Welcome to Week 7

Good afternoon parents, 

What a lovely looooong weekend we had and the beautiful winter weather turned it on for us...only to be greeting with a hail storm for the start of Spring, who would have thought?!

Just a few messages for this week...

SPORTS CARNIVAL

Congratulations to Leeuwin on winning the Sports Carnival last week, a fine speech by our captains Zali and Axton.  The students again showed such great enthusiasm and sportsmanship on the day and gave it their all for every game or race they participated in! What a great way to finish week 6!

Thank you to all the parents who were able to make it down... It was incredible to see so many parents working hard on the BBQ's, at the coffee machine, in the cake stall and zipping down the track in the flag relay. We are so lucky to have such generous people who show such great commitment to the school, from all accounts a lot of money was raised! 

Congratulations to our champion boy and girl Maddie and James C and runner up champion boy and girl Cooper and Coco! 

MERIT AWARD WINNERS

Congratulations to Josie and Georgia who were the Week 7 Merit Award winners! You are both Year One Stars! 

WEEK 7 REMINDERS

OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD

It's that time of year that we participate in the 'Operation Christmas Child' shoe box initiative that has been a wonderful OLC tradition for many years and reflects our school value of Compassion so well. These shoe boxes are sent to underprivileged children throughout the world as a gift for Christmas. 

The children will be placed into in groups of four and between them, they will fill a shoe box with a variety of items. The items do not need to be expensive. Each child in the group will be asked to cover the cost of sending the shoe box to its final destination. We ask them to bring in $2.50 each. The children will be given time in the classroom to pack the shoe box and explore some of the places that their shoe boxes may be travelling to. 

Please see the flyer below for further information:

In the table below, your child has been put into a group where they will need to bring a small item to place in a shoe box for either a boy or a girl aged 2-4 years old. The shoe box will include: 

- Something to love
- Something to play with
- Something to draw with or write on
- Something for personal hygiene 

- Something to wear 

1P  SHOEBOX 2020	Group 1 GIRL	GROUP 2 BOY	GROUP 3 GIRL	GROUP 4 BOY	Group 1 GIRL	GROUP 2 BOY
Something to love	Archer	Callum	Grace	Harrison	Lucas	Maddison
Something to play	Cooper	Darcy	Ivy	Jack	Mahli	Maxwell
Something of personal hygiene	Duke	Eddie	Jaega	Jake	Nixon	Olivia
Something to write with and on	Enzo	Finn.H	James	Josie	Scarlett	Zak
Something to wear	Georgia L	Ginger	Joshua	Lucy

Items are to be no longer than 20 cm long and not too bulky as they will not fit in the shoe box. 

If you have any queries or concerns can you please contact me A.S.A.P, as the children will need to have their items in by the End of week 9 (Friday 16th September). I will have a box at the front of the classroom for all donations to be put into. Please tick your name off the list in the box when you have popped in your donation. 😍

WHEELIE, WALKIE, WASTE-FREE WEDNESDAY 🚲🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️🌟

Our first day of WWWW was on today and Year 1P brought it home strong with 13 children walking or wheeling to school today despite the horrible weather! Well done to everyone that was able to provide amazing waste free lunches! I was very impressed with (and tempted to steal) some of the lunches! Thank you for being apart of this great initiative for the school where we can hopefully win an excursion! 

Our Wheelie, Walkie, Waste -Free Wednesdays will commence again next Wednesday and continue for 2 more weeks:

Week 8 (9th September)

Week 9 (16th September)

MISSION MARKETS 

On the last day of school (Thursday the 24th of September) the children will be participating in our annual feast day - The assumption of Mary. Each class is asked run a stall and this year we are making popcorn to sell. We are asking for each family from Year 1P to donate a bag of popping corn so we can sell some sweet and salty popcorn to raise money for Project Compassion. If you are free on that Thursday morning to help make and bag some popcorn, we would love and appreciate your help (from about 9.00 am - 9.45 am) while Mass is on. Please pop the popping corn in the box labelled Mission Markets out the front of our room. 

UPCOMING EVENTS:

- School Photos - Thursday 10th & Friday 11th September

- Feast Day & Mission Markets - Thursday 24th September (Students last day of Term 3)

- Pupil Free Day (Staff PD) - Friday 25th September

WEEK 7 and 8 - HOMEWORK

Last week the beautiful Mrs. Hughes glued in all the homework ready for Week 7 and 8 while I was away sick. If your child did not bring in their homework book, they would have got the homework grid, new spelling list and fluency grid in a clear plastic sleeve to glue in at home. Homework is due next Friday the 11th of September, please let me know if you need another copy of anything. 

Please continue with your reading every night and if you'd like to substitute school reading books, with home reading books, feel free to do so but please write in 'Read a home reading book' so Mrs. Hughes knows to give them a new book.  

Phew....I think that is everything! 

