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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY FATHERING PROJECT What a wonderful turnout of interested Dads at our meeting last Wednesday night. Thirty dads were in attendance and all very keen to be involved in this initiative at the school. Thanks to our Wellbeing Officer Miss Benita and John Kirkland who introduced The Fathering Project into Sylvania Heights Public School for their presentation. The Fathering Project is a not for profit, inclusive charity that seeks to help children by working with schools and organisations, assisting Fa-thers and Father figures to realise their importance in children’s lives and to improve their effectiveness as Fathers and role models for chil-dren.

MR NASH’S CORNER

Stage 3 Fete Day

Mufti 27

NOV

Organic Diggers

Working Bee 10AM 1

DEC

Helpers Thank You

Morning Tea 4

DEC

Last Day Scholastic Book Club Orders

26 NOV

Years at OWPS: 6

Favourite thing about OWPS:

Apart from the amazing students

and parents, I would definitely say

my amazing colleagues. They

make coming to work extra fun!

Favourite event about OWPS:

The Christmas Concert! It is such

a magical time of year! The chil-

dren love the concert too!

Favourite food about OWPS:

Anything Italian, especially pasta!

Favourite place to holiday:

I love the USA but Hawaii is my

favourite place!

Favourite Song:

Anything by Elton John! I have

even been lucky enough to go to

three of his concerts!

Favourite Book:

I am a big Jodi Piccoult fan. My

favourites are The Pact and My

Sisters Keeper.

V A L U E F O R T H E W E E K RESPONSIBILITY Take responsibility for your choices. Provide a good example for others. Take care of school and personal property. Be in the right place at the right time.

FIVE MINUTES WITH CHRISTIE TRACEY 2KC

Final Value Leaf

Assembly 28 NOV

Please note last trading day for

Uniform Shop is Thursday 13th

December.

Canteen is NOT OPEN last week

of term.

Principal Nash continued Principal Nash continued

The Fathering Project utilizes researched evi-dence to develop programs and initiatives to en-courage Fathers to realise how important they are in a child’s life, inspire them to get involved with their children and give them advice and op-portunities on how to do this. Judging by the enthusiasm from our dads last week, we are looking for a great program to be implemented at our school. Each dad has some homework to do before the next contact when we will have put aside some dates for activities to be run each term. Their homework is to tell at least one other dad about the program as soon as they can while it is uppermost in their mind. If each dad does this then there will be at least 60 dads involved.

I am looking forward to this program providing Fathers or Father figures the opportunity to en-gage with the school and their children in fun ac-tivities whilst at same time becoming part of a strong and supportive network with like-minded Fathers, developing their own parenting knowledge, making new friends for themselves and their children and building a stronger com-munity at our school.

2019 SRC SENIOR SPEECHES Congratulations to all our prospective prefects and captains for some wonderful speeches last week. It certainly isn’t easy having to get up in front of the whole school and deliver a speech at any time, but the added pressure of talking about yourself and what you hope to achieve through-out 2019 is even more daunting. They all did ex-tremely well and I loved their little slogans to cap-ture a memory of them for when we went back to class to vote. One thing that really stood out to me was the passion and respect they all have for their school! I congratulate them all for their splendid efforts. Voting was completed on Friday and I hope to announce the new team some time Monday. Reminder that Mulga Road Christmas celebration takes place this Thursday from 6.00—9.00pm. I know these celebrations are a lot of fun and sup-port our local business area.

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Department of Education

Strategic Plan 2018-2022

Our Performance Measures:

‘increased number of schools with high value-

add.’

