PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

The P-2 Easter Hat Parade was a terrific event, filled with colour, excitement and songs. Thank you to the teachers for making it a wonderful experience and Parent Group for making coffees and hot chocolates for the parents. Thank you to Parent Group who organised the Easter raffle donations and prizes and congratulations to all the recipients and winners.

The OSPS Family Fete is coming up in Term 2, hope this date is in your calendars and you are inviting all of your extended family and friends to attend. Don’t forget to purchase your Early Bird Wrist Band Ride Tickets via QKR if you have not done so already. It entitles the wearer to unlimited rides from 10am – 3pm on Fete day.

We have a team of parents on the Fete team, assisting Nikki Virtuoso with the main organisational aspects of the Fete. Thank you to the parents hitting the pavement and chasing up donations from local businesses, contacting all the kinders and schools to promote our Fete, graphic design, printing of posters and flyers, errands and sorting Fete stock. The Fete would not be possible without your contributions.

There is a lot of interest in the Fete Sponsorship opportunities so far and hundreds of local businesses have committed to donating. Please show our support to those businesses if you can and remember to let them know you are from OSPS. Thank you to all the families who will be dropping off Fete flyers into letter boxes over the holidays. We received more volunteer offers than areas to allocate, so thank you to for your offer to help.

We hope all families have placed their name on their child’s stall roster to help on the day, please check in with your teacher about filling remaining spots.

Wishing all our families and friends a very safe and happy holidays and we’ll see you in Term 2.

Ron Cantlon
Principal

TERM DATES

Term 3:
16 July to 21 September 2018

Term 4:
8 October to 20 December (2.30pm school students finish) 21 December (school teachers finish)

Last day of each term is a 2.30pm finish

SCHOOL MATTERS

Recipe Book

Don’t forget to submit your favourite recipe – instructions below

 VALUED STUDENT

STUDENT SHOWCASE

Year 3 The Village Update

Year 3 students had a ‘crack’ing start to the year with 40 eggs arriving in the classrooms. Over the course of two weeks, the chicks hatched and we all watched them grow with great excitement! Here’s what some of our chicken enthusiasts had to say:

“Chickens only need to stay in an egg for 21 days” Amelia 3JP

“For eggs to hatch, they have to be warm. We kept them in an incubator, then when they hatched we put them in a brooder box” Akshadha 3MM

“The chickens were clumsy when they hatched. They were climbing all over each other and falling over. Mr Kerr had to help them!” Maddison 3KK

“The chicks were yellow to start but now they are brown” Jonathan 3KB

“The chicks started fluffy, but now they are covered in feathers” Audrey 3MW

“Chickens start laying eggs when they are about 20 weeks old” Sam 3JS

“Chickens are fun to play with – but sometimes they run around and are really hard to catch!” Alvin 3DD

Year 3 students have also been very busy in the garden. All children have now had the opportunity to be a farmer. The farmers arrive at school early to complete many jobs and activities, including learning about how to care for the village animals, learning about the plants growing in the garden, talking about seeds and how things grow and change, learning about succulents, how to take and nurture cuttings to make new plants, plus lots more! Children have also been using the village tomatoes to make delicious bruschetta.

Each Tuesday, one lucky class has been cooking scrumptious pizzas using produce from the garden. The teachers have loved taste-testing the pizzas – just to make sure they aren’t poisonous of course!

Students have been trying to reduce their footprint on our Earth by bringing minimal wrappers and by celebrating Waste Free Wednesday each week.

What a busy start to the year it has been! Year 3 sure is the place to be!

PARENT GROUP

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