“We know what we are but know not what we maybe.” – Shakespeare

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

We have certainly begun to feel winter creeping in with very cold, chilly days and with that it brings lots of sickness in the form of colds, viruses, and flu. Just a reminder if your child is at all unwell in the morning, please do not send them to school.

You may have heard through the media, there is a huge teacher shortage cross the state to replace sick teachers. Just letting you know we are doing our best to manage this situation.

I would like to remind you to enrol any siblings of current students if they are starting school in 2023 as soon as possible. There is a new enrolment timeline this year. All enrolments must be received by Friday August 12th so the places can be allocated. Successful applicants will be notified by August 26th.

Due to the demand, we have added an extra School Tour on Thursday 23rd June at 9.30am. This will be the last opportunity to tour the school this year.

Enjoy your week and long weekend.

Ron
Principal

TERM DATES / QR CODE

SCHOOL MATTERS

STUDENT EYECARE

Oakleigh South Primary School is pleased to announce that the Student Eyecare Program will be running at the school next term. 

An optometrist will be onsite during school hours to provide students with a free comprehensive eye examination that is covered through Medicare Australia.

1 in 6 students have eye conditions that go undetected. This is due to the high level of visual demand on their eyes from books, laptops, tablets and smartphones.

Every student will receive a full report about their eye health and a prescription will be provided if glasses are required. The prescription can be taken to any optical store to get the glasses made.

Don’t miss out on this wonderful opportunity.

Parent consent forms (green) have been sent home this week. Please return them your classroom teacher by Monday 20th June.

PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWS

Parent Teacher interviews will be held in person in the classroom, on Wednesday 22nd June between 2pm and 7pm.

Bookings open on Wednesday 8th June and must be finalised before the Monday, 20th June at 4pm, when bookings for this event will close. Bookings are best accessed by using a desktop or laptop computer.

Interviews are strictly 10 mins and spaces are limited.  If you require more time, please contact your teacher directly to make alternative arrangements.

Please go to your child’s profile, and you will see an option under their photo to “Book Parent Student Teacher Conference” – which will take you to the booking sheet.

SPARE CLOTHING

With the current wet weather, it is advised that children have a spare set of clothes, including socks in their bag.

Reminder to parents that if your child has been provided with spare clothes from sick bay  – please wash and return to school ASAP.

If we do not have spare clothing you will be contacted to bring items and for you to change your child.

PREP ENROLMENTS FOR 2022

This year, the Department of Education have made some changes to the Prep Enrolment process and timeline, applications need to be submitted by 12th August, 2022.

Places are filling fast, so if you have a child starting in 2023 or if you know of any new families thinking of applying, please complete the Enrolment Forms and submit with the supporting documentation as soon as possible.

All places for Prep 2023 will be confirmed by 26th August, 2022, as per the new timeline.

Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, enrolments will only be accepted in digital form.

Enrolment forms are available on the website http://oakleighsouthps.vic.edu.au/enrolments/

ILLNESS

It can be difficult for families to know when their child is sick enough to need to stay home from school. For safety’s sake, if your child seems unwell you should always keep them home from school and seek medical advice.

Families can experience problems when trying to take time off to care for an ill child at home. However, it is important that parents focus not only on the wellbeing of their own child, but also upon the wellbeing of other children and the staff. If you need to administer Panadol/Nurofen before school, then your child should not be at school.

 If your child has vomited or had diarrhoea, they must be completely well for 24 hours before returning to school.

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 3 STUDENT SHOWCASE

The Year 3 students have been extremely busy this term and here is a snap shot of what has been happening.

CLASSROOM MOVEMENTS– With the school refurbishment up and running the Village has certainly been changing daily. The old classrooms were relocated during the last school holidays and gradually piece by piece have been renewed and given a real facelift! With new carpet and freshly painted walls they look fantastic and the Year 3 students can’t wait to move back in. I’m sure that our chickens will also be pleased to have the students back living next door to them! The Village has seen lots of work in the construction of the new shade sails over the past couple of weeks. They will provide valuable shade during the warmer months.

NAPLAN – During Week 3 and 4 of term the students completed their Naplan assessments and did a great job. They were all quite relaxed, and after completing tests in writing, spelling and grammar, reading and numeracy across the two weeks, walked away with smiles on their faces and happy with the work that they had done. The results of these will be available for parents later in the year.

SWIMMING – We have just completed an intensive swimming program over five days. The students were all grouped according to their competency in the water and during the lessons learned lots of new skills and refined those they already had. Everyone was so excited to be back on a bus travelling to the venue after two long years of no excursions and the time in the water was lots of fun. Many thanks to the parents who came along to help and support the students.

STEM SHOWCASE

YEAR 2s MEET ‘MILO THE ROVER’

When you think of Milo, most kids immediately connect with the yummy, chocolate milk drink, but not in Digital Technology classes!

This term, students have used the Lego We-Do equipment and software to create their own robot ‘Milo’ and code it to move, sing and light up.

On top of this, students have used a motion sensor to make Milo stop at an object and even a tilt sensor to make it send a message.

