School Calendar

Sunday, 18th November Run for Geelong’s Kids

Tuesday, 20th November School Council Meeting, 6.30pm, Staffroom

Monday, 26th to Friday, 30th November Year 6 Surfing Program

Tuesday, 4th December Junior School Athletics at OGPS, Foundation to Year 2

School Council Meeting

Friday, 7th December OGPS House Swimming Sports, Years 3 to 6

Tuesday, 11th December Orientation Day for 2019 Foundation and Year 7 students Instrumental Music Concert at OGPS, 6.00-7.30pm

Friday, 14th December Apple Fair Casual Dress Day —

Lucky Jar Donation for Apple Fair

Monday, 17th December “House Day”

Tuesday, 18th December Year 6 Graduation

Wednesday, 19th December Year 6 Excursion to Adventure Park

Thursday, 20th December Award Assembly and Presentations, 9.15am at Ocean Grove Park, following by —

Family Helpers’ Morning Tea

Friday, 21st December Last day of Term 4, early finish, 1.30pm

Thursday, 31st January, 2019 First day of Term 1 for all students Foundation to Year 6

Calendar dates continued on Page 2 … …

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2018 Apple Fair Gold Sponsors

Grove Gazette Ocean Grove Primary School e-Newsletter

“Learning for Living” since 1891

Confident, Compassionate, Creative, Curious, Committed, Collaborative, Critical Thinkers

Together we support each other to be passionate learners, growing to be our best for a positive future in our community

From Mrs WestonFrom Mrs WestonFrom Mrs WestonFrom Mrs Weston

Dear School Community

Foundation Families 2019 It is an exciting time of the year for our 2019 Foundation

families. On Monday evening we welcomed our 2019

Foundation families through the Beginning School Parent

evening. Thank you to the amazing team in preparing this

session and welcoming our parents.

Western Metropolitan Region Basketball Congratulations to our

amazing Basketball

enthusiasts who played

with brilliance on

Wednesday, 7th

November. The results

from the Western

Metropolitan Region

Basketball - School

Sport Victoria are as follows:

Our girls went through undefeated. Each one of them

contributed 100% whilst on the court and they represented our

school with impeccable behaviour. We as a school community

can be extremely proud of them as they should be of

themselves.

Round 1: OG 24 - Kardinia 15.

Round 2: OG 21 - Williamstown 12.

Round 3: OG 33 - Baden Powell 6.

Finals: Northern Region v Southern Region 2nd v

1st - Parkwood 11 - OG 19.

Grand Final: OG 29 - Bacchus Marsh 13.

Players: Sienna Stewart, Giselle Dawson, Tilly Anderson,

Ella McGlynn, Stephanie O’Kane, Matilda Richards, Abbey

Waites, Phoebe LeMaistre and Hayley MacKinder.

Coach: Paul ‘Chipper’ Dawson.

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Remember — dark blue broad-brimmed, or bucket hat needed for Terms 1 and 4

School Calendar — continued

Monday, 25th to Wednesday, 27th February, 2019 2019 Year 5 Camp to Melbourne

Friday, 8th March, 2019

OGPS Twilight Apple Fair

Literacy and Numeracy Tips to help your child every day

Helping your child to write

Learning to write begins with scribbling and drawing. This is an important first step and should be encouraged. The next step is to encourage your child to write letter-like shapes, before moving on to practise writing the alphabet – both capitals and lower case letters. After this, encourage your child to write sentences containing short words.

If your child cannot write yet, you could write for them. Here is a strategy:

• Ask your child to talk about an experience or something that interests them. • Ask your child what part of the conversation they would like you to write down. • As your child is talking, write down their ideas. Use their language. • Ask your child to describe back to you what you wrote down, or ask them to read back the

writing. • Your child may want to draw a picture or create something to match the writing.

Encourage your child to take over some or all of the writing when they feel confident. When your child starts writing, try the following:

• Discuss the topic to give your child some ideas to explore. This gives them confidence to begin writing.

• Teach your child any vocabulary they might need. • You can encourage your child by writing on a similar topic alongside them. Then you can

share your writing with each other and discuss the differences.

Assembly this week,

Friday, 16th November

for students in

Foundation to Year 2

Presentation of 7C awards for students in

Foundation to Year 2 as detailed in this edition of the

Grove Gazette

From Mrs WestonFrom Mrs WestonFrom Mrs WestonFrom Mrs Weston / Continued … … Colour Run What an amazing event the colour run was. There was such a buzz

of excitement amongst both the students and teachers. Thank you

to our organisers Nikita Stanley and Megan Kaiser.

