Dear parents and friends of the school,

Can I extend an enormous thank you to all of the par-

ents and children involved with our weekend tidy up of

the tennis courts! The fencing looks great, the kids had

fun and we all left with full stomachs. Your support is

much appreciated.

Important information – Please read below

In 2012, Oaklands Central School became involved with

two very unique programs. They are:

Empowering Local Schools National Partnerships

National Partnerships – Low SES

The bottom line with each of these initiatives is that we

have received significant funding and decision making

authority beyond that of MOST other public schools.

The money can be used to buy additional teaching re-

sources, reduce class sizes, improve teacher training/

development, and create greater equity for our students

living further away from resources than that of their ur-

ban peers.

A growing body of research shows that building effec-

tive partnerships between parents, families and schools

to support children‘s learning leads to better learning

outcomes. The whole school community benefits when

parental engagement is an integral part of school plan-

ning and improvement processes.

As the leader of Oaklands Central School, I would like

to see a continued strengthening of the already strong

relationships that we share between our school and the

homes of our students. That in mind, I would like to

encourage parents and community members to become

actively involved in the decision making that shapes the

way we educate the students. We will shape a plan to-

gether.

On Friday the 15th of March at 9am we are having the

first of a number of information and planning sessions

to increase student and community engagement. I

strongly encourage everyone to attend. Regardless, all

members of the community will be given the opportuni-

ty to have their say through surveys, focus group discus-

sions, etc. These will occur throughout the remainder of

the term. I appreciate your input and look forward to an

exciting future for our students, our school and our com-

munity.

Warm Regards,

Matthew Jacobson

Principal

Balldale & District Swimming Carnival

On Tuesday 19th February, the students from Oaklands

Central School went to Yarrawonga Swimming pool to

participate in the Balldale District Swimming Carnival.

The successful students at this carnival were.

SCHOOL NEWS

PRINCIPAL’S PERSPECTIVE

Coreen St Oaklands 2646

Ph: 02 6035 4290 Fax: 02 6035 4382 Email: oaklands-c.school@det.nsw.edu.au

URL: www.oaklands-c.schools.nsw.edu.au

Principal: Matthew Jacobson

Oaklands Central School & Oaklands Community Newsletter

Volume 29 No. 3

Wednesday 6th March, 2013

COMING EVENTS:

8th March—Primary Riverina Swimming Carni-

val, Albury

11th March - Secondary Riverina Swimming

Carnival, Leeton

18th March - K-12 Cricket Australia

20th March -Balldale Football/Netball Trials,

Oaklands

29th March - Good Friday (Public Holiday)

1st April - Easter Monday (Public Holiday)

4th-5th April - Drama Camp at Oaklands Central

School

11th April - Official Opening of the Oaklands

Orchid Sculpture & Community Garden 10:30am

12th April - Last Day of Term 1

15th - 30th April - School Holidays

1st May - Students Return, Term 2 commences

PRIMARY CLASSROOM NEWS

Crystal Bateman: Senior Girl Champion, 1st Breast-

stroke, 1st 50m Freestyle and 3rd Backstroke.

Gabrielle Sutcliffe: 2nd Individual Medley, 3rd 100m

Freestyle, 2nd Butterfly & Backstroke.

Xavier Buntin: 2nd Breaststroke, 3rd Backstroke, 3rd

Butterfly and 3rd Individual Medley.

Bethany Moloney: 3rd Individual Medley.

Aaron Sandral: 2nd Breaststroke, 2nd Freestyle and

3rd Individual Medley.

Darcy Owen: 1st 50m Freestyle.

Crystal Bateman, Brooklyn Moloney, Bethany Molo-

ney and Gabrielle Sutcliffe: 2nd Senior Girls 4x50m

Relay.

Aaron Sandral, Jacob Habermann, Wade Bateman

and Darcy Owen: 2nd Junior Boys 4x50m Relay.

Jesse Moloney, Harper Wolter, Jennifer Sandral, Zak

Sartore, Matthew Sutcliffe, Holly Arnold, Stephanie

Munro, Chelcee Doyle, Charlie Sandral, Olive Russell

and Renee Ansell also participate to the best of their

ability.

