From the Principal’s Desk

Happy and Safe Holidays Thank you all for such a wonderful term. The last eleven weeks have flown by and so many achievements have occurred in this time. Thank you to staff for your support and commitment to our school, the students, each other and the community. Thank you to the parents/carers for your support of our school. Final thank you to the canteen volunteers for giving your time to support our school. Have a wonderful and safe holiday everyone, looking forward to a restful break with loved ones. See you all in term two which commences for students on

Tuesday 1st May 2018. Vacation Care onsite during the holidays Kids Capers OOSH will be running their vacation care program during the holidays. This will mean the school will be open for the service. I would like to remind parents/carers that if you are driving in and out of the school grounds to drop your children to the service during the holidays please ensure you are extremely careful of children, staff and workmen about on the grounds. Building works completed Thank you to Mrs Smithers, Mrs Aussel, Mrs McManus, Miss Jane and Mr Boyd for managing the disruptions of changing classrooms and routines in the middle of the term. Thank you to Ms Manwaring for being so accommodating in giving up the Library space so the teaching and learning programs for Kindergarten continued. The building works are now completed, all students are back in their classrooms and I am very impressed with the speed of the works which meant fewer disruptions to our students. Harmony Day, Every Day Thank you everyone for your support of such a wonderful showcase of our school. Learning together for the future is truly evident when such events come together with such success. This cannot happen without a very talented teacher Mrs Konarew who organised the whole event. Thank you Mrs Konarew, and all the staff who supported you in preparing for this magnificent day. A super proud moment as I reflect on the day and what inspiration looks like in the faces of our students, staff and families.

Working together in partnership for Quality Education Kim Smith Principal

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 1 Week 11 11th

April, 2018

Office News

Student/Family Information Sheet and Student Asthma Record Thank you to those families who have returned their Student/Family Information Sheet or Student Asthma Record note. If you have not yet returned your Student/Family Information Sheet or Student Asthma Record note for 2018, please do so as soon as possible.

Anaphylaxis (ASCIA) Plans and Individual Health Care Plans. These plans have been sent home to the children that require them. If you have not returned your Anaphylaxis (ASCIA) Plan and Individual Health Care Plan, please return as soon as possible.

Office Payments Make Online Payments as of Monday 19th February 2018 It is now possible for parents to make online payments to the school for amounts owing for students, via a secure payment page hosted by Westpac. An instruction booklet went home with students to help parents make online payments. Payments can be made using either a Visa or MasterCard credit or debit card, and can be made via computer, tablet or mobile phone. The payment page is accessed from the front page of the schools website by selecting $ Make a payment

Items that can be paid include voluntary school contributions, subject contributions, excursions, sales to students and creative and practical arts activities (these include band, drama and dance). There is also a category called ‘Other’ this is to cover items not covered in the previous headings, Other can be used to make a complete payment of a school invoice.

When you access the $ Make a payment you must enter:

the students name, and

class and reference number OR

the students name, and

date of birth.

These details are entered each time you make a payment as student information is not held within the payment system. There is also the option to enter the Student Registration Number and Invoice number these are not used at our school, please leave blank. This is a secure payment system hosted by Westpac to ensure that your credit/debit card details are captured in a secure manner, these details are not passed back to the school. You have the ability to check and change any details of the payment before the payment is processed. Receipts can be emailed and/or printed.

Details of the payments are passed daily to the school where they will be receipted against your child’s account. As a receipt has been issued from the payment page a further receipt will not be issued by the school. For any enquiries regarding the Online Payment process please contact the Office on 9623 1375.

Changes to the daily collection of your children As the school office is at its busiest between 8.30 to 9.30am and 2.30 to 3.00pm, we would like to encourage parents/carers to make plans prior to school in regards to changes in pick-up arrangements. Whilst we recognise that at times there can be some unexpected changes in after school arrangements for students, can you please try and minimise calls by pre-organising where possible, with students. At times, the office is inundated with calls and messages needed to be given to students often with only a few minutes notice. The wellbeing and safety of students is our paramount concern and we do not want to risk messages not being received or unavoidable confusion.

Sick Notification If you know your child is unwell and will not be attending school there is no need to ring the school. Please send an absence explanation note to the teacher on your child’s return. Absence Explanation notes can be found in the office on the Whole School Note wall. In addition, if your child is unwell, please keep them at home until they have recovered.

Permission Notes

Could you please ensure you write your child’s first name, last name and class when you complete permission notes. It is time-consuming for office staff to have to work out which child a note belongs to if only a first name and no class have been written on the note. A reminder too that when returning permission notes for excursions, camps, and any school activities for which a permission note is sent home, a separate permission note is required for each child. This is a departmental legal requirement.

Permission notes are to accompany payment (when required) and placed in an envelope and placed in the “money house” in the office. If you are paying by cash, cheque or eftpos please write on the envelope your child’s first name, last name, class, what the payment is for and the amount enclosed. Please enclose correct payment and permission note.

