Principal’s Report

Ocean Shores Public School

26 July, 2019 Issue 1, Term 3

Ocean Outlook

Welcome to Semester 2! How quickly a couple

of weeks pass and we head back into school!

I hope all families enjoyed their time away from

school with students ready for a big semester

2. Of course, our big fundraiser, the Festival of

the Imagination is on Saturday August 24th. Be

sure to mark this on the family calendar!

Keeping up with school events

Attached to today’s newsletter is a Term 3

calendar. Please be aware that up-to-date

information on what is happening at OSPS can

be found at the following locations:

The school website: https://oceanshore-

p.schools.nsw.gov.au/

SchoolStream mobile app: see details later

in newsletter for downloading the app.

The weekly newsletter: Via the school

website, the Schoolstream app, email

distribution list or in hardcopy at the office

Notices sent home: Please be sure to check

children’s bags daily.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/

oceanshorespublicschool

My Community Grants – Ocean

Shores Public School Hall Upgrade

We are looking for broad community support

to upgrade our school hall. Please read the

following and share with anyone 16 years and

over who lives in the NSW Electorate of

Ballina.

We are upgrading the school hall (see rough

plans in newsletter) to use existing storage and

un-used bathroom space to create an arts,

environmental and cultural space for our

students and the Ocean Shores Community.

The total cost for the project is estimated at

$163000. To date, P&C has $80000 committed

to the project. If we can access the $83000 via

the My Community Grants, we will have the

necessary funding.

We need your vote. To be eligible, you need to

be aged over 16 and reside in the Ballina State

Electorate. It only takes a few minutes (along

with your Medicare details and Services NSW

login details). There is a range of worthwhile

programs in the electorate, be sure to get on

and have your say. With community support,

our hall upgrade is achievable! Thanks to

Therese and Rob for the ongoing work here on

behalf of P&C.

Go to: mycommunityproject.service.nsw.gov.au

Login: you will need your Medicare card

Select: Ballina electorate

View projects and shortlist

Submit vote: be sure to select OSPS entry as

number one

Share with everyone in the Ballina electorate

NAIDOC

On Tuesday we will be celebrating NAIDOC at

OSPS. Children will engage in a range of

Aboriginal cultural activities with local

community members throughout the day.

Everyone is invited to join our NAIDOC

assembly between 12.40 and 1.40pm under the

Learning Tree. Our local Muggi Culture, Deadly

Futures Indigenous students from OSPS and

surrounding schools will be performing at our

assembly and other local schools throughout

the week. Thanks to the Aboriginal Education

Team for coordination of the event.

An inspiring Indigenous Australian is Stan

Grant. I would encourage all community

members who have not done so to have a look

at Stan’s speech from 2016 about racism in

Australia. It is confronting, thought-provoking,

and worth a discussion. https://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEOssW1rw0I

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Coming Up!

Tue 30 Jul

NAIDOC assembly 12:30pm

(rescheduled from term 2)

Fri 2 Aug

Pizza Party - 1J

Mon 5

Education week begins

Stage 2 camp - Tyalgum Ridge

Tue 6 Aug

Farmers Market - KB

Wed 7 Aug

Ocean Shores PS Open Day

9:30 - 11:30am

Thur 8 Aug

School spelling bee finals 1pm

Fri 9 Aug

Headlands District athletics

carnival

Payments Due

Elective sport DUE NOW

Stage 2 camp DUE NOW

Payments can be made via

our school website.

Operation Dolphin - week 2

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Visible Learning – Learning Dispositions

At Week 3’s P&C meeting I will be sharing where we

are up to on the school’s visible learning journey.

Staff are currently investigating ‘learning dispositions’.

Dispositions are habits of thinking and doing, or the

way we respond to a situation or experience. Over

the next few months, we will be collaborating with

students and community to identify the dispositions

we most value in learning at OSPS.

Education Week – Every Student, Every

Voice

This year’s theme is ‘Every student, every voice’. It is

a celebration of student empowerment and how the

NSW public education system gives students the

skills they need in order to have and express a voice

during their own educational journey and as engaged

global citizens.

We are inviting families to join us in classrooms on

Wednesday 7th August between 9.30am and

11.00am and then stay for an extended recess break.

We look forward to seeing parents, carers and other

family members as we celebrate quality public

education at OSPS.

