Oxley Park Public School

Learning Together for the Future

114-130 Adelaide Street, St Marys 2760 : 9623 1375 : 9623 1340 : oxleypark-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Term 3 Week 5 16th

August, 2017

From the Principal’s Desk

Parent – Teacher interviews Thank you to the staff and parents/carers that have attended parent – teacher interviews over the last week. The feedback we received was very positive and we have taken on board some feedback from parents about what they would like to see improved around the school. Sydney Street Patisserie Thank you to the staff at the Sydney Street Patisserie, the cup cakes and large 60th birthday

cake for Education week was delicious. I received many compliments about the cake and wanted to share your business. Talented students outside of school Cassidy achieved the Gymnastics NSW State Champion on Vault! . Mrs Beerens reports that Cassidy did well in all events but this was her highest achievement. Gold medal.....Standing on the No.1 podium!! She will compete in the State Club Championships at the end of this month and will compete at the National State Clubs in Bendigo at the end of September. We wish Cassidy all the best of success at the Nationals.

Athletics Carnival Thank you to all the students who participated in the Athletics Carnival, your sportsmanship and cooperation is commendable. Your behaviour at the event was exemplary. Thank you to the many parents/carers and family members for supporting our school and a special thank you to the staff who put in an immense amount of effort organising and setting up for the event. A wonderful day was had by all. Naplan 2017 Congratulations to the students in grades 3 & 5 your NAPLAN results are in and will be sent home with students today. The results were very pleasing across the grades. If you would like to discuss any aspect of the results please speak to your child’s class teacher.

Working together in partnership for Quality Education Kim Smith Principal

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The NSW Premier’s Spelling Bee 2017

Congratulations to the following students who will be representing our school at the regional spelling bee in week 9 this term. Rachel 3/4R, Nyanbout 34M, Tallara 5/6L and Sam 5/6Z.

An Aboriginal Girl’s Life By Allira in 3/4J I suddenly woke from a nightmare. I couldn’t get rid of that scene in my head. Everyone left me dying in the sun. I hopped out of the shelter to clear my head. It was cold outside. No-one was awake except a 9-year-old boy playing. I wasn’t really hungry. The wind whistled as the breeze came through my hair. I could hear the boys giggling playfully. Soon everyone was up for breakfast. We had a choice of yummy bird eggs or nice, healthy berries. I chose eggs. My parents need the berries more than I do. They needed the strength. After breakfast, I had to do my daily chores. I had to find some plants for the elderly women. I searched for the best ones so they can be proud of me! I found some little critters on the way. I picked them up as well. By the time it was lunch I had found 38 mini plants and 12 critters. Yep, I was right the elderly women were proud of me! For lunch, we had fish. It was yum. The next thing I had to do for my afternoon daily chores was go with the other girls and build shelters for the little kids. It was hard because one of the girls was being bossy. I ignored her ‘bossiness’ and built. When we finished, we had dinner.

Katoomba Scenic World – Stage 1 Excursion

Last Friday Stage 1 went to Katoomba in the Blue Mountains at 8.30 in the morning. We went on a comfortable bus with little windows. When we got there we had recess and we had Crunch n’ Sip at a big park. We got to watch the waterfall falling off the mountains. After that we went to the Skyway. We went high over the trees. We saw the Three Sisters from the Skyway. We then went to the Cableway and the rainforest. In the rainforest our guide Keira led us on a bushwalk. She showed us a fern tree, an old house and a special gum tree called a ribbon tree. The bark was shedding off the tree. We went back on the Scenic Railway up a steep cliff. It was scary! It was like a long bus and a roller coaster put together. Then we had lunch and came back home on the bus. It was a fun day! by Jaxon and 1/2V

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News from the Library

Book Fair 2017

Thank you to all the parents, students and family members who supported the book fair this year. We had $5800 in sales. Almost $4000 was taken in the first hour. The school has $1740 to spend on books and resources from Scholastic over the next year.

A number of changes were made to the organisation of the fair to improve the speed in which everyone was served. We would like your feedback on ways that we could improve this even more.

This year, I placed 29 orders for books that had sold out during the book fair. All of the books ordered were in student’s hands by the following week.

In 2018, the Book Fair will be held over a number of days, as the ordering systems means that students will not miss out if they aren't the first in the door.

Debating Team

The debating team hosted the fourth and final debate on Monday 14th August against Toongabbie Public School. Due to unforeseen circumstances an adjudicator was unable to be present. As a result it was too close for the teachers to decide a winner. Our team had great arguments and achieved their personal goal of using all the allocated time, of three minutes per speaker. Congratulations Caitlin, Abeer, Ashleigh and Khodi on the debate. A special thank you to Tea and Jasmine for taking on Chairperson and timekeeper.

While our team didn't win a debate this year, personal growth, understanding of the debating process and confidence can be seen when they stand to present their debate. Congratulations on your development and growth.

Restau de Livre

On Wednesday 16th August, to celebrate Book Week, the library will be turned into a restaurant. All students Preschool to Year 6 have been invited to the restaurant to enjoy a 3 course banquet of books. A special thank you to Ms Derigo and 5/6D for becoming the waiters and busboys to allow this venture to happen. Pictures of the event will be included in the next newsletter.

