The Oaks Public School Newsletter

Dear Parents/Carers,

Week 9 is upon us already and we have had such a productive term. The NSW Department of Education has many great resources and has recently created resources to support mathematics learning at school and at home. The links below take you to a PDF with some fun mathematics activities you can do with your child at home. The website link provides some digital resources. Enjoy sharing the love of mathematics with your children over the holidays. 

Everyday Maths Hub - PDF resources

Everyday Maths Hub Weblink

New Procedures -Digital Devices,  Seesaw, PBL

Thank you for the parent feedback regarding our new procedure documents.  We would really like all of these procedures finalised for implementation in Semester 2. If you have any further comment or would like to discuss these procedures further please  contact me at school.

Digital Device Procedures

Seesaw

PBL 

Reading

We have recently purchased a significant number of resources to support the teaching of reading in K-2. These resources are called decodable readers and they support students to use phonics code to be able to read. These books differ from the usual predictable texts that we have used in the past. Please keep your eye out for information sessions and resources that we will provide to parents in early term 3 to support the effective use of these decodable readers at school and at home. 

Our New Acknowledgment of Country

Students, staff and the local community have reviewed the Acknowledgement of Country with the support of the Tharawal Land Council and Department of Education staff. We will be providing new signs in the coming weeks at the entry of the school to share this with the community.

Sporting Success

Congratulations again to Myles for his amazing achievement  at the SSW Regional Cross Country Championships. We wish him every success at the State Championships. Well done, Myles!

A huge thank you to all for your support and effort with the Athletics Carnival. What a wonderful community day where staff, students and parents enjoyed each other’s company. Thank you to Mrs Ormerod and the wonderful parents who assisted with the canteen. Mrs Grieve, Mrs Fowler and Mrs Vella did a marvellous job in organising the day. We thank each and every one of you for making the day a huge success. 

Reports

Student reports will go home next Wednesday. Parent/teacher interviews will follow early next term. Information will be sent home soon regarding these interviews.

Have a great fortnight.

Yaluu

Suzanne Bowyer

Principal

Every Friday, this term K/1L have been participating in Storybook STEM rotations. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. Every week we read a book and rotate through Storybook STEM activities relating to our focus book. Last week we read Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We used the dash bots to help us sequence the story. We designed latches for the Three little bears door and discussed how we could stop someone from getting into our house. We also designed a bed for Goldilocks using fabric, blocks and other loose parts. 

We love developing our critical thinking skills, working in a team and being creative! 

On Thursday 10 June Stage 1 students went into Darling Harbour to visit Sea Life Sydney Aquarium. This excursion supported the informative writing unit the classes have been working on this term. Students were very excited to see the amazing marine life including a vast range of fish, turtles, penguins, ocellated eagle rays, grey nurse sharks and Pig the dugong.

On Wednesday 16 June, our students were treated to a visual and tactile experience of traditional technologies used by Indigenous peoples across the varied environments of Australia. Presenter Philip Green shared his large collection of museum-quality artefacts which were given out in multiple touch-boxes for students to examine and handle. Philip is a National Geographic photographer, who used his stunning photos in an audio-visual presentation of the native plants and wildlife used for food, clothing, medicine, shelter, weapons and art. It was a fantastic hands-on learning experience that our students will remember.