Mindfulness

Our P & C’s Barb Underwood is offering a free

mindfulness workshop in our school library on 29th

August (see back page). Along with other staff

members, I completed Barb’s 8 week course in 2017

and found it to be of immense benefit - both

personally and professionally. I would encourage all

parents and carers to come along on the 29th and

see what it is all about.

Well done Miss Daley

Miss Daley is heading off to the State PSSA Carnival

next week in the role of North Coast Coach.

Congratulations Miss Daley. We are very fortunate

to have such high quality staff contributing on a

school and regional level.

Thankyous

Tipi Forest donation: Putting out a big thank

you to D Bleach father of former students, for the

generous gift of more than 50 bales of hay left

over from their Tipi Forest business at Splendour.

The bales will be used in our upcoming

Imagination Festival as seating and then used in

the garden and chicken pen. It also shows a great

example of how we can recycle or reusing a no

longer needed product. We also appreciate the

support and assistance with the P&C funded

sound-system upgrade for the school hall. Thanks

D!

Splendour, Falls and Parklands Community

Grants Scheme: I would also like to

acknowledge and thank North Byron Parklands,

Splendour and Falls for the ongoing support of the

OSPS ‘Music In Schools Program. The annual

commitment of $5000 per year enhances our

music education of infants classes and is very

much appreciated.

Athletics carnival: Thanks to Elise, Julia, Rob

and all the staff who made the athletics carnival

such a success. Thanks also to Nadine and the

team on Canteen – it was a very successful day.

Well done to the students on attendance and

participation. Ribbons will be awarded on Monday

morning’s assembly.

Hotel Brunswick: Thanks to Kyle and the team

at the Hotel Brunswick for the pizza donations for

the Superstars Luncheon and 1J’s Pizza Party

(earned by being the highest fundraisers for the

Beachathon/Colour Run) which will be in the 1J

classroom next Friday.

Thanks to John and Brunswick Wholesale

Plants (bwp@brunswickplants.com.au

0266851190) for the generous donation of finger

lime trees for planting at NAIDOC on Tuesday,

and Tulloch Horticulture for the macadamia

tree.

Martin Gill

Principal

NAIDOC celebration - Tuesday 30 July

Our exciting NAIDOC celebration is just around the

corner and this year students are getting the oppor-

tunity to taste some traditional Indigenous foods.

The foods include:

Kangaroo

Taro

Pipis

Damper

Native Honey

Please contact the school before the 30-7-19 if

your child has any dietary requirements.

Boogelbeh! (thank you)

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Performers wanted! - Festival of the Imagination

August 24th 2019 is fast approaching…

We are looking for students, parents and community

members willing to share their talents on stage dur-

ing Festival of the Imagination (FOTI).

If you can sing, dance, play an instrument or are part

of a band, we would love to have you perform on

the day.

Please contact the school directly or email Wayne

Gibbons (wayne.gibbons@det.nsw.edu.au) to book a

time slot.

We will have a range of instruments available and a

performance area for dancing.

Don't wait! Be part of a great day out.

Thanks from the canteen

Nadine and the wider school community would like

to thank all those who donated cakes and baked

goods for the school carnival canteen this week.

A massive thank you is also extended to Jo, Polly,

Rob, Sasha, Ebonie, Amy, Lauchie, Saroeun and Tania

for volunteering their time to make the athletics

carnival canteen and sausage sizzle a success.

Our school canteen made a profit of $1,545 this

week which is a fantastic effort!

From canteen every week to FOTI every year, all

volunteers are hugely appreciated by students and

staff at Ocean Shores PS as this is what makes our

events so successful.

Festival of the Imagination - 24 August 2019

Volunteers and donations needed for our annual

Festival of the Imagination (FOTI).

The festival is a major highlight for students and an

important fundraising opportunity for the school.

Safety Person Wanted

We are hoping to attract a willing person to take on

the overseeing role of a safety officer for the day.

Having a first aid certificate would be a minimum

requirement. Please call Damian on 0466 931 523 if

interested.

Cake Stall

We will be asking for people to bake cakes, slices

and biscuits and bring them to the festival on the day

(24th. August). If you are kindly planning to do this

could you please write the ingredients used on any

baking you provide. Thank you so much in advance.

Second Hand Stall

Nadine would like it if you could donate any good

quality clothes or shoes for the second -hand store.

Community Art Work

Everyone has those redundant half full bottles of nail

polish with last year’s colours sitting idle in their

cupboards. We hope that you can drop these to the

school and they can be used to paint a special piece

of community art work that will be created at the

FOTI.

