Dear All, Congratulations to our sports representatives on their achievements during the last two weeks. We have had age champions at respective primary and secondary car-nivals, as well as students selected in a range of sports to represent at higher levels. School Swimming Carnival - Champions Junior Primary Girl : Gabrielle Sutcliffe Junior Primary Boy: Xavier Buntin 11yrs Primary Boy: George Sandral 12/13yrs Primary Girl : Ellie Arnold 12/12yrs Primary Boy: Sam Owen Junior Secondary Girl: Marnie Walker Junior Secondary Boy: Dominic Buntin Senior Secondary Boy: Jesse Walker

Oaklands Central School - Age Champions Balldale PSSA Swimming Carnival at Corowa - Champion Junior Primary Girl: Gabrielle Sutcliffe Secondary South West Riverina Zone Swimming Carnival at The Rock - Champions Junior Secondary Girl: Allanah Moloney Junior Secondary Boy: Dominic Buntin Oaklands came 3rd overall. Well done!

Congratulations and best wishes for future representa-tions. It is not only our students who have accepted challenges outside our schools. It is with great pleasure and excitement that I announce that Miss Melinda Elith has received and accepted an invitation to present at the “Teaching in the 21st Cen-tury Teacher – Enriching Minds, Engaging Hearts”, in Singapore, in May. This is a wonderful opportunity for such a talented and committed teacher, and a due accolade for her efforts and enthusiasm. CONGRATU-LATIONS! I have been generally very happy with the number of students wearing their uniforms correctly. Unfortunately last week there was an incident which led to a student being excluded from an activity because they had not worn the correct shoes. For practical classes this is a safety requirement. I am seeking your assistance in en-suring that our students come to school in their correct uniforms – Thank you! Thank you to our staff and students for their efforts so far. We have had a number of unavoidable timetabling

Wednesday, 29th February 2012

Volume 28 No.3

Oaklands Urana Central Schools & Oaklands Community Newsletter

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: Vicki Harris

PRINCIPAL’S PERSPECTIVE

SCHOOL NEWS COMING EVENTS: 5th March - Secondary Riverina Swimming Car-nival, Leeton **Please note change of date** 6th March - RAP Cricket, Leeton 9th March - Primary PSSA Swimming Carnival, Albury 12th March - Riverina PSSA Pre-selection Boys Cricket Trials, Deniliquin 13th March - Primary Balldale Football/Netball Trials, Oaklands 14thth to 15th March - Year 6 Young Leaders, Melbourne 14th March - Primary Girls Balldale Cricket Tri-als, Corowa 20th March - RAP Netball/Football Trials, Barellan 22nd March - Essendon Footy Clinic, Finley (Yrs 2-6) 5th April - Last day of Term 1

changes, lots of sports trials and RAP excursions and everyone has remained calm, happy and focussed upon achieving outcomes! Facebook Later in the newsletter I have included a two page arti-cle on social networking and how easy it is to gain in-formation from students on-line. In our school environ-ment, students have limited access to social networking sites. Unfortunately at home, many students have access that is not easily supervised. What do you know about Facebook? • What age is it legal to have a Facebook account? • How long are photos and comments kept on Face-

book? • What level of security do you and/or your children

have on their Facebook accounts? If you aren’t sure of the answers, log onto www.facebook.com and read the conditions. Year 7 - 2013 Yes – it is upon us already! If you have a student in Year 6 at present, they will have been given an applica-tion for Year 7, 2013. If you haven’t returned it already, could you please do so, by Wednesday 7 March please?