Helen Weston Acting Principal http://www.ogps.vic.edu.au/

Basketball

Basketball fever has hit Ocean Grove Primary School. The Grade 4 All Stars girls and Grade 4 All Star boys teams both successfully won their games on Wednesday, 24th October. They participated in the Bulla Hoop Time, Junior All Stars regional finals, at the impressive Eagle Stadium in Werribee. Bulla Hoop Time is a basketball tournament that gives students the opportunity to play across Victoria. Mr Hughes said he was, “Thrilled with the effort of the teams, it’s a fierce competition and at the end of the day to win both grand finals was fantastic”.

Now both teams are heading off to the Junior All Stars State Finals in Dandenong on Monday, 26th November. Players from both teams, Asha Boyd and Austin Gill were both excited and proud of how their teams played. “We really worked hard and supported each other throughout the day, we were nervous and thrilled all at the same time,” exclaimed Austin. “We’d also like to say a huge thanks to our coaches Mel Stewart and Pru Ellis and to our Mums and Dads for taking us especially since it was a Geelong public holiday,” exclaimed Asha.

COLOUR RUN at OGPS

Well done to everyone for bringing back

COLOUR RUN sponsorship money — we have

raised approximately $9,000, an amazing effort !

Thank you everyone

Welcome to OGPS !

OGPS has some new baby chicks — we made

the discovery during gardening last Friday !

The mother hen is very protective of her chicks.

Everyone at OGPS is wishing both teams

every success at the upcoming

State finals this month

Stephanie

Alexander

Kitchen Garden

Program

Walk to School Month

OGPS amassed an amazing total of 10,202 walks to school for

‘October Walk to School Month’.

That’s 365 walks per class and about 16 walks per student.

A GREAT effort from everyone !

World’s Greatest Shave

Last Friday, Year 6 students, Brodie Styles, Miller Keck, Tyrone Brache and Thomas Staehr participated in the Leukaemia Foundation World’s Greatest Shave.

They raised an amazing amount of approximately $3,000

Great job, well done boys !

We made pumpkin and lentil burgers with a salad and potato chips in cooking this week. We also made a lime and lemon tart and had an assortment of fresh juices !

It was delicious !

Please contact the office if you have misplaced a permission slip

Ac�vity Date

Ac�vity Informa�on

Group(s) involved Note and/or money due

19 December Year 6 Adventure Park excursion Year 6 7 December

22 November Blue Light Disco Years 5 and 6 9 November

26-30 November Year 6 Surfing Year 6 16 November

7 December House Swimming Day Years 3 to 6 21 November

23 November Queenscliff Music Fes.val Jnr and Snr Choir 9 November

17 December House Celebra.on Day Whole School 3 December

OGPS 2018 Yearbook Order form Whole School 16 November

16 November Bulla Hoops Senior Future Stars Basketball Selected students 12 November

12 November T20 Smash Cricket Selected students 8 November

4 December Junior School Sports Day Founda.on to Year 2

School Band ‘New Genera.on’ CD For Sale Eldest in family 30 November

25-27 February 2019 2019 Year 5 Camp to Melbourne, Expression of Interest Year 4 23 November

Notes that have gone home recently, or going home this week

OGPS email address:

ocean.grove.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

We welcome and appreciate your feedback,

therefore please feel free to contact us at this email address.

Run For

Geelong’s Kids

this Sunday !

OGPS would love

for you to get

involved! To take

part, go online and

register with Ocean Grove Primary School.

The school with the most registrations wins a prize!

Kids, parents, family, friends, uncles, aunties, grandparents,

neighbours…… get everyone on board!

SCHOOL OFFICE OPENING HOURS

— REMINDER

The office is open between 8.30am

and 4.00pm each school day

DON’T FORGET

LET THE OFFICE KNOW!!

If you change any of your contact details, home telephone numbers, mobile numbers, family circumstances, etc.

