Our Spiny Leaf bugs need a home for the holidays!

If there is anyone in the class who will be based in Dunsborough over the holidays and would like a few visitors, we are looking for someone to care for Leaf girl and Stick girl (and friends).

They are very low maintenance and just require some new gum leaves every few days and a spray with the water spray bottle in the class. If you're feeling up to it, please email me and you can take them home in their tank after school tomorrow :)

Thank you

Miss Prowse

Practicum Teacher - Ms. Susan Radisich

Tomorrow we will have a visit from Ms. Susan Radisich who will be conducting her third year teaching practicum in our class from next term.

We are very lucky to have Susan in our class for 5 weeks beginning Monday 21st of October to Friday 21st of November and we are looking forward to sharing our classroom environment with her.

If you see her tomorrow, please give her a big OLC welcome.

Miss Prowse

More photos from Wonnerup House

Thank you Shannon Peterson for the delightful photographs taken at our Year One excursion to Wonnerup House. 

Thanks again to all the wonderful mums and dads that came along to help out on the day. 

2019 Sports Carnival

On Tuesday 24th of September, OLC held their annual faction carnival.  It was an absolutely beautiful spring day and the children came to school extremely excited to start the carnival!

The children looked outstanding in their coloured zinc, face paint and  coloured hairspray! The excitement continued as the children went into their faction bays and loved joining in with the older children cheering for the team.

I'm not sure, but I think the motivation of lollies from the faction captains might have made the children cheer extra hard. The running races were a great indication of just how fast our year ones are! They would definitely leave me behind in the 50m sprint!

The team games were a hit and I think one of the favourites of the day had to be 'stone, bridge, tree' and the flag relay!

Congratulations to our runner up champion boy Keenan and our champion boy Jobe and our runner up champion girls Kate and Zoe H and champion girl Ayva.

A big thank you to all the parents who helped with the event coordination, the set up and pack up and a HUGE thank you to Mrs. Sinclair for the wonderful day she put together.


Miss Prowse

Wonnerup house Excursion 2019

On Friday the 20th of September, the Year One children went on an excursion to Wonnerup house. The children were very excited to be in their 'Olden Day' clothes and loved comparing the clothing from the Olden Days to today. We hopped on the bus and although there were a lot of 'are we there yet?' questions, the children were excited to be going to visit 'the old place where you had to go work on the farm instead of go to school' - as quoted by one of the children.

We started the excursion with a 15 minute video about the history of Wonnerup House to which we found out that the whole community burnt down and had to be rebuilt! We also learnt about the Layman Family who lived at Wonnerup House amongst the beautiful Tuart Forest that surrounds the property.

We then set off in our groups with our wonderful parent helpers and started to explore the amazing grounds. We visited The Main House, The Black Smith shop, The Stables and The Dairy Kitchen . The children loved learning about all the olden day items like the wash board, the chamber pot, the Grandfather clock and many more!

One of the favourite places of the day was the old school house. I must say, I didn't mind getting into character! The children explored the old classroom and also the house where the teacher used to live. She must have had a LOT of hobbies to fill in her time!

We would like to thank our parent helpers from both Year One classes who made the day possible by meeting us at Wonnerup House and showing the children around the property. This excursion would not have been possible without you!

Miss Prowse

Week 10 Information

Welcome to week 10...we did it!

We have had such a wonderful term and I can't believe I only have one more term with your beautiful children :( I know I am not going to cope at the end of the year! 

Just a few things for this week...

Open Classroom 

Tonight is your chance to come and check out the work your child has been doing throughout the year. It starts in the hall at 5pm, where Mr Lee will welcome us and some students will carryout a short musical performance. Classrooms will then be open from 5.15-6pm for you share in celebrating your child's achievements.

Please remember that this is a special time to spend with your child to discuss what they have enjoyed learning, and not a time to discuss any issues with the teacher. I am happy to make a separate appointment to do this, where needed. I look forward to seeing you tonight.

Athletics Carnival 

Please note that the athletics carnival is tomorrow. The events schedule was emailed out to all parents last Friday, see the office if you have not received this. 

It is looking to be a beautiful sunny day, therefore it is important that your child has had sunscreen applied in the morning before coming to school. We will have some on hand in the tents as well. As usual your child is to come to school in their faction uniform with their hat, water bottle and food in their school bag.

The children are welcome to wear face paint and bring teddies so that they can cheer for their team. 

The canteen will be doing a sausage sizzle ($3) for lunch, however you need to place an order at the canteen with the correct change and their faction labelled on the bag. Parents can purchase one on the day.  Tea/coffee and cake will also available for purchase on the day for $5.

If you would like to take your child home after the carnival, you will need to fill in a form found in the front office. You or anyone else, will not be able to take your child if I am not given this form. Thank you to those would have brought theirs in already.

Church this Friday 

All parents are welcome to come along and celebrate the end of term Thanksgiving Mass. We will be walking down to the church together and you are most welcome to join us. 

Change of Literacy Block  Routine

In accordance with our original plans of support for the Preprimary Year One split this year, Mrs Sorgiovanni will reduce her support time for Year One in Term Four. Now that the Preprimaries are reading and writing and follow routines comfortably they will be included in the PLD spelling groupings along with the rest of the Year ones and twos. Preprimaries and Year Ones will rotate through writing activities and Mrs Birch will participate in Year One guided reading sessions while the Preprimaries enjoy their outdoor education programme with Mrs Leahy and the Education Assistants.
We thank Mrs Sorgiovanni for being a very important part of Year One English Learning this year.

Keep an eye on the blog for our amazing write up from our Wonnerup House visit :) 

Miss Prowse 

Wonnerup House Excursion

The time has come for our excursion!

The children are very excited and we are hoping that the weather God's will look after us tomorrow! Just a few things for the day:

Parent helpers, we shall see you at Wonnerup house at 10.30am - I think some lovely people have offered to carpool to the excursion together.

Come dressed in your best 'olden days' clothes (if the children are willing to) and that is also including parents :)

Please bring your child's lunch, recess and water bottle in a small reusable/green bag with their name somewhere on it. We will have sip and crunch before we head onto the bus so please bring this in as normal.

We should hopefully be back to OLC by 1.45pm/2.00pm at the latest.

Many thanks for your continued support

Miss Prowse and Mrs. Birch