Willett Avenue Oak Park 3046 Issue 22 t 9306 9182 e [email protected]www.oakparkps.vic.edu.au August 3rd 2017 The Oak Leaf Oak Park Primary School will work collaboratively to provide a stimulating, safe and challenging learning environment that promotes resilient, innovative thinkers. Principal’s Column Over the past three years, staff have been involved in a Mathematics Coaching Program with maths coach Kathy Palmer. Kathy works with teams of teachers to further develop their capacity to teach mathematics. Teachers work together to plan a lesson, then one teacher teaches it to their class while Kathy and others observe and take notes. The team then meets with Kathy and discusses how the lesson went; what worked, what didn’t, how it could be improved. The lesson is ‘fine-tuned’. Another teacher in the team will then teach the refined lesson, which will then also be followed by feedback from the team/Kathy. This is a fairly daunting experience for teachers as it takes them right out of their comfort zone where they are open to critiques of their teaching practice. To their immense credit, all of our teachers have willingly embraced these opportunities to receive feedback on their teaching as they constantly look to improve as teachers. One of the areas Kathy spoke about this week was Assessment for, as and of learning. Parents would probably be most familiar with assessment OF learning; an example of this is when teachers have children complete a test and then form a judgement as to where the children are at. Assessment AS learning occurs when students think about how they are going and develop personal goals to work towards. Finally, assessment FOR learning is when teachers gain insights to what students are thinking and use this to inform their teaching. CALENDAR OF EVENTS 8 August School Review Day 2 10 August Concert tickets on sale- Clocktower 16 August Sports & Graduation Photos 20&21 Sept School Concert August 15 th August 17 th August 23 rd 9.00am Finance 5.00pm Buildings & Grounds 7.00pm School Council Meeting UNIFORM AWARD This week’s Uniform Wearer of the Week goes to MAYA ILIEVSKI & CHARLIE BRUNI 3H Congratulations Maya and Charlie for setting such a terrific example to the rest of the school!
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Willett Avenue Oak Park 3046 Issue 22
t 9306 9182 e [email protected] www.oakparkps.vic.edu.au August 3rd 2017
The Oak Leaf
Oak Park Primary School will work collaboratively to provide a stimulating, safe and challenging
learning environment that promotes resilient, innovative thinkers.
Principal’s Column
Over the past three years, staff have been involved
in a Mathematics Coaching Program with maths
coach Kathy Palmer. Kathy works with teams of
teachers to further develop their capacity to teach
mathematics. Teachers work together to plan a
lesson, then one teacher teaches it to their class
while Kathy and others observe and take notes. The
team then meets with Kathy and discusses how the
lesson went; what worked, what didn’t, how it could
be improved. The lesson is ‘fine-tuned’. Another
teacher in the team will then teach the refined
lesson, which will then also be followed by feedback
from the team/Kathy. This is a fairly daunting
experience for teachers as it takes them right out of
their comfort zone where they are open to critiques
of their teaching practice. To their immense credit,
all of our teachers have willingly embraced these
opportunities to receive feedback on their teaching
as they constantly look to improve as teachers.
One of the areas Kathy spoke about this week was
Assessment for, as and of learning. Parents would
probably be most familiar with assessment OF
learning; an example of this is when teachers have
children complete a test and then form a judgement
as to where the children are at. Assessment AS
learning occurs when students think about how
they are going and develop personal goals to work
towards. Finally, assessment FOR learning is when
teachers gain insights to what students are thinking
and use this to inform their teaching.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
8 August School Review Day 2
10 August Concert tickets on sale-
Clocktower
16 August Sports & Graduation
Photos
20&21 Sept School Concert
August 15th August 17th August 23rd
9.00am Finance 5.00pm Buildings & Grounds 7.00pm School Council Meeting
UNIFORM AWARD
This week’s
Uniform Wearer of the Week
goes to
MAYA ILIEVSKI & CHARLIE BRUNI 3H
Congratulations Maya and Charlie for
setting such a terrific example to the rest
of the school!
Willett Avenue Oak Park 3046 Issue 22
t 9306 9182 e [email protected] www.oakparkps.vic.edu.au August 3rd 2017
The Oak Leaf
Oak Park Primary School will work collaboratively to provide a stimulating, safe and challenging
learning environment that promotes resilient, innovative thinkers.