FINAL VALUE LEAF ASSEMBLY

The Fathering Project. Thank you to the fathers and father-figures who attended the information session. It was encour-aging to see many people interested and attend-ing. Every grade across OWPS from K-6 was repre-sented. With the discussions on the night, we have decide to work towards planning 4 events for 2019 (one per term). We will be getting those dates out ASAP so they can go in your diary for 2019 and information about the events will fol-low. The Big Push The Fathering Project are holding a charity bike ride 28th-30th April 2019 from Sydney to Canber-ra. If you are a keen cyclist and would be interest-ed being part of the ride please contact to Miss Benita via the school office/email. Registration for the ride is $500 which covers accommodation, insurance, meals and the riding jersey, and each rider is aiming to raise $2000 each for the Father-ing Project. More information can be found at http://www.thefatheringprojectnsw.org It would be great to have some people representing OWPS on the ride. Miss Benita Wellbeing Officer

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THE FATHERING PROJECT

RECORDER GROUP

Our SKOOLBAG app is used extensively for urgent communication to our community. We will use the EMERGENCY TAB should any crisis occur.

The Sports & Special Day photos will be on

display shortly in the hall. All photos need to

be ordered online directly with The School

Photographer. The code for ordering photos

for Oatley West is:

18S195PSB39W

This week will be the final Values Leaf Assembly

on Wednesday at 2:15pm. All visitors are wel-

come to join us to see this final one for the

year.

Miss Aravanopoulos

This Friday is the last recorder group for the

year. Thank you to Fiona McNamara for giving

up her time each Friday morning. The children

have enjoyed this experience and are looking

forward to 2019.

Thank you! Mrs Bull

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Our School Fete Day is tomorrow! There will be a variety of fun activities run by the Stage 3 stu-dents. It is mufti day so come in your play clothes and have fun! Remember to bring your money (preferably gold coins) in a wallet or an enve-lope. And if you are planning on getting wet, bring a towel with spare clothes all labelled. Please do not bring any more items for the Trash and Treasure Stall. Thank you to everyone who donated things. Your sausage sizzle orders will be given out to-morrow. Announcements will be made when it is your classes turn to collect them. Remember, the canteen is closed all day tomorrow.

STAGE 3 FETE DAY LIBRARY NEWS

STOCKTAKE

Borrowing/Returning Library Books

This will be the last week ( WK 7) to borrow books from our Library. Next week ( WK 8), all books need to be returned for our Stocktake, which begins in Week 9.

Here is a picture to show how popular our library is at lunchtime—students can go on the computers, read, play games, draw and enjoy the library!

Happy Reading!

Rita Fitzpatrick & Holly Blake

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MATHEMATICS COMPETITION

Gifted and Talented Mathematics Competition

On Wednesday 7th November, Selina, Alec, Celeste and I went to Bonnyrigg Public School to participate in

the finals of the Lachlan Macquarie College of Mathematics Competition. Eleven other schools were there

from different parts of Sydney. We participated in a range of activities including making a tower of cards to

support twenty books, quick Maths relays and half-day challenges. Overall, it was a fabulous day. We came

in at a commendable fifth place. We didn’t win but I think we did very well. Thank you to Mr Mikhail for tak-

ing us. Thank you to Mrs Assad for organising the event.

Finn – 6M

A Visit from David Dunn

This term our school was lucky to have an Abo-riginal artist named David Dunn come to teach us how to paint. Everyone from K-6 had a great experience. At the start he told us stories of his childhood and showed us the importance of art in Aboriginal culture. Each child took home an artwork with silhouettes of Aboriginal men and women having fun and traditionally hunting. We thank David for coming to our school to teach us about Aboriginal art and culture. Thanks to Ms Chalkiotis for the photo of David working with KC.

Dominique Mah 3/4HB

VISIT FROM DAVID DUNN ORGANIC DIGGERS CLUB

Organic Diggers Report

The Diggers are continuing to put the produce beds to rest in preparation for the holidays. Our working bee is on this weekend. All are wel-come! The note is attached to this week's news-letter.

Please note the Short St exit will be blocked on Thursday and Friday this week due to mulch deliv-ery—please use other gates.

Happy gardening!

