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The Oak Leaf |
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Address: Willett Avenue, Oak Park VIC 3046
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Issue 38
November 29th 2024 |
Oak Park Primary School will work collaboratively to provide a stimulating, safe and challenging learning environment that promotes resilient, innovative thinkers.
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Calendar of Events
Term 4 Events: December 2024
2025 Term 1 Events: January 2025
February 2025
Principal's Column
Carols Reminder for December 5th A quick reminder that our Oak Park Primary School Carols are happening on Thursday, December 5th! 🎶 Details:
🎅 Special Visitor: We’re expecting a visit from Santa himself, so make sure the kids don’t miss out on the festive fun! Looking forward to seeing you all there to celebrate the holiday season together. Planned Open Streets – Thursday November 28th 
A great turn out for our last Open Streets event of the year, the weather was lovely and the chance to play in the street enjoyed by many students. A huge thank you to Gautam, Prateek and Melanie for their support all year to make Open Streets happen. Your commitment to these positive and active travel events in most appreciated.
We’d love to continue to host these events in 2025, but need more volunteers for the initiative to continue. To assist, the only requirements are a free 2 hour on-site training course and a Working with Children’s check, which are also free online. On the day, supporting either a morning (8:00-9:00AM) or an afternoon (3:00-4:00PM) would be a valued contribution. If you’d like to get trained and assist please email me. Teachers for 2025 Watch out for a list of 2025 teachers and year levels in next week’s newsletter, which will welcome some new faces to Oak Park. The ‘meet the teacher’ day is Wednesday 18th of December, but over the coming fortnight new staff will visit the school to meet in their 2025 teaching teams in preparation for the new year. Please note this list of teachers is the help students and families with transition into 2025, we are not seeking requests regarding specific teachers for specific students. This process has now been completed with great consideration and care. Relevant students and families with diagnosed anxiety or increased transition needs will be contacted by the Wellbeing Team next week to begin connecting certain students with their 2025 teacher. Kind regards, Michael Gill Principal WHAT'S HAPPENING @ OAK PARK
WHOLE SCHOOL
Family Carols Night
We are excited to invite you and your family to our upcoming Family Picnic Night, where our students will delight us by singing Christmas carols! This will be a wonderful opportunity to come together as a school community, enjoy the festive spirit, and celebrate the end of the year.
Details:
While students will be supervised by teachers during the carol singing, parents and guardians are responsible for supervising their children for the remainder of the evening. We kindly ask that children are not dropped off without an adult present. This is also a fantastic chance to meet other families, especially new parents in our community. And who knows--Santa might even make a special appearance! So, bring the whole family, soak up the sunshine, and join us in celebrating the end of year. We look forward to seeing you there! Assembly Timetable
School Savings Bonus
Families will receive an Education Department email containing the unique voucher code between the 26th – 28th November 2024. They are then able to interact with the School Savings Bonus online system and determine where they choose to spend the $400 bonus. The online system will give parents the option to spend their $400 bonus with school-approved uniforms, or to allocate funds to school activities (or a mixture of both) Families will have 3 options:
2025 Foundation Uniform
Foundation Uniform Discount Days. 
2025 Foundation Transition
Our final transition session for 2025 Foundation students starting at Oak Park Primary School will be on Wednesday 18th December. For our new Foundation students, transition is from 9.30am – 10.30am. They will have an opportunity to meet their Grade 6/2025 buddies as well as their teacher. New Foundation students are reminded to bring a teddy bear (or similar) for their teddy bear picnic with their buddies. All other Oak Park Primary School students (including new students who are starting at Oak Park Primary next year in years other than foundation) will be meeting their new 2025 teacher and classmates from 10 – 11am. 
P.F.A. News
MEETINGS: Below are the PFA meeting dates for the reminder of the year to put in your diary! Meetings start at 7.30 pm and are held in the staffroom at the school. All are welcome to attend. Term 4 Tuesday 3 December (mtg/end-of-year celebration) Graduation Parent Supper, Thurs 12 Dec: volunteers needed
The Grade 6 Graduation will be held on Thursday 12 December, and the PFA is organising a supper for Grade 6 parents that will be served after the ceremony. We need parent volunteers to help prepare and serve the supper between 6.30 and 8.30 pm. Traditionally the parents of grade 5 students help out as a way of paying it forward for the following year, but parents from all year levels are welcome. Volunteers will need to have a current Working with Children Check. If you can help out, please email [email protected] with your WWCC details. Thank you in advance for your support! Fun Run Prizes
Over the next couple of days the Fun Run prizes will be distributed to students. We hope everyone will be thrilled with their prizes! If your child doesn't bring home their prize by the end of the week, please email the PFA at [email protected]. For those students who ordered the remote-control boat, this item is on back order and will be sent to the school soon. We thank you for your patience and understanding regarding this delay. Thank you again for your support, The PFA Team Kids Registration
TEAM KIDS run our OSHC Program. www.teamkids.com.au We ask families to please contact Team Kids and register your children casually if you believe at any time, you may be later than 3.45pm to pick your child up from school, or need to drop them to school earlier than 8.45am. There is further information on our website at https://www.oakparkps.vic.edu.au/teamkids.html SENIOR SCHOOL
Hair Accessories Fundraiser
We are excited to announce that we will be selling some fabulous hand-made hair accessories with funds going towards our Year 6 Fundraising Team. The accessories will be sold next Monday and Tuesday before school from 8:40am outside the 5/6 building. Please see the poster attached for more information. Thank you Kate, Rachel and the Year 6 Fundraising Team. 
SPECIALIST
Japanese
In Japanese the Grade1/2 students have been working on creating their own books about pets. Students have used a range of vocabulary they have learned this term to introduce a pet and describe its age, colour and size. Students had the option of creating a hand written book or using book creator to complete the activity. Each student has done a great job describing a pet as well as illustrating each page. Students have also practiced reading their books and have recorded themselves on Seesaw. It has been wonderful to see the students bring all their knowledge together to create a wonderful keepsake. 
Visual Arts
Grade 3/4 Clay Aussie Animals Grade 3 and 4 students have been eagerly working on their clay Aussie Animals based on the artworks of Australian Artists Peter Cromer and Bronwyn Bancroft. The students first designed their animal on paper, including some design features used by the artists mentioned above. They added colour to these designs so that they had an idea of how they were going to paint their animals when dry. Next, the students cut out their designs to form a stencil or template that was placed on a rolled out piece of clay slab. They then cut around their design using clay cutting tools and peeled off the design when done. Students then added a second layer of design elements to the first slab cut out, learning about joining techniques to ensure objects didn’t fall off when dry. Once designs had been dried, students then painted their animals with acrylic paints, referring back to their original designs. Discussions about changing designs along the way were had, and it was decided that making changes to initial designs was all part of experimenting and improving their artworks. Below are some photos of the Grade 3/4 students at work, busily crafting and creating their unique Australian animals. 
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