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