Orange Grove Primary School

Year 4-7 Sport on Fridays:

WACA Cricket Clinics: Jess Moyes, Cricket Development Officer, will run a series of cricket clinics on Friday mornings with our boys and girls inter-school cricket teams. On Friday 6^th November these teams will compete in the Warrior/Fury Inter-School Cricket Competition held at Harmony Fields.

Dance: Nadia Schimmel, a dance instructor from Peppermint Dance Studio in Maddington will workshop talented dancers from Years 4-7 on Friday mornings for 5 weeks. The final session will be held at Nadia's studio in Maddington. Nadia is an ex-student who is providing this service for free just to give something back to the school community.

Cycling: On Friday mornings, Miss Anderton, will take a group of cyclists and train them in cycling skills and safety. Students who choose to participate in this activity will need to bring their bikes on Fridays. Don't forget your helmet.

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

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The students from the Year 4/5 and 5/6/7 classes participated in an AFL Football Clinic on Wednesday,18 March. The clinic was run by two players from the Perth Demons Football Club and a West Coast Eagles player! The kids learnt a lot of skills and had a terrific time. The players who ran the clinic said our student's behaviour was better than any other school group they have coached this year. Well done Kids!

Mr Wilson

Deputy Principal/PE Teacher

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The Year 5/6/7 and 4/5 classes began the first of three golf clinics on Friday 6th March. Cameron, the coach, attended Go Go Golf clinics when he was at primary school and went on to play golf internationally. Perhaps we have some budding golfers in our senior classes! The students certainly all had a great time and are looking forward to the clinic next week.

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• Maths: Number, Chance and Data, Space and Working Mathematically.
• English: Reading, Writing, Spelling, Speaking and Listening and Viewing
• Technology & Enterprise
• Society & Environment: Culture

• Maths: Measurement and Working Mathematically
• Science: Earth and Beyond
• Health: Self Management Skills
• Physical Education: Softcrosse (Lacrosse)

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Welcome back to the final term of 2008. There are a number of activities occurring in the 5/6/7 class over the next ten weeks and we hope to end the school year on a positive note.

This term, our theme is 'Change', with a particular focus on Australian history and the changes that have occurred throughout time. As a component of this terms work we will be watching and analysing a number of different films to develop the children's critical literacy skills. This will help them to become a critical thinker. In Health, we will be continuing the theme of "Change" by looking at the physical, social and emotional changes that occur from birth through adolescence and into adulthood. 

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Welcome to the 2008 school year everyone. We have got off to a flying start, especially with the new laptop computers! It was quite mindblowing and very exciting to see every student face to face with their own computer and fully engaged with the programmes the were using. Miss Anderton and I are looking forward to working with the Year 5/6/7 class this year and I will be teaching physical education from Years 1-7 as well. We hope the students all have a productive and successful year and look forward to catching up with the parents soon.

Mr Wilson

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Dear Students, Parents and CareGivers,

Welcome to Term 4, 2007. This is the last school term in primary school for our Year 7 students and an important term for consolidating their learning before they progress to secondary school.

The Year 7 Graduation Lunch will be held at The Esplanade Hotel, Fremantle, on Monday 10 December.

This term the students will be involved in the following activities;

*Art-there will be two art sessions each week. One of these sessions replaces the Italian lesson as our Italian teacher is no longer working at our school.

*Science-in keeping with the theme of Energy and Change, we will be studying recycling. The students will research materials that can be recycled, make a product from recycled materials and design a TV advertisement to promote their product. We will video the best advertisements for viewing later this term.

Physical Education-the students will participate in a multi-sports programme. I will negotiate the sports to be played with the students.

In English- this term we will be exploring components of the Viewing strand. Viewing focuses on developing the student’s critical literacy skills. Another aspect of English that we will be focusing on this term will be writing conventions and punctuation.

In Technology & Enterprise- we will be exploring the different systems that exist in our world, from basic human systems to systems that exist within our community.

The students should be congratulated on the outstanding research into different types of resources in Society & Environment last term. The students all chose different methods of presenting their research; however, all were completed to a very high standard. Keep an eye out on the website for the SOSE projects on Resources- they will be in the form of Podcasts and PowerPoint Presentations.

A special congratulations to Jessica S who has been accepted into Kalamunda SHS on an art scholarship-a great achievement. Well done Jess!

It is the final term of the year and the year 6/7 students are the leaders and role models of OGPS, it is essential that the behaviour of our class is impeccable, as the students in younger years look to the older ones for appropriate behaviour at this stage of the year.

Rebecca Anderton & Greg Wilson

Year 6/7 Teachers

15^th October 2007

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Our Year 6/7 students had a great time at camp at the end of Term 1. The accommodation was beautiful. Point Walter is an excellent site.

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