Term 4 Week 5 - Half way through already!

 Kaya,

Can you believe that we are heading into week 5 already, I cannot believe I have only half a term left to spend time with our beautiful 6R family. Hopefully the weekend has been restful and given your families a chance to recharge and reconnect ready for another great week. 

There was lots happening last week at OLC. Including celebrating our first OLC Wellbeing Week, this included sound healing, yoga sessions, square breathing, mindfulness colouring and a bush walk. Last week also included some very funky dance moves with our OLC Silent Disco on Friday night. Thank you to the P&F for arranging such a fun night for the students. 💃💃💃

⭐⭐Merit Awards⭐⭐

Well done to Mia and Taya for receiving our 6R Merit Awards for week 4 Term 4. 

Mia has been a welcomed asset to OLC this year and has used every bit of GRIT and resilience to transition seamlessly into our 6R family. It is a pleasure having her apart of the class. 

Taya received hers for her organisation efforts and the extra commitment she is putting into her Measurement Math with Mrs Murphy on a Thursday. Taya consistently works hard to produce high quality piece of work that demonstrate the pride she is taking in her work. Well done girls!

 

 

Term 4 Week 4 Learning: 

Technologies 

In Technologies this week we started to design and build our game controllers, most of the students had to take their designs home to complete, this is due next Thursday so that we can then hook up the designs to a circuit board and check that the controls work. Well done to the students that completed their task on Thursday, what creative and innovative designs. Some future tech entrepreneurs in the class. Thank you to the P&F for fundraising to get our class 5 sets of Makey Makey kits.

Did you hear that we are very close to finishing our amazing Aboriginal Garden? Next time you are at school please pop down to pay it a visit. 

Term 4 Week 5 Information: 

Year 6 Gift - Aboriginal Mural 

Our year 6 students are very lucky that next week they will be starting to work on their gift to the school with some of our awesome parents. The amazing Jordanna Hall is liaising and organising the wonderful work on the aboriginal mural on the water tanks at the back of the school. We were very fortunate that the local firefighters paid a visit to the school on Wednesday afternoon to clean down the tank ready for priming. Thank you all for your time and effort on this project, we appreciate all of you. 

Can you please make sure that your child gets sent with an art shirt for this project. This can be an old shirt, an apron, etc? 

Pupil Free day
A reminder that there is a pupil free day on Friday 12 November. The staff will be creating our School Improvement Plan for 2022, work on our school Vision for learning, analyse our NAPLAN and PAT test data and school strategic plan.

Remembrance Day 
On Thursday 11 November at 11am we will hold a special ceremony, led by Mr Jones’ Year 5 class to remember all those who have died in war. We pray that we keep alive the memories of those who laid down their life for the sacred cause of freedom. Parents are most welcome to attend the assembly.

Graduation PowerPoint 

I am are hoping that you can find and email me a photo of your child as a baby and/or toddler. We would like to create a PowerPoint for Graduation with these special photos, as well as others from their time at OLC. If you have any ripper photos from your child's time at OLC, we would greatly appreciate any donations. Please email them through so I can get onto this job as soon as I can.

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 Preservance. Can you encourage your child to reflect on the following?

Laptops

Please also remind your child to put their laptop on charge ready for each day, as work that is not complete in class because of a flat laptop will be sent home for ADDITIONAL homework.

Term 4 Important Dates: 

11th November – Remembrance Day

10th November - Free Dress for Leeuwin 
12th November – Student Free Day
19th November - Bunbury Grammar Yr7 2022 Orientation Day
24th November – OLC AGM meeting
25th November - St Mary McKillop Yr7 2022 Orientation Day
7th December – Whole school Christmas Concert (LOCK THIS ONE IN!)
9th December -  Yr 6 End of Year Excursion
10th December – Yr6 Graduation Mass, Morning Tea & Colour Run and Last day for students

Homework

The students homework is due on Friday the 12th of November

Please ensure all students are completing their homework and getting you to check it with a signature nightly and then signing the learning grid and homework diary on a Thursday afternoon before it is returned. Students who have not completed their homework will complete it during class time and during recess and lunch, an email will also be sent home to notify you. This organisation and time management skills is vital to aid in an easier transition to high school.

Home Learning Grid includes:

1. Reading - The students will have specific chapters to have read for homework from their novel. This will need to be read to ensure that the students can participate in book club and novel studies every day in class.
2. Math - BEMDAS (Order of Operations) worksheet
3. Spelling Activities - pick 3 activities from the spelling menu to complete in the week.
4. Three well-being tasks from learning grid
5. Technologies - Students to complete their game controller by Thursdays lesson. 
6. Any unfinished class tasks - RE Comic Strip

I hope you have a great week!

Mrs Ricciardone & Mrs Murphy