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Orchard Park Primary School

Locality: Officer, Victoria, Australia

Address: 291 Pink Hill Blvd 3809 Officer, VIC, Australia

Website: go.vic.gov.au/9qBiFu

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25.01.2022 I’m excited to start this new school and create a fantastic learning experience for students in the community. Introducing Nathan Jagoe, the establishing prin...cipal of Orchard Park Primary School. Nathan is looking forward to working alongside the community as he continues getting your new school ready to open for Term 1 next year. Find out more about this new school on our website https://go.vic.gov.au/wGoJ7x See more

24.01.2022 Prep Transition! With the easing of restrictions, we are thrilled to be able to offer our 2021 Prep students the opportunity to have their very first transition session on-site here at Orchard Park Primary School! This will provide our students with a chance to explore our wonderful facilities and begin familiarising themselves with their school in preparation for next year. We ask that all parents please book their child in to one of the offered time slots through the links provided in the email. Unfortunately, these sessions are only available to the 2021 Prep students at this point. We hope to be able to have our Year 1 -6 students onsite soon. If you have any questions, please send a direct message through Facebook.

22.01.2022 And just like that, our staff grew from 2 to 3!!! Please join me in welcoming Danny Forster as our inaugural Assistant Principal. Danny comes to us with with significant expertise and experience in leading and implementing a broad range of whole school initiatives. He is going to be an incredible asset for our school. Danny will be joining the Timbertop team from the beginning of Term 4 as we continue to prepare to open our doors for the beginning of the 2021 school year. Bel...ow is a brief message from Danny introducing himself. My name is Danny Forster and I am incredibly excited to be joining Timbertop Primary (interim name) as an Assistant Principal. I am coming from Pakenham Springs Primary School, where I have worked since 2013. During my time at Pakenham Springs I have filled various roles, including the last three years as Assistant Principal. I bring a strong understanding, among other things, of the Professional Learning Community framework, and look forward to bringing this to Timbertop. I am incredibly excited for the opportunity to build a positive, vibrant, dynamic and student-centred learning environment at Timbertop, that provides opportunities for all students to thrive. I look forward to getting to know all of our community members in coming months.

22.01.2022 Another day, another exciting announcement to share.... We are thrilled to let everyone know that in 2021 we will be attending Woorabinda Camp as a whole school!!! Set in beautiful bushland on the shores of Lake Narracan in the Latrobe Valley, Woorabinda School Camp offers a unique camping experience for all students who attend. The finer details will be shared with all families early next year but our initial plans involve our Prep-2 students attending for a day excursion, our 3-4 students will come up for an overnight camp experience and our 5-6 students will stay for 2 nights!! We have a confirmed booking for Term 3 and after many of our students missed out on camp experiences in 2020, this is an event that everyone can look forward to. :)

21.01.2022 Timbertop (interim name) Primary School, would like to invite all prospective families to come along and find out more about what is happening in the lead up to the schools opening in 2021. If you would like to come along to one of the info sessions which are running via Zoom next week, please fill out an expression of interest form via the link: https://forms.gle/7UrSvVEn5YnzCXQs7

20.01.2022 Timbertop (interim name) Primary School is on the recruitment drive once more! We currently have 5 classroom teacher positions (3 X Generalist and 2 X Graduate) advertised through Recruitment Online. We also have a PE/STEM Full Time Specialist teaching position advertised. For interested applicants, we will be running Zoom Information Sessions this Thursday afternoon. You can register for these sessions through the link in the advertised positions on Recruitment Online.

20.01.2022 To all of our families who are looking for some positive ways to break up the day of their children, check out GEM TV!! GEM TV is presented by Martin Heppell, one of the presenters from The Resilience Project. The daily videos are a great way to support our children in developing GEM (Gratitude, Empathy, Mindfulness) practices. Check out the preview below. Have a great week everyone :)

18.01.2022 We are thrilled to announce that our school uniform is going to be available for purchase from PSW’s Officer store from Monday December 14th. Uniform bookings can now be made through PSW. All students joining Orchard Park Primary School in 2021 will receive their bookbag free of charge! These will be distributed to students at the beginning of the school year and do not need to be ordered through PSW. We thank George, Steph and the team at PSW for this generous donation as a ...way of celebrating our first year. A number of families have been asking about footwear. The Uniform Policy and expectation for all students is that they will wear black shoes as part of their uniform. These can be either leather shoes or runners. They must however be predominantly black. If families have any further questions around the uniform, please do not hesitate to contact us directly through our Facebook Messenger.