Excursion Subsidies All students will have the opportunity to participate in minor and major excursions during the year. As many of you would be aware, recent excursions were very heavily subsidised by a number of initiatives, including Federal Government ‘Drought’ Funding. Whilst we are still able to offer some subsidies through the Country Area Program, with the cessation of ‘Drought’ funding, the subsidies will be much less. I have asked staff to provide an estimate of the costs for the major excursions as soon as possible. If families would like to start paying money towards these excur-sions, payment options will be identified with the initial information about these major excursions. If you would like to discuss this with me further, please do not hesitate to contact the school office to make a mutually convenient appointment. School Contributions and Newsletter Primary and secondary schools can request contribu-tions to enhance the school's educational and sporting programs. These school contributions are voluntary and payment is a matter for decision by parents. They help provide additional educational resources for the benefit of students. The Voluntary School Contributions for 2012 are: $30.00 per Primary Student $30.00 per Secondary Student $50.00 maximum per Family $13.00 Newsletter Subscription I have to admit it has been a while since I have had to complete Maths questions in a secondary classroom, (I think it was around the time that Gough Whitlam was removed as Prime Minister by the Governor-General). I

should have known better than to walk into a Year 9/10 class last week when they were working out the factors in algebra equations. Suffice to say, the bell didn’t go early, and I couldn’t escape easily. Sooooooo, I learnt that Maths is a lot easier, if you: • work through the examples on your laptop, BE-

FORE you try to just put the answers in; AND • talk to those around you, two heads are better than

one…….. Enjoy the next fortnight. Vicki Harris Principal - Oaklands Urana Central Schools

Swimming School and Swim Fun Where do I begin to thank the team of people who banded together to make our 2012 Swimming Program such a success? So I’ll just say a huge thank you to: • the Primary staff, who taught right through their

lunch hours to create the best student / teacher ratio possible (One teacher to five students instead of the normal , one teacher to fifteen students, makes such a difference).

• the Secondary Staff ,who covered all the Play-ground Duty for 3 weeks to allow Primary Staff to be at the pool.

• Georgia Tait, who was there early ever day and taught both sessions – where else would you get a swimmer of that quality teaching ‘Learn to Swim’.

• Caz Swann, who found a babysitter day after day to lighten our load at ‘Learn to Swim”.

• Jenny Kerr, who returned from retirement to help because, like me she knows the long term value of teaching swimming right through to Year 6 (most schools only take Year 2 and 3 students who are poor swimmers.

• Max, who drove the bus back and forth to save us a great walk – 4 trips a day- donating every afternoon to the task.

• The Brooks family, who donate the bus for our use for the Swimming Program every year – what a wonderful way to support our school and the life skills of our students.

And then of course the students themselves deserve great praise. Every student from Kindergarten to Year 6 strove so hard to improve and they were rewarded by success. The students could tell you with pride about the things they could do day 1 and how they had improved so much by day 10. Day 7 is always the best day for noticing im-provements. This year every student was floating and covering a few metres in deep water by the end of the Swimming Pro-gram. The older students were so fit! They proved this at the 50m Swim Day where they swam non-stop for hours practising starts and finishes without getting tired. All

PRIMARY CLASSROOM NEWS

in all every student took a step towards better swimming and endurance that will hopefully keep them safe from drowning in their future water adventures. This is what makes the effort put in by everyone so worthwhile. Well done everyone! Swimming Carnival Thank you to all the parents and friends who supported our annual Swimming Carnival. It seems that we should have a carnival every time we expect a drought as we seem to attract the rain. However, we are so resilient. It was a wonderful carni-val with maximum participation in all strokes by every student, from Year 2 to Year 12. Though I love watch-ing everyone, I get a really big kick out of the efforts of our 8 year olds who have just learnt to swim. What an effort they put in! Did you notice that we didn’t need to swim with many students this year? Though we had to go at a great pace, it was a great car-nival and I am very proud of every student who partici-pated with such big hearts. This event is one of our school’s great highlights and one of which we should be very proud. What a pity we couldn’t show you the skills of K-1s but I assure you they would have amazed you with what they learnt this year. Congratulations to the Primary team that qualified to go to the District Carnivals. I look forward to seeing you do your best and representing our school with pride. Kindergarten Welcome to our 6 new Kindergarten girls. They have made a great start to their school learning and have be-come a happy, co-operative group. Swimming School gave them a ‘cool’ start to their schooling. They loved their swimming and did so well. Swimming also gave them a chance to bond with all the teachers in a playful and exciting environment. They enjoy having the Year 6 girls as their peer buddies and if smiling is an indication of a happy environment, then we know we are on a win-ner. All the Kindergarten students have completed their Best Start Testing and the results will be collated this month. We will have parent teacher interviews for Kindergarten before the end of the term. Cricket Congratulations to George Sandral for qualifying to go to Albury to try out for next section of the Riverina Cricket trials. We wish him luck. Well done Sam Owen and Logan Kerr for representing our school at the local trials. Sadly only 5 boys from the district could qualify. And as a follow up! Congratulations George on making it into the Albury Cricket team. Good luck at the pre-selection trials now in Deniliquin on March 12th. What a great sporting start to your year! Tennis George Sandral has also made it to the Albury PSSA Tennis Trials this Friday. He went to the pre-trials in Corowa last Monday after our swimming Carnival and qualified for the next level. Well done George!

