dear parents/arers, weekly focus
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Respectful Responsible Learners
Weekly focus:
Rewarding Ourselves
IMPORTANT
July 5th
Jump Rope for Heart
Jump off Day
July 5th
Last Day Term 2
July 22nd
Staff Development Day
July 23rd
First day Term 3
Students return
August 1st
OPS Music Concert
Wednesday 26th June, 2019 Term 2 Week 9
Phone: Primary : 6362 6369 Infants: 6362 1992 Fax: 6361 7923 Website: orange-p.schools.nsw.gov.au E-mail: [email protected]
Dear Parents/Carers,
Again the school has much to celebrate during the past week with a host of activities in
and around the school. Firstly our school had the pleasure of welcoming Oliver
Phommavanh and R.A. Spratt as part of an author visit yesterday. Both authors
entertained the children and gave an insight into what goes into an idea for a novel or
short story and the processes that an author may follow when putting a story together.
We thank Ms Smith for organising this wonderful opportunity for our students.
The school is venturing into some new sporting activities today with the OPS girls
basketball team having their first game. This will be followed tomorrow when the boys
play their first game as well. As a new sport we thank Mrs Wakeman and Mr Sillett for
taking the teams and coaching the children. We wish both groups the best of luck and
know both groups have greatly appreciated having our new court surfaces to train on at
the school.
This week our school is also very excited to have a performing school concert band
coming to OPS on Thursday. Kiama High School will be completing a Western Region
tour and will be presenting their performance to both the Primary and Infants
departments on the day. This is a great opportunity for our children to see a quality
music performance and enable our strong band contingent to be inspired as to where
their music can lead them to.
Next Wednesday we have a group of Year 3-6 students who will be attending the
Orange High School In Concert. This is a wonderful performance that showcases the
talents at Orange High School. Unfortunately we only had limited seats and this
performance has been sold out.
Tomorrow the school will be hosting the next round of the PSSA Netball competition.
The girls will be playing OSSA White and this promises to be a very competitive game
and we wish the girls the best of luck. Three of our girls were recently successful in
selection into the Western Region team to play at the State Championships later in the
year. Congratulations Elsie, Amy and Xanthe.
If you could ever take your life into your own hands you simply need to head into the Infants quad during a break
time at the moment, because to say we have a skipping craze in action is an understatement. We have children
doing crisscross, double jumps, linked arms, turns, push ups and a host of other tricks with a blur of ropes spinning
quicker than the eye can see. The noise of laughter, excitement and pure joy is deafening and contagious and what a
pleasure to see such active, engaged and happy children. This of course is all in readiness for the Jump Rope For
Heart activity day which will be held on Friday 5th July at the Primary site, which should be a great event. Our school
has currently raised approximately $6000 for the Heart Foundation which is absolutely tremendous and we are so
excited to see how much support we can show such a great organisation by the end of next week.
Year 5 have started to get excited with the Year 5 Canberra Excursion note going home. This excursion is a two night,
three day trip to the Nation’s Capital and is always a wonderful experience for the children to see where
government is held and to also visit many significant venues located in Canberra. Parents are to complete and return
the form quickly with payment to ensure the organisation can be completed ASAP.
Another annual period is coming up being the University of NSW academic competitions. The school always provides
students in grades 3-6 with the opportunity to sit up to six exams including, Digital Technologies, Science, Writing,
Spelling, English and Mathematics. Parents are able to enter their children by simply completing the note that went
home in April. If you have not received a note they can be found in the front office of the school. Each test has a cost
of $14.50 with a closing date for entries being Friday 16th August. We encourage all parents to give consideration to
these tests as they are very good practise for any student in relation to testing procedures and also as a review of
achievement.
At the moment the school is conducting class spelling bees, with each class working exceptionally hard at working
through the Premiers Spelling Bee lists. Both years 3 and 4 will hold the final on Monday next week with years 5 and
6 holding their final on Tuesday. We wish all the finalists the best of luck for their efforts.