Coding and Robotics

A number of students from Kindergarten to Year 6 have had the opportunity to experience Coding, in the form of writing games using Scratch, a computer program aimed at students to experience and better understand writing programs that make a game work.

Interested students in Years 5 and 6 have joined the Robotics Club at lunchtime. Their goal this term is to build the robot, trouble shoot if it wasn't working and program the Lego EV3 to complete given tasks.

Selected Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2 students are being exposed to programming Daisy the Dinosaur using the iPad. They have to instruct Daisy to move, jump, turn and walk to complete a given task.

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Athletics Carnival On Tuesday 8th August 2017 the school athletics carnival was held at Blair Oval. The weather was amazing and all events ran smoothly. The children had a great time and left the field looking spick and span. Thank you to all staff, parents and helpers as it really was a wonderful day.

P&C NEWS

Special Meeting regarding the canteen is on Monday 21st at 9:30am.

Next P&C Meeting is on the Monday 28th August, 2017 at 7pm.

P&C FATHER’S DAY STALL 30th – 31st August 2017 Our P&C Father’s Day Stall will be run by a Pre-Purchase System. This allows for adequate gifts to be

available and eliminates money being lost or forgotten on the day. There will be no cash facilities on the day, all gifts available will be $5 each.

On the day of the stall your child will be brought to the stall by their teacher. Parent helpers will guide students who have pre-ordered to a table where they can pick their gift. Please return the below order form by Friday 25th August 2017

(no late orders or on the day payments)

FATHERS DAY STALL ORDER FORM $5 GIFTS

Student Name: _________________________________ Class: ____________ One form per Student please

I have enclosed $_______ to purchase_____ gift/s at the stall TOTAL = _________

Guardian/Parent signature: _________________________

Please return all orders, forms & money in an envelope clearly marked P&C FATHERS DAY STALL to the CANTEEN by Friday 25th August 2017.

Please complete one order form for each student, family forms may be combined in the one envelope. Please use correct money as change will not be given.

Thank you for your support, OPPS

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Flip Out Blacktown will be hosting a Onesie night Friday 25th August 2017 from 5 – 8pm. We are collecting donations of unwanted blankets, sheets, towels and other linen to donate to Animal Welfare League. We are hoping you would help us get the word out there by advertising this event in your school newsletter. The more donations we receive the more animals we can help keep snuggly and warm.

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Term

Three

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

Week 1

17th July SDD

18th July

Students resume

Morning Muster

19th July

20th July

Stage 2

Opera House Peter

and the Wolf

21st July

2 24th July

25th July 26

th July

ZOO themed Mufti

and Disco

27th July

Public Education

Concert (rehearsal)

28th July

Stage 1 Excursion

Katoomba

OPPS Fete 29th

of

July 3 31

st July

Education Week

WESTFIELDs Mt

Druitt performance

1st August

UNSW English

competition

Education Week

2nd

August

Public Education

Open Day & Book Fair

Education Week

3rd

August

Education Week

4th August

Public Education

Concert – Rooty Hill

Education Week

4 7th August

P&C Meeting 9am

PARENT TEACHER

INTERVIEWS

8th August

Athletics Carnival

back-up date

PARENT TEACHER

INTERVIEWS

9th August

Kindergarten Virtual

Reality incursion

Spelling Bee

school final PARENT TEACHER

INTERVIEWS

10th August

PARENT TEACHER

INTERVIEWS

11th August

PARENT TEACHER

INTERVIEWS 5 14

th August

PARENT TEACHER

INTERVIEWS

15th August

UNSW Mathematics

competition

PARENT TEACHER

INTERVIEWS

16th August

PARENT TEACHER

INTERVIEWS

17th August

PARENT TEACHER

INTERVIEWS

18th August

CLC Sport

Round 1

PARENT TEACHER

INTERVIEWS

6 21st August

Special meeting re

the canteen 9:30am

NAPLAN ONLINE

Trial

22nd

August

NAPLAN ONLINE

Trial

23rd

August

NAPLAN ONLINE

Trial

24th August

NAPLAN ONLINE

Trial

25th August

NAPLAN ONLINE

Trial

CLC Sport

Round 2

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28th August

CLC Showcase

(rehearsal)

7.00PM P&C meeting

29th August

Colyton Showcase

6pm

30th August

P&C Fathers Day stall

Pre school only

District Athletics

Colyton Showcase

6pm

31st August

P&C Fathers Day

Stall K-6

1st September

CLC Sport

Round 3

8.00am Father’s

Day Big Breakfast

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4th September

5th September

6th September

Barangaroo excursion

stage 2

Festival of

Instrumental music

performance Opera

House

7th September

8

th September

CLC Sport

Round 4

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11th September 12

th September 13

th September

Grandparents Day

14th September

15th September

CLC Sport

Round 5 10 18

th September

19th September

20th September

21

st September

22nd

September

SRC Mufti Day

Jersey Day and

Jellies

Last day of Term 3

Term Three Calendar Oxley Park Public School 2017

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