Archive | November 2018

Maths Superstars!

Nov20

Congratulations to all students in the OC for their outstanding effort and hard work during the APSMO Maths Olympiads and Maths Games programs these past 2 terms. This year there were over 35,000 participants across Australasia, and our class received a High Achievement award for scoring in the top 25% of all teams. These challenging programs require a high level of application and problem solving skills and students should be very proud of their fantastic results.


Maths Games
Equal 1st Place: Norah, Ellen, Amie and Hamish Mo (all top 2%)
Special mentions to Coco (top 2%); Oliver, Raquel, Dexter, Julian, Luisa, Chelsea, Callum, Jules & Will (top 10%); Emma, Grayson, Edie, Mika, Noah (top 20%); Henry, Annabelle, Fin & Hamish Ma (top 25%)

Maths Olympiads
1st Place: Coco (top 2%), Equal 2nd Place: Raquel, Ellen & Amie (top 10%)
Special mentions to Emma, Norah & Julian (top 10%); Hamish Mo, Jules (top 20%); Noah & Grayson (top 25%)

Well done to Julian for receiving this year’s Special Achievement/ Encouragement Award for his outstanding effort and improvement during the program.

OC Mannequin Challenge

Nov19

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our assembly today where we shared our mannequin challenge video. We had lots of fun making it and thought it would be a humorous way to celebrate the end of the year. Enjoy!

CEP Digital Media Festival: Thursday 29th November!

Nov18

This year’s CEP Digital Media Festival is just over a week away! Make sure you purchase your tickets, on sale before school at the silver seats. $5 each or $10 for a family of 4. Students who starred in our film have received VIP passes to the event. Come along a support our school and enjoy the premiere of our amazing film!

Year 6: Tie Dying

Nov18

Just a reminder for all our Year 6 students: Jane is organising a wonderful end of year opportunity for Year 6 – tie-dying in the Art Cave!

Students who wish to participate are asked to bring in a washed white cotton t-shirt (no polycotton). Students have the option to bring in an item besides a t-shirt eg. socks but it must also be cotton or the tie-dye will not work (no jumpers or caps).

Please ensure you bring in your cotton item clearly labelled with your name ASAP!

What’s happening in Week 6!

Nov18

Monday 19th November

-Assembly 11.40am hosted by the OC

-Creative Writing Workshops 8am

-Robo Club after school

Tuesday 20th November

-Scripture/Ethics

Wednesday 21st November

-Dr Jarad visit

-Senior Choir 8.15am

Thursday 22nd November

-Year 5 Leadership session 2

-Code Club 3pm

Friday 23rd November

-OC 2019 transition visit 9.30am-12.30pm

Statistics Terrific!

Nov17

This term students have worked hard on a major maths project for the Statistical Society of Australia’s National Schools Poster Competition. This project involved students working in teams to create an informative poster presentation based on the collection and interpretation of data towards addressing a practical research question. Students began by brainstorming a topic of interest, then formulated a hypothesis to address. Some groups created surveys while others collected data or conducted tests. When the data collection was complete, students used Excel to analyse their data and report their findings. Well done everyone, it has been a tremendous amount of work and I’m very proud of your efforts! A special thank you to Dr Elena Prieto-Rodriguez from the University of Newcastle for being our mentor for this project.

Coco & Norah

Emma, Chelsea, Edie & Mika

Callum & Rowan

Annabelle

Fin & Julian

Sam & Hamish

Luisa, Amira, Amie, Ellen

Henry, Hamish, Oliver & Kynan

Dexter & Noah

Will, Grayson & Jules

Maths Stars!

Nov12

Congratulations to everyone who took part in this year’s Australian Maths Competition. There were hundreds of thousands of entrants across the country who participated in this challenging problem solving event. Well done!

Certificate of Proficiency: Chelsea, Amie, Edie, Noah, Dexter, Zali, Julian, Hamish Ma, Callum, Annabelle & Rowan

Credit: Will (top 40%), Hamish Mo (top 33%), Fin (top 52%), Grayson (top 42%), Emma (top 40%), Coco (top 32%), Kynan (top 40%) & Henry (top 30%)

Distinction: Ellen (top 19%), Oliver (top 18%), Norah (top 13%) and Raquel (top 6%)

Best in School: Raquel – for our school’s highest standardised score.