Within the last three weeks the children have brought home a small blue exercise book. It was called a’ have a go’ book. If you could please send these back to school ASAP. We will start using these in class next week.

Thank you

Thank you to all parents who attended the parent information evening. It was a great chance for parents to meet their child’s teacher. Each teacher has provided their email on the overview. It would be greatly appreciated if you could send a test email to your teacher. This allows the teachers to add you to their contacts.

1 Blue: Mrs Sarah Jeffriess

sjeffriess1@parra.catholic.edu.au

1 Gold: Mrs Roslyn Earl

rearl@parra.catholic.edu.au

1 White: Miss Danielle Hutchinson

dhutchinson@parra.catholic.edu.au

Our Lady of the Rosary Primary School, Kellyville will be holding their OPEN DAY on Tuesday 7 March commencing with a Liturgy at 9.15am followed by open classrooms (existing families are invited to come into the classrooms) and a school tour for new families enrolling. The morning will conclude by 10.45am. The children will be participating in a  literacy lesson and parents are welcome to come and assist them with their activity.

OLOR IS NUT FREE: We have an increasing number of children in our school who suffer from an anaphylaxis reaction to certain foods etc. but in particular, nuts. To assist in our duty of care for these children, direct nut products or products that list nuts as an actual ingredient, eg. peanut butter and nutella, are not permitted at Our Lady of the Rosary School. Additionally, we will continue to ask that children not to share their food.

“Class Parent Representative”. This voluntary role assists the grade, community and the teacher. We had a form at the Information Evening. Thank you to those who volunteered. We can only have two representatives. Mrs Stockey and Mr Devlin will announce the 2017 representatives.

Dance Fever: Year One will begin their Dance Fever lesson first on Friday mornings. If your child is late to school, please walk to the office and collect a late note. We then ask you to walk them to the hall.

Getting to know your child chat: These chats will begin this week for those parents who allocated a time on the information night to meet their teacher. You have been allocated 10 mins. We will have to be strict with this time, as we need to keep to our schedule. 

Homework: This week we will send home the children’s Mathletics log in. We have also decided to include a log in for Studyladder. Study ladder is an optional task, after reading, sight words and mathletics have been completed.

Afternoon Pick up: Most of our parent wait at the silver seats and we thank you for following our safety rules!! We ask parents not to walk to the classrooms to collect their child, rather wait at the silver seats. THIS IS BECOMING A SAFETY ISSUE FOR DISMISSAL for both the year one children and the kindergarten class in our block. Please don’t wait at the seat outside the kindergarten classroom in the Year One block, as it is distracting them inside the room. We also kindly ask parents not wait directly outside the hall on the concrete as this is where the carpark children gather, we suggest waiting on the grass.

Important Dates:

Shrove Tuesday: Tuesday 28th February:

Ash Wednesday – Mass & Liturgy 9.15am Wednesday, 1st March (Year One children will be involved in a liturgy in the classrooms. This is only for the children.)

Catholic Schools Week:  5th – 11th March. Where all Catholic Schools share the wonderful learning and opportunities that Catholic Schools offer.

OLOR Open Day and Liturgy 9.15am-10.45am: 7th March

Cross Country Carnival:  Thursday 23rd March

School Photos: Friday 31st March

Last day of Term 1: Friday 7th April

If your child received a holiday reading pack at the end of Kindergarten, we ask that it be returned this week. Mrs Walter will be sending home invoices to parents next week to cover the cost of these missing readers. The cost to replace the books are $30.00 if unreturned.

Thank you for your assistance.

At the parent information evening tomorrow we will have a Term 1 Overview for each parent. Please collect the overview with your child’s name on it. The parents who are unable to attend will receive it in their child’s bag on Friday.

Each class will have a timetable for parents to select a time if they wish to meet their child’s teacher, if they have not done so yet. Meeting will take place next week. The purpose of these chat-times are to communicate to the teacher any information relevant to your child. Please note, this is not a progress interview rather parents are informing the teachers about their child.

If any parents are viewing this tonight, could you kindly pass this along to other parents who may not be a subscriber to the blog.