Mr Burr Organic Diggers coordinator

P & C NEWS

On Tuesday 4th December, OWPS P&C will hold a Special Meeting in our School Quiet Area at 6.30pm. At this meeting, OWPS P&C will be voting on funding initiatives that require a decison prior to the 2019 School year commencing. While voting will be done by P&C members, all School Community members are welcome to attend. This meeting will be finished prior to the Musical Even-ing which begins at 7pm in our School Hall.

Nic Portois P&C President oatleywestpublicschoolpc@outlook.com

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PRAYER GROUP SOCIAL

OOSH OOSH continued

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Oatley West OOSH has been part of the school community for 10+ years. Over the years we have grown from a very small service to a sought after service, facilitating for up to 75 chil-dren over both morning and afternoon sessions. We provide hands on, fun program with an edu-cational purpose, which is planned from obser-vations of the children’s interactions within the Centre. We program to meet the needs and in-terests of the children, as individuals and as so-cial beings. We offer a range and variety of ac-tivities and experiences, structured and unstruc-tured, which aim to stimulate all developmental areas of a child. As the service has grown, we have moved throughout the schools shared facilities, with our most recent facility being achieving a Gov-ernment grant that has allowed the school to enclose the Kindergarten balcony, making an additional shared learning space for Kindergar-ten and OOSH.

Some of the fun things we have been doing at OOSH recently include:

Exploring different forms of science, conducting experiments, hypothe-sising about what will happen and exploring the natural environ-ment.

Recognising National Recycling Week and implementing sustainable practices and reusing recyclables to create crafts.

Keeping physically active and engag-ing in competitive soccer tourna-ments with the ongoing verbal support of our peers.

Come along and join us for a fun filled time! E: oatleywestoosh@gmail.com T: 0488 499 832 Before School Care: 7am to 9:25am After School Care: 3:25pm to 6:15pm

UNIFORM SHOP SCHOOL BANKING

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Manager – Sia Coelho Enquiries: scoelho@iinet.net.au The Uniform Shop is open for your convenience every Thursday from 9-10am at the end of G Block, next to 1M. This onsite service would not be available without our wonderful volunteers. All students should be wearing their Summer Uniform. All uniform requirements are out-lined on the School website. Last Trading Day 2018 – The last trading day for the Uniform Shop this year is Thursday 13th De-cember. Boys Sport Shorts SALE – $15.00 (RRP $26.00). Size 6 sold out. Plastic Bags – We are plastic bag free. Please bring your own reusable bag or alternatively we will be selling Enviro Bags for $3.00, with all pro-ceeds supporting the Year 6 Fundraiser. Swimming Carnival – The swimming carnival is usually held in the second week of Term 1 for Years 3-6 (Year 2 students who can swim 50m and are turning 8 in 2019 can also participate). Support your Sports House by purchasing a swim cap in your House colour with school logo. If you wish to order a swim cap, please place $5,00 in an envelope with your child’s name, class and house colour on it and drop it into Letterbox 8 in the courtyard of the school.

Uniform Orders: Order forms (dated January, 2018) can be completed and dropped in to Letterbox 8 lo-cated in the front courtyard. Please note, orders are not accepted via e-mail. All orders will be delivered to your child’s classroom on Thursday when the shop is open. The preferred payment method for orders is by Credit Card or Cheque as we cannot be held accountable for lost cash/orders. Cards are generally debited one day prior to delivery.

We take great pride in the appearance of the chil-

dren at Oatley West Public School and encourage

all students to wear the correct school uniform.

Many thanks to our school banking Mums, Angela D, Jennifer L, Ling D and Tina Y for helping with school banking last Thursday. Your efforts are greatly appreciated! Cut-off date, 30th November 2018 for prize re-demption. Please note that with school holidays fast ap-proaching, any reward orders that are placed after Friday 30th November 2018 will be sent in the new year. To ensure that your child receive their rewards be-fore the school holidays, please place reward or-ders prior to 30th November 2018. Lastly a message from CBA, “School banking re-wards are experiencing delivery delays of up to 10 days. We are sorry and are working hard to fix this. From the Commbank School Banking Team” 2018 Prize claim form PDF link, https://www.commbank.com.au/content/dam/commbank-assets/banking/youth/2018-01/school-banking-parent-pack-rewards-card-colour-0118.pdf Please note, we do not store banking prizes at the school. All prizes have to be ordered and then deliv-ered. This can take between 2 to 3 weeks. Many thanks for support school banking at OWPS! Thursday is our school banking day!