Holidays are fast approaching, we would like to inform everyone that holiday club bookings for Camp Australia Holiday Club are now open. We would love to see lots of new faces as well as lots of faces we have seen before! We have lots of fun and exciting activities to be discovered over the summer holidays. We’ve got more great activities planned next week – as well as a lot of fun we don’t even know about yet! See our timetable below

**Save 50% or more on our Holiday Club program with the Child Care Benefit and Rebate.

From the OSHC teamFrom the OSHC teamFrom the OSHC teamFrom the OSHC team

Coordinator: Amy Halse OSHC phone: 0424 472 967

Visit our website for program details, view fees and to register visit www.campaustralia.com.au or call 1300 105 343

Activities Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Commencing

Next week

Cooking Club Outdoor group games

Pancake Wednesday

Art and Craft activities

Disco Friday

TERM DATES FOR THE REMAINDER OF 2018

Term 4 Monday, 8th October to Friday, 21st December

TERM DATES FOR 2019

Term 1 Thursday, 31st January (all students Foundation to Year 6 commence on this day) to Friday, 5th April (Easter in School Holidays, Good Friday is Friday,19th April and Monday, 22nd April is Easter Monday) Term 2 Tuesday, 23rd April to Friday, 28th June

Term 3 Monday, 15th July to Friday, 20th September Term 4 Monday, 7th October to Friday, 20th December

Note for 2019 Foundation Parents

2019 Foundation learning interviews will take place on the following days: Monday, 4th February, Tuesday, 5th February, Wednesday, 6th February, and Wednesday, 13th February — your child will not attend school on any of these days, except to attend their 45 minute interview. Upon completion of the learning interview days your child will attend normal school hours from Thursday, 7th February.

For the remainder of February into March, your child will not attend school on these Wednesdays:

Wednesday 20th, 27th and February, and 6th March, 2019

Confident

Connor Parry J1P for his confident return to school, we have missed Connor’s enthusiasm and

joyful personality in our class, keep up the amazing effort you put in every day, well done

Compassionate

Bo Johnson J0T for having oodles and oodles of compassion

Crea�ve

Molly Lord J2D for sharing her amazing crea.vity, to help grow her classmates’ wri.ng seeds

Ben Bell J1K for his fantas.c crea.vity during wri.ng, well done Ben

Curious

Josh Pietrapertosa J2P for being a super curious mathema.cian

Commi*ed

Taich Hayashi-Burrows J2B for being commi@ed to learning his Oxford Words, he has had

outstanding spelling growth, congratula.ons

Taylor Metcher J2B for being commi@ed to learning her Oxford Words and having great spelling

growth since Term 3

Olivia Power J2S for being very commi@ed in her reading, Olivia oAen chooses to read during

mindfulness, well done Olivia

Louis Belsar-Lebel J2S for being very commi@ed while wri.ng his very own Pig the Pug book,

well done Louis

Max Macreadie J1D for an improved commitment to learning by seBng to work quickly and

having equipment organised

Vinamra Evans J1E for his commitment to improving his maths skills, well done

Collabora�ve

Noah Niksic J0T for being such an outstanding collaborator

Eamonn Lake J0K for his collabora.on during Number Ninjas, well done Eamonn

Ma�lda Ward J0B for great collabora.on during Number Ninjas

Lachie Ferrari J1E well done Lachie, on always being a fantas.c group member

Cri�cal thinker

Zara Wilson J1E for always being a cri.cal thinker and looking for ways to improve her learning,

well done Zara

Our 7C of Learning Awards

Together we support each other to be passionate learners, growing to be our best

for a positive future in our community

Ocean Grove Primary School

“Learning for Living” since 1891

School Council 2018School Council 2018School Council 2018School Council 2018

President David Kilpatrick Vice President Simone Shanahan

Staff Representatives Darryl Diment, Gavin Nelson, Chelsea Perinac, Cathy Buchanan-Hagen

Josh Dunne, Judy Webb

Parent Representatives Adrian Anderson, David Kilpatrick, Belle Donald, Ainslie Tyrrell, Lisa Dickson, Simone Shanahan, Nathan Hill, Trent Lucas, Chris Hicks and Susanne Haxby

Student Leadership Representatives Charlie Larsen and Georgie Gill (School Captains) Charlie Atkinson and Ella McGlynn (School Vice Captains)

School Council Meetings are held twice per term, usually on third Tuesday of the month as per Newsletter calendar.

