Dear parents and friends of the school,

This is just a mini newsletter with some important infor-

mation we’d like to share before we break for holidays.

Take care for the upcoming holidays and enjoy the

break. I look forward to seeing you all next term.

Warm Regards,

Matthew Jacobson

Principal

Merit Assembly

Congratulations to the students who received awards at

the Term 2 Merit Assembly.

Kindergarten

Deklan Fenton for improved handwriting.

Matilda Jacobson for excellent sounding out of words

in reading.

Elise Nixon for excellent work in mathematics.

Nicholas Sandral for excellent reading and sounding out

of words.

Nate Sheridan for excellent talking and listening skills.

Claire Willis for excellent reading.

Talara Wolter for excellent counting both forwards and

backwards.

Hollie Walker for settling into school well.

Samantha Dehn for excellent handwriting.

Year 1

Bella Fenton for always having a go in Maths.

Bianca Habermann for excellent counting both for-

wards and backwards.

Shanae Habermann for improved reading and sounding

out of words.

Ashley Hanrahan for excellent reading.

Halle Robb for improvement in mathematics.

Stephanie Sutcliffe for excellent addition and subtraction

skills.

Year 2

Sam Jacobson for excellent reading with Year 3.

Seth Dawson for great improvement in spelling.

Chelcee Doyle for wonderful art.

Rubee Gardiner for improved reading.

Jennifer Sandral for wonderful effort in sport.

Harper Wolter for wonderful effort in sport.

Amber Summons for excellent handwriting.

Year 3

Jackson Macartney for improved effort in PE.

Wade Bateman for excellent spelling.

Charlie Sandral for excellent effort in sport.

Bryce Wright for great effort in reading.

Olive Russell for excellent independent working.

Sophie Willis for great improvement in reading and

spelling.

Year 4

Jake Sartore for outstanding maths trading.

Isabelle Richens for improved maths.

Matthew Sutcliffe for outstanding maths.

SCHOOL NEWS

PRINCIPAL’S PERSPECTIVE

Coreen St Oaklands 2646

Ph: 02 6035 4290 Fax: 02 6035 4382 Email: oaklands-c.school@det.nsw.edu.au

URL: www.oaklands-c.schools.nsw.edu.au

Principal: Matthew Jacobson

Oaklands Central School & Oaklands Community Newsletter

Volume 29 No. 10

Wednesday 26th June, 2013

COMING EVENTS:

27th June - CWA International Day at the CWA

Rooms, 1.15pm

28th June - Last day of Term 2

15th July - P and C Meeting at 8pm in the Staff

Room

16th July - Students Commence Term 3

26th July - Balldale Primary Athletics Carnival,

Corowa

26th July - Riverina Secondary Athletics, Albury

29th July - Pupil Free Day (Staff Development

Day)

2nd August - “Open Day”

PRIMARY CLASSROOM NEWS

Year 5

Brooklyn Moloney for excellent letter writing.

Victoria Dehn for excellent explorer research.

Connor Fenton for excellent explorer research.

Tom Mottram for outstanding maths trading.

Year 6

Logan Kerr for excellence in all subjects.

Toby Wright for consistent effort.

Archie Boydell for excellent letter writing.

Special Awards

Stephanie Munro - New Chef Award.

Zak Sartore - New Chef Award.

Charlie Sandral - Gardening Award.

Holly Arnold - Gardening Award.

There were awards for all students who participated in

the Athletics Carnival. Congratulations to the students

who have made it to the next carnival.