Oatley West Public School Helpers

are invited to attend a

‘Thank You Morning Tea’

The staff of Oatley West Public School would officially like to thank all of our

wonderful community teachers and helpers this year.

If you have assisted us at school in 2018 in the running of events, classroom

help, scripture, excursions, administration, BEAR program, sports events or in

any other way…

You are invited to attend our

‘Thank You Morning Tea’

At 10:45am

Tuesday 4th December in the Library

Please note: This is a Scripture, Ethics and Helper function only.

No students will be allowed in the library for this event.

05/11/2018

Organic Diggers Working Bee- Saturday 1st December 2018

Dear Parents / Carers, A community working bee will be taking place on Saturday 1st December in our Bush Tucker garden. We will be weeding and mulching our native garden. Work will begin work at 10.00am and finish at 12.00pm. All adults attending must have a current Working with Children Check. www.kidsguardian.nsw.gov.au/working-with-children/working-with-children-check There is no cost involved for the WWCC for volunteer applicants. No adults are permitted on site without a current WWCC. Please return the slip below to Mr Burr by Friday 30th November. Many thanks

L Burr Organic Diggers coordinator

Organic Diggers Working Bee- Saturday 1st December 2018

I / we (names) _________________________________intend on participating in the Organic Diggers Working Bee on Saturday 1st December 2018. My child(ren) _________________________________________from class(es)____are attending. There will be _____children with us. Working with Children Check I / we are already on the school system. I /we have a current Working with Children Check(s). Clearance Number(s): #___________________________________ Signed: ___________________________ Date: ________________

December 2018/January 2019 Vacation Care Program December 2018

Thursday 20th December Friday 21st December Morning Exercise: Stretches

OOSH Christmas Party

Join your friends for a festive Christmas Party. Overflowing with Christmas spirit, there will be Christmas crafts, games,

baking, music and Christmas cheer. Join in the silly season and celebrate, Ho Ho Ho!

Arts and crafts Afternoon Group Experience: Soccer

Morning Exercise: Relays

Ben the Bushie’s Aussie Christmas

(Incursion)

$15.00 Enjoy an entertaining explosion of Christmas

cheer with a generous dash of magic this year, with this interactive show. Help Ben find all the things he needs by singing the Aussie Twelve Days of Christmas and experience the magic!

Arts and crafts Afternoon Group Experience: Everlasting tips

January 2019 Monday 14th January Tuesday 15th January Wednesday 16th January Thursday 17th January Friday 18th January Morning Exercise: Ball Skills

LEGO Wonderland

Be it big or be it small, it is time to create

with LEGO! Use your imagination or find inspiration at

OOSH, as you build as a team or challenge your friends! LEGO fun for all ages.

Arts and crafts Afternoon Group Experience: Pac-Man

Morning Exercise: Yoga

Cage Ball (Incursion)

$15.00 We bring this new activity to OOSH today, perfect, safe and lots of fun! It’s an action-packed variation of football played inside a

giant 10m fully enclosed inflatable arena. There are six numbered goals, six players, and no

hands!

Arts and crafts Afternoon Group Experience: Cricket

Morning Exercise: Stretches

OOSH Disco Dance Party

Enjoy a dance party at OOSH. We will supply the music, glow sticks and disco ball, you just need to bring your dancing shoes and groovy

moves. Activities include dance offs, limbo and much more!

Arts and crafts Afternoon Group Experience: Handball

Morning Exercise: Power Walking

Reptile Day (Incursion)

$15.00 Are you animal or reptile crazy?

Then today is the day for you to come to OOSH. We welcome our reptile friends to visit us, bringing a line-up of scaly friends to meet.

