Year Levels & Specialist News
PE/Sports News
Swim Team 2023
Congratulations to all the successful swimmers from our trials. I would thank all the parents who assisted on the afternoon of the trials. Your assistance was invaluable. A big Thank you to Mrs. Robey and Mr. Andrews for their assistance.
The District Swim Carnival will be held on Monday, March 6th at GESAC. Watch Compass for further infomration and payment/consent details.
Year 5 Lifesaving Victoria Beach Carnival
The Year 5s head off to Sandridge Beach, Port Melbourne for the annual Surf Carnival and open water safety day. Please ensure payment/consent is completed on Compass.
Year 6 Kayaking
This year the Year 6 cohort go to Karkarook Park for two days of water safety, first aid and kayaking. They will enhance their knowledge of water safety, learn first aid skills and have a great day on the water. The sessions are conducted by qualifies coaches from Kayak Victoria. Please ensure payment/consent is completed on Compass.
House Cross Country
Our annual House Cross Country Carnival will be held at Karkarook Park on Wednesday 29th March. The competition is for Years 4-6. The top 8 boys and girls in each age group will go on to represent the school in the Moorabbin District Carnival also held at Karkarook Park in Term 2.
Parental help is required for this event. Please email Mr Pannam if you are able to assist. All volunteers must have a valid Working With Childrens Card and complete the school's Child Safe Code of Conduct with the front office.
STEAM NEWS
Welcome to the STEAM room!
The Foundation students had their first lesson in STEAM and became familiar with all the different types of building materials we have available to us. They built a range of structures using Lego bricks, Unifix interlocking cubes and wooden blocks.
Year 3 students were challenged with making the longest paper chain possible using only one sheet of A3 paper, scissors, and a glue stick. The longest chain was over 7 metres long! Year 4 students used a variety of materials like paper cups, clothes pegs and rubber bands to build the tallest tower possible. This challenge was all about working together as a team, listening to each other, and sharing ideas.
Year 5 students were challenged to make tiny houses using only six index cards and absolutely no adhesives-no sticky tape, no glue whatsoever! Their designs amazed me and some even added outdoor settings and a dog!
Dorothy Markou
STEAM Specialist
Foundation News
We are so proud of all the Foundation students and parents for a wonderful start to the term. We have been getting to know each other, learning routines, and beginning our learning programs. It’s been great to see the children collaborating during developmental play and their excitement to attend specialist classes for the first time! We were grateful to have lunch with our Year 5 buddies and be introduced to the bigger play area together. Some special visitors dropped by our classrooms and informed us of the best and safest way to cross the roads at school. Thank you to Ormond Primary’s crossing supervisors Sue and Roz!
Year 2 News
The Year 2 students have been brainstorming examples of the school value 'Acceptance.' Here are photos of how well they work and play together.
Year 3 & 4 News
The Year 3 and 4 students have had an exciting start to 2023. We were lucky enough to attend an ‘Indigenous Infusion’ incursion where we learnt the meaning behind the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags, the lyrics and actions to First People’s songs and words such as ‘listen’ and ‘welcome’ in Indigenous languages. We are all excited to further explore these topics during Inquiry this term.
Year 5 News
Year 5 students welcomed three new students, Moonchan, Lenna and Jeremy who have already made friends and settled into Ormond happily. Students made 'Llama Get to Know You' llamas and celebrated the Lunar New Year together. Teachers and students got to know each other through the Llama activity. Here are of their Summer holiday hashtags.
#onaplane #surfing #AustralianOpen #kayaking #beach #waterpark
Melissa Kah and Tim Andrews
Year 6 News
Rounders Round Up
On Friday the 10th of February we travelled to Tucker Road primary school.
We started off active and strong, but later on we lost our concentration.
We soon fell behind as the opposition got a lot of home runs.
Sadly the end score was 2 to 12 in Tucker Road’s favour.
Our star players were Zack for catching and lifting the team spirit, and Alex for pitching and being a good team captain.
Go Ormond!!
By Rui and Amrutha
Lawn Bowls Broadcast
On Friday the 10th of February the lawn bowls team went to Moorabbin Lawn bowls club to play against Moorabbin primary school. When we arrived we split into teams of four and we played for one and a half hours. It was a very close game but Moorabbin won. The star players were Issac, Nicholas, Mia and Kingsley. We had lots of fun. We would like to thank Ms Jones for coaching us.
By Mia and Upajnya
Hot Shots Serve Up
On Friday, the Ormond Hotshots Tennis Team set off to Kings Park to play Tucker Rd Primary School. We got off to a good start and we won most of our singles. In the end, we had a lot of fun and the end scores were nineteen to five in our favour. Our star players were everyone because we all had learnt the rules and improved since last week.
Go Ormond!
By Anastasia and Tate
Kanga Cricket Commentary Box
On Friday the 10th we set off to Tucker Road Primary to play against Tucker Road. We started off making a whopping 145 runs just from batting. Then it was their turn to bat. They were a great team scoring a total of 142 runs. In the end, after the wickets were counted, the scores were 180 to 162 in our favour. The star players were Tegan for her persistence when bowling and Yohan for his good in-field calling/communication. We had lots of fun playing against Tucker Road and thank you to Miss L for coaching us.
By Ben and Ollie
Library News
We made some fabulous purchases for the library with the reward points that were collected last year. Over the school holidays these books were catalogued & covered and are up on display in the library. Come in and have a look there is some amazing titles to choose from.
Next week we will be sending out overdue notices for books that were not returned last year. If you receive a Compass notification and cannot find the book, please contact the office for an alternative solution.
Education Support News
We have started the year with a fire in our belly’s ready for the new term. We did miss our students whilst away and was so happy to see all their faces first day back. We have to say a big welcome to Sahar this year for coming on board and joining our little team.
This term, our longest serving Education Support member Michelle De Silva is on long service leave for the first half of the year. We hope Michelle enjoys the quality time with family and friends and catches up on some well-deserved rest.
On a sadder note, Belinda Van Kessell retired from Ormond Primary School on the 8th February. She made a lovely speech to all the staff at her farewell morning tea. Belinda made some beautiful friendships over the time she was at OPS and l firmly believe that these will last for many years to come. Again on behalf of all the education support staff we wish you the best in retirement and will miss you...