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25.01.2022 Some things will be different. A message from our Director General

24.01.2022 The children (and staff!!) have enjoyed watching the chicks and ducklings hatching this week.

24.01.2022 Checking in with all our O'Connor Cooperative School Community and beyond. Attached is a useful resource with strategies to support families through the bushfire tragedy. Whilst some of us may not be directly affected, seeing such sadness for so many other people and animals can have a significant impact. Please reach out if you need any support. Stay safe everyone. Take care. Jenny ... https://beyou.edu.au//impact-of-natural-disasters-on-menta See more

23.01.2022 It was so exciting to see the smiling faces of our students as they returned to school today. Great weather for outdoor play and lots of fun in investigations seemed to be the highlights A reminder from ACT Health about adults adhering to social distancing. Let's keep up the great work and not be complacent.

22.01.2022 It's Children's Week! We are off to a great start with badges for the children, Nathan sharing the United Nations Convention on the 'Rights of the Child', a visit from our STEM Superstar Dr Verity Normington, sharing her Geological expertise with the children and a wet weather dance festival at recess. Another great day of fun and learning at The Co-Op

22.01.2022 Join us in making history! We’re calling on the Canberra school community to participate in our journal writing project, Moments in Time. Through the project we hope to capture students’ and families' experiences during this pivotal stage in history. Student voice is a key foundation of the Future of Education Strategy and Director-General, Katy Haire is encouraging you to record your observations, feelings and experiences through this collaborative project. For the next ten ...weeks, Katy will provide a writing prompt to respond to, and the first week's theme of Change is currently live on our page. Here you can read and listen to the featured journal entry from the Director-General herself as well as a local Canberra school teacher. Your words will be greatly appreciated and valued by ACT Education and provide insight for current and future Canberrans. Happy journaling! http://ow.ly/msTm50zsF96

21.01.2022 Indigenous literacy day. Shared reading in the park, on Ngunnawal land. How grateful we are to learn, play and work in this magnificent environment.

21.01.2022 Are you looking for lunch box ideas? Our children enjoy healthy waste free lunches at The Co-op. Great work families.

20.01.2022 The ACT Education Directorate have launched the Home Learning Challenge. Follow the link and see if there is an aspect of 'HOME' you would like to investigate. https://sites.google.com//get-invo/home-learning-challenge

19.01.2022 As we move into online learning it is important for families to discuss how to keep safe online with your children. The e-Safety Commissioner website is an Australian government website that provides many resources to support parents and carers to keep their family safe online. Click on the link below and have a look at the resources they currently have available.

19.01.2022 Another fantastic session of learning in the great outdoors. Thank you to the parents who were able to join us to support our bike riding activity. Our students were amazingly safe, respectful, responsible learners. We all enjoyed our morning in the park.

19.01.2022 The Education Directorate has worked with experts including ACT Health and the Worksafe Commissioner and consulted with a range of stakeholders to prepare clear... advice for schools and school communities on how to respond to air quality issues. You can find our air quality guidelines on our website at https://bit.ly/2UhLwiC.

17.01.2022 PRESCHOOL 2021 If your child turns 4 years old before 30 April 2021 they are eligible for enrolment in an ACT Education Directorate Preschool. Application for Enrolment for the 2021 school year will be available online from 28 April 2020.

17.01.2022 Hey Australia, the International Space Station will be visible this week! It will appear as a bright dot or star, but it will move across the sky. This is a gre...at thing to do with the kids. Especially tonight and tomorrow, 21 and 22 April - it will be bright and early in the evening! There are currently three people on board who went up on 9 April - NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Roscosmos cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner. Be sure to wave to the 3 people a they pass overhead! And as you watch them pass overhead, you can check out the view from the ISS down to Earth as it passes over you: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload Here are the details for the good flyover tomorrow, 22 April: Canberra - 22 April- Starts at 5:56pm moving from NW to SE and will be visible for about 7 minutes, it will be nearly straight above you in the sky. Sydney - 22 April - Starts at 5:56pm moving from WNW to SE and will be visible for nearly 7 minutes. Melbourne - 21 April - Starts at 6:44pm moving from NW to SE and will be visible for over 5 minutes. Brisbane - 22 April - Starts at 5:57pm moving from W to S and will be visible for 5 minutes. Hobart - 21 April - Starts at 6:45pm moving from NW to E and will be visible for 4 and a half minutes. Hobart - 22 April (two great nights for Tassie!) - Starts at 5:58pm moving from NNW to ESE and will be visible for 6 minutes! Adelaide - 21 April - Starts at 6:12pm moving NW to SE and visible for about 6 minutes. Perth - 21 April - Starts at 6:15pm moving NW to SE and visible for nearly 7 minutes. Photos are of Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Hobart (21 April), Hobart (22 April), Adelaide, and Perth

16.01.2022 Happy Father's Day to all the special men in our O'Connor Co-Op Community. We hope you enjoy the weekend and thank you for all that you do to help everyone to learn and grow.

