School Philosophy

Orchard Grove Primary School is committed to providing a safe, nurturing environment that engages curiosity, promotes learning, personal growth, and well-being for all students. We strive to develop adaptability and resilience so students can become valued members of the local and global communities and be prepared for future life experiences.

From the Principal

Welcome to the final newsletter for 2025!

New Staff Members

We would like to welcome our new staff for 2026.

Brooke Kandell, Tearna Clamp, Shannon Stackpoole, Jami Richards.

End of Year Awards

Our end-of-year awards celebrate the achievements of students across the year. These are Citizenship Awards; one student from each cohort of students achieves this by displaying all the school values consistently over the year. The recipients are listed below.

Foundation: Lucy

Year One: Chloe

Year Two: Noa

Year Three: Jackson

Year Four: Xavier

Year Five: Indiana

Year Six: Sophie

The other awards are our Graduation awards, awarded at Graduation to students in a range of categories. A huge congratulations to the following students, who took out the following awards:

Citizenship Award (North East Shield): Sophie

Literacy Award: Mlak

Maths Award: Axel

Visual Arts Award: Carolina

Performing Arts Award: Amity

Sports Award: Olive

Spanish Award: Priscilla

STEM Award: Noah

The Menzies Award: Max

Rotary Award: Felicity

Academic Award: Dulein

Graduation Award: Hayley

Congratulations to our new 2025 Student Leaders

A big shout out to all the Year Five students who put their hand up for one of these roles. To see this much enthusiasm within our student group is amazing and something of which to be very proud.

The following students were successful in gaining one of the positions on offer.

School Captains: Clara, Akaal

House Captains - Killara: Isabelle, James

House Captains - Mirrabooka: Maggie, William

House Captains - Warrawong: Isabella, Mati

House Captains - Wurundjeri: Tamsin, Liam

Junior School Council Captains: Maddy, Asha

Sustainability Captains: Ines, Elizabeth

Technology Captains: Jocelyn, Maddie

Community & Cultural Captains: Hannah, Eclynn

Peer Mediator Captains: Annabel, Torah

Library Captains: Audrey, Maya

STEM Captains: Cooper, Andrea

Performing Arts Captains: Catherine, Lucy

Visual Arts Captains: Chloe, Lucy

Year Six Graduation

On Wednesday, we had our Year Six Graduation and it was a great night. The evening went beautifully and it was lovely to celebrate the achievements of a wonderful group of students. Thank you to the staff and parent graduation committee for all the work put into making sure the evening was a memorable one.

As part of the evening, we acknowledge the departing families who have their youngest (or only) child leaving the school, thus ending their affiliation with the school. We would like to say goodbye and good luck to the following families:

Altan	Greaves	Melville
Avendano Pride	Halford	Meng
Beirne	Hubbard	Molenaar
Brown	Jack	Mudalige Don
Cant	Jiang	Patel
Canteri	Kale	Sabet
Carpenter	Khazai	Stone
Chorovski	Kloot	Tondas
Choo	Knott	Winfield
Day	Lawson Gillies	Wong
Dittebrandt	Lin	Yang
Francome	Lin	Zeng
Frangos	Lim	Zhang
Fry	Liu	Zhang
Gent	Mantalvanos
Ginaylo	Melo Furtado

2026 Class Teachers

Foundation: Bianca Seymour, Buni Hasvong, Hayley Sheridan, Brooke Kandell

Year One: Kerry Todkill, Tearna Clamp, Amy Westmoreland

Year Two: Toby Keen, Shannon Stackpoole, Olivia Mahon, Luisa Hill, Lauren Cummings

Year Three: Liz Padman, Charlotte Fatnowna, Kate Jackson

Year Three/Four: Glenn Tooth

Year Four: Karen Horvat, Abbey Tiernan, Dani Calvisi

Year Five: Charlotte Pemberton, Clare Barrett, Kiralee Molnar, Pierre Douvartzides

Year Six: Rachael Duke, James Dean, Amanda Jeeves

Visual Arts: Susan Tate

Performing Arts: Grace Jasinski

LOTE - Spanish: Jami Richards

Library: Hayley Sheridan

PE: Jarrod Liston

STEM: Matt Anthony

Enjoy the holidays and quality time spent with family and friends.

Michelle Ogilvie

Principal

OGPS Newsletter

Issue 20 · 19 Dec 2025

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