The carnival was run differently to most years, but was

still a successfully day. We wish good luck and success

to all the students who made it to the next carnival in

Albury.

Gabrielle Sutcliffe & George Sandral

Halfway through Term 1 has students showing good

progress. It was also great to see students do so well at

Zone Swimming, with Allanah Moloney only two

points off being the Junior Secondary champion. Re-

gional swimming will be in Leeton on Monday the 11th

for secondary students.

Mrs Marshall has been very busy planning the Transi-

tion Camp for Years 7 & 8 which will be held in Yarra-

wonga on the 13th and 14th of March. A great range of

activities is planned, ranging from canoeing through to

water slides, putt putt golf and team building activities.

Last week Mr Atkins spent two days in Wagga at the

Secondary Learning Strategy course, which will be im-

plemented across secondary to help students develop

skills in how they approach learning, improving its ef-

fectiveness. I attended on the Thursday since it focused

on implementing the strategies across secondary. Mr

Atkins will have another two two-day blocks in Wagga

later in the year to further develop the skills able to be

utilised.

Students in years 10 and 11 have had the opportunity to

travel to Albury TAFE every Wednesday afternoon and

it has been great to hear how they are going in the Auto-

motive course—both enjoying it and working towards a

nationally recognised accreditation (Certificate II).

With the Digital Education Revolution funding finishing

at the end of the year, the 2013 allocation of laptops is

on a different basis than previous years. This term we

are trialling Year 8 & 9 having laptops in their roll call

rooms charging and ready to use during the day but re-

turning each night. Years 10-12 will continue to be able

to take theirs home so long as they bring them in fully

charged and ready to use each day. We are hopeful that

alternative funding will be available to continue the pro-

gram in some form in 2014 and beyond.

Andrew Glazebrook

Head Teacher Secondary Studies

Head Teacher’s Tout

Just before Christmas last year ,we posted all of our

caps that we had collected. We collected 3269 caps

which gives us a great return of $359.59.

A big thankyou to all those that supported us in our

‗Pauls Collect A Cap‖.

GOOD LUCK !!!

to the Oaklands Junior Cricket Team

this Saturday in the U14s Grand Final for the

Brocklesby and District Cricket Association.

The Grand Final will be played

at Oaklands starting at 8:15am

COMMUNITY NEWS NSW SCHOOL-BASED VACCINATION PROGRAM

Each year NSW Health offers the vaccines recom-mended by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) for adolescents as part of the school-based vaccination program.

In 2013 the following vaccines will be offered:

Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis (Whooping Cough) vaccine for all Year 7 students

Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine will be offered to Year 7 male and female students, and to Year 9 male students, as a 3-dose course over a six-month period (students who commence HPV vac-cination in Year 7 but do not complete the course may be offered catch-up doses at school into Year 8)

Hepatitis B vaccine for all Year 7 students who have never received a course of hepatitis B vaccine when they were a baby

Varicella (chicken pox) vaccine for all Year 7 students who have not previously received varicella vaccine or had chickenpox disease.

Parent Information Kits will be sent home to parents/guardians. To consent to the vaccination of their child, parents/guardians are advised to read all the infor-mation provided, complete the Consent Form and re-turn it to their child’s school. Please ensure that your child eats breakfast on the day of the school vaccina-tion clinic.

Parents/guardians who wish to withdraw their con-sent for any reason may do so by writing to the school Principal. The Procedure for Withdrawal of Consent is available on the NSW Health website at www.health.nsw.gov.au/immunisation.

To improve vaccination completion, students will be opportunistically offered any missed doses throughout the year where possible.

Please note that for HPV vaccine only, parents/guardians must record their Medicare Number (all 10 digits and the 11th number beside the child’s name) on the Consent Form, as this is required to record the student’s information on the National HPV Vaccination Register and, for female students only, link to the Na-tional or State Cervical Screening Program. More information regarding the HPV vaccine can be found at this website www.australia.gov.au/hpv

A Record of Vaccination will be provided to each stu-dent vaccinated at the clinic. Parents/guardians should ensure that this record is kept for future reference and should not assume that their child has been vaccinated if they do not receive this Record of Vaccination.