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow,

Year One Teachers

Parent Information Evening

• Thursday 23/2/17
• 6:30-8:00pm
• Location: Hall

Homework

Homework for Year One will consist of:

• nightly reading
• sight words (starting this week)
• mathletics (starting Week 6)

At the information evening parents will receive an overview of the content areas the children will be learning in Term 1. Parents wishing to complete additional work with their child can incorporate their content at home with the Term 1 overview.

Parent Helpers

Please note parent helpers will begin in Term 2. We will send a note home early Term 2 and parents can allocate the days they are available if they wish to help with Reading in the classroom.

Canteen:

The P&F Committee will be selling ‘treats’ every Friday to the children. A note was sent home last week with the food item and pricing.

Library

A reminder we have library on Tuesday. Please ensure the children books are inside their bags.

Absent Notes

If your child is absent from school for any reason, you need to send in a note to your child’s class teacher when they return to school, explaining the absence and the dates they were away. This is a legal requirement for the school’s rolls. Thank you for your co-operation

 

LIBRARY AND BOOK CLUB

Library will start this week and Year One is on Tuesday.

Please see the new tab above for bookclub information.

SCHOOL CENSUS DAY FRIDAY, 10th February, 2017

If your child is absent on Friday 10th February, a note explaining the child’s absence must be presented to the school teacher on the child’s return on Monday 13th February.

This is of course a requirement that applies to everyday of the school year, however, Census data is directly related to Government funding for our schools and the requirements outlined above are set by the Department of Education. Thank you for your co-operation.

 

DANCE CLASSES

Miss Cole will be starting dance groups for grades 1—6 beginning Week 5. The dances will be performed at the Parish fete and a performance night.

The groups will be practising at lunchtimes as follows:-

Tuesday Lunchtime Years 1 & 2

Wednesday Lunchtime Years 3 & 4

Thursday Lunchtime Years 5 & 6

A note was sent out this week with further information in regards to joining this lunchtime group. Please return these notes ASAP.

Reading Days 

A new tab above will be posted soon with the days your child reads at school. It is important that their reader is in their bag for these days as the teachers will change the reader or send extra readers home with the children.

Upcoming Dates:

• Thursday 16th February – School Opening Mass 9.15am and welcoming BBQ for Kindergarten & New Families from 5pm
• Thursday 23rd February – Parent Information Evening 6.30pm—8.30pm (Will update you further toward the date on the format for Yrs 1-6)
• Tuesday 28th February – Shrove tuesday
• Wednesday 1st March – Ash Wednesday – Mass & Liturgy times to be confirmed
• 6th-11th March – Catholic Schools Week
• Thursday 23rd March – Cross Country Carnival
• Friday 31st March – School Photos and Dance Fever Interschool Challenge—Sydney Olympic Park
• Friday 7th April – Last day of Term 1

Did you miss out on the notes this week? Here are a list of the notes we sent home over the week. If you are missing any of these notes, please send a quick note to your child’s teacher and they will send a copy home with the children.

• Bookclub Catalogue
• School Travel Arrangements (blue note)
• Yr 1 & 2 Dance Club (white note)
• Parking, Pickup and Putting down. (white, stapled)
• Motiv8 (white note)
• Helen Grady Drama Academy (white note)

Year One Teachers

Monday and Tuesday ONLY before school this week, the Year One students will NOT be playing in the infants playground. This is due to the new Kindergarten students arriving with their parents. As you can imagine it is overwhelming for both parents and students and they will need their own area for the first two days to settle in.

Year One students will be playing on the grass near the school office. A teacher will be on duty to supervise the students.

 

Reading

Readers will start to be sent home this week. Please take note of your child’s reading day and ensure their reader in is their bags everyday.

Book Covers 

A very big thank you from the Year One teachers for covering the children’s books. If you were unable to cover their books please return them on Monday as we will begin using these books everyday

Lost Property

Sr. Antoinette works tirelessly collecting and distributing lost property. She has asked all parents to ensure that every article of clothing is marked with their child’s name as well as lunch boxes, drink bottles also. As part of our PBS4L, the children are being asked to care for theirs and others’ belongings. Labelled items will enable the children to find any items they have misplaced.

Thankyou in advance.

Canteen

We ask that you refer to the newsletter sent home this week regarding online recess and lunch orders as the canteen no longer operates during the day.  

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