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Oakbank Area School Oakbank Area School

NEWSLETTERNEWSLETTER 1 JUNE, 2016 1 JUNE, 2016 VOL: 33 FOLIO: 08VOL: 33 FOLIO: 08

2016 FORMAL

PRINCIPAL’S REPORTPRINCIPAL’S REPORT

OPEN NIGHT SUCCESSOPEN NIGHT SUCCESS

“You’ve got a passionate group

there!”. “Wow - there sure is a

range of opportunities!”

Last Monday, students and staff

opened up their subject areas to

welcome prospective enrolments to

Oakbank Area School.

There was a 280% increase in

attendance compared to 2015.

Thanks go to all of the staff and

student guides who spoke positively

about the school.

If you know of someone who wants to

enrol at OAS but could not attend

Open Night please get them to call

the school or attend the next

Principal’s Tour 15 June 2016 at

9.30am.

FANTASTIC FORMALFANTASTIC FORMAL

Friday week ago our Year 12 students

had a glamorous time at the

Stamford Grand Hotel in all their

finery.

The students were a credit to

themselves and their school and they

all looked amazing.

Thank you to Jia Manolo and Jarrod

Craven who spoke on behalf of our

school as hosts and to Kirsty Rogers

who coordinated the event.

ELECTION DAY BBQ ELECTION DAY BBQ FUNDRAISERFUNDRAISER

Thankyou to the families who

forwarded cash or offers of support

for the Election Day BBQ fundraiser.

Each family received a form however

only 20 (of 150) returned them. We

have extended the request for

another week in the hope that each

family can indicate how they will

help.

Our biggest need is for servers and

chefs on the day- students in Years 9-

12 can also cook and serve on the

day (with our supervision of course!).

We also would like donations of

coffee, tea, milo, foam cups, plastic

spoons, icing sugar and lollies for

biscuit decorations.

If you are able to provide any of

these please contact the school via

dl.0762.info@schools.sa.edu.au, or a

staff member or phone Fiona Hennig

on 0417 894 977.

ALI’s FIRST YEAR REVIEWALI’s FIRST YEAR REVIEW

Ali (Alicia) Adams has successfully

completed one year at Oakbank

Area School as the Pastoral Care

Worker. Ali’s review panel

commended her for the great

relationships with staff, students and

parents she has formed, the Breakfast

Club she has developed and her

support in classes. Well Done Alicia

we look forward to working with you

for many years to come.

END OF SEMESTER 1END OF SEMESTER 1

Semester 1 for Year 7-12 students

finishes at the end of week 8.

Students are well aware of the timeline

and the need to complete assessment

tasks by the due dates. Many students

have balanced their work

requirements over the semester, but

some have left assessment pieces to

the last minute and may be starting to

panic.

Semester 2 will start before the

holidays, so students will have new

timetables and in some cases new

teachers to challenge them. The

school’s timetable is structured to

enable senior students to have equal

halves to their academic year which

is 36 weeks long. Many of our subjects

run for a semester (half year) so it is

important that each subject receives

an equal entitlement to the timetable.

Where subjects run for the whole year,

there are limited changes.

AFFORDABLE SA APPAFFORDABLE SA APP

From time to time families face

financial hardship The Salvation Army

together with the South Australian

Government have developed the app

Affordable SA.

This app is location specific and can

help you with education services,

housing and health services in your

area.

Have a great fortnight,

Kylie Eggers

Principal

PRIMARY REPORT

SAPSASA CROSS COUNTRYSAPSASA CROSS COUNTRY On Tuesday 24t May, a team of 15

s tudents went to Woods ide

Recreation Centre, to represent our

school at the District Cross Country

Event.

