issue 12, thursday 1st august 2019 - oberon south primary...
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Issue 12, Thursday 1st August 2019
What an extremely busy and exciting week.
Minister James Merlino - new school facilities for Oberon South Primary School
Today we had the Minister for Education, James
Merlino, and Member for Geelong, Christine
Couzens, visit Oberon South Primary School to an-
nounce our new school build and relocation to Kid-
man Avenue. How exciting! Our children proudly
represented the school with our School Captains
giving our visitors a tour followed by the teachers
and students showcasing our wonderful learning in
class. James Merlino met with all our students and
Barwon Valley students in a School Assembly. He
engaged the children in discussion and asked ques-
tions with students providing entertaining answers.
Please see the attached flyer for the media release.
Dymocks Children’s Charities and
Waurn Ponds Dymocks Library visit to-
morrow, Friday 2nd - 9am
I invite and encourage as many parents as possible to stay on after drop off to-
morrow morning to join in this special presentation and to stay on to enjoy liter-
ature with your child. A special guest is making a visit and there will be prize
giveaways. I hope to see you all.
Indonesian Classes
Today the students recommenced Indonesian learning with our new Indonesian
teacher Mrs Davis. The Library has been revamped with an Indonesian room to
engage the students in the culture and language. I look forward to seeing and
hearing Indonesian being shared across the school.
Parent Opinion Survey
We have had discussions with the students about the value of the Department surveys and the importance and
value in completing them. We had 100% of students complete the Student Opinion Survey. Staff are currently
completing their survey and we ask that all parents please complete the Parent Opinion Survey. I have had
some parents’ comment that it has only taken 5 minutes. Let’s band together and have 100% response for
Oberon South Primary School.
AWARDS
Principal’s Award—Arya congratulations for your improvement in read-
ing and your willingness to confidently read to an audience.
Teacher’s Award— Jye congratulations on all you hard work this week in maths, keep up the fantastic work.
Dayne congratulations on the great improvement he has made with the letters and sounds of the alphabet.
YEAR 4-6 CAMP
Permission notes and information regarding payment plans were distributed to stu-
dents this week. Full payment is due Monday 26th of August, unless you have an
agreed payment plan. If you don’t have a payment plan and wish to arrange one,
please contact Lauren in the office asap.
BUG BLITZ
Permission notes went home last week and are due back with payment tomorrow.
The excursion is Tuesday 6th of Au-
gust from 9am-3:15pm, please
don’t be late on the day or you
might miss the bus!
Assembly
Don’t forget to come along to As-
sembly next Friday 9th August
where children will share the excite-
ment of this week’s events.
Have a great weekend.
Joanne Black
Principal
August
Tuesday 6th Year 3-6 Bug Blitz Excursion Connewarre All Day
Monday 12th Finance Committee 3:15pm
Friday 16th District Athletics All Day
Tuesday 20th School Council 4pm
Wednesday 31st Education Week Library Visit AM
Friday 30th Curriculum Day Student Free
September
Monday 2nd Year 4-6 Camp Anglesea 3 days
Monday 9th Swimming—whole school 2 weeks
Friday 20th Last Day of Term 2:15pm Finish
Kid’s Corner
Library
Last year we put in an application to get more books
for Oberon South’s library. Earlier this year
Dymock’s book store Waurn Ponds raised $2,100 on
books for Oberon South Primary and then Dymock’s
Children’s Charities in Sydney matched this with an-
other $2,100. So tomorrow Oberon South will have some guests from Dymock’s book store Waurn Ponds and
Sydney. Also with our whole schools support getting earn and learn stickers we have decided to make our library
a more comfy and relaxing place so all the earn and learn stickers are going to get us cushions for our school.
The books have all arrived and tomorrow 2nd August, we invite all parents and carers to come to our library ses-
sion at 9:00am on Friday to thank our Dymock’s visitors and chill out and read with us.
Thank you by Ayden and Emily
Our recycling program- blue and red bins
Here at school there are blue bins, red bins and also rubbish bins. In the blue bins you
put all types of paper and cardboard. In the red bins you also put cardboard as well as
plastic, glass bottles and jars, aluminum and steel cans and milk and juice cartons. Any
scraps go in the chook buckets in the eating areas and the kitchen, except you can’t
put citrus fruits like oranges, mandarins, and also onion peel and potato skin.
Jed and Cailan
Recycling to support others - bottle tops
The junior end have come up with an idea and it involves supporting a company in Melbourne who have a 3D
printer to makes artificial hands for people that need them. Our school has started collecting bottle tops to help
this cause. Please help our Junior Representative Council with bringing along bottle tops. As soon as we get
enough bottle tops our school is going to send the bottle tops off to Melbourne so they can use a 3D printer and
send artificial hands to other countries that can use them. We did not want our recycling to go to the land fill we
would normally take all our rubbish to the land fill.
Carley, Aria B and Matti.
Butter in the Classroom Our class were learning to make butter with thick cream. We had to shake a jar full
of thick, white cream. We needed to shake the jar for 15-16 minutes.
As we shook the jar the cream separated to form a liquid and a solid. We removed
the solid butter and cleaned it. We wrapped the butter in gladwrap and refrigerated
it.
At the end of the day we tasted the butter. It tasted squishy and fatty!
Ella and Jake