15.01.2022 What an unbelievably awesome day we have had at Orchard Park Primary School today!!! It was so wonderful to be able to welcome some of our 2021 Prep students on-site in small groups as they began their transition to primary school. They all did such a brilliant job and we can't wait to have them back on-site very soon :)

14.01.2022 More amazing news..... The most recent Operations Guidelines from the department has given the green light for our whole school transition day to go ahead on December 8th!! This will mean that EVERY student beginning at Orchard Park Primary School in 2021 will be able to attend the day to meet their classroom teacher and their classmates as well as familiarise themselves with all of our school facilities. The other great news we have received is that we can begin taking scho...ol tours for our parents!!! Woo hoo!!! We will still need to adhere to COVID safe plans and we are currently finalising all of these plans. More information about school tours and the specific details of our transition day will be distributed to all families in the next couple of days. We are so thrilled that we can start to share our beautiful school with all members of our whole school community. What a great week it has been :)

14.01.2022 We are pleased to announce the appointment of Jessica Watt, the newest member of the Orchard Park Primary School Team. Jessica will be working in Administration and brings with her a wealth of experience. Below is a brief message from Jess introducing herself. Hi, my name is Jessica Watt and I am thrilled to be joining the team at Orchard Park Primary School as an Administrative Assistant. You will find me in the front office, so please do come and say hello! I feel very privileged to be able to assist with the growth of this school over the coming years. I look forward to learning about the local community and I am so excited to meet all of our new students and their families. I can’t wait to see all of your smiling faces in 2021!

14.01.2022 It's official....we have a school name!!! We are thrilled to inform our community that Harriet Shing, Victorian ALP MP for Eastern Victoria Region has announced that our school name will be Orchard Park Primary School. The announcement of our school name will allow for a whole range of tasks such as the logo design, finalising our school uniform and a heap of technical tasks to now progress. Exciting times ahead :)

13.01.2022 Please join me in welcoming Sophie Pike to our school community as our very first Business Manager. Sophie joins us with a wealth of experience in being a part of the administration team which opened Barton Primary School in 2017. Below is a little message from Sophie. Hi my name is Sophie Pike and I am excited to be part of the Timbertop PS (interim name) Community as Business Manager. It is a privilege to work within a school alongside highly motivated colleagues and have the opportunity to see this new school grow in the coming years. I look forward to meeting all the new students and families and helping to establish a supportive community that fosters student learning.

13.01.2022 We are pleased to announce that we will be conducting Early Years Evaluations this year, with our incoming cohort of Prep students to gain a really comprehensive snapshot of their developmental progress and needs. Please see the video attached to learn more about the purpose of the Early Years Evaluation, as well as how and when they will run. All 2021 Prep enrolments who have returned their enrolment paperwork will receive an email regarding the booking process. If you hav...e any questions, please send a private message through our Facebook page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsyMnw8qk-4 See more

12.01.2022 It's time for a sneak peak at our school uniform!!! Check out this pic which shows some of the pieces to our uniform. In the very near future we will post pictures showing the entire range. Tomorrow we will be providing families an opportunity to vote on our hat colour and design, as well as our school bag design. We hope you love it as much as we do.

12.01.2022 We have begun to engage with Cardinia Shire around where our school crossings will be located for the the beginning of the 2021 school year. We feel it is incredibly important that we seek the perspectives of our families and wider community about where you feel are the most important locations for school crossings are. I invite all families and members of our community to complete the online survey to have your voice considered on this very important matter. Please follow the link below: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KLHPCB9

11.01.2022 NAIDOC Week, held from 8th-15th November, celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NAIDOC is celebrated not only in Indigenous communities, but by Australians from all walks of life. The week is a great opportunity to participate in a range of activities and to support your local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. We hope our school community members have opportunities throughout this week to celebrate and recognise the incredible contributions that our Indigenous community bring to us all. We look forward in future years to being able to celebrate NAIDOC Week with our whole school community.

