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Principal’s Report
Ocean Shores Public School
2 August, 2019 Issue 2, Term 3
Ocean Outlook
NAIDOC
What a wonderful event this year’s NAIDOC
Day at Ocean Shores PS turned out to be. Our
Aboriginal Education Team led by Sonia
Woods, Hope Woods and Belinda O’Donnell
organised what was a meaningful and inspiring
day.
All children explored the theme ‘Voice, Treaty,
Truth’ and learned about Australia’s rich
Indigenous Culture. Our special guests made
the day special for all, sharing different
perspectives and contributing to an increased
understanding of the rich, proud, strong and
oldest surviving culture in the world.
The Muggi Cultures, Deadly Futures troupe
shared dance and story-telling on the assembly.
This group was led by Uncle Scotty Sentance
and Jennah Browning and involved Aboriginal
students from local public primary schools and
Mullum High. Thanks to Mel Currie from
Brunswick Heads Public School for ensuring the
Muggi program happened.
Thanks to Uncle Frank for bush tucker, Mark
Cora for art and Dean Rotimer for art, history
and culture. Special thanks to Davina and all the
Ocean Shores PS staff who made the day such a
success. Well done to our student leaders who
did such an inspiring job running the assembly!
Congratulations to our NAIDOC award
winners:
Award for culture
Ashton Schneider (infants)
Beau Treveton (primary)
Stage awards
Felix Arnold-Freire (Infants)
Essie Gleeson-Weir (Infants)
Lava Kannan (Infants)
Delilah Gleeson-Weir (primary)
Edie Oliver (primary)
Tilly Shabtai (primary)
Mylee Farrell (primary)
Education Week – Open Classrooms
Don’t forget families and friends are invited to
join us in classrooms next Wednesday between
9.30am and 11am as we celebrate Public
Education Week. You are then welcome to join
us for morning tea.
Visible Learning – Learning
Dispositions
Rather than being skills or knowledge,
dispositions are how we would respond, or
voluntary habits. So when we talk about
learning dispositions, we are talking about what
we most value in our learners. Over the next
few months the school will be trying to identify
the learning dispositions we most value.
See more on learning dispositions on the next
page.
Fairy Garden
One of our school’s features and attractions is
the Fairy Garden in the infants area. Families
are reminded that this is a passive playspace
with lots of small, fragile items. Please be sure
to supervise closely. Parents of toddlers please
be especially vigilant: there are many possible
choke hazards and children must be closely
supervised when in the garden.
Athletics
Congratulations to the students who have
qualified for the District Carnival – see the list
on the next page.
Martin Gill
Principal
166 Shara Boulevarde, Ocean Shores 2483 P: (02) 6680 2766 F: (02) 66802764
E: [email protected] W: www.oceanshore-p.schools.nsw.gov.au
Coming Up!
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
Choir & band @ SAE Institute
Fri 9 Aug
Headlands District athletics
carnival
Sun 11 Aug
Community celebration -
Waterlily Park 2-5 pm
Mon 12 Aug
Bookclub orders due (online)
International Youth Day
National Science week begins
Creative arts camp begins
Thur 15 Aug
Assembly 12:50pm - 1M &
5/6E
Voting closes - My Community
Project VOTE NOW!!!
Operation Dolphin - week 3
I am responsible. I walk quickly to
the right place and wait quietly.
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Results - School Athletics Carnival
Winning house: Cedar
Age Champions:
12/13 yrs boy champion Zeb Davidson
11 yrs boy champion Archer McCallum
Jnr boys champion Taylor Simpson
12/13 yrs girl champion Laila Davidson
11 years girls champion Maddi Oliss
Jnr girls champion Nadia Moothiang-Holmes
Para athletes Zarian Richards/Oscar Wilson
Headlands District Carnival to be held at Byron Bay Cavanbah Centre on Friday 9th August.
Permission notes have been handed out: please return before the 7th August.
Take a minute to look at some sample learning dis-
positions and the Australian Curriculum’s General
Capabilities (below).
Discuss these as a family, and try to come up with a
small number (between five and eight) which reso-
nate. The list is not exhaustive – feel free to be crea-
tive and come up with your own.
It is a good idea to have a balance between the affec-
tive (social and emotional) and cognitive (conscious
intellectual activity).
It would be fantastic if children could bring their
families’ suggestions into classrooms.
I will provide further information at Tuesday’s P&C
meeting.
