The CA Team would like to thank the Transport Coordinators and all drivers for their support at OneSchool Global South.

Details below have come from the recent School Transport Policy from National Support Office – please see full policy further down in the newsletter.

We need your help as students, parents and community members to ensure we are upholding our OneSchool Global Transport Values.

Behaviour
Conduct of all persons is to be in accordance with the School Ethos, and specifically as follows:
Student Behaviour
Student Behaviour will be managed by the Campus Principal. Transport Coordinators need to forward any unsatisfactory reports to the Campus Principal immediately. Required behaviour includes: Punctuality, cooperation, entering and leaving vehicle safely and courteously, wearing uniform and footwear correctly, maintaining no physical contact, respecting others’ property, obeying drivers’ directions, respecting driver and members of the public, tidiness; and refraining from shouting, harassment, bad language, distraction, offensive or suggestive remarks or gestures, fighting, throwing etc.
Student Seating
The Transport Coordinator will allocate each student a seat, using the seat allocation template. It is recommended senior girls must sit at the rear, and senior boys at the front. Junior students must sit in the middle of the van. For the duration of the journey, seating arrangements must be adhered to, and seatbelts used correctly.
Prohibited Items
Musical playing devices, digital equipment including school-owned devices, cameras, mobile phones and smartwatches, newspapers and magazines and any other items banned from the School as identified in the Parent & Student Handbook are not acceptable on school transport. Prohibited items will be confiscated by the driver, and their use reported to the Lead CA.
Playing Music
No music is to be played on any School Transport.

The Invercargill Juniors have been working on our school values and what they mean to us. Here are some posters they have come up with in groups.

This week has been a reasonably relaxed one for Dunedin Campus. On Tuesday the Year 9-13 boys went to Invercargill for the day. The weather has been rather cold as per a Dunedin Autumn. Remember, kids – if you have a cold at the moment it’s best to stay in. Other than that, we thoroughly enjoyed Athletics Day last week, with many of us hitting personal bests. We really appreciated the camaraderie and friendly House competition, too. Keep up the good spirits and have a good, healthy, safe, enjoyable weekend folks!

 In Technology we have just completed a freehand drawing unit and are now starting computer drawing. Here are some examples of work from our South year 9 and 10 students. 

At OSG South, we need to ensure that we are complying with the OSG Policy regarding the serious nature of Students having mobile phones and wearable technology at School and on School transport.

The OneSchool Global Board want to control this area in our Schools, and we need your full support to adhere to the prohibition of any of this equipment:

• Student Phones
• Smartwatches
• Fitness Trackers

This includes all student mobile phones, wearable technology such as Smartwatches, fitness trackers (including Fitbit, Garmin, Tom-tom, Samsung and other brands). This means any device that connects to a network, syncs to the internet, tracks movement, or is not school-owned or supplied.

“No matter what you do, no matter how hard it is, no matter how challenging it is, do it with a smile on your face.”