10.01.2022 We hope all of our families and wider community had a wonderful weekend. :) It is so exciting to see the progress of the road works connecting Pink Hill Boulevard outside the front of the school. Works are moving ahead incredibly well, with this work projected to be completed in time for the beginning of the school year. To our parents of 2021 Prep students, don't forget to book in for your small group transition sessions that are happening tomorrow and Wednesday. This can be done through the email that was sent out last week. If you are having any difficulties in registering for a session, please don't hesitate to contact us through a message on Facebook.

09.01.2022 A question we are being asked by many prospective families is, Will the school be ready to open at the beginning of the 2021 school year? The answer to this question is a resounding YES!! As you can see from these recent pics, the school is progressing extremely well and is well and truly on track for the keys to be handed over on November 30th. This will provide us with plenty of time to be ready for the beginning of the 2021 school year. Don’t forget if you have any questions about anything, you can message through the Facebook page.

07.01.2022 We are pleased to announce that we will be welcoming two Learning Specialists to the Timbertop team. Both Alana & Kayla bring a wealth of knowledge and enthusiasm and we cannot wait for them to start at the beginning of the 2021 school year. Welcome to the team! Please see below a little message from Kayla. Hi my name is Kayla Campbell and I am very excited to be joining the Timbertop (interim name) team. I have been at Koo Wee Rup Primary school over the past three years and have spent the last year as a Learning Specialist. I am extremely grateful and excited to have the opportunity to work with my colleagues at Timbertop to build a positive and safe environment where students are at the centre of everything we do. I am looking forward to getting to know the community and working alongside them in the future.

05.01.2022 Hello to our Orchard Park Primary School Community, At Orchard Park, in 2021 and beyond, we are planning to have a house system in which all students belong to a house. Students will represent their houses in whole-school events such as cross-country or athletics days and earn points towards their houses through their learning actions daily. We are seeking suggestions from our community regarding possible house names. We are wondering whether there have been some historical f...igures of note in the area, responsible for developing Officer as a township or farming the land in the Timbertop estate. We are also open to different suggestions too, outside of historical figures if people would like to put forth any ideas they may have. Please follow the link below to a google document in which community members can share their thoughts. https://forms.gle/UWPrASsKK7xYuBxs6

04.01.2022 We would like to share with you all Orchard Park Primary School’s complete Uniform Collection. With our logo now on the uniform, we think it looks amazing! Our uniform will be available for purchase through PSW later this year. Information regarding when exactly the uniform will be available for purchase and price lists, will be posted in the coming weeks.

02.01.2022 Just a reminder to all of our current and prospective families that we are running a live zoom transition session from 4:30pm. See details below.

02.01.2022 Interactive Transition Sessions! We hope that our families enjoyed yesterday’s Transition Session, where all of our 2021 staff were introduced to our students and families. It was so exciting for all of our new staff to meet the families & students that attended! Next week we will be running a number of smaller interactive transition sessions. Those who have returned their enrolment paperwork will have received an email today with the details of these sessions. We look forw...ard to having the students join us for these sessions. If you have any questions or if you did not receive an email regarding these sessions please send a direct message through our Facebook Page.

01.01.2022 We would like to welcome all of our current enrolments & prospective enrolments to join us for our first Transition Session, Wednesday 4th November 2020 at 4:30pm. Session #1 will focus on introducing our 2021 Staff, in addition to some further information about our Transition Program. This session will take place virtually via Zoom, please see details below. Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/7940964572... Meeting ID: 794 096 4572 Passcode: K8UXwf Those you have returned a Pre-enrolment Form & are currently on our mailing list will also receive an invitation to this session via email. See more

01.01.2022 Our recruiting continues!!! We currently have our Office Administration position advertised through Recruitment Online. A more detailed role description can be found at the website. An information session is also being held this coming Monday afternoon through Zoom. To attend this information session, please register your interest through the link which is in the 'Other Information' section of the advertisement on Recruitment Online. Stay tuned for more jobs (in particular teaching positions) to be advertised in the coming weeks.