Arts and crafts Afternoon Group Experience: Group Games

Morning Exercise: Dancing

Wheels and Archery Day

We know how much you enjoy wheels day so we have included it once again, this time with archery too! There is lots of room to ride

and scoot around, and use the archery suction bows to steady, aim and fire!

(Don’t forget your helmets and protective gear)

Arts and crafts Afternoon Group Experience: Cricket

Monday 21st January Tuesday 22nd January Wednesday 23rd January Thursday 24th January Friday 25th January Morning Exercise: Stretches

Jumping Castle (incursion)

$11.00 Are you ready to jump?

Join your OOSH friends and educators on a giant jumping castle. Race your friends, work up a sweat and cool off with some

fruity treats. Bring a change of clothes, as we will be enjoying some water play!

Arts and crafts

Afternoon Group Experience: Soccer

Morning Exercise: Relays

Tennis Tournament

Bring your tennis racquets from home if you have, or borrow one from OOSH. Take the

chance to challenge your friends in a day long tennis tournament with drink and frozen orange

breaks! Keep score for the ultimate title of Tennis Champion!

Arts and crafts

Afternoon Group Experience: Everlasting Tips

Morning Exercise: Yoga

7D Cinema (Incursion)

$15.00 The 7D Cinema bus is back!

Offering 3 short interactive films which are sure to give you thrills, all designed to shake, rattle

and roll, you will have a blast.

Arts and crafts

Afternoon Group Experience: Cricket

Morning Exercise: Ball Skills

Victorian Era Game Day Travel back in time to play old school games.

Join your friends for a game of hopscotch, jump-rope, elastics, tic-tac-toe, marbles,

skittles and more. Win a hobby horse race, make your own scientific thaumatrope toy and

real lemonade, just like the people of the Victorian Era!

Arts and crafts

Afternoon Group Experience: Handball

Morning Exercise: Dancing

Australia Day @Oatley Park (Excursion)

Transport: Walk Ratio 1:15

Celebrate Australia’s diversity and achievements with friends at Oatley Park. Bring your lunch boxes, extra frozen water bottles and make the most of the sunshine, sand sculptures and play at our favourite

park!

Arts and crafts

Afternoon Group Experience: Relay Races

Monday 28th January Tuesday 29th January Morning Exercise: Power Walking

Art Attack $5.00

Spend the day being creative amongst friends. Create your own artist inspired paintings, bead and paper craft, hand knitting, circle weaving and water colour silhouette cities! Join in the

creation of two large group murals to be displayed in our OOSH rooms and explore all the OOSH arts and craft materials your heart

desires.

Arts and crafts

Afternoon Group Experience: Pac-Man

Located at Oatley West Public School Oatley Park Ave, OATLEY

Phone: 0488 499 832 PO Box 242 Sans Souci 2219

Email: oatleywestoosh@gmail.com www.oatleywestoosh.com.au

Public

Holiday

Please be advised that our Centre is a NUT FREE environment. Please do not send

nut products in your child/ren’s lunch box.

A healthy lunch, morning and afternoon tea are required daily.

Please supply sufficient snacks for late afternoon pickups.

During the warmer months we encourage families to bring additional frozen water bottles.

Please make sure your child brings a hat each day to ensure participation in all areas of

our program.

Note: Please pack a change of clothes each day as the children will be enjoying water

play.

In addition to planned activities and experiences, our program provides creative and sensory experiences each day. Arts and crafts option available across the program include:

Christmas arts and crafts; Snowman Slime LEGO Mosaics

Santa Beard Craft Felt Stocking Sewing

Button Wreath Ornaments and more…

Children’s choice; Mine Craft Hama Beads Rainbow Salt Projects

Dream catchers Nature crafts

Bead craft and necklaces Recycled materials construction

Hours: 7:00am to 6:00pm.

Early bird price: $60/day (booked before Thursday 13/12/18).