Learning Dispositions
Learning Dispositions (Corwin):
Curious Visualises Practises
Independent Perseveres Inquires
Creative Questions Playful
Self-motivated Plans Imaginative
Resilient Revises Disciplined
Self-directed Making links Relating
Self-managing Reasons Thoughtful
Innovative Bravery Reflective
Co-operative Wonders Adaptable
Persistence Critical Relational
Concentration Bold Challenge
Communication Connects Building
Optimism Researches Self-control Ownership
Australian Curriculum – General Capabilities:
Literacy Numeracy ICT capability
Critical/Creative thinking Personal and social competence Ethical Understanding
Intercultural knowledge
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Bundjalung word of the week - week 3
HEAD
Cybersecurity - a parent’s guide There are some security threats aimed specifically at
kids or teens, but most are aimed at any potential
victim, regardless of age.
Sometimes they just involve websites or subjects that
interest a lot of kids, such as fan sites, YouTube, In-
stagram and other media-sharing services.
And, as hard as it sometimes is for adults to know the
difference between a legitimate offer and a scam, it
can be even harder for children who haven’t yet
honed their critical thinking skills.
Kids love videos. So malicious links can turn up
in popular video-sharing sites like YouTube. Ask
your children if they've ever seen links that could
take viewers to inappropriate or illegal content in
other sites and ask them what they do when they
encounter them. If they were familiar with the
scam they probably ignored them but these bogus
links can be cleverly disguised. Ads, too, can either
link kids to content that isn't appropriate or scams
and third-party sites that capture sensitive infor-
mation. Young people need to be wary of "make a
new friend" links, dating sites, and gossipy-
sounding scams that look like invites from friends
or tempt them to "find out who's talking about
you" or "…who has a crush on you."
Kids often use family computers. Since most
kids don’t have credit cards, you might think that
they’re not vulnerable to financial crimes, but if
children share a computer or device with parents,
their online activities can affect all users, including
any online shopping, banking or work parents do
at home (be careful when logging into your work
network from a shared computer). And parents
will want to be aware that, if kids check browser
history, they can be exposed to sites their parents
visit on the family computer.
Kids can be big fans. Like a lot of adults, but
sometimes with even more devotion (or time),
kids and teens follow and chat online about their
favorite celebrities in all kinds of fields. There are
lots of celebrity sites, and the ones operated by
the celebrities themselves or entertainment news
publishers are fine. But kids need to be extra wary
of fan sites that turn up in search results but aren’t
actually run by the celebrities and the people who
cover them. It's not always easy to tell, but at least
they're usually lower down in the search results.
Kids are social. There are social reasons why
kids are hacked. One form of bullying is using a
password a child has shared to break into his or
her social media account and post embarrassing
messages or images or use the account to spread
spam or post links to malicious sites. Teach your
kids not to share passwords, even with their clos-
est buddies, and always to close out of accounts
when they're finished using computers shared with
other people – especially those used in public,
such as at school or public libraries. Browsers and
cookies "remember" passwords all too well unless
you use the browser’s “private” or “incognito”
mode or remember to delete your cookies and
history as we explain at connectsafely.org/security.
Kids’ IDs are valuable to thieves. It may sur-
prise you that kids are sometimes the target of
identity theft – where a criminal gets enough infor-
mation about them (e.g., name, address and social
security number) to apply for credit or commit a
crime in a child’s name. Children are susceptible
because most have perfect credit (they’ve never
borrowed money so they’ve never been late in
paying) and don't find out their identity's been
compromised until much later such as when they
want to apply for student loans or credit cards.
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Community Announcements
BYRON BAY PRIMARY
SCHOOL BASKETBALL
WINTER 2019 - TERM 3
Young Bee's- ( Ages 5-8) Thursdays 3.30
- 4.15pm @ Byron Public School starts
1/08/19
Hoops at The Hive Mini Bee's (Ages 8
-12) Tuesdays 4-5pm @ Cavanbah Centre
starts 30/07/19
Inquiries to www.aussiehoops.com.au
or Ph - 0403580140
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Offer your child the gift of playing a musical instrument
during school hours.
Piano/Keyboard lessons are on offer as well as African
Drum and Dance.
The lessons are Fun and Creative, and taught at the
school during school hours.
Lessons consist of music reading, composition, creativi-
ty, playing by ear and performances.
Email [email protected] or call Joanne
Sloane on 0422562179 to enrol your child now.
All enquiries are welcome