15.01.2022 You will read in the media this morning that the ACT Education Directorate has developed a plan to transition back to face to face teaching. We will be emailing a letter home to all families regarding the details of this plan. Formal notification of the transition will include details of when students will return, using the Directorate’s staggered approach. Until students are back to face to face teaching, online learning will continue. We will email this information as soon as it becomes available. Thanks to all families for their support in ensuring high quality learning can continue during this unprecedented time.

14.01.2022 Lots of fun ideas here.

14.01.2022 The Education Directorate has been working with ACT Health to provide advice to staff and the school community about the recent outbreak of novel coronavirus. A...CT Public Schools will always prioritise the safety of staff and students and act on expert advice from health professionals. We believe that every day of learning matters for every child, and that students should attend school wherever possible. Current advice from the ACT Chief Health Officer is that students should attend school as normal unless they have close contact with a person with a confirmed case of novel coronavirus, or they have returned from the Hubei Province in China within the last 14 days. Students and families who have visited mainland China, other than the Hubei Provence, can attend school from day one next week. Any students from the Hubei Province who are due to attend ACT Public Schools in 2020 will be subject to a 14-day period of isolation at home. This is temporary exclusion for medical reasons. We wish to acknowledge that this is a challenging situation for many, and especially the Chinese Australian community, who are valued members of our school communities. For further information you can find the ACT Health factsheet 'Information for parents of children in schools or childcare - 30 January 2020' at https://bit.ly/3aSQgkF.

13.01.2022 ANZAC Day 2020. The year we remember from our Driveways at Dawn. Perhaps this year having a little more understanding of freedom and gratitude. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We Will Remember Them.

13.01.2022 Not long to go now. We are all getting excited to begin another school year. Preschool and kindergarten classes commence on Monday 3 Feb. Year 1 and 2 return on Tuesday 4 Feb. We have vacancies in each of our K-2 classes.

13.01.2022 Today is National Sorry Day - a day to remember the Stolen Generations and mistreatment of the country's Indigenous peoples, as part of an ongoing process of reconciliation between Indigenous peoples and the non-Indigenous population. Our children listened to the Sorry Day Story by Coral Vass and Dub Leffler and respectfully discussed what it means to be Sorry and how they can be a voice in Reconciliation. We encourage all Australians to reflect on the devastating long term impact of forcibly removing Indigenous children from their parents, communities and Country.

13.01.2022 We are looking forward to welcoming our students back to school for term 3 and hearing what you have all been up to. See you at the gates at 9.00am on Monday.

13.01.2022 There have been fast moving changes today in relation to COVID-19 arrangements with new information being released from the Minister this afternoon. Please be advised that we will provide further information from the Directorate as we work through plans tomorrow. Take care of each other.

11.01.2022 IMPORTANT COVID-19 UPDATE FROM NSW HEALTH: As we return to school for term 3, if you have traveled within NSW in the last two weeks, please see important information below: Self-isolate and get tested immediately: If you have been to any of these locations during the time and date indicated you should:... -immediately self-isolate until 14 days after you were last there -get tested even if you have no symptoms watch for COVID-19 symptoms and get retested should any symptoms recur -even if you get a negative test, you must stay in isolation for 14 days (this is because it can take 14 days before you may show symptoms or test positive). Location and Dates Batemans Bay: Soldiers Club Monday 13 July, Wednesday 15 July to Friday 17 July Campbelltown: Plus Fitness 9am to 10am, Saturday 11 July Casula: Crossroads Hotel Friday 3 July to Friday 10 July Casula: Planet Fitness Saturday 4 July to Friday 10 July Chippendale: Holy Duck! Restaurant 7.15pm to 9.30pm on Friday 10 July Picton: Picton Hotel Saturday 4 July, Sunday 5 July, Thursday 9 July, Friday 10 July Wetherill Park: Thai Rock Restaurant Thursday 9 July, Friday 10 July, Saturday 11 July, Sunday 12 July, Tuesday 14 July If you are unsure of whether you should be attending school due to travel, please stay at home and call the school for advice. Thanks in advance to all of our staff, students, families and the wider school community for keeping everyone safe and helping to stop the spread. Image may contain: 1 person, text that says "HELPUS STAY COVID SAFE"

11.01.2022 Proud moment today at the Children's Week Awards ceremony. Congratulations Nathan, recipient of Significant Support Award, and Susan recipient of the Intergenerational Award and Exceptional Older Person Award. These awards were presented by our Director General

11.01.2022 Children's Week continues. Today the children enjoyed choosing activies across the school in our multi age investigations. Craft, construction, space, woodwork, loose parts, parachute games, sandpit play and singing with Susan were some of the experiences on offer. We also had our outdoor table tennis table delivered and the first of our Table Tennis skills clinics. Another great day of fun and learning at the Co-Op.

