Whole School News
CURRICULUM DAY - NO SCHOOL
There will be a Curriculum Day on Friday 9th August. Students are not required at school for this day.
Out of School Hours Care will be available on this day for those who require care. Please contact the program directly on 9578 1327 or see April or Sharelle in the Hall during program hours.
New Lunch Order Provider 6 Week Trial
Using the feedback from the school lunch order survey late last year, the Education Sub-Committee have conducted extensive research into available suppliers that have the potential to meet our school’s unique needs, and align with the Education Department’s recommended nutrition guidelines.
Classroom Cuisine was the supplier that stood out in terms of quality, convenience, variety, freshness and nutritional value. They currently service over 85 schools in Melbourne, including McKinnon and Tucker Road Primary Schools and come highly recommended.
We’ve organised a 6-week TRIAL for Ormond Primary starting Wednesday July 31st.
Please Note: Taste Galore will continue to supply lunch orders on Mondays and Fridays during this time.
To REGISTER your family for the trial or to learn more about the service visit: classroomcuisine.com.au. All ordering and payments are online and can be done in advance. You can trial the new service on any or all Wednesdays during the 6 week period.
A hard copy of the OPS Classroom Cuisine Menu will be sent home with students this week. It is also attached below and will be available in the Front Office.
Please take this opportunity to trial the service and provide us with your valued feedback. A feedback survey will be distributed at the end of the trial period.
Regards,
OPS Education Sub Committee
Ormond's Got Talent
Lots and Lots of rehearsals are being seen all over the school. The excitement is building. We cant wait to see all the final acts that have been selected and who will perform for everyone on Wednesday 7th August.
Foundation News
There is always something exciting happening in Foundation, and on Tuesday 30th July we will celebrate our 100th day of school! There is so much learning to celebrate and the children will enjoy a day full of activities. They will even be treated to a surprise visitor on the day to help make the 100th day of school magic! As part of our mathematics program, on the 100th day of school we would like each child to bring 100 items to school to be counted.
On Friday, 2nd August, a chemical scientist from Hands On Science will be visiting so that we can learn even more about materials. In Inquiry sessions, we have been learning to ask questions about materials and their properties, and in what ways they can be changed or used. We have been involved in hands-on activities, identifying materials around our classrooms and practising grouping and sorting.
In Mathematics, the children are investigating that everything has mass. They have been hefting and weighing items to determine which is lighter or heavier. Next we move on to place value, where the children will learn, for example, that 10 singe icy-pole sticks can make one bundle of ten. They will be involved in lots of bundling and recording tasks to reinforce the new learning.
In English, the next two diagraphs are 'ay' in week 2, 'ck' in week 3 and 'ea' and 'ch' in week 4. Digraphs occur when two letters combine to make the one sound. We are beginning to use our Magic 100 - 200 words in our daily writing, with very pleasing results. Continue to encourage your child to read daily and to practise their magic coloured words as often as they can. There are ideas and suggested games on the sheets pasted inside your child’s word book. Remember to upload the books you read onto the Premier’s Reading Challenge site. The reading challenge finishes in September and it would be wonderful if all Foundation students could achieve the challenge. Achievement Certificates from the Premier, Daniel Andrews, will be issued in November to every student who completes the challenge.
Look out for photos of our 100th day of school celebrations in the next newsletter.
Lorraine, Jacinda and Laura
Year 2 News
Welcome back to Term 3! We have many exciting things planned for this term in Year 2.
We will continue to develop our spelling skills through our SMART Spelling program and we are very excited to be beginning a unit on poetry.
Science will be our main Inquiry focus for this term and we look forward to our excursion to Edithvale Wetlands as well as our Hands-On Science incursion.
Both students and teachers are looking forward to a fantastic term 3!
Year 5 News
Respectful Relationships
Year 5 students were fortunate to have had three workshops with Kate Wilde last week to assist them in developing skills related to ‘Respectful Relationships’. Replacing ‘technology time’ with alternate activities such as playing board games, and the development and application of empathy and resilience were some of the major learning intentions. In addition to being great fun, these sessions will hopefully enhance personal development, encourage and strengthen friendships and further define our positive school culture.
PE & Sport News
Whole School House Athletics Day
House Athletics is around the corner on Monday 5th of August.
In PE classes students are practicing running, throwing and jumping activities in preparation for the whole school Athletics Carnival. We need parent helpers from each class to assist with this day, please let your classroom teacher know if you can make it.
Year 6 Interschool Sport Semi Finals
Well done to the AFL and Mixed Basketball team that reached the semi-finals. Both teams unfortunately lost in the semi-finals.
Summer Inter-school sport season starts again in Term 4.
Could Year 6 students please return the team sports tops to their coach, Football tops to Mr Brown, Basketball tops to Mrs Thanos and Soccer tops to be returned to Ms Milliken.
Year 4 to 6 Bike Education
The Bike Ed program starts very soon. There will be heaps of bikes coming to school on Friday’s, so please make sure you walk your bike through the school gate and leave it in the area near the back fence. We would still love any parent helpers interested in helping with the Bike Ed Program to email Ms Milliken.
We also require parent helpers for the Year 6 Braeside Park Ride on Thursday 19th of September.
Emma Milliken
PE/Sports Specialist