Whole School News

Second Hand Uniform Stall

There will be a Second Hand Uniform Sale on Friday 13th September 3:15pm to 3:45pm. 

Cash only, please bring small denominations as limited change will be available. No IOU's. 

Library News

Scholastic Book Club

Scholastic Book Club Order Forms will be sent home by the end of this week. Orders due by Friday 6th September

Payments are to be made directly to Scholastic using the payment options on the brochure. Ormond Primary School does not collect any payments. 

Late orders will not be accepted to ensure prompt delivery by the end of the school term. 

If your orders are for gifts and you do not want your children to see, please contact the front office or Sue in the library to arrange a parent pick up. 

You are invited to OPS Open Afternoon of Well-Being Workshops - FRIDAY 6th SEPTEMBER 2:00PM

Our wellbeing open afternoon is coming up on Friday 6th September.

This will provide you with the opportunity to learn about and participate in many of the programs we deliver here at Ormond Primary to support positive student wellbeing.

This afternoon will involve participating in up to three workshops. Each

classroom teacher will host a workshop to run and repeat throughout the afternoon from either Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships

(RRRR), Mindfulness or the Ormond Values Program. You are encouraged to work alongside students and move through classrooms to experience the full scope of Ormond’s Well-being programs. Visitors should aim to start in their child’s classroom but are expected to explore other rooms and year levels if they wish for the 2nd and 3rd rotation.

Important information:

• There will be no school assembly on Friday 6th September.
• Sessions will commence at 2:00pm and conclude at 3:15pm.
• Each workshop will run for 25mins.
• You will be able to participate in three sessions.
• Visitors are encouraged to explore other year levels.
• The full itinerary of activities is available below

We look forward to your participation.

Gregg Workman on behalf of the teachers of Ormond PS.

Classroom Cuisine Trial - Feedback Survey

Thank you to the huge number of families taking part in the lunch order trial over the past 5 weeks.

We are very keen to hear about your experiences with Classroom Cuisine.

Even if you chose not to participate, we would still love to hear from you. Please answer the 7 short questions to add your voice to our whole school decision on selecting the best lunch order provider for our school and children.

The questionnaire will be available online for 2 weeks from today. Results will be shared with the school community soon after.

Thank you for your valuable contribution. [Click here to complete the questionnaire]  

Performing Arts

Australian Girls Choir

On Thursday 5th September,  The Australian Girls Choir will be visiting Ormond Primary School to conduct a workshop for students interested in joining the choir.

Flyers about the AGC were sent home last week. Please return the completed permission slip to the office before 5th September if you would like your daughter to participate.

The workshop will run for 20 minutes, after lunch. The AGC has developed a reputation as one of the country’s leading performing arts organisations, offering training in singing, dancing and performing for girls aged 5 to 18. The AGC believe that every child can learn to sing, and that the benefits of singing go far beyond the stage.

Footy Colours Day - Wednesday 18th September

On Wednesday, 18th of September we will be running a Footy Colours Day.

Students are encouraged to come in their footy colours of choice or a sporting team they support. We are asking that all students participating in dressing up to please bring a gold coin donation, this will be donated to the Cancer Council Foundation.

The SRC are also running a recycling football boots drive on the day. Collecting your pre-loved boots that may not fit you anymore for someone less fortunate.

There will be activities running at lunch time with our school leaders, we look forward to a fantastic day.

Foundation News

This fortnight, and up until the end of Term 3, in English we are learning to spell through the short sounding diagraph ea and the digraphs th and or. We continue working towards achieving our writing goals, previous and new, through recounts and short narratives based on our experiences. In guided reading we increase our skills each week through small group work where our teacher concentrates on our individual reading needs. The Premier’s Reading Challenge finishes this Friday. Please help your child to achieve the challenge by reading Challenge Books to your child each morning or evening (see the list on the PRC website) and uploading the books read, to your child’s challenge website page. A BIG thank you to the parents who are able to come in each morning to listen to the children read.

In Mathematics, the students are learning to add and subtract items and numbers in different ways; through problem solving, questions, investigations, using tens frames and writing equations.

In science, this term and next, we are inquiring about living things and their basic needs, including food, water and shelter, and where they best live and grow. Make sure you have logged onto Compass to give permission for your child to attend the excursion on Monday 16th September to the Cranbourne Gardens.

In Respectful Relationships we are learning how to read people’s feelings, put ourselves in someone else’s shoes to see how they feel, and responding with kindness. We look forward to seeing you at Ormond PS’s family and friends open afternoon this Friday, 6th September, 2:00 to 3:15pm. Here we will demonstrate some of the activities that help us to be aware of our own and other people’s feelings. Start in your child’s classroom and then rotate with the grade to the next session.

Have a lovely fortnight and we look forward to seeing you this Friday!

Lorraine, Jacinda and Laura

Year 2 News

Year 2 students were lucky enough to attend an incursion from Hands-On Science last week. Here are some of their highlights of exploring materials and mixtures…

"My highlight of the science incursion was making the green plastic." Jack 

"I liked the experiment that we did."  Sophia 

"I liked making the gelatin thing."  Cooper 

"My highlight was making the slime, jelly sort of thing." Oscar 

"My highlight was probably making the plastic and the magnets."  Jackson 

"I really liked the part where we made the green plate and when we tested with a magnet which liquid is magnetic."  Pippa 

Year 3 News

On Thursday 15th August, the Year Three’s along with, Mrs. Stewart, Mr. Cap, Miss. Bainbridge, Miss. Delaney, Miss. Cecil, Mr. Brown and Mrs. McLeod went on their very first school camp at the Briar’s Adventure Camp in Mount Martha. We went there to take a break from school and to have some fun.

When we boarded the bus we were all very excited, especially the boys who could not stop talking about it. When we arrived it was about 11am. As we looked into the crooked forest, the camp leaders Bella, Austin and Ryan introduced themselves. They explained the camp rules to us and took us on a tour around the Briars. We discovered that the activities were the Flying Fox, Hut Building, Crate Stacking, Giant Swing, Bush Cooking and Low Ropes. Our favourite was the Giant Swing because we fell down at high speed on an enormous swing.

After a day of activities we found out who we would be sharing a cabin with. Everyone was really excited about this. It was now night time and time to eat dinner. We had chicken schnitzel with some delicious vegetables. Feeling full with a side of deliciousness, we grabbed our pillows and sleeping bags to watch Paddington 2.

In the morning some of the students went for a run around the camp with Miss. Bainbridge and Miss. Delaney. It was very early. For breakfast we had toast and cereal. After packing our cabins, we did our final two activities. We then got to watch Mr. Cap and Miss. Delaney have a go on the Giant Swing. They looked very dizzy after it. Before finishing up at the Briar’s, we had some yummy hot dogs for lunch.

Feeling quite full, we board the bus home. On the way back, everybody was feeling very exhausted.

It was the highlight of Year Three and we can’t wait for next year’s school camp.

By Alexandra, Samara and Jayden 

Year 5 News

MUMA Excursion

What perfect weather was had for 5A and 5C to attend the Visual Arts excursion to MUMA on Tuesday!

Students attended a guided tour of the Monash University Museum of Art as well as the Monash Art, Design and Architecture Studios where they were able to interact with some of the Art and Design students that were busy working on their pieces. Students also attended an artist talk with Nick Jones, before participating in a hands-on book sculpting workshop.

Their wonderful pieces will be on display in the library.  Over the next 2 weeks the remaining Year 5 & 6 students will also be attending this excursion and I can’t wait to see the wonderful creations they bring back. 

"We went to Monash University yesterday and it was terrific! We visited Nick Jones and he taught us how to do paper art. We also saw amazing art which also had some deep meaning. It was fabulous."  Sarvesh 

"The MUMA excursion was probably the best excursion we have had all year. We did fun activities including walking around the campus seeing 3D printers in action and making a pop-up book.  The art gallery showed different types of art. The art was in black and white and some in colour."  Luca 

"I liked our excursion a lot because I got to learn a lot of new things like folding books with artist Nicholas Jones. We explored the Monash Art Museum and there was a lot of contemporary art."  Bella

"At MUMA I got to fold books into cool designs. It was really fun and we got to see cool art pieces. A man named Norman took us through a room with 2D and 3D printers. My highlight was folding the books. I learnt about different designs of paintings and the style they can be presented in." Alex 

"Personally, I loved this experience and hope to go again in the future. It was educational and helped me improve my art skills for my future to come. We saw one of the students’ projects which was actually pretty interesting and learned about laser cutters and all the cool creations they made."  Annaliese 

"We looked at Contemporary Art. I learnt that each piece has its own deeper meaning. Nicholas Jones taught me how to make something different with paper folding. It was fun!"  Raph

"On the excursion I learnt how to do book folding and I had a nice tour around the campus.  I liked how we had a tour and now I want to go to University."  Sarah D 

"We learnt how to feel the music and textures of art in silence. We also learnt how to fold pages in books to make a masterpiece made out of trees! We experienced some of the most famous artworks in MUMA and shared our ideas with Melissa, the class and our teachers. I enjoyed this excursion and I hope we do it some day next year!"  Max 

"We went to the Monash University Museum of Art. Our host, Melissa, showed us contemporary art and I learnt that no art is good or bad.  After we got a tour around the university by a man by Norman and later we were taught how to make a pop-up book by Nicholas Jones." Brooklyn 

Helen Kupfer

Visual Arts Teacher/coordinator

PE & Sport News

District Athletics

Congratulations to the 63 students who represented Ormond Primary School in the District Athletics Carnival on Monday 8th of September. It was a warmer day than our House Athletics carnival and our students demonstrated fantastic persistence, team work and effort on the day.

Well done to the six students who will progress to the Division competition, which is in Term 4. 

 Alice H         Bella M        Sacha L        Toby C          Abby G       Hugh DT 

Thank you to Ms Kah, Mr Pannan, Ms Delanely and Ms Bainbridge for helping train students for their events.

Year 6 Braeside Park Bike Ride

We are still after more parents to assist with the annual Grade 6 Bike Ride on Thursday 19th of September. It is a great day out, consisting of bike riding and a delicious BBQ lunch. Please contact Ms Milliken if you are available to help on the day (either riding, or cooking lunch).

Year 6 Summer Sport Term 4

Summer Sport will continue in Term 4 for all Year 6 students. Competition will commence on the first Friday. 

Payment/Permission details will be out on Compass shortly. 

Emma Milliken

PE/Sports Specialist