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Principal’s Report
Ocean Shores Public School
19 June, 2020 Issue 8, Term 2
Ocean Outlook 166 Shara Boulevarde, Ocean Shores 2483 P: (02) 6680 2766 F: (02) 66802764
E: [email protected] W: www.oceanshore-p.schools.nsw.gov.au
Coming Up!
Thu 25 June
Sushi orders due for Friday
Fri 26 June
Year 5 Opportunity Class
2021 applications due
Canteen open
Sushi orders due for Monday
Mon 29 June
Canteen open
Wed 1 July
Reports home
Thu 2 July
NAIDOC celebrations
Fri 3 July
Last day of Term 2
Please be advised that only
students and staff are to
enter the school grounds.
Please contact the school via
phone, email or send a note
with your child if they are late
or leaving early and we will send
them to the front gate.
Operation Dolphin - week 9
I am Inspiring - I ensure the
school environment is clean and
tidy at all times.
Learning Tree Project
Over the next two months the Ocean
Shores School community will be asked for
input into the design of a new outdoor
learning area to replace our beloved
Learning Tree. I would encourage all
families to begin the conversation about
how we can improve our school’s
environment in an affordable, practical and
aesthetically pleasing way. Look out for the
design brief in next week’s
newsletter and prepare to be creative!
Adventure Playspace Thanks!
Thanks to Cade Davidson, Jarrah
Davidson, Adam Thornton, Wayne
Gibbons and Rob Brough who spent last
Saturday working on our adventure
playspace. The slide is now fully installed,
the pipe phone is in and the cargo net has
been sent back to the manufacturer for
re-sizing. We are two working bees away
from a fully-functioning adventure
playspace!
Bravery
Don’t forget to spend some time discussing
the disposition ‘bravery’ – especially in
relation to learning. Sometimes we need to
‘put ourselves out there’ and make
mistakes with our learning in order to
succeed. We all need to show bravery at
times in order to overcome our fears!
Aurora College Opportunity Class
Applications Close 26th June (for Year
5, 2021)
Parents of children in Year 4 are reminded
that the Opportunity Class (OC)
applications for Year 5 2021 close Friday
26th June. Aurora College, a virtual NSW
Selective School, now provides lessons for
students in Years 5 and 6. This enables
rural and remote students to access
lessons for gifted and talented students
remotely while attending their local public
school. For more information go to:
https://www.aurora.nsw.edu.au/learn/
opportunity-class/the-oc-program/
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Aboriginal Education
Our Aboriginal Education team is
continuing to support staff to implement
the NSW Department of Education’s
‘Aboriginal Education Policy’. We are
looking forward to our in-school NAIDOC
celebrations which are scheduled for
Thursday July 2nd, along with our
Indigenous Artworks competition.
School Operations
I would like to thank our parents and
carers for your ongoing support and
understanding in light of the changes to
how we operate during COVID-19. Please
continue to call and email the school if you
need to connect with teachers regarding
your child’s progress.
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Principal Report continued
Current advice is that external use of school
facilities will be able to re-commence in Term 3
provided that relevant physical distancing and
hygiene procedures are in place. Also, therapists
and tutors who support students will be able to
work onsite again. At this point we are not sure
when the school site will be re-opened to
parents and community so are unable to schedule
whole-school events. I will keep the community
informed of progress via the usual channels of
communication.
Canteen
It was wonderful to see the canteen re-open
today thanks to P&C, Nadine and her wonderful
volunteers! Don’t forget canteen will continue to
operate in a trial capacity on Mondays also – with
sushi orders required prior. Given parents are
not permitted on site at this point, it is important
children have their orders ready to drop in when
they arrive to school.
Trial times are as follows:
11.00-11.25am – lunch orders only (snacks not
available for purchase)
12.25-12.50pm – play-break (snacks available for
purchase)
1.50-2.15pm – recess (snacks available for
purchase)
Martin Gill
Principal
Bundjalung word of the week - week 9
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For the next 2 weeks, students will be exploring and
developing the disposition ‘Bravery’
Kids and teens are growing up in a world that is becoming increasingly competitive and comparative. It is easy to for
them – for any of us – to believe that the ones who have found success or happiness are better than, stronger than,
smarter than, or privy to something magical – certain strengths or qualities that are reserved for the lucky few. The
truth is that none of us are born with the ‘success’ gene or the ‘happiness gene’. There are many things that lead to suc-
cess and happiness, but one of the most powerful of these is Bravery.
Behind so many brilliant successes are failures, rejections, and unexpected turns. Often many. Without exception, there
is also bravery or courage. Mountains of bravery. Bravery to keep going, to find a different way, and of course the brav-
ery to try in the first place.
Teaching Kids to Be Brave: Explaining What Courage Is.
For kids and teens, one of the most important things for them to know is that courage doesn’t always feel like courage.
From the outside, courage often looks impressive and powerful and self-assured. Sometimes it might look reckless or
thrilling. From the inside though, it can feel frightening and unpredictable. It can feel like anxiety, or fear, or rolling self-
doubt. Courage can be a trickster like that – it often looks different from the outside to the way you would expect it to
feel on the inside. This is because courage and fear always exist together. It can’t be any other way. If there is no fear,
there is no need for courage.
Courage isn’t about something magical that happens inside us to make us ‘not scared’. It’s about something magical that
happens inside us to make us push through fear, self-doubt, anxiety, and do the things that feel hard or risky or frighten-
ing. Sometimes, courage only has to happen for seconds at a time – just long enough to be brave enough.
There’s something else that kids need to know about courage – you don’t always see the effects of it straight away.
Courage might mean being kind to the new kid in class, trying something new, speaking up for something they believe in.
Often, these things don’t come with fireworks or applause. In fact, they rarely do. The differences they make can take
time to reveal, but when actions are driven by courage, the differences those actions make will always be there, gently
taking shape and changing their very important corners of the world in some way.
Christine Melkie
& the Visible Learning Team
“Courage might mean being kind to the new kid in class,
trying something new, speaking up for something they believe
in.”
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“Bravery is the admirable quality of being able to confront
frightening things. It takes bravery for a knight to battle a
dragon, but it also takes bravery for a shy child to walk
into a new classroom. You can also call bravery courage or
valour. Firefighters are often acknowledged for their
bravery, but everyday people also act with bravery if they
confront their fears.”
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