Orana Heights Public School

Annie Munro, Principal

Excellence, Opportunity and Success in a caring school.

Email: oranahts-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Web Address: https://oranahts-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

Term 1 Week 5 Tuesday 25 February 2020

House Captains 2020

Change of Dates At the start of Term 2, there will be one extra Staff Development Day as all teachers at OHPS participate in AVID training.

This initiative with other Dubbo schools means there will be no Staff Development Day in Term 3.

Term 2 - students return to school Wednesday 29 April 2020

Term 3- students return to school Monday 20 July 2020

Parent Teacher Interviews this Wednesday 26 February 2020 - Online bookings close at 8pm today.

Giant Easter Raffle - The Easter Egg Raffle is underway! We are asking for donations of Easter treats from each family to make up the prizes. Please send any contributions to your child's teacher by Friday 3 April 2020. The prizes will be drawn at the K-2 Easter Hat Parade. Raffle tickets will be sent home next week. Thank you.

Clean up Australia Day - this Friday 28 February, please bring in gloves and plastic bags to help in the clean up.

Term 1 - 2020 Planner

Week Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

5

24 25 26 8.30-9.30am Uniform Shop Parent/Teacher Interviews

27 Dubbo District Twlight Swimming Carnival

28 2.30-3.30pm Uniform Shop

6 March

2 3 4 8.30-9.30am Uniform Shop Stage 1 Walking Excursion

5 6 2.30-3.30pm Uniform Shop

7

9 10 11 8.30-9.30am Uniform Shop

12 13 12.30pm K-2 Assembly 2.10pm Yrs 3-6 Assembly 2.30-3.30pm Uniform Shop

8

16 17 18 8.30-9.30am Uniform Shop

19 20 Harmony Day 2.30-3.30pm Uniform

From Ms Munro’s Desk

Our Cooler Classrooms Project is about to begin. With this please take note of some important points:

This Thursday afternoon, a site office will be placed on the school grounds. This means on Friday, our back car park will be

closed for the duration of work taking place in our classrooms. The updating of air conditioners in some of the classrooms

will be greatly appreciated by all those in the designated spaces. Staff only will use this car park off Birch Ave.

Please refer to parking ideas and school access in last week’s newsletter.

If you normally pick your child/ren up from Down Under Place, please meet at the back hayshed. This is located down the

walker’s path towards Birch Ave. A teacher will walk the students down at 3.05pm. Meeting children here will provide a safe

area with shelter and seats.

Before and after school care will use the walker gate off Birch Avenue while the back car park is not accessible. It will be

unlocked during the relevant times by the ASC staff.

Your children may mention that their learning is taking place in another area of the school. Whilst we make every effort to

work with the contractors to minimise disruptions to classrooms, we are working on the old saying of “short term pain, long

term gain”!

All volunteers working with children at school are required to obtain some form of Working With Children check. This can be a free

online application through services NSW, or an “Appendix 5” may be filed with the school along with 100 points of ID. If you have any

questions, office staff are able to assist.

This Friday students will be participating in our local school effort to “Clean Up Australia”. We appreciate all those students who are

able to bring gloves on the day to participate in making our immediate area spotless.

During the day, our teachers are busy teaching. We appreciate, that at times the need for communication, however during class time

is not ideal. Please see teachers before or after school, make an appointment or send a message via a phone call or ClassDoJo, if it is

available. If teachers are speaking to you during class time, there is a chance students are being left unsupervised.

I look forward to seeing parents and carers at the parent/teacher interviews tomorrow evening.

Annie Munro Quote: “Well done is better than well said,” – Benjamin Franklin.

Premier's Reading Challenge Starts on Monday 2 March 2020 and closes Friday 28 August 2020.

Find out your child’s logon details. For public schools, students’ logon will be the same one they use to access computers and the internet at school.

Help your child to add books to her/his Student Reading Record regularly. Log on and go to: Student Reading Records > enter books by ID or Title or Author. To enter a Personal Choice book, select the

‘Add a Choice Book’ tab > enter part of the title or author > select ‘Search’. If your book appears as an option, select ‘Add’. If it does not appear, scroll down to the ‘Still can’t find a book?’ section > enter the full title and author > select ‘Add’.

Check your child’s Challenge history – log on to the website, go to Student Reading Records and select tab ‘My Information’. If Challenge participation at a previous school is not listed, contact your child’s PRC coordinator.

Contact your child’s PRC coordinator if:

Your child has any difficulty using her/his logon details to access the PRC website.

You are concerned that your child’s name is spelt incorrectly in the PRC website.

