Orange Grove Primary School

Monday Times WASO Edition (PDF format)

Posted by Ms Harrington at 2:55 PM | Permalink

On Tuesday 7th April all the lower school had a wonderful excursion to Whiteman Park. In the morning we were able to touch lots of different Australian animals and after lunch we watched the farm show. We saw  a sheep being shorn and Hannah's mum was very good at whip cracking.

Posted by Mrs Burette at 1:29 PM | Permalink

On Wednesday 25th March Orange Grove PS took part in the City of Gosnells Cycle to School event. This is a yearly event designed to encourage families towards a healthier lifestyle.

Children and families were asked to ride their bikes all or part of the way to school. 

On arrival at school they were treated to a 'Healthy Breakfast'.  Thanks to the P&C and school canteen for preparing the breakfast food and Rachel, our school nurse, parents and staff who helped serve.

Posted by Mrs Dickens at 2:01 PM | Permalink

The Year 1/2 class has been learning about fractions in Maths.  We walked through our fruit and vegetable garden and picked ripe tomatoes and capsicums. Then we cut them into halves, quarters and even eighths.  We found out that two halves make a whole and four quarters make a whole.  The best part was when we got to eat them at the end!

Posted by Mrs Dickens at 1:54 PM | Permalink

Welcome back to school everyone.  I had a fantastic holiday with my friend, her two children and my son Ben. We first stayed in London for six days then we coach toured to five different European countries. We stayed over two weeks in Scotland and spent Xmas and New Year with my family. It was a wonderful experience.

Posted by Mrs Dickens at 1:09 PM | Permalink

The Year 1/2's sang and acted out "Tie me Kangaroo Down Sport", at their assembly on Friday.  They also each told the audience one interesting fact they had learned when doing their Australian animal project.

We had a special visitor, Mr Andrew Waddell MLA Member for Forrestfield, who presented the Honour Certificates.

Posted by Mrs Dickens at 9:32 AM | Permalink

Welcome to Term 4. Our wishes  were granted with the glorious sunshine right throughout the holidays.I hope everyone had an opportunity to recharge  their batteries as this term will be extremely busy with swimming lessons,the  Christmas concert and reports .Our initial learning theme this term is "Resources" and all learning areas will be integrated into this theme. For the second half of term, our theme wil be "Christmas in other Lands.'

I encouraged all of the childen to take all of their pencils, etc home at the end of last term so that they could sharpen them and replenish where necessary, ready for the new term.Homework will commence in week one. I will again vary the format so that it does not become tedious. Last term many children visited  the ofice to recieve a Principal's award for  neatly completing their homework and for recording their reading in the diary.Homework should never take more than 10 minutes per day and the children have the whole week to complete it. Many children are already developing time management skills.Well done kids!

Sue Rando

Posted by Mrs Rando at 2:05 PM | Permalink

Hi everyone and welcome back.I spent most of the holidays in Sydney so I am really energised and pleased to be back. I hope that you all had a relaxing and energising holiday too.

This term as a class, we  will brainstorm learning themes of interest and the children can cast a vote for their preference.Literacy, SOSE and other learning areas will be integrated into the theme that gets the most votes.

I would like to thank Miah and her family for looking after Lucy in the holidays and thanks also to Cadence and her family for letting Toffe stay with Sid for the holidays.We are watching Toffee with interest for signs of impending motherhood. 

Reading homework will commence again this week and next week regular homework will be coming home.

By now, you would of have had an opportunity to review your child's report. If you have any queries or concerns I encourage you to make an appointment  and I will be pleased to discuss it with you. I always appreciate your feedback and believe that regular communication between home and school is extremely valuable.

Regards,

Sue Rando

Posted by Mrs Rando at 1:57 PM | Permalink

  On Tuesday, Mrs Sidhu visited the year 1/2 class and talked to the children about the Sikh culture and religion. She showed the children some beautiful Indian hand-made clothing and jewelry such as carmees (tunic top), salwar ( pants) and shawl (shawl). Mrs Sidhu explained that the Sikh religion is based on equality regardless of gender, physical appearance or social/financial standing. We were very interested to see how Gursheer's hair is organised into his "putka" every morning. Sikh people never cut their hair as a symbol of purity. If any other families have links to  other countries or  cultures, we would love to hear from you.