09.01.2022 Information from the Education Directorate

09.01.2022 Harmony. Let's all have Harmony! Today we celebrated Harmony Day at The Co-Op. Thanks to the parents who shared their culture from Canada, Indonesia and Kenya. Games, customs, counting, stories, speaking in other languages and cultural dress were all part of the experiences this morning. Whilst we have had to postpone our shared morning tea we all realise how fortunate we are to be part of this wonderful community, respectfully working together to be safe.

09.01.2022 Well done Year 2 on your participation at the swimming carnival today. You were all so supportive of your peers. What a fun day we all enjoyed. Congratulations also to our 5 swimmers who took part in the 50m events. You all demonstrated great perseverance in each of your races.

07.01.2022 Plans have been developed for ACT schools to respond to the potential spread of COVID-19. In line with those plans, and with advice from ACT Health, ACT Public ...Schools are now cancelling the following events across all schools from today: upcoming school or regional/ACT swimming, athletics and other sporting events, large band or other music concerts where there would be large gatherings of students school assemblies parent/teacher nights school open days/nights Local and interstate school excursions, including school camps, are also cancelled. These decisions are not taken lightly but are being made with the best interests of the whole community in mind. To find out more about the impact of COVID-19 on ACT Public Schools, please visit https://bit.ly/2U7RukL. We will continue to update this website as the situation progresses. You can also visit the ACT Health website at https://www.health.act.gov.au/ for the latest information on COVID-19.

06.01.2022 It's a great day to celebrate 100 days of learning in Kindergarten.

06.01.2022 We tried our best to be bright and visible for the National Science week Satellite Selfie this morning. We also had Dr Sophie Lewis, ACT Commusioner for Sustainability and the Environment, come and talk to the children. During middle session we had the first of our multi age science activities. Such a fun and busy day celebrating Science.

05.01.2022 Happy World Teacher's Day to all our amazing staff at The Co-Op. We dream, believe and achieve together. We celebrated doing what we do best - another great day of fun and learning. Bike riding in the park including a reading of Mulga Bill's Bicycle, our table tennis table getting a workout, community singing with Susan and some curious scarecrows made an appearance to finish off Children's Week. We love our school.

05.01.2022 Our students create beautiful artworks. Just another day at The Coop.

05.01.2022 We are all excited to know we will soon be together again at The CoOp. The classrooms are set up a little differently but the care and connections we share are the same. Remember that everyone is here to help and it is ok to feel the way you feel about school returning - excited, nervous, happy, worried. We will focus on being kind to each other as well as our values of being safe, respectful, responsible, learners. There is always someone to talk to! Have a lovely weekend and see you Monday.

05.01.2022 Our Numeracy Ninjas enjoyed outdoor learning today working on their choice of skip counting. Forwards, backwards, by 2s, 10s, on and off the decade. So many ways to learn.

03.01.2022 Our P&C bike sale went well today. More bikes, in varying sizes and conditions available. Adult bikes range from $50 -$150. Kids bikes $30- $60.

01.01.2022 As students and staff return to classrooms, we’ll be taking extra steps to protect our school communities. Listen to the Director General, Katy Haire, as she explains the additional health and hygiene measures for ACT public schools.

01.01.2022 Our students really enjoy starting each day with Investigations. Some of our year 2 students were experimenting with circuits. There was lots of painting, construction, reading and creating happening across the school keeping everyone busy, learning and having fun this morning.

01.01.2022 Tomorrow is Anzac Day a day all Australians come together in remembrance. This year will be different though. Canberrans are staying at home to stop the sprea...d of COVID-19. But we will come together in spirit. Whilst we’re not standing together as we normally would, there are other ways we can commemorate the enduring spirit of those who served our nation: Watch the national commemorative service live from the Australian War Memorial on ABC News from 5am or stream the service live on Facebook and YouTube Stand in your driveway from 5.55am for a minute of silence Learn more about the history of the First World War and Anzac Day Make a paper poppy, assemble a wreath or do some colouring in with the kids Play Two-up with people in your household Write letters to our troops deployed all around the world Bake Anzac biscuits. covid.act.gov.au I 6207 7244 I #StayHomeCBR