Whole School News
Permissions & Agreements - COMPASS
Parents are asked to please complete all the Permissions & Agreements on Compass for themselves and their child/ren, if they have not already done so to ensure their child's participation in activities, use of their childs photos in the DVD and newlsetter and the use of technologies and devices throughout the school year. These can be found in the the Course Confirmation/School Payments section on your Parent Portal.
Parents/Carers wishing to help out in the classroom or on excursions etc. must complete the Child Safe Code of Conduct via Compass or in person at the school Office. Parent helpers are also required to have a current Working With Children Card which the office must have a copy of. Please contact the office if you have any questions regarding this process.
Second Hand Uniform Sale
There will be a Second Hand Uniform Sale on Friday 15th March 3:15pm to 3:45pm.
Cash only, please bring small denominations as limited change will be available.
If you are able to lend a hand with the second hand uniform sales this year please contact Brodie in the office or speak to the ladies at the stall on this day.
Easter Raffle & Casual Clothes Day
Thursday 21st March will be a casual clothes day for the students but instead of a gold coin donation, we are asking students to donate an Easter treat (e.g. Easter egg). These donations will be made up into hampers and used as prizes for our raffle. Raffle tickets and further information will be sent home with students on this day. We would love for families to please sell as many tickets as they they can.
The raffle will be drawn at school assembly on the last day of Term 1, Friday 5th April.
Creative Art Competition
Show us how your brain is AMAZING by creating some fabulous artwork for our creative competition and go into the draw to win prizes for you and your school! You can use pens, pencils, crayons, texts or paint on A4 size paper and must be inspired by the brain! See the attached poster for more details
Library News
Scholastic Book Club order forms are going home today. Orders/payments are due by Friday 22nd March 2019. Payments are to be made directly to Scholastic using the payment options on the brochure. Ormond Primary School does not collect any payments.
Payments are to be made directly to Scholastic using the payment options on the brochure. No late orders will be accepted to ensure delivery by the end of the school year. If your orders are for Christmas and you do not want your children to see, please contact the office to arrange a parent pick up.
Performing Arts
Foundation A (Mrs Hocking) will be performing a song from their Performing Arts class at Assembly on Friday 15th March. Parents are welcome.
Foundation News
The children’s have finished their 4 introductory weeks and are now starting their first full time week. They have all transitioned well from kindergarten play based to school learning tasks.
In literacy our word of this week is SUN next week followed by NET. Now that we have completed all sound and mathematics assessment we are able to begin to groups students and have more guided focus group sessions. This will be a new routine where the children will be learning to work independently so that the teachers can give more individualised attention and skills in a small group setting.
Later this week we will also be sending home the most frequently used 100 words, the Magic 100 words. They are organised in coloured levels and have been researched as the most commonly used words for both reading and writing. As described in the notice inside their word book the children are to read them automatically without sounding them out. Encourage them to also look for these words as well as learnt sounds in their take home readers.
Over the next fortnight in maths we will focus on the counting and writing of numbers both forwards and backwards. Often the children can confidently count up however will find it hard to recite a number pattern backwards.
In inquiry we have been having many discussions about the why each student is unique and different and the strengths that having friends with differing qualities and likes can have. We are soon broadening this to families and exploring the various ways that families differ and make up our multicultural community.
PE & Sport News
District Swimming Carnival
Congratulations to the Year 3-6 students in the School Swimming Team that competed at the District Carnival, on Tuesday the 3rd of March. Mrs Thanos and I were impressed with everyone’s efforts on the day and the Ormond team spirit.
Ormond finished in sixth place overall! Well done to Toby who won the U/11 Breaststroke and progresses to the next level on Wednesday 13th March.
House Cross Country
The whole school Cross Country will be on Tuesday April 2nd this year. Foundation to Year 2 students will be running in the morning around the oval at the school. The Year 3 - 6 students will be running at Wattle Grove Reserve, as Allnutt Park cannot be used for this event due to a water mould outbreak. More information will be provided closer to this event. Please watch Compass for consent requirements for Year 3-6 students.
Emma Milliken
PE Teacher, Sports Coordinator