Oaklands Urana Central Schools & Oaklands Community Newsletter
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Oaklands Urana Central Schools & Oaklands Community Newsletter Coreen St Oaklands 2646 Ph: 02 6035 4290 Fax: 02 6035 4382 Volume 28 No. 4 Email: [email protected] URL: www.oaklands-c.schools.nsw.edu.au Wednesday, 14th March 2012 Principal: Vicki Harris SCHOOL NEWS COMING EVENTS: 15th March 2012 - Secondary Riverina Swim- ming Carnival, Leeton 16th March 2012 - Primary Riverina Swimming Carnival, Albury PRINCIPAL’S PERSPECTIVE 16th March 2012 - Year 5 Boys to Grand Prix, Melbourne Dear All, 19th March 2012 - Riverina PSSA Tennis Trials, Griffith Since the last newsletter, we have seen the most devas- 20th March 2012 - RAP Netball/Football Trials, tating damage done within our communities and in our Barellan region. On behalf of the staff of both our schools, I ex- 22nd March 2012 - Essendon Footy Clinic, tend our best wishes to those who have been affected Finley (Yrs 2-6) and hope that you can return as quickly as possible to 22nd March 2012 - Western Riverina Footy Tri- your homes and lifestyles. als, Barooga The Urana School staff and community members who assisted in the pack-up and clean-up of the school are to 26th March 2012 - Eastern Riverina Netball Tri- be commended for the wonderful work they did in re- als, Albury turning the school back to a safe and healthy standard. 2nd April 2012 - Whole School Assembly at 12 We are very lucky to have staff members who ‘just did noon in the School Hall it’. Whilst we have lost some resources and will have to 5th April 2012 - Last day of Term 1 wait for them to be replaced under insurance, their work saved many, many thousands of dollars’ worth of dam- PSSA trials for Netball and AFL Football on Tuesday. age. Thank you! Thank you to Mrs Gorman who coordinated the day and NB: Please note that we still do not have phone or fax to Ms Outram, Mrs Kerr and Mr Longmire for their as- lines at Urana Central School and everything is running sistance on the day. Congratulations to: Ellie Arnold off mobile phones. and Gabrielle Sutcliffe for netball and Sam Owen, Logan Kerr, George Sandral and Xavier Buntin for foot- Young Leaders Conference ball. Well done. As you are reading this newsletter, I will be returning from Melbourne with Ms Outram and Mr McCutcheon and 7 of our Year 6 students. We have been attending the Young Leaders Conference in Melbourne. The Young Leaders Conference brings together students from all over Victoria and the Southern NSW areas. The speakers included: Lorin Nicholson – a Children’s writer and guitar player. Lorin has just completed a 4000 kilometre bike ride across Australia, the first blind person to do so; Andrew Swallows – Captain of North Melbourne Football Club; Marita Cheng – Young Aus- tralian of the Year; and Joy Smithers – Founder of the ‘Shades for Aids’ HIV Education program and Board Member of ‘Cambodia for Hope’. I look forward to reading the reports from our students in the next newsletter. Back row: Logan Kerr, Sam Owen, Xavier Buntin and Football and Netball trials George Sandral. Oaklands Central School was the host for the Balldale Front row: Gabrielle Sutcliffe and Ellie Arnold Racing Ahead Holly, Darcy, Aaron, Gabrielle, Ellie, Crystal Sam are Four very excited boys are counting the days until Fri- all primed up and ready to go. We wish them all the day. They will be having a very early start, as they best. We will be barracking from school so the vibes travel to Melbourne to participate in the Grand Prix will get to them. Logan and George had to give up their Education Program. We also look forward to their re- place in the relay as the change in date made them a ports and hope they remember to take their ear plugs. double booking. P & C Meetings Leadership Day in Melbourne Next Monday night will be the P and C meetings for the Our Year 6 students along with Ms Harris and Ms month. Oaklands P and C meeting starts at 8pm in the Outram have headed off to Melbourne to the National Staff Room. If you are able to attend, we look forward Primary Leadership Day. Thousands of students will be to seeing you there. attending this very special Conference where motiva- tional speakers will inspire the students to ‘reach for the Stewart House stars’. This is always a wonderful experience for stu- Two of our students from Urana are currently attending dents and I’m sure our students will come home tired Stewart House at North Curl Curl in Sydney. It is a but motivated. Ms