Junior School 

Awards & News

JS Assembly Awards        

Merit Awards

KR: Week 7 – Lachlan Elder, Beau Pigot, Tom Haydon. Week 8 – Alfie Begg.

1E: Week 7 – Imogen Flowers, Michael Gurr, Phoebe Westcott, Mezen Jalal, Emily McGreal, Kayley Lett, Lulu Widauer. Week 8 – Mackenzie Austen, Edward Chapman, Adeline Delbridge, Robert Fatai, Michael Gurr, Sophie Kerdic, Lilly Kilby, Darcy Thomas.

2C: Week 7 – Winona Wade, Dylan Cutter, Julian Capanas, Emily Lawrie, Phoebe Clinton. Week 8 – Angus Boyd, Emily Lawrie, Digby McGee, Felix Knox, Kimberley Williams, Claire Gordon.

2S: Week 7 – Lucy Austen, Willa Dunlop, Sadie Kimmins, Sophia Martin, James Robson, Marlon Zielinski. Week 8 – Zali Begg, Willa Dunlop.

3M: Week 8 – Daniel Hayward, Alice Jones, Thomas Karrasch, Joshua Leung, Disha Prasad, Henry Sawtell, Saxon Haynes, Oscar Pigot.

3R: Week 7 – Reginald Caskey, Benjamin Howe, Jack Piggott, Nixie Widauer.

4F: Week 8 – Andrew Bell x3, Meckenzie Flowers x2, Chrysalide Frecklington x2, George Kilby x3, Luca Kotasthane x3, Samuel Marvasti x2, Amelia McGee x4, Harry Price, Isabelle Provost x2, Grace Segger x2.

4P: Week 7 – Zaro Jalal, Vivian Meates. Week 8 – Samuel Adetifa, Henry Brannigan, Charlie Haydon, Zaro Jalal, Aston Lett, Cassandra Philippe, Janette Proudford-Nalder, Lachlan Turnbull, Ingrid West.

6H: Week 7 – Hugo O’Brien, Charlie Kimmins, Lenny Shannon. Week 8 – Matilda Curtin, Phoebe Paynter. 

Courtesy Points 

Lovely Manners: Week 7 – William Barrett, Lulu Widauer, Alexander Coleman, Leopold Wade, Georgiana Saran, Zach Stacpoole. Week 8 – Adeline Delbridge, Nicholas Rourke, Alexander Coleman, Nicholas Balcomb, Suzie Dale, Cooper Martin.

Lovely Greetings: Week 7 – Harry Oldroyd. Week 8 – Isabelle Provost, Cassandra Philippe.

Thinking of Others: Week 7 – Emma Ward-Finn.

School Values: Week 7 – Elke Sawtell, Grace Harvey, Isabella Vangestel. Week 8 – Grace Harvey, Daniel Hayward, Milla O’Toole, Hamish Searle.

Citizenship Points

Sportsmanship: Week 8 – Oscar Chandler-Sullivan.

Helpfulness: Week 7 – Morgan Zinga, Lilly Kilby, Arthur Mullins, Phoebe Westcott, Nicholas Rourke, Mya McLachlan, Grace Lowther, Georgiana Saran, Ingrid West. Week 8 – Emily McGreal, Kayley Lett, Nicholas Rourke, Mackenzie Austen, Robert Fatai, Louis Blyth, Jack Dale.

Being Kind: Week 7 – Stuart Bell, Annabel Clinton. Week 8 – Stuart Bell.

School Values: Week 7 – Finlay Simpson, Digby McGee, Lucy Austen, Adelaide Swift, April Englund. Week 8 – Lucy Austen, Joshua Leung, Lucie Chambers, Amelia McGee, James Jones, Vivian Meates.

Easter Egg Charity Drive

Each term, our House Captains and Prefects will be working together on projects to build community within our school as well as reaching out to the wider community. This term, our Brown House Captains, Willa Paix and Billy Roberts are leading the team to organise an Easter Egg Drive for the residents of Ascott Gardens. 

We are asking students from the Junior School to bring in a small donation of Easter eggs so that our Junior School Student Leaders can create hampers to take up to Ascott Gardens. This is a lovely opportunity for the students to show care for others at this special time of the year, as well as bring some joy to the senior members of our Orange community. 

If you are able, please send a small donation of Easter eggs in with your Junior School child and the House Captains will work with class teachers to collect and deliver them. To give us time to create the hampers, please send in the eggs by Friday 26th March.  

Thank you in anticipation of your support for this Junior School Project. 

Emma Charlton – JS Wellbeing Coordinator

Dates for Your Diary

31 March – JS Athletics Carnival 

31 March – Term 1 Concludes

1 April – KWS Pupil Free Day

2 April – Good Friday

3 – 5 April – Easter 

5 – 16 April – School Holidays

20 April – Term 2 Commences

Year 4 Excursion

On Wednesday 3rd March, Year 4 visited the Ophir Road Resource Recovery Centre (ORRRC) and Euchareena Road Resource Recovery Centre (ERRRC) to support their Geography and Science units exploring natural and processed materials and learning about sustainability. 

At the ORRRC, students learnt that general waste is compacted into rectangular prisms and wrapped in plastic to help protect the local bees at the landfill site from contracting diseases and to help minimise landfill rubbish from being blown away. 

At the ERRRC, students observed four large tunnels that are used as part of the process to help turn our green waste into compost. Students also saw large pyramids that contain all of Orange’s landfill since 2013 when the ERRRC became the new landfill site. 

Below are some statements made by our Year 4 students about things they’ve learnt:

I used to think food scraps should go in the red bin but now I know they can go in the green bin to improve compost making. Vivian Meates

I used to think that plastic would decompose but now I know that plastic stays in the ground for thousands of years. Ingrid West 

I used to think Orange’s rubbish was buried at the Ophir Rd Recovery Centre but now I know it’s taken to the Euchareena Rd Recovery Centre. Charlie Hayden 

I used to think green waste gets turned into compost in only one step but now I know it has to go through several steps to be turned into compost. Janette Proudford-Nalder

I used to think that my green bin was only for garden waste but now I know you can put things like food scraps, cardboard, or paper in also. Cassie Philippe

I used to think that I could put batteries in the red bin but now I know that there is a special place to put them at the Ophir Rd Recovery Centre so they don’t explode and so they do not start a fire. Benjamin Knight 

I used to think that all of the rubbish just went into the ground but now I know that it gets squished into large rectangular bricks, is wrapped in plastic and is then put in landfill in a pyramid and gets covered by dirt. Isabelle Provost

I used to think the tip was just a load of rubbish and garbage trucks but now I know that the Euchareena Road Resource Recovery Centre has four large tunnels that all of the green waste goes into and gets heated at 63 degrees Celsius. Andrew Bell

Year 6 Science

The Year 6 students visited the Science labs on Tuesday to study microbes. The Year 12 Biology students showed the Year 6 students how to use the microscopes. The students were able to see a range of microbes from pondwater, including paramecium, amoeba and algae, as well as yeast and penicillium cells. 

Dr Parry receives Pre-Kinder visit

Our Pre-Kinder students brightened Dr Parry's day last Tuesday with a visit to his office. He has been nominated as a guest story reader in the library for their next visit.