Learning & Teaching News

2025 OHR Public Speaking Competition

The OHR Public Speaking Competition has been a tradition going back well over 20 years and is always well supported by our wonderful families.  Public Speaking supports children to develop confidence and build their self-esteem. Confidence in public speaking is a valuable and vital life long skill for all children to have.  At home, families support their children with "bumping up" their speeches and encourage the repeated practices at home needed to develop confident speakers.  I know we are well underway with the preparation of the first presentations in the classrooms.

At Our Holy Redeemer, we value Public Speaking greatly and provide our students with opportunities to speak in front of small groups, to their class, and in front of the whole school at Assembly.  In line with the Victorian Curriculum we aim to instill strong Public Speaking skills in all our students from Foundation through to Year 6. This program is supported by the development of different text types in our Writing lessons. 

In 2025 we are conducting our Competition inTerm Two.  The Final will be on Monday 23rd June.  For those families planning early Winter Getaways, please be aware that if your child makes the Final, they must be at school on this day. Online submissions will not be accepted.

Lisa Canty

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

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