We then talked about messages and how through technology, we can send messages in many different ways.

Again with Lego We-Do, we built and coded a Morse Code machine to send messages to each other and discussed many other ways we can send a message including braille and sign language.

CLEVER YEAR 4s INVESTIGATING ABOUT DAY & NIGHT AND SOIL (ERISOION)!

Our Year 4’s are investigating, ‘Why it is dark at night?’

Through predictions, explorations, questioning and collaborations, our students are learning how night and day happens.

Here are some photos investigating their understandings how a rainbow is made and where are all these colours come from!

Here are the Year 4’s exploring our Earth understanding the layers, how landforms are made and investigating what is soil and the different types of soil on our planet.

YEAR 5s MASTERCHEF OZHARVERST UNIT!

Grade 5s sharing some thoughts after a few sessions of their FEAST class!

Millie said, “She enjoyed turning healthy things into a yummy special treat!”

Michael was horrified to think that some food travels for thousands of kilometres gaining “food miles”…yet ends up just being thrown out!

Eli loved making fruit skewers and felt proud of himself as he doesn’t normally cook at home, yet now he would like to give things like this a try.

Ruby was scandalised to hear that to produce a burger takes up the same amount of water as a 90 minute shower!

Michelle said, “She loved making yummy snacks out of such healthy ingredients!”

Liyah found the skewers delicious and would like to make them for her mum for Mother’s Day this weekend.

Our year 5’s, have been busy engaging, predicting, exploring, collaborating, questioning, measuring, reading, cooking and evaluating amazing recipes! They are also learning helpful hints and information of how to STOP WASTING FOOD and life skills!

Here are some photos of our busy Year 5’s cooking!

LITERACY CORNER

LITERACY 3 CORNER

POETRY – In our Writing Groups we are beginning to look at poetry as a genre of writing we are beginning with acrostic poems which everyone thoroughly enjoys and we will move onto other styles in the coming weeks.

Some samples of our work is included in this newsletter.

Amazing to be back in classrooms.

Dazzling start to the term.

Very big classroom.

Among the mess.

Yet he will go home.

Advay 3DD

Joyful when respected.

Absolutely when I get treated kindly.

You can be my friend.

Love to spread happiness

And I will do anything to finish my work on time.

Jayla 3DD

RESILIENCE PROJECT

THE RESILIENCE PROJECT – YEAR 3

Over the past term Year 3 have been looking at  character strengths. Firstly what strengths we each have and the strengths that we recognise in people around us. We decided that some great strengths to possess are being: responsible, kind, patient, caring and mindful. If we can all take a couple of these on board we will be doing a great job!

G – We are grateful for heating and warm clothes during this cold weather.

E – We empathise with the homeless people who are living on the streets.

M – By being mindful we can relax and focus on the moment.

NUMERACY NEWS

OSPS TOP MATHLETICS STUDENTS & CLASSES

Congratulations to the following Prep – Year 6 students and classes who achieved some great scores in week 6 of Term 2.

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 6. Well done!

LIBRARY NEWS

VALUED STUDENT AWARDS

VALUED STUDENT AWARDS YEAR 5

VALUED STUDENT AWARDS SPECIALISTS

OSPS SPORT

YEAR 6 INTERSCHOOL SPORT WINTER  RESULTS

PARENT GROUP

PARENT GROUP NEWS

Dear OSPS families,

Parent Group would like to welcome all our new and existing families to a successful year of onsite learning at school in 2022.

An important part of the school community are the parent & carer volunteers that make Parent Group. The role of Parent Group is to assist the school with organising and hosting functions and events throughout the year. Parent Group is a great way to get involved with the school and contribute ideas you may have along with assisting with ideas on how to best spend money raised to help benefit the school, teachers and students.

This year, we would also like to introduce Nicole Stenton and Tina Tzanopoulos who are the President and Vice President respectively, however they will share the major coordination of Parent Group activities as a team. Nelsie Fernandes has taken on the dual role of secretary and treasurer. There are several other parents who make up Parent Group that attend meetings and form a part of the organising team, then we have several parents who participate in a more casual role and when there are calls from Parent Group to help – they put their hand up when they can. Regardless of the level of contribution, we truly do value everyone’s participation.

Some of the events we have already held this year are the Easter Raffle, Mother’s Day Stall and Election Day Sausage Sizzle and Cake Stall. There are plenty more events on the calendar for the remainder of the year which we are sure the kids will be excited to participate in. Some of these include the Footy Day Sausage Sizzle, Year 6 Hot Chocolate and Father’s Day Stall.

Our next meeting will be held on 20 July 2022, and we invite any interested parents or carers to come along to our next meeting or please do let us know if you would just like to be a helper when you can osparentgroup67@gmail.com

For those that can’t attend in person, we can arrange for zoom access closer to the day, please use the email address below to express your interest.

If you have any questions or would like further information Parent Group can be contacted on osparentgroup67@gmail.com

Nicole & Tina

COMMUNITY NEWS

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