The Open Boys Football Team comprising of OAS and

HCCS boys took on Glenunga and Birdwood High Schools recently in a knockout competition.

Results and Photos on page 4…….

DIARY DATES

Fri 4/5 Year 12 Formal

Tue 8/5 Operation

to 15/5 Flinders starts

Mon 14/5 School Council

Meeting

Tue 15/5 NAPLAN

to 18/5 Years 3,5,7 & 9

Mon 28/5 Reconciliation

to 1/6 Week

Mon 11/6 PUBLIC

HOLIDAY

Queen’s B/day

Mon 18/6 6.30pm School

Council Mtg

Fri 29/6 STUDENT FREE

DAY

Fri 6/7 End of Term 2

2.15 Dismissal

ARTICLE PAGE

Principal’s Report.

Primary Girls Football Comp.

2

Career Choices - Info for Parents.

Ikeda Japanese Homestay Program.

SRC Planning Day.

SRC Leadership Day Inquiry Summit.

3

Open Boys Football Competition

4

Year 11/ 12 Biology

Excursion to Flinders

University

5

Saver Plus Program

Hills Youth Theatre -Polyanna

Badminton - After School Hours

Program

6

Inside this issue:

OAS & HCCS combine to tackle Glenunga & Birdwood.

OAS Newsletter

31 May 2018 Volume: 35 Folio: 10

Thur 31/5 R to 6 Assembly

@ 9am

Mon 4/6 SAPOL Parent

Info Night re L-

Drivers 6.30pm

Mon 11/6 PUBLIC

HOLIDAY Queen’s Birthday

Mon 18/6 6.30pm School

Council Mtg

Thur 28/6 Year 7 Cows

Create Careers

R to 6 Assembly

@ 9am

Fri 29/6 STUDENT FREE

DAY

Fri 6/7 End of Term 2

7 - 12 Assembly

2.15pm Dismissal

Mon 23/7 Term 3

Commences

Tue 24/7 6pm Ikeda Info

Session

Sun 29/7 Ikeda Students

Arrive

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Appointment of Deputy Principal Lawrie Cresp has announced his retirement from

teaching, effective from the end of this term.

Lawrie has provided outstanding service to Oakbank

Area School and other schools around the state across

a long and distinguished career. We wish him well in his

retirement.

His humour, practicality and kindness will be missed by

students, staff and parents.

It is my pleasure to announce that Kirsty Rogers has

accepted the offer of the Deputy Principal position

after a comprehensive selection process involving a

range of quality applicants.

Kirsty brings a wealth of experience in student

wellbeing, career development and school

administration to the position.

Daymap Parent Info Night Please join me this Thursday 31 May at 6:00pm to

discover the opportunities that Daymap presents for

you to monitor your child’s learning journey.

All parents should have received links to log into

Daymap via email.

‘Daymap Connect’ allows you to see attendance

patterns, assessment plans, work schedules, newsletters

and class blogs.

80th Birthday Celebrations This week marked the 80th birthday of the school

after the combining of the Balhannah and Oakbank

primary schools in 1938.

There will be an opportunity for the community and

Alumni to celebrate our birthday milestone later in

the year.

Please join the Oakbank Area School Alumni page

to network with other ex-students and parents so

that we can keep you in touch with our birthday

plans.

Flinders University Visit Please see the report in this Newsletter from Sarah Hill

who, with a number of our Year 11 and 12 students

attended Flinders University to use their facilities and

explore the opportunity for studies at the Tertiary level.

These visits help normalise the University environment

and help students understand that further education is

achievable and exciting.

Student Representative Council Summit Last Friday our SRC was involved with SRCs from across

the Adelaide region in developing leadership potential.

Students worked through a process to identify their

focus areas and map a path to achieve their goals.

The SRC is an integral part of student voice and this

training is important in developing their potential.

Bruce Oerman Principal

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Primary Girls Football Comp On Wednesday 23 May, eleven grade 5 to 7 girls took

part in q Football competition against other schools in

the area, organised by the Sturt Football club and

played at the Onkaparinga Football Oval.

When I say took part, I should have said nearly won! We

won 3 games and drew another. This put us into the

grand final against Stirling East’s top team who are

coached by a Mt Lofty coach and are a team where

nearly all the girls play together on the weekend. The

grand final was the only game that our girls lost.

The year 7 girls that played were Chrystal Smith

(captain), Abby McGinley, Kaia Smith, Jana Tonkin and

Laila Jackson. The year 6s were Charlotte Casement,

Savannah Baayens, Syaura Erickson-Scott and Hope

Bellchambers-Hamilton. The 5s were Ava Smith and

Jasmin Knott.

Only three girls were allowed to shoot for goals in a

game and were designated by a wrist band. There was

a lot of pressure put onto the coach (Me) as everyone

wanted to be a goal shooter! All girls tried hard and

played well making tackles stick.

Chrystal (Buddy) Smith was brilliant at breaking tackles

and heading flat out towards the goals. In all games we

had plenty of ball getters as the girls were not afraid to

get into the packs or on the ground to win the ball.