Plant Stall

We are looking for donations of plants to sell, you

can drop off to the stall on the day or leave at the

office prior to the festival.

Tye-dye Stall

We will need donations of white clothing to be used

for tye-dying. Drop off to the stall on the day or

leave at the school office prior to the festival.

Thank you kindly in anticipation of your support and

time to make this a wonderful day for our children

and our community!

Students to record at SAE Institute

On the last day of term 2 our choir and band re-

ceived an invitation to record at the SAE (School of

Audio Engineering) Institute at Byron Bay,

This is an excellent opportunity for our students to

expand their musical knowledge and experience the

recording process in a world class facilities.

Our committed choir and band members will travel

by bus to SAE Institute on Wednesday 8 August for a

guided tour of the facility and to record four songs.

It is real life ‘Twenty First Century’ learning at its

best.

Sonia Woods

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Around the grounds - School Athletics Carnival

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Dr Cara Wong’s Healthy Heads

Dear families, my name is Dr Cara Wong. I am a

neuropsychologist and parent, and work from a clinic

in Byron.

Over a number of years of practice and research, I

have developed an interest in the holistic brain health

of children and families.

One of my key passions is to help people understand

the importance of brain health and normalise preven-

tative mental health strategies.

I will be writing a fortnightly ‘Healthy Heads’ column

in your school newsletter giving tips and practical

strategies about brain and mental health.

I invite you and your kids to ask questions (please

send via the school email) and I will make every ef-

fort to answer them or write about a related topic in

future newsletters.

I hope my ‘Healthy Heads’ column will make a posi-

tive impact on your family and community’s wellbe-

ing.

Dr Cara Wong, MClinNeuro, PhD, MAPS

www.thewholisticmind.com

Cybersecurity - the top 5 questions parents have

1.What are the biggest security threats

to kids?

Children and teens can be caught by the same kinds

of security problems that affect adults (drive-by

downloads, links to malicious sites, viruses and mal-

ware, etc.).

But there are some special ways criminals get to

kids, such as links to “fan sites” that contain mali-

cious links or “free stuff,” messages that look like

they're from friends, offers of free music or movies

or ring tones or anything else that a child might be

tempted to download.

2. How do I talk with my child about se-

curity?

Actually security is one of those topics that are pret-

ty easy to talk with kids about, because, just like

adults, they don’t want to be exploited, tricked or

ripped off either.

Just talk with them about how there are some peo-

ple who try to take advantage of others by stealing

their money or their information. Explain that not

everything is what it appears to be – why it’s im-

portant to think before we connect.

Don’t make it a one-time conversation; revisit it

from time to time. Ask them what they think and if

they've gotten anything suspicious lately.

Your kids might know more about cybersecurity

than you think.

3. How do we protect our family's com-

puters?

It’s important to use up-to-date security software

and make sure that your operating system and the

software you use are up-to-date.

Software companies sometimes find and then fix

security flaws via updates.

Follow the rest of the advice in this guide – such as

being careful about the websites you and your kids

visit and links you and they click on – and always

make sure you have strong passwords.

4. How do we protect our mobile devic-

es?

There are security apps for mobile devices, but the

best way to protect mobile devices is to use a PIN

(personal identification number or password), to be

careful about what apps you use and to have a way of

wiping your data if your phone is lost or stolen.

Visit ConnectSafely’s security center at connectsafe-

ly.org/security to find out about apps that will re-

motely wipe or lock your phone and help you find it

if it’s missing.

5. Why do we always hear "Never share

your passwords"?

Because it can be tempting to share passwords with

friends, and it's not sound cybersecurity.

The more widely passwords are shared, the more

your data, identity and property are out of your

control.

Sometimes friends become ex-friends or are just

careless with all that's behind your password, so it's

important that passwords are kept private, easy to

remember and hard to guess.

Talk with your kids about why it isn't a good idea to

share their passwords – except possibly with you.

But if you want to model not sharing passwords, you

can check your kids' accounts with them rather than

knowing and using their passwords when they're

unaware you're in their accounts.

For more on this, visit passwords.connectsafely.org.

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LEFT: Conceptual plans for upgrading

our hall, creating a bespoke space for

arts/music, cultural and environmental

programs for our students and local

community.

BELOW: map of electorate

OVER PAGE:

My Community - enhancing arts, music & cultural participation

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