Week Three - Yippee!

Good morning parents, 

I hope you have had a lovely start to the week and have had some time to enjoy the last (hopefully) of the rain! I cannot believe we are into week three, which means there is only another six weeks with your beautiful children 😭😢😭😢

Merit Award Winner 🌟⭐✨

Congratulations to our Week Two Merit Award winner Campbell! You are a Year Two Super Star!



Design Technology unit - Creating a bird feeder!

We need your boxes! Around the school, we have noticed a lot of birds trying to make nests in the beams around our verandahs so we will be designing a bird house as a part of our Design and Technology unit. We will be beginning to plan the logistics of the design next week, but in week 5 we would love to start constructing our design. If you have any boxes - NO BIGGER THAN A 2 LITRE MILK BOTTLE/CARTON we would love for you to bring them in! Start collecting those boxes! Thank you 😍





OLC Wellbeing Week (Week 4)
We are holding a whole week of whole school Wellbeing from Monday to Friday in Week 4. On each day the students will be including an activity with a wellbeing focus into some part of the day. 

Each day of Wellbeing Week a member of the Wellbeing Team will lead the whole school in a prayer meditation and some square breathing over the PA at 12.50pm. The students will also have an opportunity to participate in Yoga, Body Tapping and Sound Healing at various times over the week. 

The week will culminate in a Wellbeing Assembly presented by the year 4's on the Friday, you are most welcome to join us. Friday the 5th November of week 4, is also wear a T/shirt with your 'fave colour/ fave band / fave slogan – whatever makes you feel good' day!

Grandparents Day 
Grandparents are most welcome to come into school at 1.45pm on Friday 29 October. They will be welcomed into the classrooms and to attend our special assembly at 2.15 pm.

Excursion Friday Week 8
Please keep an eye on the blog for information about our upcoming excursion. We might need some helpers so please let us know when we confirm the venue 🤞😎


PAT Testing:
Next week and in week five we will begin our series of formal PAT assessments which will help further inform our understanding of your child's learning needs, as well as guide groupings within the classroom and inform our end of year reports. All the content within the PAT assessments cover what has been taught throughout the year and results will be passed onto your child's teacher next year. If you are planning on being away at all next week, could you please let me know so I can arrange for your child to complete at an earlier/later date. 

Character Strengths 
Dear Parents, currently at OLC we are focusing on modeling and observing different character strengths. The strengths that we will focus on are taken directly from the VIA Institute for Character. If you wanted to learn more about this please follow the link to the 24 character strengths: https://www.viacharacter.org/character-strengths
This upcoming week we are looking for people who show Love. Can you encourage your child to reflect on the following?


PAT Testing:

Important Dates 
29th October – Grandparents day (classroom tours and assembly)
5th November - Wear a tshirt 'your fav colour/ fav band/ fav slogan' - what makes you feel good day!
9th November – Whole school wellbeing day
11th November – Remembrance Day
12th November – Student Free Day
24th November – OLC AGM meeting
26th November - Busy Bee @ Our Lady of the Southern Cross (morning only)
7th December – Whole school Christmas Concert (LOCK THIS ONE IN!)

Have a lovely rest of your week!

Mrs. Wendelin


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