Life Education Everyone enjoyed the visit from the ‘Life Education Van’. All students spend quality time with Jacqueline and learnt age appropriate skills to keep themselves safe and healthy. Thank you to Russel and Fred Kerr for picking up the van for us. Mobile Library Morning Tea for ‘National Year of Reading 2012’ The Mobile Library honoured us by choosing our school as their venue for launching ‘National Year of Reading 2012’. Veronica Sandral entertained us with a few choice words before launching her ‘rocket’ and Margaret from the Mobile Library kindly made a heart shaped cake and some goodies to share with the stu-dents after the launch. Sam and Ellie did a well spoken thank you and we all had a good time. So let’s keep the launch going and read, read, read!

Veronica Sandral cutting the cake

Jenny Kerr’s Retirement Lunch The staff and many past staff had a teacher retirement dinner for Jenny Kerr on Sunday 19th February. 57 teachers past and present attended and sent Jenny on her way. It was a fine party and we wish Jenny well in her retirement. She is a committed community member and has already spent time volunteering and helping with swimming. She will always have the OCS kids at heart. National Partnership Primary Staffing help from National Partnership began on 20th February. Now we have 3 Maths and English classes across the morning every day. Monday: K-1 Mrs A Bruce; 2-3 Mrs Gorman; 456 Ms Outram Tuesday: K-1 Mrs A Bruce; 2-3 Mrs Gorman; 456 Ms Outram Wednesday: K-1 Mrs D Bruce; 2-3 Mrs Gorman; 456 Mrs Swann Thursday: K-1 Mrs A Bruce; 2-3 Mrs Gorman; 456 Ms Outram Friday: K-1 Mrs D Bruce; 2-3 Mrs Gorman; 456 Ms Outram Afternoon sessions will be K12 and 3456 with teachers as above minus Mrs Gorman.

Mrs Gorman will have some administration time under the new school set up. Mrs B Allsworth will be adding Creative Arts; Mr Longmire will be adding Sport. The Stephanie Alexander Program will continue this year on Tuesdays with Mrs D Bruce and Ms Outram. Our first week, included swimming days, but the rest of the week ran well and I can see such valuable teaching time coming up. It is a very exciting time for OCS edu-cation! We are still flexing the timetable but above, is it in a nutshell. Balldale District Swimming Carnival ‘Shine Your Light’ is our Oaklands motto and boy did we ‘Shine our Lights’ on Monday at the Balldale Dis-trict Carnival. Our team of Jesse Moloney, Zak Sartore, Stephanie Munro, Sophie Willis, Holly Arnold, Aaron Sandral, Matthew Sutcliffe, Darcy Owen, Xavier Bun-tin, Bethany Moloney, Brooklyn Moloney, Logan Kerr, George Sandral, Ellie Arnold, Crystal Bateman and Sam Owen swam their little hearts out. Poor old George came down with a bug and had to withdraw but he had a go at his freestyle. We hope he is better soon. Our 8 year olds were stars trundling down the pool in great style and even getting places! Our 9s did so well and some of these boys had to line up for junior events and they did well too. Our 10s lit up the pool going in all 4 strokes and the medley; our11s and 12s were down to Logan, Sam, Ellie and Crystal and they were the great-est of leaders and showed how to have a go at every-thing and give it all you’ve got. Then came the relays, where we ran out of seniors so 2 junior girls and boys had to swim in both events. Our students were as fit as mallee bulls. I was so proud of them. Not one student felt unable to face an event and I think they would have all done the medley at the end they were so keen! Many students got places in events and I will list these sepa-rately. Our point score was: 97 students 8-13: Corowa Blue 67 109 students 8-13: Small Schools 64 29 students 8-13: Oaklands 49 93 students 8-13: Corowa Gold 23 8 students 8-13: Urana 3 We won the Percentage Shield and came 3rd overall. Didn’t we do well! The other thing we won was a reputation for great effort and sportsmanship. I received many words of praise about our team and I was very proud of this. It was good to have the 4 Urana students join us in our tent and we all barracked hard for their efforts. Thank you to all the enthusiastic parents who always support our school at these events and did the timekeep-ing roster all day to perfection. Thank you to Frances who is the best team manager we could possibly have. And of course thank you to the TEAM for being my little shining lights. Well done!

