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Weekly focus:

Identifying people who support us

IMPORTANT

NEWS

August 1st

OPS Music Concert

August 5th

Book Week ‘Super

Power Dress Up Day’

August 6th

Parent Teacher

interviews

August 7th

Stage 2 - The Twits,

OCT

August 8th

Classroom Open Day

Wednesday 31th July, 2019 Term 3 Week 2

Phone: Primary : 6362 6369 Infants: 6362 1992 Fax: 6361 7923 Website: orange-p.schools.nsw.gov.au E-mail: orange-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Dear Parents

Come one and all to the opening of our Education Week Celebrations with our ‘Orange

Public School in Concert’ evening, Thursday 6.30pm. This evening will be showcasing

our Choir groups and all of the Band and Music ensembles, in what promises to be a

lovely evening of entertainment. The evening will run for approximately 1 hour in the

community hall and we look forward to seeing many of you to acknowledge the hard

work of students, tutors and staff.

At the end of last week the Cross Country representatives competed at the State

Championships in Sydney with each member securing a finish and commendable times

were achieved by each OPS competitor. I would also like to thank each family who made

the trip down to Eastern Creek to support their child and the school.

Our girls touch football team shone on Friday with their first win against Glenroi Heights

Public School in a very tough match. The sportsmanship shown was outstanding and we

thank Miss Pitts and Mr Priest for coaching of the girls.

This week we also have a full week of activity with the Choral rehearsals in Bathurst

being held on Monday. Mrs Sawyer reported the children performed exceptionally well

and truly highlighted the quality of our students.

Tuesday saw our first sport event for the week with the boys soccer winning a great

game against Millthorpe Public School at Jack Brabham Oval. Thank you to all parents

who attended and assisted with transport and to Mrs Smith and Jacinta Milne for

coaching. Today our boys were on the field again, this time playing Touch Football

against Bletchington Public School. A very exciting game saw the teams with a 5 all

draw, moving to extra time the boys won 6 - 5 in a drop off. They now progress in the

PSSA to the next round. Congratulations to all the boys on a great effort.

Tomorrow our Rugby Team will be travelling to the Blue Mountains with Mr Bale to play

in the final 16 in the state. We wish this team the best of luck and hope that all children

enjoy the experience of playing such a high level competition.

The school is very fortunate to have scheduled a visit from OHS, promoting some

enriching activities to celebrate National Science Week, for students attending their

school in the New Year.

Book Club

closes

Finally on Friday the Boys will be swapping back to Basketball with the team scheduled to play Eglington. Mr Sillet is

expecting very tough competition on the day and with our boys having been involved in several sports during the

week, they will have to focus.

On Saturday Orange Public School will be welcoming our 8 visiting students from China who will arriving at 4pm. The

children and staff will be staying in Orange for the week and will enjoy having the experience of staying with an

Australian family whilst attending our school. I am sure the whole school will benefit from the experience and we are

so grateful to all the wonderful families who offered to have a billet for the week.

Next week the school is celebrating two monumental occasions being Education Week and Book Week. Firstly the

children are to come dressed as their favourite super hero or a hero of their own creation with the theme for the

week being ‘Reading is my Secret Power’. We will be very excited to see the wonderful costumes worn on the day. On

Thursday we will be having our Open Day with Infants classes open between 12.30pm through to 1pm followed by

Primary classes open between 1.20pm and 1.50pm. This is different to the original times due to our Eisteddfod

commitments.

The school will also be wishing the best of luck to the debating teams who will be competing on Monday in the

Premiers debating Challenge. Mrs Cope is delighted in the progress of the debating teams and commends their

efforts and ability to take on constructive feedback from the adjudicators.

Our Parent teacher meetings are also scheduled to continue on Tuesday 6th August starting at 3.30pm. This is such a

valuable opportunity for parents to have a discussion with their child’s teacher.

Wednesday next week will see Stage 2 enjoying the chance to see professional theatre with the performance of ‘The

Twits’, at the Orange Civic Theatre. The children are very excited to be going to what promises to be a great

performance of a timeless classic.

Next week will also see the Orange Eisteddfod kick into gear with the Verse Speaking commencing on Thursday for

our Kindergarten and Year 2 classes and we are so excited to see how well our students present their performances.

Good luck to all involved on the day. Parents are welcome to attend the performance at the Orange Function Centre.

