Archive | December 2013

Farewell 2013!

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What a year 2013 has been! Below is a collection of photos (not previously uploaded to the blog) from different events throughout the year, plus a few fun ones too. Thanks to all the students and families for making this year so enjoyable. To all the students moving onto high school, we will miss you but remember you can always come back and visit. And to all our year 5s, have a safe and relaxing holiday ready for a terrific 2014!

Student Leaders

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Congratulations to Rory from the OC who was voted as our School Captain for 2014! We know he will do an amazing job as a school leader and wish him all the best. Well done also to Ethan, Eva and Demaris who are our 2014 Vice Captains.

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Captain Rory!

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Summer Reading!

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One of the best things about the long summer holiday is having time to relax and lose yourself in a good book. The OC have put together a collection of their favourite books, series and authors to share for those looking for some inspiration these holidays. Happy reading!

  • Ruby Redford
  • Deltora Quest
  • Harry Potter series
  • Skullduggery Pleasant
  • Tomorrow When the War Began
  • The Book Thief
  • The Messenger
  • Once, Then, Now, After series
  • City of bones series
  • Virals
  • Gone
  • The Magical Detective Agencies
  • Holes
  • Indian in the Cupboard
  • The Hunger Games

Below is a link to the School A-Z website which has also recently

published a list of great books to ignite summer reading.

Summer Reading

 

Oz-Tag

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Today our students went to Islington Oval to compete against Islington Public School in a game of Oz-Tag as part of our Callaghan Cluster Schools partnership.

All the training and hard work the Tighes Hill Tigers put in over the past few weeks certainly paid off as we were the victorious team today with a decisive win! Excellent sportsmanship was displayed throughout the match and a great job by Ethan C who was today’s referee. Thank you to Islington for the great match!

Year 6 Farewell

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Well done to our students who attended the Year 6 Farewell last night. A great night was had by all as you can see from the great variety of photos below. Enjoy!

A big thank you to all the parents and staff who helped with food and set up. You’re amazing!

Principal’s Personal Best

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Congratulations to the many students from the OC who were award recipients at yesterday’s epic Principal’s Personal Best assembly.

Year 6 Debaters - Mitch, Heather, Allan and Chris

Year 6 Debaters – Mitch, Heather, Allan and Chris

Year 5 Debaters- Amy, Dayna and Eva

Year 5 Debaters- Amy, Dayna and Eva

SRC - Chris, Callum, Allan, Mitch, Heather and Demaris

SRC – Chris, Callum, Allan, Mitch, Heather and Demaris

Star Struck - Eva, Katie, Sam, Heather, Jasmine and Demaris

Star Struck – Eva, Katie, Sam, Heather, Jasmine and Demaris

Library Monitors- Eva, Amy and Dayna

Library Monitors- Eva, Amy and Dayna

Class Awards - Mitch, Eva and Sam. PPB - Amy

Class Awards – Mitch, Eva and Sam. PPB – Amy

Miss Beker's Term 4 Library Award - Heather

Miss Beker’s Term 4 Library Award – Heather

Mrs Bowman's Term 4 Science Award - Allan for being a programming perfectionist.

Mrs Bowman’s Term 4 Science Award – Allan for being a programming perfectionist.

Peer Tutoring Award - Rory

Peer Tutoring Award – Rory

 

Amazing Maths!

Today the OC received a visit from our class mathematician Dr Jarad Martin.

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Dr Jarad taught our students about solving Fermi problems, named after physicist Enrico Fermi. Fermi problems are all about estimation and  involve making justified guesses about quantities that seem impossible to compute given limited information.

Dr Jarad also told students about the Drake Equation which is a probabilistic argument used to estimate the number of active, communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy. Click on the link to watch a fun animation about how the Drake Equation works.

Drake Equation