Amaranth Foundation is a single contact point coordinating medical and social services and support, including compli-mentary therapies , as well as providing professional coun-selling, mentoring and coaching.

The Amaranth Foundation Ac-credited Mental Health Social Worker supports the person and his or her family offering assess-ment of a range of mental health problems including anxiety, de-pression and despair as well as general counselling and help with grief and loss, help is pro-vided to access financial support for the family and care givers. - Grief, Loss & Trauma Coun-selling

- Living with the effect of men-tal health

- Living with or caring for a person with an advanced chronic illness

- Coping with or caring for a person with a terminal illness

- For more information regarding these services, please contact the School Office: 02 6035 4290

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Almost 2 years ago the Oaklands CWA Branch launched an initiative, The Oaklands Community garden project.

The project was to turn the existing unloved overgrown garden which is located on a major intersection of our town to a more functional usable area for the community to enjoy including elements to improve the streetscape and to promote our very own Oaklands Diuris (Oaklands Orchid) a rare indigenous spe-cies discovered in the Oaklands/Urana area, with Oaklands holding the largest known site. Local community members rallied behind our project helping fundraise the money for plants, mulch and a water system for the garden. They then gave their time in a huge working bee that saw the existing garden transformed. Urana Shire Council completed the new area with new footpaths and wheelchair access through the gar-den to the building. Finally seeing our plan come to life stage 1 was complete!

Month’s later stage 2 began with the installation of wonderful garden seating designed to complement the natural flow of ploughed fields in our agricultural area. The seats were designed and fabricated by Wagga artist John Wood and installation completed with the help of some very hard working locals. Local art student Demi Smith created the concept and design for our centre art piece. It included a large Tea Cup and saucer that held 3 intertwining Oaklands Orchid stems and flower, the concept was “CWA nurturing the growth and promotion of our Orchid”. The Orchid Sculpture was proving difficult to fund so once again the small town spirit of Oaklands kicked in and in a matter of weeks locals had band to-gether and bought Demi’s design to life with a 2m tall steel tea cup and saucer framing our rare Oak-lands Orchid. The beautiful Orchid stems and flowers were fabricated by Colin and Cameron Croft from C & R Mainfab

Engineering and the Tea cup & Saucer were fabricated by Lyndon Kerr and Kris Barr KBE Jindera every-

body will agree that the job though tricky has banded together beautifully and looks fantastic!

Just to finish off our sculpture myself and local artist Rebecca Tomlinson completed our art piece giv-ing the Orchids there true colour touches.

The CWA Oaklands would like to thank the above mentioned and everybody else who has given time, parts, plants, machinery etc to help see our project through. This has been a wonderful project to be a part of and wouldn’t have happened without the generosity of our small Community. The CWA would like to take this opportunity to invite the community to attend an open day for our garden on April 11th 10:30am at the Oaklands CWA rooms. This will include The official opening Cer-emony, a guest speaker on the Oaklands Diuris and morning tea. Thank you, Sarah Moloney President CWA Oaklands Branch

Ph: 02 6035 4270 Fax: 02 6035 4284

Andrew Day Ph: 0427354270

14 Webster St, Oaklands 2646

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*Produce

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*Gravel

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Also in Stock 20kg General Purpose Cement

20kg Rapid Set Mix

20kg Garden Lime

Billabong Crows

Under 14’s Football Training

Starts: Thursday 14th March Venue: Urana Football Oval Time: 5pm Sharp

Any enquiries call Bruce Owen

0428 546 903

Bishop Hanna will be visiting the Urana Parish on 4th August, 2013 for Confirmation and First Holy Communion. Anyone interested in receiving these sacraments is en-couraged to contact Par-ish Priest, Fr. Darren Howie on 02 6920 5446 or alternatively Leanne Sandral on 02 6035 6251.

