“A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” – Helen Keller

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

THE YEAR 6 PRODUCTION OF THE WIZARD OF OZ IS NEARLY HERE!!

Let’s all join the year 6 students on the yellow brick road and show our appreciation of their hard work and efforts in producing an amazing show. This week has seen the students go into full dress rehearsal ready for their four big shows next week.

The hours and hours of work that has gone into learning lines and dances, creating sets and costumes to produce a well-tuned production is truly amazing. Everyone that has had a part in this should be congratulated.

So, the year 6 students are inviting all our school community to come along to witness their fine efforts.

The shows are on Monday 11th September, Tuesday 12th (Matinee at 4pm), Wednesday 13th September and Thursday 14th September at 7pm and can be booked through the link: https://www.trybooking.com/CKNYY  Ticket Prices are Adult $15.00 and a Child: $10.00. We look forward to seeing you there!

Congratulations to the students who represented OSPS at the District Athletics last Thursday. We have 37 of our students who have qualified to compete at the Division level.

This event will be held early in term 4.

Enjoy your week ahead.

Ron
Principal

SCHOOL MATTERS

YEAR 6 PRODUCTION – WIZARD OF OZ

The Year 6 students have been rehearsing extremely hard this year for our amazing production – Wizard of Oz!

The performances will be on the following times and dates in the school hall.

• Monday 7pm 11th September – Emerald Cast (Choir Ruby Cast)
• Tuesday 4pm 12th September – Emerald Cast (Choir Ruby Cast) *** Note Matinee time of 4pm
• Wednesday 7pm 13th September – Ruby Cast (Choir Emerald Cast)
• Thursday 7pm 14th September – Ruby Cast (Choir Emerald Cast)

Tickets are on sale 10am Friday 25th August.

Children under the age of 4 can sit on the knee of an adult in the seated area.

Ticket bookings through trybooking.com

The event titled ‘Oakleigh South PS Year 6 Production The Wizard of Oz’ can be found at this link: https://www.trybooking.com/CKNYY

Ticket Prices:

Adult $15.00
Child: $10.00

Any questions please contact Assistant Principal Nikki Virtuoso nikki.virtuoso@education.vic.gov.au

OSPS FOOTY DAY

OSPS Footy Day is on Friday the 15th September. We look forward to seeing everyone dressed up in their favourite team’s colours.

It doesn’t have to be AFL, it can be any sport you like! We are raising money for the Children’s Tumour Foundation and are asking for donations. So send your child in with some coins, preferably gold ones!

This year, classes are trying to make the longest coin line with prizes on offer! We’ll be doing the annual longest kick competition, Footy Day Parade and also the staff vs Yr 6 students game as well. There is also a Class Kahoot Challenge so it should be a great way to end the term!

Parade

Juniors session 2 – 9:50-10:40 (Prep – 2)

Seniors session 3 – 11:10-12:00pm (Year 3-6)

Parents are most welcome to attend, see you there.

SUBS FOR YOU LUNCH PROGRAM

Tuesdays and Thursdays until the end of Term 3, Subway (The Links) and Canteen Hub are very pleased to be able to offer the ‘Subs For You School Lunch Program’ to our school.

Orders will close at 12pm the day prior to your selected day (eg. Orders for Thursday, 25 August will close on Wednesday, 24 August at 12pm).

Instructions on how to order and register are attached to this Compass.

1. Please register at app.canteenhub.com.au/register-customer

1. If you need to cancel your order this can be done via app.canteenhub.com.au under your profile up to the order cut-off time.

1. If you need to cancel your order on the day please email help@canteenhub.com prior to 8:30am.

Please note that Classroom Cuisine is still available for orders on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Please contact osparentgroup67@gmail.com if you have any questions or issues.

OSPS Parent Group

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

STUDENT SHOWCASE

THE WIZARD OF OZ

We are now into our final weeks of rehearsals for our Year 6 production, The Wizard Of Oz. Both casts are now running the show in sequence and have been amazing learning their lines, songs and choreography over the last term. They can’t wait to perform to everyone during the last week of term. Tickets are available for all shows via TryBooking. See Compass for further details.