Your child’s online Student Reading Record (SRR) must have the required number of books recorded to complete the Challenge by the student closing date. School PRC coordinators have an extra week to validate the SRR. Only students with a validated SRR are eligible for a certificate.

In the final weeks of the Challenge, log on regularly to the website to check the status of your child’s SRR. Contact your child’s PRC coordinator if you are concerned your child’s SRR has not been validated.

Congratulations to the following Award Winners

Honour Awards

Ella Howard Katie Smith x 3 Charles Wade Maahi Sagar Lachlan Mules Liam Fish Chloe Boland Indiana Stewart Liam Fish Ruby Forrester Charlie Rindfleish Mia Calverley Mathew Spence Maylea Rathbone Kara Calverley Sienna Grant Finn Arnold Maya Lake Charlotte Davies Sophie Spence x 2 Oscar Goedhart Liam Bye x 2 Paddy Grose Emily Krucler Noah Sutton Raymond Walford Bianca Myhill x 2 Isla Howard Harper Tobin Ava Baker Tejay Jamhour Riley Russell x 3 Ella Anderson Kenzie Hamilton Cooper See Jett Tobin Kimberly O'Reilly Tori Hannifey Haiden Arnold Cambelle Shipp Hamish Wells Paddy Grose Jayden Daley x 5 Scarlett Ross x 2 Jett Stephens Gabriel Goedhart Ellyce Hummel Ceilidh Mills Jake Clarke-Lawrence Gabrielle McKenzie x 2 Delilah Nicholls x 3 Kareel South Hill Lincoln O'Reilly x 3 Chloe Richards x 2 Toby-Ray Fernando

Distinction Awards

Liam Bye Ky'Shea Wells Jayden Daley Kenneth Powers Gabriel Goedhart Ellyce Hummel Paddy Grose Raymond Walford Riley Russell

Bianca Myhill Chloe Richards

Dubbo Opportunity Hub (DHUB)

In coming weeks some Aboriginal students in Years 5 & 6 will have the opportunity to work with the Dubbo Opportunity Hub

(DHUB) to discuss career pathways.

If you are interested in finding out more information about DHUB, they are holding parents morning tea on Thursday 27

February from 10.30—11.30am at their office at 155 Brisbane St, Dubbo.

SPORT NEWS School Swimming Carnival - Take 2 of our school swimming carnival occurred last Thursday evening. Thank you to all the families who supported this event. A very big thank you to Mrs Lockyer and Mrs Stewart for all their organisation of another wonderful carnival. Age champions certificates and ribbons will be awarded at date to be advised. Winning House - Cuthbert Dubbo District Swimming Carnival Date: Thursday 27 February 2020. Time: 4.30pm-8pm Venue: Dubbo Aquatic Centre Notes have been handed out to students who qualified for District Swimming. Please return these to Mrs Hall. Students are to sit with Miss Board in the grandstand during the carnival. Goodluck to the following students: Willow Pittock Ayla Pittock Tahlia Crowley Chloe Boland Amelia Carney Paddy Grose Lucy Letfallah Jett Stephens Isabella Hall Kara Calverly Bradley Binks Lachlan Day Joshua Fardell Jayden Sepping Matilda Courts Ella Wall Lily Manson Chloe Richards Izak Bennett Matilda Keller Charlie Lockyer Samuel Davies Zienna Wathen-Romans Knockout Teams with upcoming games Boys & Girls AFL Boys Cricket Knockout selections happening soon for Boys & Girls Soccer Boys Rugby League Netball

Mrs Hall, Sports Co-ordinator

Koala Day We are having a Koala Day to raise money for the Australian Koala Foundation. The Australian Koala Foundation (AKF) is the principal non-profit, non-government organisation dedicated to the effective management and conservation of the koala and its habitat. AKF has been helping the koala’s affected by the recent NSW bushfires.

Thursday 2 April 2020 will be Koala Day. Students may wear out of uniform for a gold coin donation. Koala activities will include a colouring in competition, guessing competition and after school we will be having a koala themed dance, where students can come dressed in an Australian theme. The cost of the dance is $5.00 (to be paid at the dance) this includes dancing, a drink and a treat. Information about the dance will be included in a later school newsletter.

We have the following items available to purchase now, until sold out, to add to our fundraising amount. Please note that we only have a limited amount of items for sale and orders will be processed in the order they come in. Ordered items will be handed out on the Wednesday 1 April 2020.

Koala Order Form

Name: ______________________________ Class: _______________________________

Item Cost Quantity Subtotal

Finger Puppet $3.00

Gumleaf Tattoo $1.00

Arnie Tattoo $1.00

Mum and Joey Tattoo $1.00

Total