“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” – Aristotle

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

At long last, we welcomed our Prep children back to school on Monday after an extensive period of remote learning. The children’s happy faces as they saw their teachers and friends was a wonderful sight. Amazingly, the children settled in very well to their classroom routine very quickly and all had a perfect first day back. Tomorrow they will be celebrating their long overdue ‘100 Days of School’, which they are very excited about.

Just as exciting will be the Year 1 & 2 children returning Thursday and the Year 5 & 6 children returning to school Friday. Our once empty school will be full of happy and enthusiastic children ready to get back to learning in a normal environment once again!! Next week we see the return of the Year 3 & 4 children with everyone returning on Friday 5th November.

Thank you for all your hard work in supporting your children during this most difficult time. We understand the enormous pressure this put on many families, but we only have a few more days to go until the children will be with us full-time. You’ve all done an amazing job supporting the teachers but most of all your children. THANK YOU!

Have a great week and an even better weekend out of lockdown!!

Ron

Principal

TERM DATES / QR CODE

SCHOOL MATTERS

PRIMARY SCHOOL WEAR – OSPS CATALOGUE

It is going to be a very hectic time of year at PSW coming out of lockdown and servicing the whole community needs for school uniform.

PSW are encouraging families to book fitting times in January to avoid up to 3 hour wait times. Or order online if you know your sizing.

Please see link below to the OSPS catalogue.

Oakleigh South Primary School PSW Flyer

KINDER TO PREP TRANSITION PROGRAM

Next week, the 2022 Prep transition program will begin. Unfortunately, due to the current DET restrictions for people coming onsite, these have to be virtual sessions.

The children will take part in two online sessions. Each prep teacher will conduct a Zoom meeting where the new preps will engage in a prep activity booklet, stories, games, singing and dancing. The aim is to give the children the best experience online, making it fun where they can experience interacting with new children and teachers.

If there is an opportunity to bring the kinder children onsite in small groups later in the year, we will try to incorporate this. However due to our large number for 2022 preps this may be logistically impossible with restrictions. We will however, endeavour to get the children onsite to ‘Meet the Teacher’ on Friday 3rd December.

The two virtual transition sessions for both groups will be on Friday 29th October and Thursday 4th November, both at 2pm.

OSPS PARENT COMMUNITY FACEBOOK GROUP

Only current parents of OSPS students are able to join. Please click this link if you would like to join: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1597982180354198

POP-UP VACCINATION CLINICS

The Department of Education has advised us to notify the OSPS school community that Box Hill High School is hosting a pop-up COVID-19 vaccination clinic where the local community can get vaccinated.

Pfizer will be offered to people getting their first-dose vaccination. Those getting their second dose will get the same vaccine as their first dose.

You can get your second-dose Pfizer vaccine at this clinic, if it’s been three weeks since your first.

Box Hill High School is located at 1180, Whitehorse Road, Box Hill.

Parking is available at Whitehorse Reserve, on Whitehorse Road. Walk ins are permitted.

The clinic is operating on:

• Saturday, 23 October (10am – 6pm)
• Sunday, 24 October (10am – 5pm)

ENROLMENTS FOR 2022

Enrolments for Prep 2022 have now been offered and confirmed.

We look forward to meeting our 2022 families in the near future.

LOCAL NATIVE-SPEAKER LANGUAGE ASSISTANTS PROGRAM (LNLAP) 2022

Oakleigh South Primary School has successfully applied for a grant from the Department of Education and Training to employ a Local Native-speaker Language Assistant in 2022. The Local Native-speaker Language Assistants Program (LNLAP) places local native-like speakers of Japanese, German, Indonesian, Spanish, Chinese and French in selected Victorian government schools to enrich their provision of languages education over the course of one academic year.

The Oakleigh Education Plan (OEP) is a collaborative partnership between Oakleigh South Primary School, South Oakleigh College and Huntingdale Primary School. Together, our three schools form a Learning Precinct where the diversity of our community, inclusion, student engagement, achievement, wellbeing and high-quality teaching and learning across our three schools are shared and celebrated. The LNLAP initiative is one example of the learning opportunities being offered to our students as part of the Oakleigh Education Plan.

The LNLAP initiative presents a wonderful opportunity for students to expand their language learning and interest in the program from schools has been high. We are now seeking the help of our community to identify potential candidates to fill this role in 2022. If you know of anyone who may be suitable and interested in taking on this exciting opportunity, please encourage them to contact Sumiko Ranjitkumar, Language Assistants Program (LNLAP) Coordinator at Oakleigh South Primary School for more information, including a role description and selection criteria (email preferred).

For a more detailed outline of the program please click on the link here – LNLAP Document

Email: Sumiko.Ranjitkumar@education.vic.gov.au

Phone: 03 9570 1016

Applications close: 4pm, Friday 5 November 2021

Commencement date: 28 January 2022

STUDENT SHOWCASE

YEAR 3 SHOWCASE

The years have done a tremendous job with remote learning during the end of Term 3 and the beginning of Term 4.  The end of term 3 saw the Year 3s take part in an incursion with Ecolinc focusing on turtles and conservation in line with our sustainability learning.  The incursion was fantastic and the student engagement was wonderful.  Students investigated elements of the turtle’s life-cycle, learned about the interdependence of turtles living on the reef and most importantly developed awareness of the greatest conservation threats facing our turtles today.

The Reef HQ Aquarium Turtle Hospital provides facility where sick and injured marine turtles can be cared for and stay there until they get better. Since opening over ten years ago, the hospital has cared for 255 patients and inspired more than 270,000 guests who visited through our premier talk and tour program. – Rani 3DD

The Year 3s were then given a project where they were asked to create and present their understandings in any form they like.  Student’s projects came in the form of posters, PowerPoint presentations, models and even an interpretive dance.

Zara – 3JP

LIBRARY NEWS

LIBRARY NEWS

A friendly reminder for all families to ensure you’re returning school library books when back at school. Please take a good look around your house for those books you may have had for quite some time.

If you’ve forgotten the books you’re borrowed, please access the link below.

https://oakleighsouthps.softlinkhosting.com.au/oliver/home/browse/list 

Username: (AR student number)

Password: Library

A reminder to all students that you can only request a maximum of 2 books per week.

Thank you – The Library team.

OSPS SPORT

SSV VIRTUAL TRACK AND FIELD

Victorian primary and secondary students are encouraged to take part in this great opportunity. There are several ways they can be involved. SSV is not looking for the best performance, we are looking for students to give it a try.

By taking part in this great event, students will not only score points for their school, but they will also be improving themselves every time they try. There is nothing better than self-improvement and personal bests

Why not give it a shot?

There are several ways that students can be involved. They can take part in one or all of the events. SSV is offering a limited range of Track and Field events (disciplines). Why not give each one a go? Students have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

For more information and to upload your results please visit the SSV page here.

In submitting Virtual Track and Field performances the parent or guardian consents to their child’s results being published with the following identifiers: first name, school, gender and age category. There is an option to enter the performance results and have the performance count toward the Virtual Points for the school, but not have the results made public. 

Entrant’s information will be used in accordance with SSV’s Privacy Policy.

LITERACY CORNER

YEAR 3 LITERACY CORNER

Literacy has been a big focus for the Year 3s this semester with students having daily VCOP lessons loomed by Mrs Dwyer.  Each day the students have a focused activity to complete with Friday being the day they can put all their knowledge together and come up with some great writing.  Here are a few examples.

“EEEEEH!” I squealed, as the freezing cold water splashed on my feet and I stepped away. I had never felt water this cold before, so I decided I would play on the sand.
– Khwahish 3JS

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.