Thank you for your ongoing support. 

Miss Prowse 

Welcome to Week Six

Dear Parents, 

Welcome to Week Six! I can't believe we are over half way through the term!  What a wonderful glimpse of Spring we received on Sunday and even better to celebrate the Dockers (...and Eagles) win for the weekend!Both Hugh and I were lucky enough to head to the game and see the boys have a win! 

 

There are just a few messages for this week...

FACTION CARNIVAL

OLC’s Sport Carnival is on this Thursday 27th August. Parent spectators are welcome! Students are to report to class by 8:40am and we will come down to the faction bays around 9am. The children are to wear their faction shirts on this day and may wear faction colours in their hair or coloured sunscreen. They can also bring a team mascot in their faction colour! 

Please ensure that they pack plenty of healthy snacks and a full water bottle for the day. Please return the note sent home today if you are planning to take your child home at the conclusion of the carnival. We don’t know what time it will finish but it is expected that it will be before 3pm, therefore, we need to know who will be leaving or returning to class until the final bell.

Wheelie Walkie Waste Free Wednesday

It’s on again! Get those bikes, scooters and walking shoes ready, and leave those cars and wasteful lunch packaging behind.

Our Wheelie, Walkie, Waste -Free Wednesdays will commence again on Wednesday Week 6, 7 & 8!

Once again class participation will be recorded and the winning class will receive a free excursion (provided by the City Busselton) of their choice, somewhere within the City of Busselton region.

1P for the win!!!!

Fruit on arrival in the mornings will once again be provided (also the from the City of Busselton) this year, however due to current health and safety regulations, whole pieces of fruit will be distributed as opposed to cut-up pieces. 

Throws and Jumps

The children all tried so hard and gave their best efforts in the Throws and Jumps event. Please see below for the 1P children who got a place. Congratulations to everyone for great sportsmanship!

Homework

Just a gentle reminder that homework for this fortnight is due Wednesday the 26th of August. If you have any questions or if you are happy for your child to hand it in early, please let me know. 

Family Mass - Postponed 

Our Year One family Mass that was due to proceed on Saturday the 12th of September has been postponed until further notice due to current Phase Four restrictions. We will let you know if another date can be arranged. 

Our Learning

We have been very busy in Year 1P with some amazing things happening across all learning areas! 

In English we have been learning about persuasive texts in both reading and writing and have loved reading through our Mentor Texts of 'Winter is the best season in Dunsborough' and 'Do you want to be a pirate?'. The children have loved extending and learning about new vocabulary as well as writing their own versions of each of the texts. I have been blown away with the amazing writing the children have been producing. Keep an eye on the blog for some amazing work coming up!

Thank you for your ongoing support, 

Miss Prowse 

Welcome to Week Four

 Dear Parents, 

What a start to our week 4 with some very wet and wild weather! I hope you managed to stay warm and out of the rain (unlike myself at pick up lane on Monday!)

Just a few messages for this week...

Homework

Just a gentle reminder that homework is due this Friday the 14th of August. If you have any questions or if you are happy for your child to hand it in early, please let me know. 

Throws and Jumps 

This is the first year the children will be participating in the throws and jumps aspect of the carnival. These events will be taking place in the children's sports lessons over the next two weeks and the points the children earn will go towards the faction points and the overall points for the champion boy and girl of the year level. 

Athletics carnival and Pupil Free Days 

Please put down Thursday the 27th of August in your calender's for the OLC Athletic's carnival. It is sure to be a great day and get into the team spirit of the school. Please also note that Friday the 28th and Monday the 31st of August are pupil free days...enjoy the extra long weekend!  

Merit Award winner 

Congratulations to Cooper who was this week's Merit Award winner. You are a Year One super star! 

OLC Open Night 

Due to the restrictions of Phase Four and the push back of Phase Five, the Open Night has been postponed to a later date. Please keep an eye on the newsletter for more information.  

Our Learning 

We have been very busy in Year 1P with some amazing things happening across all learning areas! 

In English we have been learning about persuasive texts in both reading and writing and have loved reading through our Mentor Texts of 'Winter is the best season in Dunsborough' and 'Do you want to be a pirate?'. The children have loved extending and learning about new vocabulary as well as writing their own versions of each of the texts. I have been blown away with the amazing writing the children have been producing...who would have imagined these wonderful children could produce paragraphs! Have a look at some of this amazing work below! 

P.S I love the last reason of Mum and Dad can't get you! 

In Maths we have loved learning about Skip counting, Multiplication (equal groups) and division. The children have loved taking part in hands on activities to explore how division and multiplication relate to one another. 

Paul Klee and Picasso have been our Artist focus in Art and the children have loved creating their reflections for display in our class. You may have seen a sneak peak in our classroom this morning put up by the beautiful Mrs. Hughes. 

