“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” – Dorothy Parker

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

As we near the end of term 2, I reflect on what a busy term it was. Starting with the new Year 6 area being open, its great to see the students well settled into their lovely new space. The building works are continuing in the administration area and the year 2 wing is having its windows and doors replaced and new cladding on the outside walls. There have been excursions, incursions, sports, and lots of learning. To top the term off, the Year 4 production of ‘Splash’ begins tonight, with the final show being on Thursday.

Tickets will be available for sale at the door if you haven’t already reserved yours. From all reports it’s a spectacular show full of colour and fun and the year 4 students are very excited about performing for family and friends.

Thank you to the staff and parents who met yesterday to discuss their child’s first semester report. This time is always a great opportunity to touch base, especially for those parents who can’t always get to the school regularly.

Unfortunately our new car park isn’t progressing at the rate expected, with the Department, VSBA and Monash City Council still finalising the project scope. We have been working with all parties for a long while and did anticipate this project would have commenced by now. However due to these delays, we will arrange for some additional gravel to be spread across the surface of the carpark during the school holidays.

Finally, those of you going away for the holidays I wish you safe travels and for everyone else I hope you enjoy a safe and restful break. I look forward to seeing everyone returning for the start of term 3 on Monday 10^th July.

Have a great holiday break.

Ron

SCHOOL MATTERS

ENROLMENTS REMINDER

If you have a child starting in 2024, please complete and return Prep Enrolment forms with the supporting documents by Friday, 28th July, 2023.

This is in line with the new statewide Prep enrolment timeline, introduced this year by the Department of Education.

If you know of other new families thinking of applying, please encourage them to submit their forms as well.

For more information about enrolments, please visit our school website http://oakleighsouthps.vic.edu.au/enrolments/

COMPASS ISSUES

The school has been made aware that there are some issues receiving Compass notifications and events.

The school leadership team is working with Compass to rectify these issues and make it user friendly for our school community.

Your patience is appreciated during this time.

OSPS HOUSE ATHLETICS

Dear Parents,

The Annual Year 4 – 6 House Athletics will be held this year at School on Thursday 27 July.

It’s a really big day. If you have any experience with Little Athletics and can assist on this day in either Long Jump, Hurdles, Discus or Shot Put, please contact me by email – marcus.mooney@education.vic.gov.au

Kind Regards

Marcus Mooney

SAFETY AT OSPS

A friendly reminder to encourage parents and children to be safe when on and moving off our school grounds. Please read and follow the below safety measures to ensure we have a safe and risk-free environment at OSPS:

• If you are using the parent car park, please meet you child at the fence. This reduces risk as some students have been walking/running through the car park unsupervised.
• Parents are reminded that they should not be using the staff car park to drop off/pick up children at school. For those families who drop off or pick up their child from Camp Australia, you have been directly notified by Camp Australia where to predominantly park (that is the parent car park and Riley Street) and what do in cases of bad weather or emergency.
• The library corridor is only to be accessed if student’s are borrowing books or have Chess Club. Please do not access it to pick up your child. This corridor will be blocked off in the coming weeks as the builders continue works in the admin wing.
• Please note the student hall toilets are for students only, if parents need to use the bathroom, please ask at the office to use the staff toilets.

Together we can support our children to have a safe and enjoyable time at OSPS.

VICTORIAN STATE SCHOOLS SPECTACULAR

OSPS Year 5 students for Mass Dance and Mass Choir have been rehearsing very hard over several months! We can’t wait for them to perform!

The 2023 Victorian State Schools Spectacular will be held on Saturday 9 September. The performance times are 1:00pm and 6:30pm at John Cain Arena, Melbourne Park (show time 2 hours 45 mins)

Tickets are on sale from 11am on Wednesday 7 June. Adult: $40, Concession: $30, Child (U15): $20 (a $6.30 service fee per transaction applies on all purchases)

Tickets are available through Ticketek: www.ticketek.com.au/spectacular or 132 849.

OSPS Mass Dance Seating Recommendations:
Quadrant Four (North East) Sections 7, 8, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 52, 53

OSPS Mass Choir Seating Recommendations:
Section 17, 18, 44, 45, 46, 66, 67, 68

CAMPS, SPORTS & EXCURSIONS FUND (CSEF)

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.

Please click here to apply – CSEF Application Form.

Those families that were eligible in 2022 will be rolled over, you do not need to reapply.

If you have any issues please contact Carlyn carlyn.backers@education.vic.gov.au

Stage 1:

• Firstly, go to Parent Portal here: (https://shop.icasassessments.com/pages/pps)
• enter our school’s access code – SZN913
• enter your child’s details making sure you check spelling carefully as this will appear on your childs certificates.
• Select the tests you would like to purchase, then proceed to payment.

Stage 2:

• Open compass in browser.
• After payment, please go to your Compass Event notifications and accept the assessments you have paid for and decline all others.
• If your child is not participating in assessments this year please decline all options.

Please note if you do not complete stage 1 your child will not receive an entry into the ICAS assessments as this stage of the process is external to Oakleigh South Primary School

STUDENT SHOWCASE

YEAR 6 ECONOMICS UNIT

This term, as part of our Economics unit, we started a project called Business Expo. As part of this project, we must create a successful business to fundraise money for Year 6 events.

We each donate $5 which is exchanged for 50c tokens to treat ourselves to the goods and services at other students’ stalls. The assignment consists of many parts and started by learning about the design thinking process which helped us generate ideas for our stall.

This process begins with empathising with the customer to ensure the stall we create will appeal to them. Each group then brainstormed potential ideas for businesses and once the group had decided on an idea, we began building prototypes of products or games and testing them out.

We have also learnt how to build a website for our business, create an advertisement and calculate expenditure to work out how many sales we need to make a profit. Business Expo helps us prepare for the future, as well as having heaps of fun. Early in Term 3, we will hold our Business Expo and we hope all the Year 6 teachers, students and parents love the businesses we have created. Stay tuned for more information and photos next term when we reflect on how the day went!

Hugo 6FW

YEAR 6 PRODUCTION REHEARSALS

Everyone is very excited for our upcoming production, ‘The Wizard Of Oz’. We have started gathering in the hall during Performing Arts sessions to practise songs and also learn some choreography.

The main characters have begun rehearsing and have written backstories of their characters to better understand them.  Every time we enter the hall for rehearsal we must understand our character, feel like them and be like them.

We are also learning many elements of performance like projecting our voice and not blocking other actors. Many more rehearsals will take place next term along with costume making and set building with the big show hitting the stage in the last week of Term 3. Keep your eyes open for when tickets are released because it is going to be a spectacular show!

Devi   6SM

RESILIENCE PROJECT

YEAR 6 GEM AWARDS

G: We are grateful for our colleague and friend Ms Di Siervi who gave birth to her first daughter, Darcie, last week. Congratulations from everyone at OSPS Jackie!

E: Empathy is how kind hearts breathe.

M: We are mindful of the hard-working staff at OSPS who are working late with parent-teacher interviews and the Year 4 Production in the last week of term.

LITERACY CORNER

YEAR 6 LITERACY CORNER

Year 6 Slam Poetry

Earlier in the term, the Year 6’s held their annual Slam Poetry competition. Slam poetry is a form of poetry that combines the elements of performance, writing, competition, and audience participation. Our Year 6 students put their best foot forward and gave it everything with some very powerful poems on topics affecting our youth. Congratulations to Nikola and Panagiotis who took out first place and to our runners up Leah, Nick and Aiden. Below is an excerpt from Nikola’s much longer slam poem on the beauty myth.

The devil’s creation. If it goes horribly wrong she will lose all self esteem, wanting to look like a beauty queen on the cover of a magazine but now knows she could’ve been beautiful if she hadn’t, hadn’t, hadn’t, HADN’T believed the rumours. Rumours of the tumour it creates in your brain, taking over her head instead. Making her want to look like Mrs Potato Head!

Nikola 6SC

OSPS SPORT

INTERSCHOOL SPORT FINALS RESULTS

Netball Girls’ Team – 4th

Netball Mixed B Team – Runners-up

Soccer Boys’ Team – Runners-up

Soccer Girls’ Team – 3rd

Sofcrosse A Team –  4th

Sofcrosse B Team – 4th

Tennis White Girl’s Team – Premiers

Tennis Green Girl’s Team – Runners-up

Tennis White Boys’ Team – Runners-up

Tennis Green Boys’ Team – 4th

Gemma 6SM

SOUTHERN METRO BEACHSIDE CROSS COUNTRY

Last Wednesday the 14th of June, 4 students from OSPS participated in the Regional Cross-Country Championships.

The course was at Hastings Foreshore in very challenging conditions. Congratulations to all four of our competitors, especially Sasha in Year 4 who came 12th, qualifying for the State Championships.

Well done to Rory, Sasha, Lidia and Veer.

OSPS GIRLS’ FOOTY

Last Tuesday, the Oakleigh South Girls Footy Team participated in the inaugural round robin against St Peters, Coatesville and St Andrew’s at Centenary Park.

Many of our Year 5 and 6 girls had never played before and it was terrific to see them giving a new sport a go, kicking, handballing, tackling and having an absolute blast!

Games were only two 15 minute halves long but gave each school a chance to play and have fun with most girls experiencing Aussie Rules for the first time.

We have only won one game since the formation of the Girls Footy team back in 2018 but history was made as we won 2 out of our 3 games qualifying for the next round to be held in Term 3.

An early loss to St Peter’s (37-2) was followed up by nail-biting win over Coatesville (9-7) and a comprehensive victory against St Andrew’s (43-1).

I’m really proud of all of the girls that took part and think it is so great that there is a pathway for girls to play any sport at our school.

Massive thanks to Mrs Peluso for being a part of it, getting involved at training and on match day. Sky’s the limit for these girls next term as we take on!

PARENT GROUP

OSPS BEANIES AND SCARVES

We would like to advise that the OSPS branded scarves and beanies can now be purchased online as well as in the 2nd hand uniform shop.

Please click on the link below if you’d like to order. Once ordered, your items will be delivered to your child’s classroom. The scarves are $20, and beanies are $18. Please contact Parent Group on osparentgroup67@gmail.com if you have any questions.

https://www.trybooking.com/CJHHG

UNIFORM SHOP SALE

Until the end of term, all standard uniforms in the 2nd hand shop will be $2 (excludes scarves, beanies, hats & sport shirts).

Secondhand school bags are also on sale for $3. Please note, the uniform shop accepts cash only.

The uniform shop is open Wednesday and Friday, from 8.45am – 9.15am.

PARENT CORNER

The 2nd Edition of PROJECT+ 2023

To best support our families and build the connection between school and home, we are thrilled to share the second edition of PROJECT+.

In this Parent & Carer edition of Project+ we talk about the importance of practising gratitude and provide some fun ways to do this as a family.

Parent/Carer Support(click this link)

COMMUNITY NEWS

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