Oaklands Swim Team Gabrielle Sutcliffe Jnr Girl Champion Oaklands receiving the Percentage Shield

Balldale PSSA Swimming Carnival results: Holly Arnold: 2nd Freestyle, 2nd Jnr Girl Relay Jesse Moloney: 2nd Freestyle Matthew Sutcliffe: 3rd Jnr Boy Relay Aaron Sandral: 2nd 50m Freestyle, 3rd Jnr Boy Relay, 3rd Snr Boy Relay Darcy Owen: 1st Freestyle Bethany Moloney: 3rd Butterfly, 2nd Jnr Girl Relay, 2nd Snr Girl Relay Brooklyn Moloney: 2nd Jnr Girl Relay Gabrielle Sutcliffe: Jnr Girl Champion, 2nd Freestyle, 1st Backstroke, 1st Butterfly, 1st Medley, 2nd Jnr Girl Re-

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lay, 2nd Snr Girl Relay Crystal Bateman: 3rd Medley, 2nd Snr Girl Relay. Ellie Arnold: 3rd Freestyle, 3rd 100m Freestyle, 2nd Breaststroke, 2nd Butterfly, 2nd Snr Girl Relay Sam Owen: 1st Freestyle, 2nd 100m Freestyle, 2nd Back-stroke, 2nd Breaststroke, 3rd Butterfly, 3rd Medley, 3rd Snr Boy Relay Football/ Netball Trials at Oaklands Though we are getting very small, I still put us down to host these trials as it is very nice for our students to have ownership of an event and also brings people to our school which is great PR. It will be harder to organ-ise with fewer teachers. P&C have decided to cater and you will be getting information about this soon. Football fathers would be greatly appreciated as helpers and se-lectors. Peter Longmire will be organising the day for us this year. Do we have anyone who would like to be net-ball team manager for OCS on the day? Give it some thought. Date is:13th March. I have invited the 2 Urana girls to join us too. Riverina Cricket Trials – Girls Date: 12th March at Howlong – Only Y5 and Y6 girls who play cricket to attend - no local trials needed – transport parental. I will send notes home soon. Oaklands Central School Swimming Carnival Primary carnival results: Holly Arnold: 1st Freestyle Stephanie Munro: 2nd Freestyle Olive Russell: 3rd Freestyle Jesse Moloney: 1st Freestyle Zak Sartore: 2nd Freestyle Charlie Sandral: 3rd Freestyle Sophie Willis: 1st Freestyle Darcy Owen: 1st Freestyle, 3rd Backstroke, 2nd Butterfly, 3rd Medley Aaron Sandral: 2nd Freestyle, 2nd Backstroke, 2nd Breast-stroke, 3rd Butterfly, 2nd Medley Wade Bateman: 3rd Freestyle Matthew Sutcliffe: 3rd Freestyle Gabrielle Sutcliffe: 1st Freestyle, 1st Backstroke, 2nd Breaststroke, 1st Butterfly, 1st Medley, 1st 99m Freestyle Bethany Moloney: 2nd Freestyle, 3rd Backstroke, 1st Breaststroke, 2nd Butterfly, 2nd Medley Brooklyn Moloney: 3rd Freestyle, 2nd Backstroke, 3rd Breaststroke, 3rd Butterfly, 3rd Medley Xavier Buntin: 1st Freestyle, 1st Backstroke, 1st Breast-stroke, 1st Butterfly, 1st Medley William Bott: 2nd Freestyle, 3rd Breaststroke Logan Kerr: 1st Freestyle, 1st Backstroke, 3rd Breast-stroke, 2nd Butterfly, 3rd Medley, 3rd 99m Freestyle George Sandral: 2nd Freestyle, 2nd Backstroke, 1st Breaststroke, 1st Butterfly, 2nd Medley, 2nd 99m Free-style Archie Boydell: 3rd Freestyle, 2nd Backstroke, 2nd Breaststroke, 3rd Butterfly Ellie Arnold: 1st Freestyle, 1st Backstroke, 1st Breast-stroke, 1st Butterfly, 1st Medley, 1st 99m Freestyle

