OPEN THE DOOR TO LEARNING IN YEARS 3 AND 4oxleyps.vic.edu.au/Newsletters/Newsletter.pdf · welcome barbecue needed to be rescheduled. The barbecue will now be a luncheon on the last

NEWSLETTER TERM 1, WEEK 6 2020

Committed to ‘Nurturing confident, lifelong learners, in a friendly rural community.

OPEN THE DOOR TO LEARNING IN

YEARS 3 AND 4

Students in the combined Year 3/4 class have been out

and about for maths looking at shapes in our world and

creating and solving number patterns using addition.

In English, students have been looking at character

descriptions (and using adjectives), settings and the senses

to improve their writing pieces. Using a ‘colourful’ stimulus

material provides opportunities for ‘colourful’ writing.

Thanks Years 3 and 4 for sharing your learning.

NEWSLETTER TERM 1, WEEK 6 2020 Happy birthday to Piper Siperki (1 March), Harriet Day (3 March), Sam Parker (7 March)

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Jasmine developing her writing, exploring the 5 senses in the picture.

Alexandra takes the opportunity to describe her setting in great detail.



Haunted Lighthouse – Siddhi used this planner to write her ‘Sizzling Start’ to her narrative.

Greta taking the time to explore this image to flesh out her setting.





We got what we all wanted!

Hearing the rain on the tin roof was just the most beautiful

sound – and I think that we were all very thankful for the

amount of rain we received. It seemed to be a very long

time in coming.

HOWEVER, it meant that our ‘Getting to Know You’

welcome barbecue needed to be rescheduled.

The barbecue will now be a luncheon on the last Friday of

term, Friday 27th March at 12.30 pm. ‘Official’ class will end

at 12.30 pm and then we will have an activities afternoon

until around 2.30 pm – the close of term 1.

We would like this to be a dress up day for both parents

and students. Prizes will be awarded for the best Easter bonnet and the best ‘rabbit’ costume. Extra

points will be awarded to creative costumes made at home! The Gruffalo need not participate – just

bunnies please!

I also thank the staff for providing activities before school and at morning tea and lunch for what was

already a very long and wet couple of days.

THANK YOU … to the P&F once again for their fabulous

luncheon (Mexican food bowl!). Lots of hard work but we

all appreciated it.

THANK YOU … to Bruce Uebergang for cleaning out the

school gutters in the pouring rain to ensure we had full tanks.

THANK YOU … to Shelley for the beautiful chocolate

Brownies.

Three Way Learning Conversations Thank you so much to the staff who put in the long hours over the past week (actually the entire term)

to facilitate learning conversations with our parents – and in some cases our students. We had

approximately 73 out of 106 families take advantage of the learning conversations for which we are

incredibly thankful.

Just a point to note: term 3 will be a departure from these Parent Teacher Interviews particularly for

Years 4 to 6. In term 3, we will be focusing on 3 Way Learning Conversations, where students are present,

and they present their own learning strengths, improvement areas and goals with samples of

work. Students will have had time to prepare for the 3 Way Learning Conversations and will be able to

show examples of work products and talk about their own assessment of the work products

presented. This is an opportunity for students to speak confidently about their learning in a supportive

environment and be part of the assessment framework rather than just a receiver of assessment.



From little things …Year 6 Leadership Team WHS visit!

Firstly, Oxley Primary School would like to take the

opportunity to thank Andrew McLean and the

teachers of CLC at Wangaratta High School for

inviting us along to present our ‘wish list’ of

projects to the Year 9 CLC students.

Our 6 leaders presented to the Year 9 students

projects such as: Mud Kitchen, Gardening Shed,

Aquaponics/Hydroponics plans, outdoor

blackboards, Music Wall spaces, frog breeding

ponds and activities/games boards (painted on a

large scale). I have to congratulate our students

who – whilst very nervous about the speaking to

such a large audience, rose to the occasion and

spoke exceptionally well. It is no easy task talking

in front of a large group of Year 9 students – particularly those you don’t know! Very proud moment!

DATE CLAIMERS

February

19 School Council AGM 7.00 pm

20 Grandparents and Special Friends Day – 9.00

am – 11.30 am

24 Preps Excursion – Traffic School

26 Hot lunch

27 LAST DAY OF TERM – Activities afternoon 12.30 -

2.30PM FINISH @ 2.30 pm

BUNNY BRUNCH, EASTER EGG HUNT & EASTER

RAFFLE

April

14 First Day of Term 2

24 First Aid for all levels P to Year 6



ABOVE AND BEYOND OUR

GREEN ZONE! Meet Amelie. Amelie Booth is in

Year 3. We have received 2

separate phone calls about

Amelie going ‘above and beyond’ in our community. Both phone

calls were about the way that Amelie went about nurturing our

younger students and ensuring that, when they were feeling a little

intimidated about ‘big school’, with her guidance and support,

school wasn’t so scary after all.

Thank you to the two community members who took the time to

phone in about our

wonderful young Oxley

PS ambassador.

Congratulations

Amelie. You have received the

Oxley Primary School

Strong Student – Outstanding Care Award.

What do you think and why?

LET ME KNOW YOUR OPINION IN

WRTING.

AND HERE IS ONE FROM MS

PETERS …

WHERE DID THE TERM

‘SHAMPOO’ COME FROM?



NEWSLETTER TERM 1, WEEK 6 2020 Committed to ‘Nurturing confident, lifelong learners, in a friendly rural community.


AN

OPEN INVITATION

Grand Parents AND Special Friends Day

Friday 20th March 9.30am – 11.30am

We would like to invite all our community ‘Grandparents’ and Special ‘Grandfriends’ to visit our fabulous Oxley

Primary School for our “GRANDPARENTS and SPECIAL FRIENDS DAY”.

The plan for the day is:

9.30 am start with a brief Assembly;

9.40 am an invitation to participate in our classroom literacy activities and to complete a session with our

students (topic will be something like ‘Oh how things have CHANGED …’ )

10.10 am Share the Cold Write stories with our kids.

10.30 am – 11.00 am Activities (appropriate to classroom level ie Cosmic Yoga, Movement, Reading Eggs,

Reading to Groups, Sports)

11.00 am Morning Tea (shared - bring a plate to share with all). Tea and Coffee will be provided.

11.30 am Farewell

We can’t wait to share our morning with you. If you are coming along could you please RSVP by Wednesday,

18th March for planning purposes.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME/S:__________________________________________________________________________________________

VISITING GRAND CHILD/CHILDREN: _________________________________________________________________

YEAR LELEL/S: __________________________

ANY OTHER NOTES?





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