Parent helpers needed!

Good evening parents,

With the Mission Markets approaching quickly, I am seeking a few parent volunteers to help make up our lucky dip bags this Wednesday the 10th of August. The children have Library from 2.15 so I was hoping to have at least 4 volunteers to help make bags until home time at 3.05pm.

If anyone is able to help, please let me know in the morning or email me.

Thank you for your ongoing support!

Miss Prowse

Early Childhood Wildlife Excursion

Today the people from West Oz Wildlife  came to Our Lady of the Cape and gave us an experience we would not forget! We were very excited to experience some Australian animals and find out some very interesting facts about them.

Both of the presenters were very knowledgeable and engaging and we learnt a lot of facts about where each animal lived, what they ate and how we could protect them in the wild. We met a Koala called Juda, a Dingo called Yapper, a Lizard called Bobby and a Snake called Molly.

The children were so interested in each animal and were even brave enough to have a snake around their neck! I was definitely not as brave at them!

Here are some photos of our incursion below.

Juda was such a soft and furry Koala and the children loved it when he looked at them!

Yapper was a very friendly Dingo and he loved his back being stroked. 

The children being very brave holding the snake!

Having a feel of Bobby the bobtail lizard. His skin was very rough!

The children loved our Australian animal incursion!

Miss Prowse

Week 3 Merit Award Winners

Congratulations to this weeks Merit Award winners Jacob and Sullivan! You are both Year One super stars!

Miss Prowse

Think Mental Math Books

Good afternoon parents,

Thank you to all those people who handed in their Think Mentals book last Friday. The children are doing a great job at completing the two units for the fortnight. Over the next two weeks could you please assist your child in completing unit 7 and 8 and hand it back into class by next Friday 12th of August. 

Thank you to all those parents who are giving instant feedback by correcting their children's work. This will be extremely beneficial to developing your chid's mathematical understanding and help them to learn from their errors.

If you have any questions or queries, please don't hesitate to email me.

Miss Prowse

Year One Family Mass

Thank you to all of those people that attended the Year One family Mass. The children were extremely reverent and respectful throughout the mass and sung beautifully.

Thank you to all of those children who had jobs throughout the Mass and a big thank you to you, the lovely parents for bringing your children along to share this special Mass.

 Thank you to Mrs. Meyer, Mrs. Horrocks and Mr. Torrese for the wonderful music throughout the night and from all accounts, I have been told the pizza was delicious!

Miss Prowse

Week 1 and 2 Merit Award winners

Congratulations to Max and Dior, our week 1 Merit Award winners and Sophie and Holly G, our week 2 Merit Award winners.

You are all Year One super Stars!

Miss Prowse

We are officially 100 days smarter!!

Today we celebrated the 100th Day of School and I can certainly say the whole class had a wonderful day! We participated in a variety of 'One hundred' activities throughout the day and the children had lots of fun reflecting on all of the things they had learnt throughout the year.

We said we learnt things such as:
- Skip counting in 2's,5's and 10's
- How to read a chapter book
- How to write a whole page of writing
- Use full stops and capital letters
...even how to sit on the mat nicely!

In the next 100 days we said we would like to learn how to...
- Do 'Read to self' for 15 minutes
- Write six pages of writing
-  Do a handstand for 30 seconds
-  Skip count in 3's
( and one of my favourites) - Do a fully cool back flip and land on my feet.

We participated in a variety of 100 activities including:
- Write 100 words on a piece of paper
- Build a sculpture using 100 cups
- Write all the way to 100 in chalk
- Write 100 rhyming words
- Build a structure out of 100 pieces of lego.

Here are some pictures of our '100 Day' activities!

After our activities it was time for our delicious shared lunch. We LOVED tasting all the delicious food and there were many happy faces when the sweets came out! Both classes were full to the brim at the end of lunch and enjoyed having a play after the wonderful feed.

We absolutely loved celebrating our 100 Days of School and we have to say a BIG thank you to all the Mum's and Dad's who cooked and made some delicious food!

Congratulations on getting your children through 100 days of school!

Miss Prowse