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Dear Parents and Carers, Winter Holiday Break Last day of school
is Friday 3 July 2020. Students resume Term 3 on Tuesday 21 July
2020; our previously advertised dates will not proceed due to
Covid-19 restrictions. Our teachers will participate in
professional development on Monday 20 July. Capturing your thoughts
and experience At Oakhill Drive Public School, we are beginning to
collect data to inform our School Improvement Plan (SIP). This data
will capture the thoughts and experiences of our parent, student
and teacher stakeholders. Future planning decisions about learning,
wellbeing and system organisation will be
based on current research and community feedback. A survey link
will be sent to all families through Skoolbag, seeking your
participation. We look forward to your input. Student
Representative Council (SRC) Last week we recognised the students
elected by their class peers K-6 to represent them on the student
representative council. These elections were
held mid Term 1. However, with the Covid-19 crisis we were
unable to present these student’s their badges until now. Whilst we
were unable to have a school assembly, each student, was recognised
in their class and were presented their badge by Mrs Torney, Mrs
Paris and myself in the hall. We will be sharing photos of this
presentation with the parents of these students. Congratulations to
these worthy recipients. Hygiene at School School students do not
need to follow strict adult physical distancing guidelines, but
should follow good hygiene practices like:
✓ regularly washing hands ✓ avoiding sharing drinks or foods ✓
coughing or sneezing into your elbow, or a tissue which should
be
discarded immediately ✓ filling water bottles from taps rather
than using the bubbler directly
At Oakhill Drive Public School, we have installed self-operating
hand sanitiser dispenses. These are located throughout the school
on external walls for easy access to all students.
Library We encourage all students to borrow books from our
library to read at home. The library is open every lunch time for
students to borrow and return. Reading for pleasure is a wonderful
habit to model and share with our children. Books returned to
school are kept in isolation for 24 hours prior to being returned
to the shelves, as per DoE hygiene guidelines.
Term 2 Week 9 22 June 2020
Dates for your Diary Week 9 Monday 22 June School Day Tuesday 23
June School Day Wednesday 24 June School Day Thursday 25 June
School Day
Friday 26 June Applications close for Year 5 Opportunity Class
2021 – parents must apply online
Week 10 Monday 29 June School Day
Tuesday 30 June School Day
Wednesday 1 July School Day
Thursday 2 July School Day
Friday 3 July End of Term 2
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From Term 3
• Non-essential adults are still not permitted on school grounds
or at school events; this includes parents
and carers unless specifically approved by principal.
• All adults who need to come on site must ring ahead
(T:9634-1033), state their business and gain
approval. All visitors including parents picking children up
early must complete the ‘External Visitors to
School Site’ form acknowledging their responsibilities to health
and hygiene as well as leave their details
for the purposes of contact tracing.
• Students will continue to be dropped off and picked up from
the gates in the morning and afternoon.
Please note the following changes:
2:45pm Surnames A-N 3:00pm Surnames O-Z
• Monday morning assembly will resume for all K-6 students under
the COLA (no external visitors)
• Choirs and dance rehearsals will recommence, with safety
protocols in place
• Students may attend other schools for essential curriculum
related reasons or placements
• External providers (incursions) can provide activities that
support delivery of curriculum
• After school community use of the school facilities will
resume e.g. Chinese language school, karate,
drama etc
• Day trips (excursions) can resume
• School sport including interschool competitions aligned with
current health advice
• Special Religious Education (SRE)/Special Ethics Education
(SEE) lessons
• P&C meetings – with a strong preference for online
meetings
• Parent teacher meetings - with a strong preference for online
meetings
• School based activities that involve large gathering of adults
are not permitted at this time. These
include parent/community gatherings such as parent functions,
working bees, fundraisers, school
BBQs, large parent information evenings, and large on-site
cultural events. These large gatherings will
continue to be reviewed and assessed based on AHPPC and NSW
Health advice and may be
permitted at a later date.