Oaklands Recreation Ground

- Annual Meeting -

When: Sunday 17th March Venue: Oaklands Rec Ground Time: 10am Sharp

This is our Annual Public Meeting So please feel free to attend

John Batten Hon Sec-Treasurer

OAKLANDS RSL BOWLING

CLUB LTD

Working Bee

Saturday 9th March at 8.30am

Our club is a community asset and we

would appreciate all available people to

come along for a general clean up. Win-

dow and verandah cleaning, ground

maintenance etc.

If there are any kids interested in earning

some pocket money by

mowing at the club on a reg-

ular basis, contact: Roo Day

0427 354 270

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1 x Pale Green “Sheridan” bath towel

from the Primary Balldale Zone swimming

carnival at Yarrawonga.

Please contact the office if you have

found this item

The next P & C Meeting is

Monday 18th March

P and C meet on the 3rd Monday of each month at 8pm in the Staff Room.

Everyone welcome.

P & C NOTICE

Kelpie cross Border Collie

Pups

6 WEEKS OLD

Ready to go!!!

Call Russell Moloney Mobile:

0428350211

Home: 60350211

OAKLANDS CENTRAL SCHOOL

ABSENCE NOTE

Name: _______________________________________

Class: _____ Teacher: ____________________________

This student was absent from ___/___/___ to ___/___/___

Due to the following:

Illness

Injury

Medical/Dental Appointment

Family Commitments

Other - give reason _____________________

_______________________________________________

Additional comments _____________________________

_______________________________________________

Signed: _____________________________________

Date: _________

OAKLANDS CENTRAL SCHOOL

ABSENCE NOTE

Name: _______________________________________

Class: _____ Teacher: ____________________________

This student was absent from ___/___/___ to ___/___/___

Due to the following:

Illness

Injury

Medical/Dental Appointment

Family Commitments

Other - give reason _______________________

_______________________________________________

Additional comments _____________________________

_______________________________________________

Signed: _____________________________________

Date: _________

OAKLANDS CENTRAL SCHOOL

SCHOOL CONTRIBUTIONS AND

NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIPTION

Remember these contributions benefit YOUR children and

YOUR community.

NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIPTION:

$13.00 (inc GST)

P & C SUBSCRIPTION:

$5.00 (This covers parents when working for the

P & C, ie working bees, catering).

NEWSLETTER ADVERTISING FEES:

Whole Year: $49.50 (inc GST)

Single Ad: Half Column $ 3.30 (inc GST)

Full Column $ 6.60 (inc GST)

Sporting Bodies and Committees:

$33.00 (inc GST)

School Contributions for 2013 are as follows:

Primary Student:- $30.00

Secondary Student:- $30.00

Maximum per Family

$50.00

and are now payable to the

School Office

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Mobil fuel, Incitec Pivot Fertilizer, Lime,

Gypsum, Grain Cartage.

We stock BP Oils, Century Batteries.

We provide:

Shallow & Deep Soil Tests.

Nitrate testing

Meeting with a trained agronomist

Fertilizer spreading

Hiring of tow spreader

Mechanical & Insurance advice

Grain contracts

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All Bulk Grains

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Wool

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Livestock

OAKLANDS RSL BOWLING

CLUB LTD For The Information of Members and

Guests

THURSDAY NIGHT DRAW

(7:00pm to 9:00pm)

7th March, 2013

$18,400.00

SUNDAY NIGHT DRAW

10th March, 2013

$50.00

OAKLANDS GENERAL STORE

AND LICENCED ELECTRONIC

POST OFFICE

All your electronic billpay.

CBA, NAB, RaboBank Business Banking and

Phone Recharge

Shop Hours

7am—7pm Monday to Thursday

7am—8pm Friday

7am—1pm Saturday

8am—12pm Sunday

Post Office Hours

9am—5pm Monday to Friday

CLOSED Mailsort

CLOSED Saturday and Sunday

ABSOLUTELY NO POST OFFICE BUSINESS

OUTSIDE THESE HOURS

Country Link Rail Agency

Fax & Photocopying services