School Council Dates Usually on Tuesdays at 6.30pm in the Staffroom

Meeting Dates 20th November, 4th December

Apple Fair 2018, our GOLD Sponsors … …

RT Edgar Driftwood Café

Parade Dental Ocean Grove Bellarine Times

Apple Fair 2018, our SILVER Sponsors … …

Oakdene Restaurant and Café

Geelong Orthodontics

Kip McGrath Ocean Grove

MSP Photography Southern Victoria

Baxli Design Melbourne

Flying Brick Cider

C & C Eyewear

Hayden Real Estate

Artist Photography Geelong

Our BRONZE Sponsors … …

Bellarine Vets

Etheridge Cleaning & Maintenance Services

Christians Bus Company

Ocean Grove Camera & Photo

One Day Estate

The Hive Studios

Step into Life

360Q Queenscliff

Bellarine Big 4

Elm Lifestyle

We thank all these wonderful local businesses

for their support of our Apple Fair in 2018

Cromer Builders

Hyper Social Marketing

Ocean Grove Fresh Fruit

LeMaistre Builders Coastal Roofing

Nick Tonzing Videography

Bakers Delight Belmont

Bakers Delight Waurn Ponds

Kapow Restaurant

Contacts

OGPS Call 5255 1340

Email ocean.grove.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Website www.ogps.vic.edu.au

Before and After School Care Bookings and Cancellations Mobile 0424 472 967

Uniform Shop

Looking Smart, 7 Marine Parade, Ocean Grove

Looking Smart is open Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.

Email hello@lookingsmart.com.au

Call 5256 3788 or 0422 802 500

TAKE A LOOK … …

You can view our Newsletters, in full colour, on our website! Visit www.ogps.vic.edu.au follow the links — sign up via Skoolbag app on the OGPS website to receive an emailed link to the Grove Gazette

Music Tuition at OGPS

Please contact music tutors direct

Matiss Schubert, guitar, call 0409 868 226

Andrea Robertson, piano and singing 0431 478 550

Sylvia Thomson, piano, call 0407 532 954

Meagan Burch, various instruments, contact mbmt@bigpond.com

A Reminder — Bell Times at OGPS

Normal recess and lunch break times are as follows:

8.55am Students start to line up at designated area

9.00am Teachers meet students and take to class

10.40am Start of recess 11.10am End of recess

12.50pm Students eat lunch in classrooms

1.00pm Students sent out for lunch play 1.40pm End of lunch play 3.20pm Students dismissed for the day

COMMUNITY NOTICES

Ocean Grove Primary School takes no responsibility for and does not endorse the quality or conduct of any activity mentioned in this section of the newsletter. Customers are required to make their own enquiries and judgements.

Meagan Burch Music Tuition at OGPS Music lessons at school, piano, keyboard, guitar, ukulele, drums, singing, lessons by qualified and trained teachers, instruments available for hire, for more info, contact Meagan on mbmt@bigbond.com

Geelong Concert Bank Inc invites you to our Workshop Band Information Evening on Weds 21 Nov, 6.30pm at Robertson Hall, Geelong College Preparatory School, Minerva Rd, Newtown, Years 5 and 6 children can come and learn to play an instrument, email Trish (President) for info on geelongcb@gmail.com

CFA Open Day 2018, Queenscliff Coast Guard this open day, on Sun 18 Nov, 10am-3pm, is to promote boating safety, it’s supported by the CFA, SES, Water Police and Highway Patrol, displays of emergency services equipment, tours of Coast Guard facility and rescue vehicle, boating safety, raffles, sausage sizzle, held at Queenscliff Boat Ramp, Hesse Street, everyone welcome.

Girls Cricket we are desperately seeking three or more 9 to 12 year olds to make a girls cricket team of 7 players, if interested, please contact Dana on 0437 464 448

Suburban Sandcastles film “May I Be Happy”, Weds 21 Nov, nourishing food, drink, exhibitors, The Potato Shed, Drysdale, book at www.suburbansandvcastles.com

Bellarine SES Recruitment Information Night interested in becoming an SES volunteer? Join us on Weds 28 Nov, 7pm, for more info call 0427 074 029 or bellarine@ses.vic.gov.au, or visit us on Facebook

“Recycled Treasures” at Uniting Church Hall sold out of “The Taj” and everything you need for Christmas in the Ocean Grove Uniting Church Hall, cnr Eggleston St and The Parade, 8am-12noon, Sat 17 Nov

Quote of the Week ……

“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.”

Sonia Sotomayor

Our current student enrolment is

650