PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

On Monday and Tuesday this week I attended the Principal’s Regional Conference along with Mr Albers and Mrs Virtuoso. The focus was Leading Excellence in Teaching and Learning- Unleashing Greatness Together. The conference was an opportunity for all school leaders to collaborate through expert practitioner workshops and peer learning labs, Communities of Practice, partnerships, networks, and with peers about student learning growth and their own leadership journey.

It was a very worthwhile professional learning experience for us all.

On Monday the children from Prep to 6 were entertained by a wonderful performance of ‘By the Light of the Moon’ from Opera Australia. Congratulations to all the children who attended as the opera performers were very impressed with how attentive our students were in each of the three shows. Thank you to Miss Lolas for organising this fantastic Incursion to celebrate Education Week.

Thank you to the parents who organised the sausage sizzle yesterday for the year 6 students. The money raised goes towards their year 6 production t-shirts and Graduation at the end of the year.

Monday is the Queen’s Birthday public holiday – no children are required at school.

Have a great long weekend.

Ron Cantlon

Principal

Important Information Update

Parents,

Please be advised that your child should have received a hard copy Parental Occupation Code form.

It is imperative for our record keeping that you complete this form for each child and return it to your classroom teacher, who will mark it off their class list. Spare forms are available at the office.

Parents who fail to return this form will be followed up by the office.

Thank you

TERM DATES

2018 Term Dates

Term 3:

16 July to 21 September 2018

Term 4:

8 October to 20 December (2.30pm school students finish) 21 December (staff finish)

Last day of each term is a 2.30pm finish

SCHOOL MATTERS

Lost Property

We currently have an abundance of lost property items.

Please take the time to check to see if any of these items belong at your home.

Any items of clothing that have not been re-claimed by the end of this term will be placed in our second hand uniform shop for sale

Car Parking, Traffic Flow and Child Safety

I have received some reports from parents regarding people taking photographs of cars parked incorrectly around the school.

These people are utilising an app called ‘SNAP, SEND AND SOLVE’ on their own initiative to improve the safety of all the children at OSPS.

Snap, Send and Solve functions for the local council and allows you to report issues to your local council instantly, from parking issues to abandoned shopping trolleys, potholes and animals, just to name a few.

These pictures are being sent to Monash City Council to follow up

Ron

As of June 6th some of the older versions of the Qkr app will no longer work, and families must update their app. Most people have auto update enabled in their phone settings so this will happen seamlessly for them.  If you have any parents saying the app has stopped working, they simply have to download the current version from the app store. We can track who is using a new version and the overwhelming majority of Qkr users have already updated, so the number of impacted families should be very very small, but you may get a few over the coming weeks, especially the infrequent users of Qkr.

And if they still have any issues, there is always the website to offer as a backup to people with really old phones that may not be able to upgrade.

https://qkr.mastercard.com/store/

Dear parent,

These school holidays we are hosting a very special school holiday program called Code Camp where your child can learn to code and build their very own iPhone or Android app!

Code Camp has already taught more than 35,000 students in Australia and is a great way to spend time over the holidays as kids have lots of fun with friends while learning important new skills such as logic, creativity, problem solving, app development and game building in a fun and engaging way, ready to take on the digital world of the future.

Every child attending a holiday camp will build incredible games on our software platform ‘’Code Camp World’’ and walk away with their very own app, playable via the Code Camp App store that they can take home to share with family and friends!

Here is the code camp we’re running:

Spark (School Grades 2-6)

Beginners + Intermediate

Fun, engaging and challenging… and are our most known Code Camp that over 12,000 students have completed. Code Camp Spark is where every student in years 2-6 should start their Code Camp journey.

Enrol today and help your child become a coding superstar! For more information, visit https://www.codecamp.com.au or contact us at hello@codecamp.com.au.

Thank you

VALUED STUDENT

STUDENT SHOWCASE

 Opera Performance

On the 4th of June our school attended an opera performance by ‘Opera Australia’ for Education week. The play was called ‘By the Light of the Moon’.

What is ‘By the Light of the Moon’? The play is based on the poem The Owl and The Pussycat. In the poem, Cedric the owl and Agatha the pussycat go to sea in a boat for a year and a day. They are trying to find the meaning of love. Along their journey, they meet the Queen of Hearts, Mary Mary Quite Contrary, Little Miss Muffet’s spider, Old King Cole and the Three Blind Mice.

Keep an ear out for the music that is played before recess and lunch bells next week, it might just sound familiar. You might also recognise the music that is playing as you come into assembly.

It was a great performance and something we will remember forever!

Alexander 6AR

PARENT GROUP

Entertainment Book

The 2018 / 2019 Entertainment Book is now available for purchase from the office. It is available in hard copy or digital for the price of $70.00  A copy is on display at the office.

COMMUNITY NEWS

Disclaimer – The organisations advertised in this newsletter are not affiliated with and have no relationship to Oakleigh South Primary School. The publishing of these advertisements does not imply endorsement or recommendation of these products or services by the school. They are provided as a community service.

Winter Cricket training with ESOCC

Even in the depths of winter there is an opportunity for budding cricketers from the age of 8 to 11 with the Emmanuel South Oakleigh Cricket Club running training throughout the Winter months from 3pm on Saturdays.

Our Coach, Isuru Gunawardana, is Certified Level 1 and carries the WWC, and is more than happy to continue on through the winter to offer off-season net sessions with a focus on all aspects of the game.

For more information, contact Isuru via email juniors@krushers.com

Isurug1978@gmail.com

Or Mobile: 0450668359

www.krushers.com