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Orange GroveThe Bush School in the Heart of the City.
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On Sunday the 14th September, the Orange Grove Concert Band performed as part of the Inner West Ensemble Festival at Burwood Girls High School. With our Bandmaster Bob Young, our band played two delightful pieces to an appreciative audience. The children enjoyed themselves immensely, and behaved very professionally, a real credit to our school!
The Orange Grove Uniform Shop has begun selling Boys summer shorts. These are high quality grey gaberdine shorts with 4 pockets plus a zippered coin pocket, in sizes 4 to 12, and they are selling now for $10. Orders can be placed in the P&C Box in the school office, or items can be purchased directly from the Uniform Shop on Wednesday mornings.
To our School Community - A SPECIAL P&C THANK-YOU!We always knew it was going to be a magnificent day for our school, the extraordinary amount of detail and effort that went into the planning stages would surely make for an unforgettable event. In the end it was more magnificent and more extraordinary than the most creative imagination could have envisaged.
The P&C would like to formally thank our exceptional school community for making our 125th Birthday Party an event that will be remembered for a very long time. It was a team effort on the most unprecedented scale, involving every single member of our dedicated and talented school staff, our reliable and flexible school community, and especially our shining, precious children.
The baking was so incredible in both quality and quantity that we fed everyone at the event all day, and then delivered 8 boxes to ‘Just Enough Faith’ to be shared among Sydney’s homeless population that night. The P&C have never organized a cocktail party, especially on the scale of Friday night, but with the help of the organizers and the many people who jumped in to help out throughout the event, it was a raging success - the band even had a great time!
It was a highlight for many to share the day with so many students and teachers from past and present Orange Grove school communities, swapping stories and sharing some history.
Thank-you Orange Grove for being a place where we can all belong and celebrate together so harmoniously!
The P&C Executive.
On Saturday 25th October we will hold our Term Four cake stall, which will be coordinated by Stage 3 (Years 5 & 6). As usual, our stall will be at the ‘Orange Grove Farmers Markets’ held in our school grounds on Saturday mornings. Cake boxes will be available in the week before, and all your baked goodies can be dropped off either on Friday (morning or afternoon), or you can take them directly to the cake stall (before 9.30am) on the Saturday.We will need volunteers to look after the stall on the Saturday, so if you have a free hour or two between 7.15am and 12.30pm, place you name and contact details on the roster attached to the noticeboard in the entrance to Block B.
Date: Saturday 25th October
Where: Orange Grove Farmers Markets
Who: Year 5 and Year 6 - They will need Cake Sellers and Cake Bakers.
Time: 7.15am to 12.30pm
Our sunny weather had the day off last Tuesday, and the rain meant the WSB couldn’t run again! Let’s hope everything is back to normal next term, as our Walking School Bus enters its 3rd year of continuous operation! We will again be starting from the corner of Church & Mary streets, so if you were going to join it between Charles St and there, walk up the hill to the Grocer’s on the corner of Mary St and we can pick you up! We’ll see everyone again in Term Four - have a fantastic holiday!! And don’t forget, if you would like to try Driving or Conducting let one of the operators know!
The WSB will run again in Term Four on Tuesday 14th October.
*** Canteen is open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday ONLY! *** We welcome anyone in the school community with a spare hour between 1-2pm, please drop a note in the P&C Box or let a member of the P&C know if you can help us out!
We have a very special meeting planned for next week, so we hope some additional school community members will be able to make the time to join us in the Library. We have a guest speaker, Michael Spence from the Balmain Campus Transition Team, who will be treating us to an informative presentation titled “Beginning School at Balmain Campus”. Leaving Orange Grove and starting High School is a big step, and Michael is keen to give us an overview of the process from the Balmain Campus perspective! This will be our last P&C Meeting before the AGM in November.
What: September P&C Meeting.
Date: Wednesday September 24th
Where: School Library
Who: Everyone welcome!!
Time: 7pm (Beginning with our guest speaker)
If you haven’t had a chance yet this term to catch the Walking School Bus to school, next week is your last chance! If the weather holds, we will be rolling in to Orange Grove again next Tuesday, starting from the corner of Church & Mary streets. If you were going to join it between Charles St and the new first stop, walk up the hill to the Grocer’s on the corner of Mary St and we can pick you up there! We’ll see everyone next week for the last Term Three trip to Orange Grove! And don’t forget, if you would like to try Driving or Conducting let one of the operators know!
The WSB will run again Tuesday 23rd September.
The school has secured the loan of 13 large mounting boards for the 2008 Art Show, but we will need help getting them to the school (and returning them when the show is over). Please drop a note in the P&C Box, or let Karen or Louise know if you have a vehicle we could use!
What: Transporting thirteen (13) 2m x 2m boards
Date: By 12th September
Where: From Leichhardt & Rozelle
Who: Parent with a Ute or Trailer
Time: School Hours
The 2008 Father’s Day Raffle was drawn last week, with surprises for lucky
Dads going to the following winners!
1st - Amiria (Year 1)
2nd - Nakia (Kindy)
3rd - Will (Kindy)
4th - Riley (Year 2)
5th - Jack (Kindy)
5th - Dillon (Year 1) and Ava (PS)
6th - Emanuel (Year 6), Euan (Year 1) & Marcus (Kindy), Caspar (Kindy), Mitchell (Year 3), Luke (Year 5), and Isabella (Year 1)