Crystal Bateman: 2nd Freestyle, 2nd Backstroke, 2nd Breaststroke, 2nd Butterfly, 2nd Medley, 3rd 99m Free-style Taylah Macartney: 3rd Freestyle, 3rd Backstroke, 3rd Breaststroke, 3rd Butterfly, 3rd Medley Sam Owen: 1st Freestyle, 1st Backstroke, 1st Breast-stroke, 1st Butterfly, 1st Medley, 1st 99m Freestyle Jypsie Beagley: 1st Freestyle Secondary carnival results: Allanah Moloney: 1st Freestyle, 2nd Backstroke, 3rd But-terfly, 1st Medley Madeline Preedy: 2nd Freestyle, 2nd Breaststroke, Alley Willis: 1st Freestyle, 3rd Backstroke Eliza Purtell: 2nd Freestyle Lachlan Day: 1st Freestyle, 3rd Medley, 2nd 99m Free-style Thomas Macartney: 2nd Freestyle Byron Habermann: 3rd Backstroke, 3rd Breaststroke, 2nd Butterfly, 1st 99m Freestyle Marnie Walker: 1st Freestyle, 1st Backstroke, 1st Breast-stroke, 1st Butterfly Jasmine Bateman: 2nd Freestyle, 3rd Breaststroke, 2nd Butterfly Dominic Buntin: 1st Freestyle, 1st Backstroke, 1st Breast-stroke, 1st Butterfly, 1st Medley, 1st 99m Freestyle Riley Kerr: 2nd Freestyle, 2nd Backstroke, 2nd Breast-stroke, 3rd Butterfly, 2nd Medley, 2nd 99m Freestyle Jayde Smith: 1st Freestyle, 2nd Backstroke, 1st Breast-stroke, 1st Butterfly, 3rd Medley Jesse Walker: 1st Freestyle, 1st Backstroke, 1st Breast-stroke, 1st Butterfly, 1st Medley, 1st 99m Freestyle Bromeo Purtell: 2nd Freestyle, 2nd Breaststroke Patrick May: 3rd Freestyle Breannan Killick: 1st Freestyle, 2nd Breaststroke, 3rd Butterfly Bonnie Bateman: 2nd Freestyle, 1st Backstroke, 3rd Breaststroke, 2nd Butterfly, 2nd Medley Daysee Purtell: 1st Freestyle, 1st Backstroke, 1st Breast-stroke, 1st Butterfly, Bernard May: 1st Freestyle, 1st Breaststroke Congratulations to all the winners on the day and to the amazing participation of all students. Also congratulations to Innes for winning the house shield this year. Margot Gorman What a busy start we have had this year! The Year 7 students have settled into their studies very nicely and we have almost completed our “Introduction to Sci-ence” unit. The Year 8 students are now well into their PowerPoint presentations about a Scientist and I am looking forward to their presentations as they teach us all what they have learned. This terms unit in Food Technology is “Food Equity”

where we are taking an in-depth look at the factors which lead to poverty and poor access to food both lo-cally and internationally. It is a fascinating subject and I learn something new every time I teach it. At the mo-ment students are researching developing countries, the events which have lead them to their current situations and the actions which are being taken by the interna-tional community to help them. We are cooking food which is eaten in some of the developing countries we are studying. It is a great opportunity to remember how lucky we are!!