Athletics Champions

Athletics Champions received medallions and were:

Sub Junior Primary Girl: Chelcee Doyle

Sub Junior Primary Boy: Seth Dawson

Junior Primary Girl: Holly Arnold

Junior Primary Boy: Aaron Sandral

11yrs Primary Girl: Gabrielle Sutcliffe

11yrs Primary Boy: Xavier Buntin

12/13yrs Primary Girl: Crystal Bateman

12/13yrs Primary Boy: Logan Kerr and George

Sandral

13/14 Secondary Girl: Madeline Preedy

13/14 Secondary Boy: Byron Habermann

15/16 Secondary Girl: Jasmine Bateman

15/16 Secondary Boy: Jesse Walker

17+ Secondary Girl: Daysee-Mae Purtell

Primary X-Country Champions

The champions who received medallions were:

8/9yrs Primary Girl: Jennifer Sandral

8/9yrs Primary Boy: Jesse Moloney

10yrs Primary Girl: Isabelle Richens

10yrs Primary Boy: Aaron Sandral

11yrs Primary Girl: Gabrielle Sutcliffe

11yrs Primary Boy: Xavier Buntin

12/13yrs Primary Girl: Crystal Bateman

12/13yrs Primary Boy: Logan Kerr

Congratulations to all these champions and to the Oak-

lands team who made all this possible.

Primary Balldale Athletics Carnival

The date for the Balldale Athletics Carnival is Friday

26th July, with more information to be sent out next

term. The entries for the Balldale Athletics Carnival are

as follows:

George Sandral: 12yrs 100m, 12/13yrs 200m, 12/13yrs

800m, 12/13yrs Shot Put, 12/13yrs High Jump, 12/13yrs

Discus, 12/13yrs Long Jump, Senior Relay, Nigel Bag-

ley Relay.

Logan Kerr: 12yrs 100m, 12/13yrs 200m, 12/13yrs

800m, 12/13yrs Shot Put, 12/13yrs High Jump, 12/13yrs

Discus, 12/13yrs Long Jump, Senior Relay, Nigel Bag-

ley Relay.

Archie Boydell: 12/13yrs 100m, Nigel Bagley reserve,

Xavier Buntin: 11yrs 100m, 11yrs 200m, 11yrs 800m,

11yrs Shot Put, 11yrs High Jump, 11yrs Discus, 11yrs

Long Jump, Snr Relay, Nigel Bagley Relay.

Liam Summons: 11yrs 100m.

Aaron Sandral: 10yrs 100m, Junior 200m, Junior

800m, Junior High Jump, Junior Long Jump, Junior Re-

lay.

Jacob Habermann: 10yrs 100m, Junior Shot Put, Jun-

ior Relay.

Darcy Owen: Junior Shot Put, Junior Discus.

Jake Sartore: 10yrs 100m, Junior Relay.

Jesse Moloney: 9 yrs 100m, Junior 200m, Junior 800m,

Junior Discus, Junior High Jump, Junior Long Jump,

Junior Relay.

Charlie Sandral: 9yrs 100m, Junior Relay reserve.

Thomas Mottram: 9yrs 100m.

Zak Sartore: 8yrs 100m.

Sam Jacobson: 8yrs 100m.

Crystal Bateman: 13yrs 100m, 12/13yrs 200m,

12/13yrs Shot Put, 12/13yrs High Jump, 12/13yrs Dis-

cus, 12/13yrs Long Jump.

Grace Gardiner: 12yrs 100m, 12/13yrs 200m, 12/13yrs

Shot Put, 12/13yrs Long Jump, Senior Relay.

Amy Mottram: 12yrs 100m, 12/13yrs Discus.

Gabrielle Sutcliffe: 11yrs 100m, 11yrs 200m, 11yrs

800m, 11yrs Shot Put, 11yrs High Jump, 11yrs Discus,

11yrs Long Jump, Senior Relay, Nigel Bagley Relay.

Bethany Moloney: 11yrs 100m, 11yrs 200m, 11yrs

800m, 11yrs High Jump, 11yrs Discus, 11yrs Long

Jump, Senior Relay, Nigel Bagley Relay.

Brooklyn Moloney: 11yrs 100m, 11yrs Shot Put.

Emma Gardiner : 10yrs 100m, Junior Relay reserve.

Sophie Willis: 10yrs 100m.

Isabelle Richens: 10yrs 100m, Junior Discus.