Thank you for your support

Karen Curcuruto School Admin Manager

Stewart House Donation Drive Stewart House is seeking the support of us to continue to provide services and opportunities to families in need. The exciting thing about this is your support can win you a $4000 FAMILY HOLIDAY! Your child will be bringing home a Stewart House envelope then all you need to do is fill in your details and add at least $2 and return it to the school. As you may be aware we have had Oxley park Public School families benefit first hand from these services and we truly value all the hard work they do at Stewart House.

Library News

Borrowing Rules and Days

Students are encouraged to bring a library bag so they are able to borrow a book to take home and enjoy. Library bags can be store bought, old pillow slips, made by grandparents or a strong plastic bag like Aldi. Kindergarten students can borrow 1 book. Stage 1 students can borrow 2 books. Stage 2 and stage 3 students can borrow 3 books DAYS FOR BORROWING HAVE CHANGED DUE TO SPORTS IN SCHOOLS These are the new days for borrowing until the end of the term. Mon: KS, 1/2S, 1/2O Tues: 5/6G, KA, KT, 1/2M, 2/3A, 3/4J, 3/4R, 3/4L Wed: 1/2V, 5/6M, 5/6K, 1/2NJ. KC, 3/4A, 3/4H Thurs 5/6L 5/6B, 1/2F Premier’s Reading Challenge Update Parents with children in Kindergarten, Year one and Year two can add the books listed by class to the Premier’s Reading Challenge Personal Reading Log. Each child will need their own Personal Reading Log and extra copies can be found in the library.

Class PRC ID Title Author

1/2V 1072 Bertie Pamela Allen

1/2V 12292 Grandpa and Thomas Pamela Allen

1/2V 7100 Lighthouse Keeper’s Tea Pamela Allen

1/2S 12311 Cat and Fish Neil Curtis

1/2S 19151 The Goggledygook is eating a book Justine Clarke

1/2S 15976 First week at cow school Andy Cutbull

1/2F 40975 Teddy took the train Nicki Greenberg

1/2F 10636 Shutting in the chooks Libby Gleeson

1/2F 17162 Rhino Neil Mini Goss

1/2M 23029 Baby wombat’s week Jackie French

1/2M 6274 Red plane to the rescue Melissa Firth

1/2M 7360 Search for the perfect child Jan Fearnley

1/2NJ 80249 That’s not a daffodil Elizabeth Honey

1/2NJ 15296 Angelina Ballerina Katharine Holabird

1/2NJ 9036 A curry for Murray Kate Hunter

1/2O 936 Starting School Jane Goodwin

1/2O 1865 Hattie helps out Jane Goodwin

1/2O 2833 Look, a book Libby Gleeson

KA 3935 Nog and the land of noses Bruce Whatley

KA 5650 Bear who went Boo David Walliams

KA 46414 Lets go to sleep Margaret Wild

KS 12047 Playmates Jane Tanner

KS 4583 Our baby Margaret Wild

KS 1888 Bang Leo Timmers

KT 88828 On the night you were born Nancy Tillman

KT 17984 Claude at sea Alex T Smith

KT 12136 Too loud Lily Sofie Laguna

KC 3049 Lucy Goosey Margaret Wild

KC 12262 Olivia Saves the Circus Ian Falconer

KC 78956 I’ve Lost my kisses Trudie trewin

2/3A 6274 Red plane to the rescue Melissa Firth

2/3A 15976 First week at cow school Andy Cutbull

EAL/D Community Time All EAL/D (English as an Additional Language or Dialect) families are encouraged to use the community time from 9am-9.30am on Mondays to ask any questions or seek help on anything to do with education @ OPPS. Come to Mrs Konarew's room in Block F or ask at the office. Mrs Konarew EAL/D teacher

SRC NEWS Thank you to our fabulous school community We have collected and counted over 30 000 Coles vouchers over the past 6 weeks. These vouchers equate to particular sporting products that Coles are donating to schools. With our amount, the SRC and Mrs Hawkins will need to rethink the original wish list and add some more much needed equipment. Coles will advise us in mid-May as to how many points we actually have to spend.

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ANZAC DAY MARCH AND SERVICE WITH ST MARYS RSL

SRC students were issued a note re the ST Marys RSL Commemorative March to be held Sunday, 22 April meeting at 2pm in Coachman's park. The students and community will march down Queen St on to Victoria Park and observe a service in front of the rotunda. A further invitation is open to all students and family to attend the ANZAC Dawn Service on Wednesday, 25 April at 5am meeting at McDonald's Mamre Rd, St Marys. More information can be obtained from the front office via the SRC note.

SRC BLACK AND WHITE MUFTI DAY Please bring a gold coin donation to wear black and white on the last day of term Friday, 13th April. All monies raised go back to the school to pay for the Sno Cone machine purchased by SRC and the school

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