Education Week 3 – 7 August 2020 Learning Together: At this
stage we have begun to plan activities to celebrate education week.
However, with the current restrictions in place we will not be able
to bring the community into our classrooms as we have done
traditionally. It is our plan to record and share some of these
activities with you through our website. Betty Ploeg Principal
Parent Portal At this time of the year, teachers are busy writing
student reports. These will be available on the Parent Portal early
next term. Please take a moment to check your access to the portal
at this time, so that any concerns can be addressed well before
reports are available. Kindergarten families and new families to
the school this year, will need to register on the portal to gain
access. Please see the information attached to this newsletter
about how to register. The Portal also shows a record of the awards
that your child has received during their time at Oakhill Drive
Public School. I urge all parents to check their access now, rather
than at the end of the term. Please contact me if you have any
concerns via email at [email protected] Helen Paris Deputy
Principal
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OAKHILL DRIVE PUBLIC SCHOOL
Dear Parents/Carers
At Oakhill Drive Public School, parents can access their
child’s reports and awards records via the Parent Portal.
Student reports include: Semesters 1 & 2 Class Reports, Band
Reports, EAL Reports and Early Stage 1
(Kindergarten) Best Start Reports.
As a new parent to Oakhill Drive Public School, you will need to
register for the Parent Portal to have access
to any information relevant to your child. After registering for
access, no further action is needed and you
can access at any time, especially when reports are
available.
To access the portal, parents must have an email address
registered with the school. This should have been
provided to the school via your child’s enrolment form. There
may be some family circumstances in which
both parents may require their own access to the portal. This
can be done if both email addresses are
registered with the school.
Please allow approximately one week from the day your child
starts at Oakhill Drive Public School before
you try to register for the portal. This will allow your child’s
details to come across to all the data systems in
the school.
The Parent Portal can be accessed by following these
instructions:
1. Go to the Parent Portal
https://www.impromation.com.au/portal4parents/?schid=4604
2. Click on the ‘Don’t have a password? Get Registered’ link at
the bottom of the portal sign-in page, then enter your email
address
3. Parents with no current portal account or incomplete portal
accounts will receive a ‘Getting Started’ email which will guide
them through the registration process.
During the registration process, parents will receive an email
with instructions and a default password to use
initially. This will give access to the portal to allow them to
set up their own password which will be linked to
that email address.
After the registration process is complete, parents can access
the portal using their own email address as
the Username and their newly set-up password.
Please note your password in a safe place for future reference
when accessing the portal. Helen Paris
Deputy Principal
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Learning from Covid-19 Remote learning provided a valuable
opportunity for students, teachers and parents to experience
learning in a very different way. Solutions were quickly developed
to overcome the many challenges that we were all faced with. We are
now going to capture our thoughts about this experience. Some
aspects of school during Covid-19 were a highly positive change,
and there may be opportunity to use this as a kickstart to a new or
adjusted way of doing things. Please help us gain a balanced
perspective by taking part in the parent survey. The link to the
survey will be sent via Skoolbag. Learning through Play According
to Albert Einstein, “Play is the highest form of research.” Play
feels fun and enjoyable and it evolves spontaneously, rather than
giving children a script to follow. As play is driven by intrinsic
motivation about what the child wants to do, it creates a risk-free
environment where they can experiment and try new ideas. When given
free choice in play, children are learning many fundamental skills.
Our kindergarten children can be seen here learning skills as
budding engineers, mathematicians, actors and playwrights!
Julie Torney Deputy Principal
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There have been some important changes to the rules for the 2020
Premier’s Reading Challenge (PRC). These changes support students
who have been participating in the Challenge from home, and those
students who are having difficulty accessing books on the booklist.
Key changes include:
• All students will be able to include 10 choice books on their
2020 Student reading records.
• All students will be able to include books read as part of
collaborative reading with teachers or parents/carers, either in
person or online.