Fiona Marshall New Staff Member We welcome Nathaniel Miller as our new English Teacher at Oaklands. Nathaniel, and his wife Fiona, have arrived from Sydney. Nathaniel will be teaching English, Year 12 Standard English via RAP, Drama, PE and some Visual Arts. Secondary South West Riverina Zone Swimming Carnival, On Friday, 17th February our Secondary Swim Team travelled to The Rock for the annual Swimming Carni-val. There were a number of our team that broke re-cords on the day. Well done!!

Oaklands and Urana Swim Team

Our students ready and waiting. Allanah Moloney and Dominic Buntin (Age Champtions) Garden Express Fundraising for RAP excursion To assist with fundraising for the Year 11/12 Sydney trip this year and the NZ trip next year we are holding a Garden Express fundraiser. Attached to this newsletter is a bulb brochure. For each lot of bulbs you order the school/s get to keep 50%. So let’s get ordering and planning for an awesome spring display and cheaper excursions for our students. Order must be returned to school by Monday, 2nd April (last week in Term 1).

Congratulations to Byron Habermann and Jesse Walker. Byron is Secondary Student of the Week for week 5, recognising his effort in LOTE (French). Jesse Walker is Secondary Student of the Week for week 6, recognis-ing his improved effort in Mathematics.

Student of the Week

Internet Stranger Danger!

After tossing her books on the sofa, she decided to grab a snack and get on-line. She logged on under her screen name ByAngel213 . She checked her Buddy List and saw GoTo123 was on. She sent him an in-stant message: softball ByAngel213 : Hi. I'm glad you are on! I thought someone was following me home today. It was really weird! GoTo123 : LOL You watch too much TV. Why would someone be following you? Don't you live in a safe area? ByAngel213 : Of course I do. LOL I guess it was my imagination cuz' I didn't see anybody when I looked out. GoTo123 : Unless you gave your name out on-line. You haven't done that have you?’ ByAngel213 : Of course not. I'm not stupid you know. GoTo123 : Did you have a softball game after school today? ByAngel213 : Yes, and we won!! GoTo123 : That's great! Who did you play? ByAngel213 : We played the Hornets. LOL. Their uniforms are so gross! They look like bees. LOL GoTo123 : What is your team called? ByAngel213 : We are the Canton School Cats. We have tiger paws on our uniforms. They are really cool. GoTo123 : Did you pitch?

ByAngel213 : No, I play second base. I got to go. My homework has to be done before my parents get home. I don't want them mad at me. Bye! GoTo123 : Catch you later. Bye Meanwhile, GoTo123 went to the member menu and began to search for her profile. When it came up, he highlighted it and printed it out. Then he searched for the Canton Cats School Softball Team and found a photo of the team and their names. He took out a pen and began to write down what he knew about Angel so far. Her name: Shannon Birthday: Jan. 3, 1985 Age: 13 State where she lived: Victoria Hobbies: softball, chorus, skating and going shopping. Besides this information, he knew she lived in Canton because she had just told him. He knew she stayed by herself until 6:30 p.m. every afternoon until her parents came home

from work. He knew she played softball on Thursday afternoons on the school team, and the team was named the Canton Cats. Her favourite number 7 was printed on her jersey.

He knew she was in the eighth grade at the Canton High School. She had told him all this in the conversations they had on-line. He had enough information to find her now.