Holly Arnold: 9yrs 100m, Junior 800m, Junior Shot

Put, Junior High, Junior Long Jump, Junior Relay.

Stephanie Munro: 9yrs 100m, Junior Shot Put, Junior

Discus, Junior Relay.

Olive Russell: 9yrs 100m.

Jennifer Sandral: 8yrs 100m, Junior 200m, Junior

800m, Junior Relay.

Harper Wolter: 8yrs 100m, Junior 200m, Long Jump,

Junior Relay.

District Representation

Certificates of District Representation were presented to:

Bethany Moloney, Brooklyn Moloney, Crystal Bateman

and Gabrielle Sutcliffe for Netball.

Jennifer Sandral, Charlie Sandral, Jesse Moloney, Zak

Sartore, Aaron Sandral, Bethany Moloney, Gabrielle

Sutcliffe and Xavier Buntin for Cross-Country.

Eastern Riverina Representation

Certificates for Eastern Riverina Representation were

presented to;

Gabrielle Sutcliffe and George Sandral in tennis, Gabri-

elle Sutcliffe in netball and George Sandral in football.

Certificates for Riverina Representation were pre-

sented to:

George Sandral in Football (to add to his Tennis and

Cricket)

Byron Habermann was presented with an award for

Central Schools Football.

Year 5 Excursion Last week the Year 5’s went to the Riverina Environ-

mental Centre at Wagga and will give you a report next

term.

Speech Eisteddfod

Albury Eisteddfod kids are improving out of sight.

Keep practising in the holidays – do it in front of a mir-

ror. Come back to school almost perfect. Good luck!

This Weeks Events

Tuesday – Mrs Sloane’s music continues. She has sent

home account with the relevant students.

Thursday – CWA International Day afternoon. Come

and see their special event. See advertisement on this

page.

Friday Fun Day – return notes ASAP.

That’s it for Primary news. Sorry I missed the last

newsletter but there were so many things from the Merit

Assembly that I wanted to include.

Remember the students

Margot Gorman

Country Women’s Association International Day 2013

Morocco

Members of the community,

An inviatation is extended to parents, grandparents and friends to attend the CWA International Day on Morocco. This will be held on Thursday 27th June, at the Oaklands CWA rooms, commencing at 1.15pm. The students of Years 5 and 6 will be presenting small talks on the country and their projects will be on display. We will also be hearing from a former Oak-lands Central School student about her re-cent trip to Morocco. Afternoon tea will be served at the conclusion of the presen-tations. We welcome you to join us in cel-ebrating the effort and hard work of the years 5 and 6 students.

Caz Swann CWA International Officer

The next P & C Meeting is

Monday 15th July

P and C meet on the 3rd Monday of each month at 8pm in the Staff Room.

Everyone welcome

P & C NOTICE

COMMUNITY NEWS

OCHFC

FREE GOLF LESSONS

Sunday 7th July, at the Oaklands Golf Course

Intermediates 10am - 11am followed by 18 holes

Beginners 11am - 12noon followed by 9 holes

Morning tea provided Gold Coin Donation

Bookings Essential RSVP by 1st July

Contact: Sarah-Jane Sheridan 0428502575

(lessons will only run if numbers permit)

10th Annual Riverina Harvest Ball

Friday 11th October 2013, 7pm, Oaklands Town Hall

$100 all inc, meals and drinks, Fully catered and live band

Dress: Strictly Black Tie 1920’s glamour will be the decoration theme,

you’re welcome to dress to suit this theme

Tickets go on sale at 9:30am on Friday 30 August 2013.

Tickets Sales will be available at the Oaklands General Store from 9:30am

till 1:30pm on this day Ticket Sales Contact Brie Kerr 0427354220 or 0260354139 or

b12croft@msn.com

Upon booking your tickets you will have 7 days to make payment, after this time your tickets may be resold. Tickets are limited and sell very fast.

All other Enquiries: Sarah Moloney 0429 350 251

Ph: 02 6035 4270 Fax: 02 6035 4284

Andrew Day Ph: 0427354270

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