

LITERACY CORNER

LITERACY CORNER – YEAR 2

The Year 2s have been improving their procedural writing this term.

They have been working hard to include lots of different verbs and adverbs into their writing.

They have written instructions for how to create an origami dog and creative recipes for Silly Soup!

Check out some of our amazingly detailed writing below!

RESILIENCE PROJECT

RESILIENCE PROJECT – Year 2

The Year 2 students have been enjoying completing their Resilience Project lessons.

So far we have learnt about gratitude, created finger puppets to develop empathy and our favourite so far, was the mindfulness session!

We all enjoyed the opportunity to relax and reflect on how the guided meditation made us feel.

Everyone noticed a difference in their bodies and mood before and after the guided meditation.

We are also learning to develop our emotional literacy by recognising different emotions from facial expressions and body language.

NUMERACY NEWS

OSPS TOP TEN MATHLETICS STUDENTS & CLASSES

Congratulations to the following Prep – Year 6 students and classes who achieved some great scores in week 3 of Term 2. So far this year students at OSPS have achieved 19,819,860 Mathletics points! Wow!

It’s very important to understand that even though getting 1,000 points a week is great it’s more important that students are challenging themselves at their own level and completing work that supports their learning at school.

Congratulations to those students who completed their Mathletics in week 3. Well done!

LIBRARY NEWS

VALUED STUDENT AWARDS

VALUED STUDENT AWARDS YEAR 5

VALUED STUDENT AWARDS SPECIALIST SUBJECTS

OSPS SPORT

YEAR 6 INTERSCHOOL SPORT WINTER  RESULTS

PARENT GROUP

MOTHER’S DAY STALL – HUGE THANKS TO PARENT GROUP

The OSPS Mother’s Day stall was a huge hit with many students picking up a lovely gift for their mum or special person.

Thank you to Parent Group, in particular stall coordinator Nicole Stenton and the team of parent helpers for the organisation and running of the stall on the day.

The stall raised $5000 profit for the school and it was lovely to see all the smiling faces from the students.

We hope our mums and special persons had a lovely Mother’s Day.

PARENT CORNER

CAMP AUSTRALIA

COMMUNITY NEWS

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