In Science we have loved learning about clouds, Day and night and all things earth and space! The children absolutely loved seeing our cloud in a jar experiment last week! Have a look at the video below if you'd like to do it at home. 

I hope you have had a lovely week and look forward o more fun and learning ahead! 

Miss Prowse 

Week Three information and Merit Award winner b

Good afternoon parents, 

I hope you have had a lovely start to week 3 and you are enjoying this little ray of sunshine we are getting before the big storm next week...ask your child if they can tell you what type of cloud makes rain 😁

Homework 

Thank you to all the parents for your efforts with homework the last fortnight. We have really noticed an increase in the children's reading since returning to Term 3 and have loved when they come in so proud of their speed reading times from their spelling words. Homework is due next Friday the 14th of August and if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email me. 

Please see below of an example of how homework should be filled out 😻

Merit Award winner for week 3

Congratulations to Ivy who is the week 3 Merit Award winner. It's a great day in the Hoang household with Andy in PP also receiving a merit award 🎉🎊

School Photos 

Your child should have brought home an order form last week. Please check in with Mrs Marrell if your child has not given it to you yet.

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

Miss Prowse 

Merit Award winner for week 2

Congratulations to our week 2 Merit Award winner Olivia! You are a Year One super star!

Miss Prowse

Welcome to Term Three!

Welcome back to term three!

Welcome back to Term three! I hope you all had a lovely holiday and the students are feeling refreshed and renewed after their two week break!

What's On This Term?

This term in writing, we will be continuing with our persuasive writing focus and then moving on to procedure writing which will go hand in hand with our Chemical Science unit. Our Maths focus this term will be skip counting, patterning, multiplication, division and time.  

In Science we will be exploring how materials can be used for different purposes and how they can change by either heating or cooling them. Get read for some super fun experiments this term!

In Visual Arts we will be learning about colour (primary colours and how they mix to form secondary colours). We will experiment with some colour mixing and have a go at creating artworks using complementary colours.

Homework

Homework will be sent home on Monday which includes the homework grid, fluency reading grid and a spelling list with the focus sound that we are learning. We love it when you can fill in your child's R.E.D reading folder which helps us track how they are going in their reading.  This fortnight, our focus sound is 'ng' 😎Please ensure that you sign your child's homework grid before July 31st (the due date) to we can monitor your child's progress at home. Please refer to the photo below of what a completed homework grid should look like 🌟

Before school Drop Off 

As restrictions have eased, parents are now welcome on the school grounds. Our Admin have directed us that restrictions of adults in the class will continue until instructed otherwise so Kiss and Drop will still remain at the door of the classroom at the beginning of the term. As school begins at 8.40 am, if your child arrives after this time, you will have to sign them in at the office. We are starting to practice our team games for the Athletics carnival so having your child here in the morning really helps them to get to know the rules and process of each game.  

Mission Markets 

Our annual OLC Mission Markets-  celebrating Our Lady of the Cape Feast Day-  are fast approaching (Friday 21st August - Week 5). Please keep an eye on the blog for what our year level will be hosting/ providing for the day 🙏

Dates for Your Diary:
OLC Open Night : Wednesday 26th August

OLC Athletics Carnival: Thursday 27th of August

Pupil Free Day: Friday 28th August

Catholic Day (Pupil Free Day): Monday 31st August
Year One Family Mass: Saturday 12th of September
Photo Day: Thursday 10th and Friday 11th of September

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

I'm looking forward to a wonderful term!

Miss Prowse

Week 10....We made it!

Good evening parents,

What a term it has been! Who would have thought we would see the light at the end of the tunnel in week 10! Just a few messages for this week...

School Holiday work
Some parents have requested some additional work for their child to complete over the holidays. Please note that this is not compulsory and has been shared for anyone else that wants to help their child review concepts that have been taught over the semester. Included in this are spelling lists from Term 2, a Maths revision booklet and a writing prompt for each genre studied.

Please click on the link below to access these documents.

Please Click Here for Holiday Revision

Free dress
This Friday 3rd July there is free dress for Leeuwin.

Star Citizen Winner
Congratulations to Nixon who was our Star Citizen for Appreciation ! You are a little superstar Nixon!

Homework
Please note that there will be no home readers sent home today and for the remainder of the week so the library can do a stock take. We will keep the red reading folders at school over the holidays. If you have any home readers or library books at home please send them in asap.

Just a reminder that homework is due this Friday 3rd July. If your child is not here, please feel free to send their homework book in earlier.

Cross Country
Congratulations to all the children who participated in the Cross Country today. It was wonderful to see the OLC sportsmanship and students trying their best!

Congratulations to:

James C Champion Boy
Darcy Runner- up Champion Boy

Hazel - Champion Girl
Maddison - Runner up Champion Girl

Have a great holidays and I look forward to seeing you all in Term 3 😀

Miss Prowse