Sophie Yeates and Brittney Osborne helped with the

Coaching at lunch times. Also a thanks to Jo Casement

for being First Aid (wiping away more tears than blood),

and Janet Mattingly for Goal Umpiring. Thanks also to the

parents who came along to watch and support the girls.

It was a great day played in excellent spirits.

Brenton Hoskin, Footy Coach

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

Career Choices

It would appear that information for parents is highly

sought after when it comes to helping their children

with their career choices.

For that reason, Oakbank Area School would like to

promote a link developed by My Future, which features

links to articles that provide tips and advice for parents

to assist their child with their career development.

Please visit the link below:

https://myfuture.edu.au/footer/assist-others/assist-your

-child>

Kirsty Rogers Senior Pathways Coordinator

IKEDA Japanese Homestay

On Sunday 29 July 2018, eighteen students (4 male and

14 female) from Ikeda High School in Osaka Japan will

be arriving to stay with us.

We are still looking for Homestay families to host a

student for the fortnight they are here.

Aside from being reimbursed to have them in your

home, you will enjoy a rich and rewarding cultural

experience.

If you are interested in being a Homestay Host, please

contact me on 8398 7200 or my mobile 0419 587 444.

Many thanks.

John Higginson

Manager, International Programs

SRC Leadership Day Inquiry Summit Students involved in the OAS SRC attended an Inquiry

Summit and learnt about their leadership characteristics

and planning for and implementing student voice at our

school.

The day was also about meeting other leaders from

other schools and sharing ideas. Oakbank students

focused on uniform redevelopment and a plan for

surveying students around uniform options with a focus

on improvement of the uniform and student compliance

in wearing it.

This will be a focus for SRC this year including our term

planning of activities including a cultural day, SRC sports

competition and a 80s dress up fundraiser.

Kristen Bence & Kerensa Greenfield SRC Coordinators

SRC Planning Session Sub committee groups were working to plan activities

for this term including SRC lunchtime sports, a cultural

day for a charity and a casual clothes dress up

fundraising day for the end of term.

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Open Boys AFL On Thursday 17 May a group of male students

ventured down the freeway to compete in a round

robin Open Boys AFL Competition.

This is one of the occasions where OAS and HCCS

collaborate beautifully with each other for the benefit

of our students. With neither school being huge in

numbers, it would be impossible for either to have a

stand alone AFL team.

By collaborating together, OAS had 12 players and

HCCS had 8 players, which are perfect numbers for an

AFL team, thus giving all students the opportunity to

play.

Captains for the day were Kye Sinnott from OAS and

Noah Bell from HCCS.

The competition was held at Glenunga International

High School with Glenunga and Birdwood High

School being the other two schools that we had to

compete against.

The first game was played against Glenunga.

Glenunga were too strong on the day winning 12 goals

8 behinds to 3 goals 3 behinds. Our goal scorers were

Kye Sinnott and Dylan Taylor from OAS and Noah Bell

from HCCS.

Unfortunately we didn't score a goal against Birdwood

kicking 5 behinds to their 6 goals and 8 behinds.

Best players for OAS on the day were Kye Sinnott, Harry

Maider, Tyler Park-Cromie, Seb Watson, Jacob Wilson

and Dylan Taylor. Best player for the team was Zac

Kuiper from HCCS.

A big thank you to the Lucas and Sinnott families and

past student Riley Sinnott for coming down and

supporting the team. Your presence was much

appreciated. Cheers to Mr Lucas for the newsletter

photo's. Also thanks to HCCS PE teacher Josh Lloyd for

his coaching expertise on the day.

Although the scoreboard wasn't in our favour, the boys

can be very proud of the way in which they

represented the school both on and off the playing

arena in such an open and public forum.

Well done to all concerned!

Shane Wissell Sports Manager

Year 11/12 Biology Excursion to Flinders Uni Yesterday, the Year 11/12 Biology class participated in

two Biotechnology workshops at Flinders University.

This is what they learned (in their own words):

“Enzymes can be used to detect bad bacteria so that

further action can be taken to remove them. We

experimented with “infected” wine to find out what

happens when a specific enzyme is added to it. This

allowed us to determine if the wine sample was

infected or not.”

“We learned about how forensic scientists collect and

analyse DNA samples to solve crimes and also to

conduct paternity testing”

The students were actively engaged, and quickly

mastered the skills to use specialized equipment like

micro-pipettes and the spectrophotometer to analyse

the potentially contaminated wine samples, and used

the gel electrophoresis bath to screen for DNA

matched samples.

They demonstrated excellent team work, and listened

attentively to our expert facilitator Lenny.

Lenny also discussed career and further study

opportunities, sharing her personal story, which has

resulted in her now working as a forensics scientist for

Forensics SA. She was really enthused by our students’

responses and willingness to participate.

It was an excellent day, and I was very proud of the

way our students conducted themselves.

Here are some of their reflections:

“I found performing the experiments helped us

understand the information we were being told”

“It was very ’hands on’ and easy to understand. We

learnt these things using different learning methods,

which helped heaps”

“Both activities were good, they were less boring

because we got to do it ourselves”

“It takes days to get DNA results, not hours like is seen in

TV shows. This is the key to solving cold cases”.

“It has helped me to understand the real-life

applications and importance of biotechnology”

Sarah Hill Biology Teacher

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