One way of thinking about assessment is when you
make soup. If, during the making of the soup, you
taste it, (and respond by adding salt or spice etc)
that’s formative. After the soup is made and your
guests taste it, that’s summative. The guests form a
judgement as to whether the soup was good or bad
– usually in my case, they just get sick and never
come back.
Assessment is vitally important for teachers to know
what each student’s starting point is, so they can
then target their individual needs.
3H Plants 111 trees for
National Tree Day
On August 2nd, 2017 it was National Tree Day and
3H was selected to get involved by walking down to
Moonee Ponds Creek to plant trees with Moreland
City Council. We did a lot of digging, planting,
carrying, staking and learned about how to care for
the plants and support them as they go into the
ground. We met Vince who taught us how to plant
and more about the local environment and current
projects.
Altogether we successfully planted 111 healthy
nutritious trees. The workers who helped us were
exceptionally friendly and helpful. It was an
extremely fun experience and we hope to do it
again.
Thank you to John Hughes for organising this
event for us!
Written by Jude, Maya, Charlie and Lilly
If you would like to see all the trees planted by
Oak Park Students (Grade 4 last year and 3H this
year) then see below for a special event.
Special Event: Herbert Street 'Living Stream'
launch and planting day
Oak Park Primary School students have been
helping to restore the parklands at the Moonee
Ponds Creek by planting trees. The project has re-
established 100m of the original Moonee Ponds
Creek channel, supporting habitat and
reducing storm water pollution. A community
planting will be held with the Friends of Moonee
Ponds Creek to further build habitat and amenity at
the site from 10am-12noon with official
celebrations at 10:30am.
All are welcome…….Wear sturdy shoes, appropriate
clothes and bring your gardening gloves.
Date:
Sunday 13 August 2017
Time:
10 am - 12 noon
Location:
Herbert Street Reserve, Oak Park
Cost:
Free
Willett Avenue Oak Park 3046 Issue 22
t 9306 9182 e [email protected] www.oakparkps.vic.edu.au August 3rd 2017
The Oak Leaf
Oak Park Primary School will work collaboratively to provide a stimulating, safe and challenging
learning environment that promotes resilient, innovative thinkers.
Willett Avenue Oak Park 3046 Issue 22
t 9306 9182 e [email protected] www.oakparkps.vic.edu.au August 3rd 2017
The Oak Leaf
Oak Park Primary School will work collaboratively to provide a stimulating, safe and challenging
learning environment that promotes resilient, innovative thinkers.
Parent Opinion Survey
2017 Please note the survey information below relates
to the Department of Education’s yearly parent
survey – not the one that our school conducts
periodically.
The Parent Opinion Survey is an annual survey
offered by the Department of Education and
Training that is conducted amongst a sample of
randomly selected parents at each school.
It is designed to assist our school in gaining an
understanding of parents’ perception of school climate,
student engagement and relationships with our parent
community. Our school will use the survey results to
help inform and direct future school planning and
improvement strategies.
The survey will be conducted online by ORIMA
Research Pty Ltd and only takes 15 minutes to
complete. The survey can be accessed via desktop
computer, laptop, tablet or mobile at any
convenient time within the fieldwork period from
Monday 7th August to Sunday 27th August.
Approximately 30 per cent of parents will be invited
to participate in this year’s survey. All responses to
the survey are anonymous.
The online survey is available in English, Arabic,
Vietnamese, Mandarin, Chin (Hakha) and Hindi.
Survey language guides will be provided in a range
of languages including Albanian, Bengali, Burmese,
Cantonese, Dari, Filipino, Greek, Gujarati,
Indonesian, Japanese, Karen, Khmer, Korean,
Macedonian, Malayalam, Pashto, Persian, Punjabi,
Russian, Serbian, Sinhalese, Somali, Spanish,
Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish or Urdu.
The survey results will be reported back to our
school at the end of September. Last year we used
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t 9306 9182 e [email protected] www.oakparkps.vic.edu.au August 3rd 2017
The Oak Leaf
Oak Park Primary School will work collaboratively to provide a stimulating, safe and challenging
learning environment that promotes resilient, innovative thinkers.