OAKWOOD PRIMARY SCHOOL | NEWS ISSUE 10 2019 FEATURED Monday 19 August Swimming Lessons Monday 26 August Swimming Lessons Wednesday 28 & 29 August Father’s Day Stall Monday 30 August Assembly 2.10pm Monday 2 September Book Week Wednesday 4 September Book Week Dress up Tuesday — Friday Week 8 Book Fair Friday 20 September Sport Carnival Throws and Jumps Monday 23 September Sports Carnival FROM THE PRINCIPAL Term 3 is rushing along and the events are coming thick and fast. I ’ ve really enjoyed seeing the science week acvies that have been happening this week and the excitement and learning that has accompanied this has been lovely to see. As part of Book Week, there will be a dress up day on 4 September, which we always look forward to. The theme this year is ‘Reading is my Secret’ and we have lots of excing acvies planned to com- memorate the week. We have been recruing teachers for next year to expand our team recently and I am delighted to say that we have some high quality candidates who will be joining our team in 2020. At the moment, it looks like we will have about 540 children at Oakwood next year as enrolments connue to grow. To help with planning, if you know you will be moving from our school next year, please let us know in the office. Swimming Lessons Swimming lessons commence on Monday for the next two weeks. We look forward to the children making the most of this opportunity. Whilst swimming does force us to make changes and be flexible, it is an important life skill and part of our curriculum. Thank you for supporng this im- portant as- pect of your child’s edu- caon. We love that people are posive about our school, but I want to discourage you from making negave comments about other schools on social media. “We don’t make our candle shine brighter by blowing other people’s candles out!’ If you do have some feedback for us, which is less posive, please email or call us rather than posng this on social media. That way we can respond to the feedback and work with families to move forwards posively. I thank you all for the support you give to our school and do appreciate when you share that posivity with your networks! Dates to Remember In the coming weeks, we will be creating a new Year 2/3 class to relieve the enrolment pressure in this area of the school. Whilst change is never easy, we will be working to minimise the disrupon to students and families. I think we all agree that classes of 20 are more desirable than classes of 26, which is the current situaon! All families of children moving will be consulted with personally and we will put things in place to make the transion smooth. We are in the closing stages of employing an amazing teacher for this new class and the class will be based in Room 13, which is a beauful space. A big thank you to Mrs Mathews who is giving up her Spanish room for this class – she is a valued member of the Oakwood team and has proved this with her flexibility and team focussed atude! Facebook Our school Facebook page is a posive page, aimed at highlighng the wonderful things that go on in our school and for keeping you up to date with events and informaon. We are very proud of our school and this page mirrors our posive school culture that is part of our school vision. Please be mindful of this when posng on the page and consider whether an email to the school may be a beer way to find the answer to your question. Recently, on a Facebook group not linked with the school, there were very positive comments made about our school, which is always nice. Some comments then went on to say negave things about other local schools and encouraged parents from other schools to enrol at Oakwood.