All students have been training

consistently at school over the past

three weeks to be ready. The students

who attended were:

13 yr olds

Rhys Casement

Sam Clyma

Michael McGlinchey

12 yr olds

Ryan Boyes-Flynn

Tahnee Gould

Maverick Mack

Jakob Rowlson

Oscar Smith

11 yr olds

Kyle Mansell

Abby McGinley

Lucey Pfeiffer

Jamie Timmins

10 yr olds

Zac Pfeiffer

Bianca Schneider

Kaia Smith

Everyone finished their race and

showed great determination and

pride representing our school.

Our best results was Oscar Smith, who

came 4th in his age group, and has

been selected to attend the State

Cross Country Event later this term.

CROSS AGE BUDDIESCROSS AGE BUDDIES

The Year 9 home group has made

buddies with the R/1 and 3/4 classes

for a task in their Civics program. Last

Wednesday the students met their

buddies and got to know them. It was

great to see students engaging with

each other in a positive way. In the

following weeks the Year 9 students

will organise activities to complete

with their primary buddy.

YELLOW BRICK ROADYELLOW BRICK ROAD

Lisa Smith and her Child Studies class

have been looking at healthy snacks

for primary students. Miss Holland’s

3/4 class have been the lucky guinea

pigs. Two weeks ago students tasted

some healthy snacks the secondary

students made including, zucchini

slice, pizza subs, pear muffins, salmon

patties and tuna spring rolls.

Last week the 3/4 students were

invited to go along the “Yellow Brick

Road” in their lunch time. Students

came back with a bag of goodies

and tried many healthy delights. The

3/4 students had a great time and

enjoyed the experience.

A BIG thank you to Lisa Smith and her

Child Studies class on a well

organised activity.

AWARDSAWARDS

R/1

Lilly Millington

Lucca Przybylski

2/3

Ava Smith

Patricia Gollan

Ari van de Velde

3/4

Bianca Schneider

Hope Bellchambers

Alexander Takats

Wyatt Hennig

5/6

Adam Modh Yusof

Lucy Tebble

Kyle Mansell

Chrystal Smith

LEXIALEXIA

Congratulations to all students who

completed a LEXIA level since the

last assembly.

We had over 50% of Reception to

Year 6 students who received a

certificate to acknowledge their

hard work.

LEXIA GRADUATESLEXIA GRADUATES The following students have

completed the whole LEXIA

program:

Oscar Smith

Jakob Rowlson

Elli Wales

Marcus Barnes

ASSEMBLYASSEMBLY

Thursday week 9 (30th June) at

9am in the Hall.

Hosted by the 2/3 class.

PIZZA / MOVIE NIGHTPIZZA / MOVIE NIGHT Is tomorrow night:

Thursday 2 June.

ILLAWONGA CAMPILLAWONGA CAMP In week 1 of Term 4 this year, the

Years 4 to 7 students will be attending

the Illawonga School Camp situated

at Swan Reach.

Parents are able to start making

payments via an instalment plan if

they so choose. Please see Nyleta or

Joh in the Front Office.

Trudy Holland

Primary Coordinator

PRIMARY REPORT

IKEDA IKEDA JAPANESEJAPANESE EXCHANGE EXCHANGE PROGRAMPROGRAM

Thank you to those families and students who have already indicated their

willingness to either host or buddy a Japanese student.

We are still a term away from our visitors arriving on Sunday 31 July, and

we still require several more host families to accommodate our Japanese

visitors for their two week visit.

If you have a spare bedroom, and would like to join in the fun of hosting a

student from another part of the world, please phone Bev Bonython, or

Gail Talbot-Smith on 8398 7207 to register your interest.

On Monday 16 May, 18 boys from OAS and HCCS travelled to Heathfield

Community Oval, the home of the mighty Devils, to participate in a football

carnival against Heathfield High School and Cornerstone College.

This team would never have got off the ground and onto the field of play without

the unique relationship between OAS and HCCS as the team consisted of

11 players from OAS and 7 players from HCCS.

Unfortunately the scoreboard was not favourable for us as we went down by

approximately 20 goals to Cornerstone and 13 goals to Heathfield. Our only

goal scorer for the day was Riley Kernot. Cornerstone defeated Heathfield by a

similar margin to win the day and progress to the next stage of the competition.