Harris also planned a few exciting great opportunity as the Stewart House School is situ- events for the day before, just as a special treat for our ated right opposite a beach and many excursions are lovely Year 6s. They will report on this when they re- organised during the ten days they will be there. turn. Our schools support Stewart House in fundraisers each year as it is funded purely by donations from students Balldale Football/ Netball trials and staff from NSW Public Schools. Once again we hosted these at Oaklands and all the schools came here. It is good to let other schools see Vicki Harris what great facilities we have and what a wonderful place Principal - Oaklands Urana Central Schools Oaklands is. The Football this year was a ‘round up’. All the boys fro Corowa Public, Small Schools and ourselves were PRIMARY CLASSROOM NEWS bunched together and then divided into 4 teams. They played each other and the selectors chose 20 boys to make a team to go to Barooga next Friday to trial for the Jolly Phonics Western Riverina team. A great day was had by all and The two Mrs Bruces attended an excellent course on 4 of our Oaklands boys got into the team. Congratula- Jolly Phonics in preparation for our purchasing the pro- tions to Xavier, Logan, George and Sam. These four gram for our school. They were very impressed with the excited boys are off to Barooga next week. Thank you to course and look forward to implementing it in the class- all the Dads that helped on the day. We are getting very room. Jolly Phonics is an interactive program for intro- short staffed to keep running these trials but are hanging ducing and reinforcing sounds. We paid to trial it last in there because of your help. Ex and retired Mrs Kerr year with K-1 and this year we are going to purchase it also turned up and lent an expert hand and we do thank with the help of National Partnership money. It is quite her for her added expertise. an expensive program so we are lucky to have the The netballers had a great day coming equal second. chance to now own it for future use. We look forward to This year we owned only 8 girls from Years 4 to 6 so we seeing the ‘sounds’ bouncing off the wall in the K-1-2 needed every one. And they all played so well. As eve- room in the very near future. ryone knows a team is no good until every member does its best and that is what these girls did. They played so George Sandral well. I was so proud of them. Gabrielle and Ellie got George has had a fantastic run with sport this year. He into the ‘Possible and Probables’ with Brooklyn and has gone from level to level in cricket and was knocked Bethany reserving. Then Gabrielle and Ellie were picked out at the last trial in Deniliquin not quite making it into in the team of 9 to be the Balldale team to try out for the the Riverina Cricket Team. What an effort George! Riverina team. Well done girls! We wish you luck at the Well done! George is in Year 5 so has a chance again next level. Thank you to the P&C for their wonderful next year. AND THEN... catering for lunch. George is also still in the running for the tennis. He goes to Griffith next Monday to try out for the Riverina team Opera House Video Conference to go to Sydney. We wish him the best of luck. It is a On Friday we are part of a pilot scheme to trial a drama wonderful achievement to get so far in sport for our ru- workshop video conference from the Sydney Opera ral town of Oaklands. House. Though a few students will be away on other adventures, Years 2 to 8 will be attending this VC Riverina Primary Swimming at Albury (Video conference) and experimenting with the aspects This carnival was postponed because many of the swim- of this new technology. It should be fun all around. mers were flooded in. It is now on this Friday. Jesse, Racing Ahead have also examined the way the text uses literary tech- This is where George and Logan had to make choices niques in its representation of resilience. and pull out of the swim team. Ms Vicki Kempton or- Year 7/8 English will soon begin a unit of work on ganised a special trip to take a groups of boys to the movie trailers and the techniques trailers use to hook Grand Prix to help motivate their learning. George and their audiences in. Students will then have the opportu- Logan are going as representatives from our school. nity to create their own movie trailer. They go to Melbourne early Friday morning and will Year 9/10 English have just finished a unit on advertis- have all sorts of experiences.