• Students who do not complete the Challenge in 2020 will not be
disadvantaged from achieving cumulative PRC awards in the
future.
The following table may also be helpful:
Challenge Number of Books you Must read
Minimum number of PRC books
Maximum number of
Personal Choice books
PRC booklists you can read
from
K-2 30 20 10 K-2, 3-4, 5-6
3-4 20 10 10 3-4, 5-6, 7-9
5-6 20 10 10 5-6, 7-9
Please visit the 2020 Premier’s Reading Challenge website at
https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/home.html for a complete list of
the updated rules. Here is an update on our students’ progress:
Students in years K-2
• Teachers at our school have been reading books from the
booklist to students in years K-2 at school. They are currently at
about the halfway mark in the Challenge. Once all books have been
read, the school will add the books to the reading logs of K-2
students on their behalf.
Students in years 3-6
• Some students have been read PRC books in class. These books,
under the rule change, are allowed to count towards the
Challenge.
• PRC books listened to through the April to May trial of ‘Story
Box Library’ also count towards the Challenge.
• Please let your class teacher know if you are short of PRC
books so I can provide some quick-reads to your class teacher.
• Note that students in years 3-6 must enter their own reading
log online through the PRC website. Importantly, it is not too late
to join. Students have until 28th August 2020 (11:59pm) to upload
their completed reading logs. Please do not hesitate to contact me
via the school office should you require any further support to
complete this year’s Premier’s Reading Challenge. Happy reading!
Carolyn Vanderklauw Premier’s Reading Challenge Coordinator
https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/home.html
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PSSA – Term 3 and 4 Castle Hill PSSA has made the decision that
a Winter PSSA season will not occur for 2020. The recommencement of
Summer PSSA (Softball, T-Ball, Touch Football, Basketball and
Cricket) will be brought forward to mid Term 3. The starting date
will be announced once the grounds and facility availabilities are
confirmed by council. Beecroft PSSA has made the decision that the
Zone Athletics carnival will not go ahead. NSW and Sydney North
PSSA have cancelled events for the rest of the year. This includes
Sydney North and NSW athletics carnivals, trials for representative
sport and their associated carnivals and state knockout
competitions. At Oakhill Drive we continue to run our weekly class
sport lessons with a current focus on fitness and gross motor
skills. We are following current restrictions and guidelines.
Janelle Lord Sports Coordinator
Canteen News The Canteen will remain closed for over-counter
orders. Only pre-ordered lunch orders can be processed through
Flexischools - Lunch orders must be submitted prior to 9:30am.
Please remember that students are to bring a water bottle to school
as bubblers still cannot be used. Helen, Liz and Jenny Canteen
Managers Uniform Shop Flexischools orders made by Tuesday 5pm will
be delivered to your child’s classroom on Thursday that same week.
Second-hand uniforms are not available at present. Georgina Brown
Uniform Shop Coordinator
CONGRATULATIONS TO: Our Gold Acorn Award Winners ~ Alvina L
Anoushka S Michelle D
Oakhill Drive Public
School Honour Board
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Community News DISCLAIMER We sincerely thank our advertisers for
their support of our school. While Oakhill Drive Public School is
selective in the advertisements it runs, parents are advised to use
their own discretion in supporting these services.
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1-5 Oakhill Drive, Castle Hill 2154 T: 9634 1033
E: [email protected] W:
www.oakhilldr-p.schools.nsw.edu.au
SCHOOL SECURITY If you see trespassers in the school out of
hours please call school security.
1300 880 021 (24 hours)
Supervision of Students Our teachers supervise children at the
following times in the playground:
8:40am-9:00am - Before school 10:55am-11:20am - Recess
1:10pm-2:00pm - Lunch 3:00pm-3:30pm - Bus children only
No child should be at school before 8:30am No child should
remain playing on site without parent supervision in the
afternoon.
mailto:[email protected]