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NEWSLETTERNEWSLETTER 15 November, 2016 15 November, 2016 VOL: 33 FOLIO: 18VOL: 33 FOLIO: 18

Principal’s Report Page 2 Senior News Page 3 Positive Ed News Page 4 Sports Report Page 5 Primary News Page 6 Positive Ed Quotes Page 8 RAN Training Page 8 Peach Lifestyle Program Page 8

PRINCIPAL’S REPORTPRINCIPAL’S REPORT

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS STORY AND LEADERS CAMPSTORY AND LEADERS CAMP

Last week OAS had the privilege to

host Jess Trengove, a dual marathon

Olympian, who spoke to our Year 7-

11 students about her journey as a

professional athlete.

Jess presented her successes and

how she had overcome barriers in

her career yet there was one section

that had an impact on my thinking.

This was where Jess discussed the

fact that the cameras don’t

broadcast the athletes who have

trained for years and lose or don’t

make it past the first heat.

From this she advised us all that we

had better enjoy the pathway to our

goals because otherwise we may

feel that our time has been wasted if

we are not successful.

I was also fortunate to visit our 2016

Student Leaders Camp and speak to

them about my leadership thus far

and how they can help the school

through their actions.

The students were attentive and keen

as we went through a model

Leadership Cycle and came away

with a plan to enact change within

the school.

STOPLIGHT REPORTSSTOPLIGHT REPORTS

By now you should have

received your first interim

spotlight reports.

Thank you to the families

who have responded thus

far.

Please forward any feedback to

[email protected] as

soon as possible.

HAVE YOU CONSIDERED HAVE YOU CONSIDERED WORKING AS A SCHOOL WORKING AS A SCHOOL SUPPORT OFFICER?SUPPORT OFFICER? If so, you will need a DCSI clearance

(available through our Front Office)

and to complete the FULL DAY

training for Responding to Abuse and

Neglect in Educational Settings.

There is a regional, free course being

delivered in Mount Barker on

December 8th.

See the advertisement on the back

page of the newsletter for more

information.

SWEARING/PROFANITY/SWEARING/PROFANITY/OBSCENITYOBSCENITY Recently there has been many, daily

cases of Middle and Senior School

students either swearing at teachers

or swearing amongst their friendship

groups loud enough for others to hear

and be offended.

At times the students do not even

realise that what they said was rude

or offensive as they are words that

they seem to use so often they seem

immune to them.

Please discuss with your children

about the context of when they are

using certain words (intent, time and

place).

STUDENT FREE DAYSTUDENT FREE DAY

A reminder that the Student Free Day

is Friday 25 November 2015; there will

be no school on this day.

Teaching staff will be focussing on

flexibility in the SACE, the new

Workplace Learning Guidelines and

Words Their Way training.

Have a great fortnight.

Kylie Eggers

Principal

SCHOOL BASED SCHOOL BASED APPRENTICESHIPS APPRENTICESHIPS NOW AVAILABLE:NOW AVAILABLE: 2 x Rural Operations ASBAs – one

at Mylor and one at Meadows.

2 x Hairdressing ASBAs –

Goodwood.

1 x ASBA Cabinet Making –

Murray Bridge.

1 x ASBA Agric Diesel – Murray

Bridge.

1 Butchery apprenticeship – Mt

Barker IGA Ring Jo Elston 0439

506 047 to register your interest.

1 x Light Vehicle apprenticeship –

Murray Bridge.

1 x A g r i c u l t u r a l D i e s e l

apprenticeship – Strathalbyn.

1 x Spare parts interpreter

apprenticeship - Strathalbyn.

1 x Structural Steel and first class

welder apprenticeship – Acromat

Mile End Ring Manager 8352 2288

o r e m a i l r e s u m e t o

[email protected]

Interested students need to phone

Mrs Abbie Cerchi on 0488 942 192 for

more details.

YEAR 12 BREAKFASTYEAR 12 BREAKFAST A big thank you to the Balhannah

Uniting Church community for

providing the current Year 12

students and the school staff with a

cooked breakfast on the morning of

Friday the 4th of November.

It was pleasing to see many Year 12

students attend and receive a gift to

wish them well on their transition to

life after school.

