Learning & Teaching News

Term Overviews

Click the links below to read the Term 2 Overviews for each year level.

ICAS 2025

For parents of students in Years 2-6, please click on the button below to read the letter introducing the ICAS Competitions for 2025 and also explaining the process to enrol your child/ren in any of these assessments.

Nick Byrne

Learning & Teaching Leader

Bebras Maths Challenge- Results are in!

46 of our Year 3-6's participated in the recent Bebras Maths Challenge run by the Australian Maths Trust. Congratulations to all our computational thinkers and problem solvers! We will acknowledge these students and present them with a certificate at Assembly on 19th May (next week).

Here are a few more sample questions for you to challenge yourself at home.

Penny Hansen

Mathematics Leader

New Maths Book and our Special Visitors

At the end of last Term, we were fortunate to have Doug Clarke, a retired professor of Mathematics, and his team including; Anne Roche, Matt Sexton and James Russo step into our classrooms. We have a lovely connection to Doug Clarke as he is the grandfather of a family of OHR students. He and his team are well respected mathematicians who have written multiple books of which OHR have previously featured. During this visit, which trialed new maths ideas and lessons, the team of 4 visited 1/2GK, 3/4CP, 5/6KM and 5/6CM. The lessons focused on Decimals, 2D Shape, Longitude/Latitude and Place Value. The students were highly engaged in mathematics within each lesson and Doug and his team enjoyed working with such mathematical thinkers! We look forward to having them return for the next phase of their book launch.

Penny Hansen

Mathematics Leader