Our school strives to promote quality educational opportunities in each and every classroom, complimented by

diverse extra-curricular activities including excursions and sport. One area we impress upon all of our children, is to

grow with strong health knowledge, from their fitness to their choices of food and lifestyle. One area we always talk

strongly with children is around smoking. The government rule of no smoking at any school or sporting field supports

this. I would like to ask parents to have consideration towards children and other parents in relation to smoking near

the school and avoid smoking in areas of high traffic flow of pedestrians for the benefit of all attending our school.

Enjoy the week.

Bradley Tom

Principal

PSSA Boys Football (Soccer)

Tuesday we played our Round 6 match against Millthorpe PS at Sir Jack Brabham Park. As we expected the

competition was stronger than we had experienced. We were very fortunate to score first from a ball struck by Luke

that dribbled past Millthorpe’s goalkeeper. Millthorpe fought back strongly and by half-time the score was level.

Realising the urgency we began the second half strongly maintaining pressure on the Millthorpe defenders. This

resulted in them making a crucial mistake. Pat S made no mistake with his penalty.

Up 2-1 the tension was building but Pat N maintained his composure and scored a well-deserved goal. With minutes

left in the game Millthorpe tried everything but our defenders stayed strong and Tom B in goals ensured their efforts

did not make the back of the net.

Well done to everyone a great team effort!

I would also like to thank Canobolas Rural Technology High School for providing us with our match referees, Jerome

Beckett, Jai Anlezark and Mitchell Crossman. The school has assisted us with our referees for our home games and I

have appreciated how helpful they have been.

We are looking forward to our next game in Dubbo.

Ms Smith

Manager

PSSA Boys Cricket

Congratulations to Tom Blowes, Toby Middleton, Zac Owens and Daniel Ritchie on their selection to trial for the

Western PSSA Cricket team in Dubbo on 2nd September.

Ms Smith

Coach

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From the Librarian Monday is Super Day remember to come dressed in character. All entries for the writing (2-6) and drawing (K-1)

competitions close on Friday 2nd August. Entries for the Bake a Super Power competition are to be brought in on

Thursday 8th August. K-2 entries Infants Library. 3-6 entries Primary Library. Please remember to collect entries at

the end of the day.

Ms Smith

Book Week

This year we will be celebrating Education/Book Week 5th-9th August. We will start the week on Monday 5th August

with a Dress-Up Day. The theme for Book Week this year is Reading is my Secret Power and so our Dress-Up theme

is Super Power Day.

We will also be running our very popular baking competition “Bake a Super Power”. This year we will run two new

competitions K-1 Drawing Competition and 2-6 Writing Competition. Entry forms for both of these competitions

need to be collected by students from their Library and submitted with their application.

Enjoy your holiday reading. I am currently reading a bibliography on Caroline Chisholm.

Ms Smith

Teacher Librarian

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Entries must be submitted with the cover sheet to your librarian

by Friday 2nd August.

Winning entries announced at Yr2 and Primary Assemblies in Week 3.

Imagine a day that you have to cover up the fact that reading is your super

power.

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OPS - 2019 School Year Dates

August 1 OPS Music Concert 6.30 - 7.30pm

August 5 Book Week, ‘Super Power’ dress up day

August 6 Parent Teacher Interviews

August 7 Stage 2 - The Twits, Orange Civic Theatre

August 8 Open Classrooms - Infants 12.30 - 1pm,

Primary 1.20 - 1.50pm

August 9 Science week activities Years 5 & 6

August 12 Pie Drive Orders Due - No late orders

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

September 1 TOM Regional Final

September 3 University of NSW - Digital Tech Test

September 4 Orange Eisteddfod - Band

September 5 University of NSW - Science Test

September

5 & 6 Orange Eisteddfod - Strings

September

5 & 6 Year 6 Choir to Sydney Opera House

September 12 Pie Drive collection - Heritage Hall 2-3pm

September

9 - 13 Footsteps Dance Company Visit

September 10 University of NSW - Writing Test

September 12 University of NSW - Spelling Test

September 17 University of NSW - English Test

September 17 Year 3 Bathurst Goldfields Excursion

September

18 - 20 Year 5 Canberra Excursion

OPS Assemblies

Kindergarten Tuesday 13th August

2.30pm-3pm

Year 1 Monday 12th August

2.30pm-3pm

Year 2 Wednesday 31st July

2.30pm-3pm

Year 3-6

Friday 9th August

1.15pm-1.50pm

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

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