END OF YEAR RESULTS END OF YEAR RESULTS RELEASERELEASE The SACE Board has confirm that the

target date for the 2016 results

release is Tuesday 20 December,

from 8.30am. Students will be able to

view their SACE Results and SATAC

Tertiary Entrance Statement (if

eligible) in Students Online.

It is expected students will receive

official documentation in the post on

results release day.

ATTENDANCEATTENDANCE Attendance of senior school students

in Years 10 and 11 has dropped off

considerably this term.

Full attendance is required by all

enrolled students.

If your child is away, please contact

the school to let us know about their

absence.

Year 11 students still have three

weeks of school left after this week

and it is imperative they attend to

finish off all assessment tasks. If they

have finished set work in any class

they can all continue to work on their

Research Project tasks, so have no

excuse to not be at school studying.

Kirsty Rogers

Senior Pathways Coordinator

Hats and Caps

for sale through the OAS Front Office

Bucket hats for Reception to Year 6 students are $12 each.

Caps (as pictured above) for Year 7 to 12 students are $12

each.

Students will need to place an order and pay for a cap

through the Front Office, by no later than Friday 2 December, as we will only be placing an

order for those who have bought a cap.

Joh Heiser

Business Manager

SENIOR NEWSSENIOR NEWS

POSITIVE ED. NEWSPOSITIVE ED. NEWS

This term students have embarked on

a new unit of inquiry called POSITIVE

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Positive Accomplishments looks at

developing student potential through

striving for and achieving meaningful

outcomes.

Throughout this unit students will learn

about mindsets and strategies on how

to develop a growth mindset.

Carol Dweck is a leading author/

researcher who specialises in mindsets

and her books are well worth a read.

To support a growth mindset in

children it is really important to

process praise, rather than personality

praise as well as encourage positive

self-talk.

I CAN’T DO IT…………

YET!

As a part of this unit we were

privileged to have Jessica Trengove

speak to our high school students in

regards to striving for your dreams and

what is actually possible with

dedication and persistence.

Jessica Trengove was an Australian

representative in ‘women’s marathon

running’ at London and Rio Olympic

Games and Glasgow Commonwealth

Games.

Currently she is working towards the

Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Her presentation and life story was

very authentic and interesting.

Students found her easy to relate to

due to her age, country up-bringing,

achievements and happy disposition.

After the presentation Jessica allowed

questions and answers where students

asked an assortment of mature and

well thought out questions which

engaged and ignited students in

conversation.

Keysha Errington

SPORTS REPORTSPORTS REPORT

YEAR 5 TO 7 CRICKET YEAR 5 TO 7 CRICKET CARNIVALCARNIVAL On Friday 4 November, Oakbank

Area School participated in a Year 5

to 7 primary cricket carnival held on

Hahndorf Oval.

This carnival was coordinated by the

South Australian Cricket Association

(SACA) and all schools in the region

had the opportunity to be involved.

Other schools who participated

were Stirling East, Nairne, St Francis

and St Catherine’s.

There were two divisions on the day,

a girls only division and a boys/

mixed division.

Unfortunately, the teams were

unsuccessful on the day in terms of

winning, but they were both very

competitive. In the last round both

Oakbank teams played against

each other with Mr Wissell's team

narrowly defeating Ms Feijen's team.

Plans are well under way by SACA

to make the carnival bigger and

better in 2017, with more schools

being involved and a larger oval

area being utilised to fit more

pitches.

The students can be happy with their

performance as it was a long day on

their feet and not too many

complained.

A big thank you to Mary Feijen for

taking one of the teams on the day

and to our bus driver Jan Mattingly.

YR 10 GIRLS BASKETBALLYR 10 GIRLS BASKETBALL

On Tuesday 1 November, Oakbank

Area School played host to St

Francis College and Glossop High

School in a Year 10 girls Basketball

competition.

Oakbank Area School was

represented by Year 9 students Tiarn

Wegener and Tayla Graetz, Year 10

students Marlee Tonkin, Shai-Leigh

Tischer and Sarah Garvin and HCCS

Year 10 students Laila Williams and

Emmerson Bowen.