SPLASH

Level 4 students performed their production Splash at the end of last term. They accepted and rose to the challenge for these performances with great success. It was certainly a great learning and performance developing experience for all students.

SCHOOL BAND

Our band have been having regular Wednesday lunchtime rehearsals during this term. They have learnt Somewhere over the Rainbow, which we will be performing at assembly in week 9.

RESILIENCE PROJECT

GEM- WANYARA INCURSION

Gratitude- We’re grateful for the Wanyara team for teaching us their hunting tools and how our First Nations people take care and manage the land.

Empathy- We had empathy for the First Nations team that led us in the dance routine as their ancestors weren’t allowed to got to lots of places because of their skin tone in the past.

Mindfulness- Mindful during the art we created when we wrote a story using Indigenous symbols. Another mindful activity was Yarn which we learnt about the culture of the First Nations people and how they survived and lived off the land.

Over the last few weeks our Year 5 students have been learning all about the important life skill of mindfulness during their TRP lessons. Our students explored the influence of music that can have on our emotions. They had opportunities to listen to happy, calming, and sad songs whilst they filled their buckets with images.

YEAR 5 LITERACY CORNER

The Year 5 students have completed a 4 week poetry unit as part of their writing program this term.

To coincide with our integrated unit on cultural diversity and inclusion, we have explored the concept of Country and what it means to Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people by writing our own verse in the story, ‘Somebody’s Land’ by Adam Goodes and Ellie Laing.

We also wrote our own ‘Sorry’ poems after researching the stolen generation. To explore the concepts of rhyme, repetition, rhythm and sound patterns we wrote limericks, diamante, haiku, cinquain and acrostic poems.

The students enjoyed expressing their creative side and had fun experimenting with new ways of writing.

OSPS SPORT

SPORT AT OAKLEIGH SOUTH PRIMARY SCHOOL

District Athletics

Last Thursday, OSPS took a squad of 61` students to the district Athletics Carnival which was held at Duncan McKinnon reserve.

All students performed remarkable well, doing their best at every event and showing great sportsmanship throughout. As usual, our exemplary behaviour was on show during the day. We even had some wonderful Year 6 students supporting the teachers on the day.

Of particular note were the relays. OSPS won 5 relays which means those teams go through to Division which will be held on 10th of October.

A huge thank you to Mr. Mooney and the P.E staff who have coordinated the program. Our Year 6 teachers and Miss Gunning who train teachers during lunchtime and to those staff and parents that helped on the day.

DISTRICT ATHLETICS RESULTS

Congratulations to the 36 students who will progress to Division Athletics on October 10th.

OSPS won all the relays and the golden baton event!

CAMP AUSTRALIA

PARENT CORNER

PARENT GROUP

PARENT GROUP FOOTY DAY SAUSAGE SIZZLE

In the spirit of Footy Day, Parent Group will be hosting a sausage sizzle lunch on the last day of term 3, Friday, 15 September.

A sausage in bread will cost $3 or $3.50 for gluten free bread. There will also be a plant-based option available for purchase along with a variety of juice boxes for $2.

Orders can be placed through the following link: https://www.trybooking.com/CLAYS

Please note orders close at noon on Friday 8 September. This will ensure there is sufficient time to purchase supplies, therefore no late orders will be accepted.

If you have any questions, please contact Parent Group on osparentgroup67@gmail.com.

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

FATHERS DAY STALL

Last week, Parent Group hosted their 2nd Father’s Day Stall. Over the two days the stall ran, we saw many excited children ready to shop for their dad or special person in their lives.

It was also nice watching students put their math skills into action and calculate what their purchases would cost and how much change they should get.

Parent Group would sincerely like to thank all that helped over the two days the stall was running.

These events are only made possible with our wonderful volunteers. If you are interested in future volunteering opportunities, please email osparentgroup67@gmail.com.

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