Parent Information

Year One Prayer Assembly 

Thank you to all the parents who came this morning to join in our prayer assembly. The children did a beautiful job of singing some lovely songs and celebrating the resurrection of Jesus on Easter Sunday.

Anniversary Mass

The OLC 20 year Anniversary is this Friday the 1st of April. We would love it if you would join us for Mass at 10am to celebrate this momentous occasion.  There will be an opportunity for you to purchase a book for our school Library that includes a plaque with your family name. This a wonderful way to capture your child's time at OLC as well as supplying our library with some much loved books.

Sports Uniform 

We have been asked to bring your child in their sports uniform tomorrow (Thursday 31st March) as the OLC mass will require the children to be dressed in full school uniform.

Math and English Book Feedback

Thank you to everyone to returned their children's books today. I have throughly enjoyed reading all of your wonderful feedback from your child's work. I noticed a lot of you had said that they were extremely proud of how hard their child has tried and how much they had learnt! We have lots of fun in Year One filled with ALOT of learning!

Thank you for your ongoing support.

Miss Prowse

Week 7 Merit Award Winners

Congratulations to Grace and Rhavi who were our Week 7 Merit Award winners! You are both super stars!

Miss Prowse

Lots of socks Day and Easter prayer service

Lots of Socks Day

Tomorrow (Monday the 21st March)  is World Down Syndrome Day. We are going to use “Lots of Socks Day” to raise awareness of Down Syndrome and to create conversations about diversity, uniqueness, inclusion and acceptance.

To achieve this we are inviting all students to wear crazy, zany socks on Monday to celebrate the day. Socks of multi-colour, different colours, different lengths, odd socks – anything goes. Why socks? .... All types, shapes, sizes can be unique in their own way, and yet do the same thing. 

Children understand what socks are, how they look and what they are for; and no two socks are the same. This is also the case with people, each person being unique, different and special. 

So please encourage your children to get involved on Monday and wear crazy, zany socks to school to help celebrate world Down Syndrome day. No donation is required, this is simply to raise awareness of Down Syndrome in our community. 

Easter Prayer Service 

On Wednesday the 30th of March, the Year One students will be leading the school in the resurrection of Jesus to conclude our Holy Week celebrations. We would love to have you there to see us sing some wonderful songs and celebrate in this special occasion. The prayer service will begin at 9.00am. 

Thank you for your ongoing support. 

Miss Prowse 

Week 6 Merit Award Winners

Congratulations to our Week 6 merit award winners Max and Lolah! You are both Year One Super Stars!!

Miss Prowse 

Head Lice

A student in our class was found to have head lice last week so if you could please check your child's hair tonight, that would be very helpful.

Thank you

Miss Prowse

Parent Interviews

Good afternoon parents,

The parent interview schedule has been put up outside the classroom door for you to make a time with myself to discuss how you child has been going so far this term. Thank you to those parents that have already put their names down. If you cannot make it in to school to put your name down, please email myself and I can arrange a time for you. Alternatively, if you cannot make any of the allocated times, please come and see me directly to arrange a time.

EASTER RAFFLE

Thank you to all those wonderful people that have put in donations of chocolates, the children (and myself) have been eyeing them off and hope to be the winner of the Easter raffle which will be drawn Thursday March 24th. If there are any last minute Easter egg donations, could they please be brought in by Friday 18th March.

Thank you for your ongoing support.

Miss Prowse

We are Smarty Pants in Year One!

We have had such fun reading the book Smarty Pants by Joy Cowley last week! We got to read together as a class and we even had some very clever people read on their own in the big book corner!

Throughout the book, a very funny clown called Smarty Pants tells us what he can do....he can ski, swim, jump, play music and at the end, he shows us he can swing....right into a tree!

We found out that all these doing words are called verbs! We learnt a rhyme that goes like this:
'A verb is a word it's an action word, if you can do it, then you do it, if you do it, it's a verb,'
We created ourselves into smarty pants and wrote about some things we are good at!

Here are some of the Smarty Pants in our class! Don't you just love their faces!

During our literacy session, we participated in a language activity by making and decorating smarty pants biscuits, with real smarties! Some people went a bit crazy with the blue icing, but they looked and tasted delicious!

Sentence construction gets better every time we do it! Some people showed us how smart they were by finishing the sentence: I am a smarty pants see me____. Here are a few of pictures of some of the work we did in class.

We had great fun in our shared reading sessions learning and reading about Smarty Pants!

Miss Prowse

Star Citizens for Compassion

Congratulations to our Star Citizens for Compassion Ellie and Paige. I am so proud to have to beautiful Year One's showing the school value of Compassion both in and out of the classroom. Well done girls!

Miss Prowse 

Mrs Wishy Washy Fun!

Mrs. Wishy Washy

Mrs. Wishy Washy written by Jo Cowley is a book that has been around since 1980. This was always one of my favourite books during school because I remember having such fun reading as a whole class while doing lots of different actions to accompany the text.

The book revolves around a cow, a pig and a duck getting dirty in the mud and when Mrs. Wishy Washy sees them, she decides to give them a scrub in the bath tub. After washing them, Mrs Wishy Washy goes back into her house and as soon as she does so, those naughty animals hop back into the mud!

Mrs. Wishy Washy was a fantastic book that our class explored last week and we had such fun reading it altogether! We found out that the 'sh' sound in Wishy and Washy related to some of our spelling words so we found it easy to read!

We learnt about adjectives and how we can use adjectives to describe a noun. We decided that we would look at mud...sticky, brown, thick mud! We thought it would be a great idea to make our own mud...but not the yucky, smelly mud like in the book, we decided to make delicious, fluffy chocolate mud! You can understand that this was very popular in our class. Here are some photos of us making our 'mud' from Mrs. Wishy Washy!

We also constructed parts of the text using sentence reconstruction. The children had to think of another animal, person or creature that Mrs. Wishy Washy could wash in her tub and we got some very interesting ideas!  Minions, horses and even angels were ideas that went into the tub!

Year 1P loved reading about Mrs. Wishy Washy!

Have a lovely night.

Miss Prowse

p.s If you would like to share the story of Mrs. Wishy Washy with your children, please see the video below :)

Sight Words

Good afternoon parents, 

This week, there will be sight words coming home for the children to learn. This is very exciting for our Year One children, as we have been participating in a variety of sight word activities over the last few weeks. The focus of sight words is for children to be able to recognise the words quickly and effectively without having to sound them out.

Packs have been sent home like this...

For you to make up the flash cards to look like this...

I’m aware that sight words were sent home last year in Pre-Primary and I encourage you to support your child as they continue to consolidate words they know and practise the words they have more difficulty with.

The aim of the sight word rings are for your child to practise reading them every night in conjunction with their reading books as a way to build up their vocabulary and easily recognise the words in the books they are reading. It is important to remember that children do not learn new words by being exposed to them only once, repetition is the key to sight word acquisition.

The children will be tested every few weeks on their sight words and they will be moved onto the next list of 25 if they have mastered all of the words on their ring. Please note for your child to move onto the next set of 25 sight words the children must be able to both READ and SPELL all the words correctly. Over the year I will provide you with some games that you can play using the sight words to make the learning fun!

If you have any questions, please email me.

Have a great week!

Miss Prowse