Shannon didn't tell her parents about the incident on the way home from the park that day. She didn't want them to make a scene and stop her from walking home from the softball games. Parents were always overreacting and hers were the worst. It made her wish she was not an only child. Maybe if she had broth-ers and sisters, her parents wouldn't be so overprotective. By Thursday, Shannon had forgotten about the footsteps following her. Her game was in full swing when suddenly she felt someone staring at her. It was then that the memory came back. She glanced up from her second base position to see a man watching her closely. He was leaning against the fence behind first base and he smiled when she looked at him. He didn't look scary and she quickly dismissed the sudden fear she had felt. After the game, he sat on a seat while she talked to the coach. She noticed his smile once again as she walked past him. He nodded and she smiled back. He noticed her name on the back of her shirt. He knew he had found her. Quietly, he walked a safe distance behind her. It was only a few blocks to Shannon's home, and once he saw where she lived he quickly returned to the park to get his car. Now he had to wait. He decided to get a bite to eat until the time came to go to Shannon's house. He drove to a café and sat there until time to make his move. Shannon was in her room later that evening when she heard voices in the living room. " Shannon, come here," her father called. He sounded upset and she couldn't imagine why. She went into the room to see the man from the ballpark sitting on the sofa. "Sit down," her father began, "this man has just told us a most interesting story about you." Shannon sat back. How could he tell her parents anything? She had never seen him before today! "Do you know who I am, Shannon?" the man asked.. "No," Shannon answered. "I am a police officer and your online friend, GoTo123 ." Shannon was stunned. "That's impossible! GoTo123 is a kid my age! He's 14. And he lives in Western Australia!" The man smiled. "I know I told you all that, but it wasn't true. You see, Shannon, there are people on-line who pretend to be kids; I was one of them. But while others do it to injure kids and hurt them, I belong to a group of parents who do it to protect kids from predators. I came here to find you to teach you how danger-ous it is to talk to people on-line. You told me enough about yourself to make it easy for me to find you. You named the school you went to, the name of your softball team and the position you played. The num-ber and name on your jersey just made finding you a breeze." Shannon was stunned. "You mean you don't live in Western Australia?" He laughed. "No, I live in Abbotsford. It made you feel safe to think I was so far away, didn't it?" She nod-ded. Kids are taught not to tell anyone when they are alone, yet they do it all the time on-line. The wrong people trick you into giving out information a little here and there on-line. Before you know it, you have told them enough for them to find you without even realizing you have done it.

Tell others about this so they will be safe too!

Wednesday 7 March 2012 4.00pm to 6.00pm

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OAKLANDS RECREATION GROUND

ANNUAL PUBLIC MEETING

Sunday, 18th March 2012

10:00am at the Recreation Ground

Please attend if you have an interest in sporting activities in

Oaklands.

John Batten Secretary-Treasurer

THANK YOU

The Oaklands Lions Club and the Oaklands Swimming Pool

Committee would like to sincerely thank all the ladies of Oaklands who arrived at the Hall making sandwiches

for the catering of Phillip Kerr’s ‘Clearing Sale’. THANK YOU! Olive

Brooks, Fay Good, Betty Carmichael, Rosemary Beattie and Helen Browne.

We would not have had such a successful day without your

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Meeting Dates for 2012

19th March 2012 21st May 2012 18th June 2012 16th July 2012

20th August 2012 17th September 2012

15th October 2012 19th November 2012

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

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AND LICENCED ELECTRONIC AND LICENCED ELECTRONIC AND LICENCED ELECTRONIC AND LICENCED ELECTRONIC

POST OFFICEPOST OFFICEPOST OFFICEPOST OFFICE

All your electronic billpay. CBA, NAB, RaboBank Business Banking and

Phone Recharge

Shop Hours 7am—7pm Monday to Thursday 7am—8pm Friday 7am—1pm Saturday 8am—12pm Sunday

Post Office Hours 9am—5pm Monday to Friday CLOSED Mailsort CLOSED Saturday and Sunday ABSOLUTELY NO POST OFFICE BUSINESS

OUTSIDE THESE HOURS

Country Link Rail Agency

Fax & Photocopying services