$65/day (booked from Friday 14/12/18 to Wednesday 19/12/18)

Walk-in: $70/day (on the day)

Please note, incursion/excursion cost are in addition to daily fees.

Ratio for excursions is 1 Educator/Adult to 15 children.

The anticipated number of children attending each day is approximately 0 to 50 children.

Excursion risk assessments have been prepared and are available at the Centre.

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Child Details Child’s Surname: Child’s First Name: Date of Birth: / / Gender: Male [ ]/Female [ ] Child’s CRN:

Child’s Surname: Child’s First Name: Date of Birth: / / Gender: Male [ ]/Female [ ] Child’s CRN:

Child’s Surname: Child’s First Name: Date of Birth: / / Gender: Male [ ]/Female [ ] Child’s CRN:

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Parent/Guardian Details Surname: First Name: Address: Email Address: Home Phone: Work Phone: Mobile: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Emergency Contacts Surname: First Name: Relationship: Home Phone: Work Phone: Mobile: Authority to collect: YES [ ]/NO [ ]

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Allergies/Dietry Restrictions and Special Needs Does your child/ren have any allergic reactions, or special needs YES [ ]/NO [ ] If yes, please provide indicators and full details and action plan for dealing with allergice reactions:

Permission Consent to administer sunscreen YES [ ]/NO [ ] I/We provide permission for educators to administer/apply first aid. YES [ ]/NO [ ] I/We provide permission for Vacation Care eductors to remove my child/ren from the premises in the case of an emergency arising (such as fire) and relocate them to designated safe locations and for my child to participate in organised fire drills. YES [ ]/NO [ ] I/We give permission for my child/ren to be walked or use other forms of transport on excursion outings to and from the Centre . YES [ ]/NO [ ] I/We, approve of my child/ren’s involvement in the Vacation Care program. YES [ ]/NO [ ] I/We give permission for my child/ren to participate in all activities organised for the day my child/ren will be attending. YES [ ]/NO [ ] I/We understand that if my child/ren continuously misbehaves after guidance procedures have been followed, I will be notified and my child may be removed from the Centre YES [ ]/NO [ ] I/We agree to purchase the compulsory Oatley West OOSH t-shirt at an additional fee which is to be worn on all excursion days. YES [ ]/NO [ ] I/We have already purchased the compulsory Oatley West OOSH t-shirt which is to be worn on all excursion days. YES [ ]/NO [ ] I/We agree that the information I/We have provided on this form is correct. YES [ ]/NO [ ]

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Full payment is due 1 week prior to commencement of Vacation Care and fees are processed via Ezidebit. Days are not transferable once a booking has been made. If your child is away fees still apply. Please return your form before Thursday 13th December, 2018. I understand that my child/ren will not be accepted at the centre or participate in any activity until the week’s fees have been paid.

Parent/Guardian Signature: Date:

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

I/We give permission for my/our child/ren to leave the Oatley West OOSH premises for excursions during the Vacation Care period accompanied and supervised by an Educator on:

Date: Destination: Description: Transport: Departure and Return Times:

Parent/ Guardian Signature:

Friday 25th January Oatley Park Australia Day Celebration

Walk 8:30am – 1:30pm SIGN IF BOOKED

Please circle attendance

Thursday 20th December Friday 21st December

Attending: Yes/No

Attending: Yes/No

Monday 14th January Tuesday 15th January Wednesday 16th January Thursday 17th January Friday 18th January

Attending: Yes/No Attending: Yes/No

Attending: Yes/No

Attending: Yes/No

Attending: Yes/No

Monday 21st January Tuesday 22nd January Wednesday 23rd January Thursday 24th January Friday 25th January

Attending: Yes/No

Attending: Yes/No

Attending: Yes/No

Attending: Yes/No

Attending: Yes/No Excursion Day

Monday 28th January Tuesday 29th January

CLOSED Attending: Yes/No

Oatley West Public

School presents

K-2 Christmas Concert

December 14th @ 10am

In the School Hall