Orange Grove Primary School

Andy Griffiths is Australia's top-selling children's author. He has written some of the country's most loved children's books, including Just Crazy, the Day My Bum Went Psycho, the Schooling Around series and the Bad Book.

The Year 4 / 5 class had been reading some of Andy's books, so we contacted him to see whether he would be willing to be interviewed by the students. Andy kindly obliged, taking part in a telephone interview from his home state of Victoria.

Andy shares a number of amusing anecdotes about how he became a writer and where his inspiration comes from. You can listen to a recording of the interview in Episode 21 of our school podcast, Podkids Australia.

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Orange Grove Primary was recently the subject of a speech in Federal Parliament. Our local member, Ms Sharryn Jackson, discussed our school's laptop program and described it as an "extraordinary achievement".

For more information, read the full transcript of Ms Jackson's speech or read about other occasions when our school has been mentioned in the nation's capital.

(Picture courtesy of Chad Dunbar, used under Creative Commons licence).

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On the 6th,7th,8th May the students from Years 6& 7 went on a camp to Point Walter.They students experienced a range of team building and challenging activities. The activities included orienteering, canoeing, rafting, fying fox, archery and mountain bike riding. We were very impressed with the students willinglness to 'have a go' and the way they worked as a team to overcome challenging situations.

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Mat from the Royal Life Saving Society recently ran a two hour workshop on basic first aid with the Year 5/6/7 class. The students learnt DRABCD as well as treatment and bandaging of various wounds. The session was very informative and will hopefully arm the students with the skills to cope with many first aid situations.

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Jemma Armstrong who competed in So You Think You Can Dance (Australia) and achieved top 10 status has been teaching dance to the Year 4/5 and Year 5/6/7 classes. The students have thoroughly enjoyed the dance lessons and have made sensational progress in their dance skills-we have some great movers!!

Our thanks to Jemma for sharing her dance expertise and really engaging the students.

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