Best players for the day in no particular order were Jacob Wilson, Jordan Bell,

William Peter, Zach Kuiper, Riley Kernot and Tyler Clark.

I would like to thank HCCS PE teacher Josh Lloyd for his collaboration with me in

organising the team before and on the day. Also a big thank you to parents

Shane Kuiper, for his efforts in Goal Umpiring, Sam Clarke and Kim Fowles for first

aid and sports trainer assistance as well as providing the yummy snakes to the

players.

Thanks also to our bus driver Jan Mattingly, and teacher Mr Hoskin and parent

Neil Todd for coming out and supporting the students, it was all much

appreciated.

All of the boys can be especially proud of their behaviour and sportsmanship on

the day. Results on the scoreboard didn't go our way but the boys scored many

goals with the character they showed on the field by never dropping their

heads, encouraging each other at all times and revelling in each other’s

company.

It was a pleasure to take them all outside the school.

Shane Wissell

Sports Teacher

YEAR 8/9 BOYS FOOTBALL

Social, emotional and physical development is a significant aspect of

children’s lives and needs to be explicitly taught so that children build a sense

of wellbeing, resilience and positive mental health. This year OAS has

implemented Positive Education as a whole school initiative where it is

explicitly taught to senior students during their civics lessons, and to primary

students throughout their weekly programs.

The first 6 weeks of Term 1, OAS staff introduced students to ‘Positive Health’

which focused on sleep, nutrition, physical activity, mindfulness, optimism and

resilience. Emily Watson, PhD Candidate from the Centre for Sleep Research,

Flinders University came to talk to the primary and secondary school about the

importance of sleep and delivered some useful and informative sleep facts.

Positive Education at OAS

After ‘Positive Health’, OAS staff introduced students to Positive Emotions which

focused on understanding emotions, emotional intelligence, savouring positive

experiences and feelings, expressing gratitude, the biology of positivity,

happiness boosters and healthy ways to respond to negative emotions.

Throughout ‘Positive Emotions’ primary students and Year 7’s have been busy

making vision boards about themselves.

The Reception to Year 2 students made emotion puppets and middle school and

senior students wrote messages of gratitude.

Some examples of Year 5/6 Vision Boards.

Please take time to read this Old American Indian legend that spreads a very important message to all:

R-2

Emotion

Puppets.

Currently, OAS staff have introduced students to ‘Positive Engagement’, which focuses on growth mindsets,

optimism, curiosity and interest, creativity and passion, motivational theory, self-determination theory, flow,

character strengths and setting goals.

Two major focus areas within ‘Positive Engagement’ are shifting student mindsets from being fixed: ‘I Can’t Do

It!’, to growth: ‘I Can’t Do It Yet’ and providing students with opportunities to experience states of flow.

“Flow is a level of deep engagement characterised by complete immersion in an activity that brings a

profound sense of enjoyment and wellbeing” (Jeremy McCarthy) where students often lose track of time.

Students at OAS deserve nothing but the best and positive education is a vital part of a child’s development,

wellbeing and positive mental health. Educational research and data supports the theories that the wellbeing

of students is fundamental to rising levels of student achievement and positive mental health, opening doors to

an optimistic future.

Keysha Errington

Art Teacher & Positive Education Support Person

OAKBANK AREA SCHOOL

154 Onkaparinga Valley Road

OAKBANK SA 5243

Telephone: (08) 8398 7200

Facsimile: (08) 8388 4718

Email: dl.0762.info@schools.sa.edu.au

Website: www.oakbankas.sa.edu.au

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/oakbankas

Oakbank KindergartenOakbank Kindergarten

2017 Parent Information Meeting

Thursday 16 June from 2 to 3pm

Children born between 1 May 2012 to

30 April 2013 are due to start

Kindergarten in 2017.

Phone: 8388 4141