Our debating teams will once again be in action next week and we are very proud of all three teams who are flying
the OPS flag this year with each group gaining confidence and increasing their skills during each debate. Thank you
to Mrs Cope for the continued guidance and work with the teams.
Next week the school reports will be provided to parents on Tuesday and we encourage parents to look and review
the reports with their children. Our term 3 Parent / Teacher interviews will be at the start of the term and the report
will be used during the meeting as a focus point.
Enjoy the week
Bradley Tom
Principal
Jump Rope for Heart
Want an easy way to increase academic performance? Jump Rope for Heart! Not only is it fun but your kids will build confidence and self-esteem while
learning about charitable giving. What are you waiting for? Register today to support the Orange Public School team.How to register your child:
https://www.jumprope.org.au/fundraising/schools/orange-public-school
PSSA Boys Soccer
On Friday the school team travelled to Cowra for our 5th round match
against Cowra PS. The game was equally balanced at and half time the
score remained 0-0. The second half the boys rallied and put a lot of
pressure on Cowra’s defenders. When a penalty was given just outside
the box Pat S stepped up. It was a fantastic curving ball that surprised
all defenders one of whom gave its final touch into the goal. The
tension continued as the play went from one end of the field to the
other. As always Tom B was strong in goals. Finally through tenacity
Tom H was able to find the back of the net with the final score 2-0.
Man of the match Pat S. We look forward to our next game against a
champion Bathurst side.
Ms Smith
Coach
4 From the Librarian
Years 3-6 were visited by two Australian authors Oliver Phommavanh and R.A Spratt. Both authors were
entertaining in their presentation. They spoke about what motivates and inspires their writing. These authors
instigated literary conversations in the classroom after their visit. I know a lot students will be happy to have their
own copy of a book written by them as the Library copies are always borrowed.
Ms Smith
OPS - 2019 School Year Dates
July 1 Spelling Bee Finals - Stage 2
9.30am - 10.30am
July 2 Spelling Bee Finals - Stage 3
9.30am - 10.30am
July 2 Debating, Communal Hall, 12 midday
July 4 Debating Round 2
July 5 Jump Rope for Heart Jump Off Day
July 5 Last Day Term 2
July 22 Staff Development Day, Term 3
July 23 First Day of Term 3 Students attend
July 24 Parent Teacher Interviews -
details to follow
August 1 OPS Music Concert 6.30 - 7.30pm
August 6 Parent Teacher Interviews -
details to follow
August 7 Stage 2 - The Twits, Orange Civic Theatre
August 14 Kindy 2020 Open Day, 9.30am - 10.30am
August 16 Orange Eisteddfod - Dance
August 26 OPS Netball Presentation & Disco
August 28 Year 6 - Hitler’s Daughter, Orange Civic
Theatre
August
29 & 30 Orange Eisteddfod - Choir
August 31 TOM Regional Final
September 3 University of NSW - Digital Tech Test
September 4 Orange Eisteddfod - Band
September 5 Orange Eisteddfod - Strings
September
5 & 6 Year 6 Choir to Sydney Opera House
September
9 - 13 Footsteps Dance Company Visit
OPS Assemblies
Kindergarten Tuesday 2nd July
2.30pm-3pm
Year 1 Monday 1st July
2.30pm-3pm
Year 2 Wednesday 3rd July
2.30pm-3pm
Year 3-6
Friday 28th June
1.15pm-1.50pm
Trial time change
OPS Sport
K-2 Every Friday
Year 3-6 Every Friday
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Clothing Pool 2019
Any Donations would be greatly appreciated and can be dropped off at anytime
at the Primary front office.
The Clothing Pool is located at the Primary Campus— Sale Street building. The Clothing Pool does not have EFTPOS
facilities. Cash Only.
If you are able to volunteer in our
Clothing Pool please call Jane Howell
0414 242 823
or
Michelle Blowes— 0434 947 836
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