Posted by Mrs Rando at 4:02 PM | Permalink

Posted by Ms Nottle at 1:15 PM | Permalink

This term has just whizzed by. I have been delighted with how conscientiously the children have worked  and how well they have taken responsibility for class routines. We have spent a lot of time building a safe environment whereby the children treat each other with respect, work co-operatively together and value themselves and each other.These positive behaviours have been regularly demonstrated throughout the term.Well done kids! Also, a big thankyou goes to all of the year 1/2 parents. Your regular communication through the diaries, your support of class routines, homework, and  activities has been greatly appreciated.Wishing you all a safe, relaxing and enjoyable Easter holiday.

Posted by Mrs Rando at 6:17 PM | Permalink

Posted by Mrs Rando at 6:29 PM | Permalink

The year 1/2 children have been investigating foods and deciding which foods are GREEN LIGHT (eat plenty), ORANGE LIGHT (eat in moderation) and RED LIGHT ( treats-eat sparingly). They investigated a fruit bar and were very astute in the opinions that they formed.

Fruit bars are not good for you because they do not have much fruit, only 8 percent!!!

 By Lauren

The fruit bar is not fruit full!

By Mathew

Fruit bars isn't healthy. It only has a little bit of apple.

By Cadence

We have a fruit bars chart. They trick you. They say it is fruit full but it isn’t. It isn’t healthy; if you eat too much you will get fat. You would have to get fit again.

By Connor

Sometimes they play tricks on us. Fruit bars are not full of fruit. The ingredients are full of disgusting stuff.

By Chloe

Fruit bars put no good ingredients! It is not good for you! I don’t like it! I hate it! You only have it for a treat. It doesn’t taste good! It is not very good for you.

By Noah

They play a trick on us. Fruit bars has not good ingredients. Don’t buy it too much.

 By Rebecca

Fruit bars is fun food but you would still eat it because it is yum. Well I do, would you? It is very yummy.

By Luke

Fruit bars can be bad for you. I can eat it sometimes. I do like fruit bars! Is it good for you? NO! NO!

By Elicia

Fruit bars are not healthy. It has sugar. I do not want to buy it. Even though it is not healthy, it is fun.

By Hannah

Sometimes they play a trick on us. The fruit bar isn’t good for you. You can have it for a treat.

By Celina

Sometimes they play tricks on us. Fruit bars are bad for you. They put lots of sugar in it! Be healthy, don’t eat too much sugar and don’t drink too much cordial and drink lots of water and fruit.

By Ruby.

Fruit bars is a fruit out! Fruit bars is a NO, NO!

By Grace

They fooled us.

Put your rubbish in the bin.

By Lorien

Fruit bars are not good for you.

By Aaron

We tasted the fruit bar. It was not good.

By Miah

Put your rubbish in the bin. The rubbish should be in the bin.  Don’t leave it on the path. It is bad for the environment.

By Taylor

They played a game on us!

By Gursheer

It did not taste good!

By Shayna

We tasted fruit bars and they were bad.

By Ashlee

Fruit bars are not good for you.

By Ronan

Fruit bars are trying to trick us.

By Jake

We all ate some fruit bars.

By Jakob

Fruit bars ingredients don’t taste good. Eat it for a treat.

By Travis

Posted by Mrs Rando at 7:23 PM | Permalink

Hello everybody and welcome to year 1/2. I am delighted to be teaching the year 1/2 class and I am looking forward to meeting you all and guiding your children to achieve their full potential. I value your input and  firmly believe that regular communication is the key to a successful relationship. On Friday I will be sending home a letter outlining classroom policies, plus I will be having a class parent meeting in week 2, to explain classroom practices and answer any questions that you might have. In the meantime please feel free to speak to me if you have any queries or concerns. Thankyou.

Posted by Mrs Rando at 11:49 AM | Permalink