Oakbank played St Francis in a very

entertaining first game where the

lead changed many times over the

four quarters. Unfortunately St Francis

were leading at the end, winning by

2pts. Top scorers for this game were

Tiarn and Marlee.

St Francis then went on to defeat

Glossop by 7pts in the second

game meaning that they will now

progress to the finals in Adelaide.

Our game against Glossop was then

a dead rubber so to speak.

All girls can hold their heads up high

with the way they performed and

represented the school. They mixed

positively with the girls from the

other schools.

Better players for the day were

Emmerson, Laila, Marlee and Tiarn.

A big thank you to Year 10

student Kye Sinnott, for scoring

during the games and to external

umpire, Aaron Newman.

Cheers.

Shane Wissell

PE Coordinator

PRIMARY NEWSPRIMARY NEWS

AWARD WINNERS FROM AWARD WINNERS FROM WEEK 4 ASSEMBLYWEEK 4 ASSEMBLY Congratulations to all the award

winners at the assembly in week 9 last

term.

VIRTUE AWARDS

Oscar Smith

Kaia Smith

Abby McGinley

CLASS AWARDS

Abby McGinley – Neat writing style

Bella Riley – Trying hard and improving

in her work

Zara MacPherson – Story writing

Jasmin Knott – Excellent work in Maths

Jayden Barratt – Improved resilience

Cooper Macey – Putting his hand up

and waiting his turn

Evie Hill – Improved quality of her

writing

Zac Pfeiffer – Working hard in Literacy

Wyatt Hennig – Improved attitude and

effort towards school

Charlotte Casement – Mature hard

working student

Remmie Macey – Working hard in

Design and Technology

Christian Klitzke – Settling into class

routines well

ATTENDANCE - 100& since last

assembly

Samuel MacPherson

Ryan Taskas

Charlotte Casement

Wyatt Hennig

Ari van de Velde

Callum van de Velde

Patricia Gollan

Kyle Mansell

Chrystal Smith

Christian Klitzke

Zara MacPherson

Oscar Smith

Kaia Smith

Jakob Rowlson

Brodie Caddaye

Adam Yusof

Lucy Tebble

Jade Buick

Madi Fox

Jonah Cathro

Evie Hill

Remmie Macey Congratulations to all students who

received certificates for completing LEXIA

awards.

SLEEPOVERSLEEPOVER

The annual Reception to Yr 6

sleepover is being held on Tuesday 22

November and Wednesday 23

November.

Cost is $21 per student. You will notice

this is significantly cheaper than last

year due to being subsidized by

fundraisers earlier in the year.

Please have payment and consent

forms returned by Fr iday 18

November.

GRANDPARENTS DAYGRANDPARENTS DAY

On Friday 11 November we had some

special guests visit us in the Brockhoff

building.

Students invited their Grandparents or

special people to join them in

classroom activities, enjoy a morning

tea and participate in the OAS

Remembrance Day Ceremony.

It was great to see so many

Grandparents enjoying learning from

the students.

Primary NewsPrimary News

YEAR 3/4 CLASS COOKINGYEAR 3/4 CLASS COOKING

Wednesday last week the 3/4 class

spent the afternoon cooking

morning tea for Grandparents Day.

They cooked Anzac biscuits, blue-

berry muffins and scones.

RIDING FOR THE DISABLEDRIDING FOR THE DISABLED

All 4 primary classes have had the

opportunity to visit the Riding for the

Disabled arena at Oakbank

Racecourse.

Students watched a lesson where

the riders followed instructions to

move and control the horse.

The OAS students were lucky

enough to get to pat a horse too.

KINDERGARTEN KINDERGARTEN TRANSITION VISITSTRANSITION VISITS The next Kindergarten Transition

visits are:

Monday 21 November - 9am

Monday 28 November - 9am

Monday 5 December - 9am

Trudy Holland

Primary Coordinator

OAKBANK AREA SCHOOL 154 Onkaparinga Valley Road

OAKBANK SA 5243

Telephone: (08) 8398 7200

Facsimile: (08) 8388 4718

Email: [email protected]

POSITIVE ED: Quotes for the

Fortnight: