Principal’s Report

Ocean Shores Public School

19 June, 2020 Issue 8, Term 2

Ocean Outlook 166 Shara Boulevarde, Ocean Shores 2483 P: (02) 6680 2766 F: (02) 66802764

E: oceanshore-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au W: www.oceanshore-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

Coming Up!

Thu 25 June

Sushi orders due for Friday

Fri 26 June

Year 5 Opportunity Class

2021 applications due

Canteen open

Sushi orders due for Monday

Mon 29 June

Canteen open

Wed 1 July

Reports home

Thu 2 July

NAIDOC celebrations

Fri 3 July

Last day of Term 2

Please be advised that only

students and staff are to

enter the school grounds.

Please contact the school via

phone, email or send a note

with your child if they are late

or leaving early and we will send

them to the front gate.

Operation Dolphin - week 9

I am Inspiring - I ensure the

school environment is clean and

tidy at all times.

Learning Tree Project

Over the next two months the Ocean

Shores School community will be asked for

input into the design of a new outdoor

learning area to replace our beloved

Learning Tree. I would encourage all

families to begin the conversation about

how we can improve our school’s

environment in an affordable, practical and

aesthetically pleasing way. Look out for the

design brief in next week’s

newsletter and prepare to be creative!

Adventure Playspace Thanks!

Thanks to Cade Davidson, Jarrah

Davidson, Adam Thornton, Wayne

Gibbons and Rob Brough who spent last

Saturday working on our adventure

playspace. The slide is now fully installed,

the pipe phone is in and the cargo net has

been sent back to the manufacturer for

re-sizing. We are two working bees away

from a fully-functioning adventure

playspace!

Bravery

Don’t forget to spend some time discussing

the disposition ‘bravery’ – especially in

relation to learning. Sometimes we need to

‘put ourselves out there’ and make

mistakes with our learning in order to

succeed. We all need to show bravery at

times in order to overcome our fears!

Aurora College Opportunity Class

Applications Close 26th June (for Year

5, 2021)

Parents of children in Year 4 are reminded

that the Opportunity Class (OC)

applications for Year 5 2021 close Friday

26th June. Aurora College, a virtual NSW

Selective School, now provides lessons for

students in Years 5 and 6. This enables

rural and remote students to access

lessons for gifted and talented students

remotely while attending their local public

school. For more information go to:

https://www.aurora.nsw.edu.au/learn/

opportunity-class/the-oc-program/

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Aboriginal Education

Our Aboriginal Education team is

continuing to support staff to implement

the NSW Department of Education’s

‘Aboriginal Education Policy’. We are

looking forward to our in-school NAIDOC

celebrations which are scheduled for

Thursday July 2nd, along with our

Indigenous Artworks competition.

School Operations

I would like to thank our parents and

carers for your ongoing support and

understanding in light of the changes to

how we operate during COVID-19. Please

continue to call and email the school if you

need to connect with teachers regarding

your child’s progress.

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Principal Report continued

Current advice is that external use of school

facilities will be able to re-commence in Term 3

provided that relevant physical distancing and

hygiene procedures are in place. Also, therapists

and tutors who support students will be able to

work onsite again. At this point we are not sure

when the school site will be re-opened to

parents and community so are unable to schedule

whole-school events. I will keep the community

informed of progress via the usual channels of

communication.

Canteen

It was wonderful to see the canteen re-open

today thanks to P&C, Nadine and her wonderful

volunteers! Don’t forget canteen will continue to

operate in a trial capacity on Mondays also – with

sushi orders required prior. Given parents are

not permitted on site at this point, it is important

children have their orders ready to drop in when

they arrive to school.

Trial times are as follows:

11.00-11.25am – lunch orders only (snacks not

available for purchase)

12.25-12.50pm – play-break (snacks available for

purchase)

1.50-2.15pm – recess (snacks available for

purchase)

Martin Gill

Principal

Bundjalung word of the week - week 9

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For the next 2 weeks, students will be exploring and

developing the disposition ‘Bravery’

Kids and teens are growing up in a world that is becoming increasingly competitive and comparative. It is easy to for

them – for any of us – to believe that the ones who have found success or happiness are better than, stronger than,

smarter than, or privy to something magical – certain strengths or qualities that are reserved for the lucky few. The

truth is that none of us are born with the ‘success’ gene or the ‘happiness gene’. There are many things that lead to suc-

cess and happiness, but one of the most powerful of these is Bravery.

Behind so many brilliant successes are failures, rejections, and unexpected turns. Often many. Without exception, there

is also bravery or courage. Mountains of bravery. Bravery to keep going, to find a different way, and of course the brav-

ery to try in the first place.

Teaching Kids to Be Brave: Explaining What Courage Is.

For kids and teens, one of the most important things for them to know is that courage doesn’t always feel like courage.

From the outside, courage often looks impressive and powerful and self-assured. Sometimes it might look reckless or

thrilling. From the inside though, it can feel frightening and unpredictable. It can feel like anxiety, or fear, or rolling self-

doubt. Courage can be a trickster like that – it often looks different from the outside to the way you would expect it to

feel on the inside. This is because courage and fear always exist together. It can’t be any other way. If there is no fear,

there is no need for courage.

Courage isn’t about something magical that happens inside us to make us ‘not scared’. It’s about something magical that

happens inside us to make us push through fear, self-doubt, anxiety, and do the things that feel hard or risky or frighten-

ing. Sometimes, courage only has to happen for seconds at a time – just long enough to be brave enough.

There’s something else that kids need to know about courage – you don’t always see the effects of it straight away.

Courage might mean being kind to the new kid in class, trying something new, speaking up for something they believe in.

Often, these things don’t come with fireworks or applause. In fact, they rarely do. The differences they make can take

time to reveal, but when actions are driven by courage, the differences those actions make will always be there, gently

taking shape and changing their very important corners of the world in some way.

Christine Melkie

& the Visible Learning Team

“Courage might mean being kind to the new kid in class,

trying something new, speaking up for something they believe

in.”

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“Bravery is the admirable quality of being able to confront

frightening things. It takes bravery for a knight to battle a

dragon, but it also takes bravery for a shy child to walk

into a new classroom. You can also call bravery courage or

valour. Firefighters are often acknowledged for their

bravery, but everyday people also act with bravery if they

confront their fears.”

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