3 sleeps to go!!! Below is all the information you will need to know on the day.

The Year One excursion is this Friday 3rd November. Children are to arrive at school for the regular 8:45am bell. PLEASE ensure your child is on time, we will not be holding the buses up to wait for children as we need to keep to our schedule for the day. After the bell, the children will go to their classes with their teacher and parent helpers. We will mark the roll and inform the students of the group they have been allocated in.

We will be travelling to and from the venue by bus. Children will be back in time for regular afternoon dismissal.

Children with medical needs, we will be taking their school medical kits with us.

WHAT TO BRING:

• Small backpack (labelled with name)
• fruit break, morning tea, lunch, drink bottle with water, raincoat (if needed)

Please do not send in any money as there will be no opportunity for students to purchase anything.

Children are to wear their school sports uniform with their school hat. If your child doesn’t have a school hat please send them to school with an appropriate hat to wear on the day. We recommend applying sunscreen in the morning.

Thank you to all the parents who offered to come, the response was OVERWHELMING! If we could take you all we would. Notification was sent home today to all parents who volunteered. All year one class placed the names in a bucket (once checking all WWCC were up to date) and we drew the names out in front of the children this afternoon. Once again, thank you for your ongoing support.  We could not do this without you.

If you are one of the parent helpers attending the excursion please make sure you are at the briefing in 1W at 8:15AM on Friday morning.  We will be going through the proceedings of the day and the groupings of the children.  We are very appreciative of your help and realise the day couldn’t go ahead without you. A reminder that younger siblings are unable to attend the excursion.

We will be taking photos on the day and will post them on the blog for all parents to view.

Ros, Lili and Danielle

Congratulations to Koby, Christian and Kai on their principal award for including others!! 

 

 

Congratulations to Sakura, Benjamin, Cooper and Licia on their awards for last week.

PBS4L – Be in the right place at the right time is the next PBS4L focus the students will be revising. Our priority is to ensure students are safe at all times. We are re teaching the school’s expectation of the students staying on their playground so they are being supervised at all times.

GARDEN CLUB –  Do you love vegetables as much as OLOR does??

Garden club have been working extra hard over term 3 and we are excited to announce that our gardens are overflowing with delicious healthy vegetables. Mrs Harvey and garden club have begun their weekly vegetable raffle. Fifty cents per ticket, and all proceeds go directly back into our gardens. In the upcoming weeks we will have potatoes….purple or white, carrots, spinach, lettuce, lots of herbs, and whatever else springs to life. The raffle will be drawn every Wednesday morning at assembly and tickets can be purchased on the netball court at recess and lunch. Thank you for your support…it is really exciting to see the students, especially the little ones, come with their 50c and faces full of enthusiasm and hope.

EXCURSION – Finally Week 4 has arrived and the students are EXTRA excited for our excursion this Friday!!! If you haven’t sent your child’s note back please do so tomorrow as we are confirming final numbers for buses. 

On Tuesday there will a detailed post about everything you will need to know for Friday.

Thank you to all who volunteered to assist with the excursion.

Important Dates

• Friday 3rd November – Year One Excursion
• Monday, 13th November – Remembrance Day Liturgy
• Friday 1 December – OLOR Creative Arts Open Day 2017 Schedule will be:-
  • Advent Liturgy 9 – 9:30am
  • Creative Arts Open School 9:30 – 10:45am Shared morning tea with parents/friends
  • Dance & Music performances 11:15 – 12pm
• Friday, 15th December 9:15am – End of Year Mass, Awards Assembly and Last day of school

As part of our ongoing PBS4L teaching and learning, we are currently focusing as a school community on ‘Including others’.

OLOR Introduces the Buddy Bench!

At OLOR we include others in our play at break times. Helping each other feel included shows empathy and can help us all get along better.

We want students to think about how:

• We can include others in our games at break times
• We can play cooperatively and fairly in our games
• We can use the Buddy Bench to signal we’d like to be included

Excursion notes are due tomorrow, Friday 27th October. There are only a few that we are yet to receive, please include these in your child’s bag for tomorrow even if they are unable to attend.

Thank you for your assistance.

PLEASE CHECK YOUR CHILD’S BAG FOR THE EXCURSION NOTE 

  YEAR 1 ‘Past and Present Family Life’ History EXCURSION

Dear Parents/ Guardians,

Throughout Term 3 Year 1 studied a unit of work called ‘Past and Present Family Life’. To support this unit an excursion has been planned to Rouse Hill House and Farm. At the Centre the children will learn about what school life was like in the past.

DATE:              Friday 3^rd November, 2017

TRAVEL:          We will travel to and from the venue by bus.

COST:              The cost of this excursion has been included in your school fees.

WHAT TO BRING:

• Small backpack (labelled with name)
• Morning tea
• Lunch
• Drinks
• Raincoat (if needed)

Please do not send in any money as there will be no opportunity for students to purchase anything.

WHAT TO WEAR:       School Sports Uniform and school hat

If you are interested in assisting us on the day, please indicate on the slip below. Unfortunately, there are a limited number of places available for Parent Helpers and we regret any disappointment caused. Young siblings are also unable to attend. Parent Helpers must have completed the online Child Protection Module at:

http://ceo-web.parra.catholic.edu.au/asp/volunteerscpmodule/index.asp

A copy of the certificate needs to be submitted to the school administration office by Friday 27^th October, 2017. Parents who are selected will need to attend a briefing with us prior to the excursion. We would like to thank you in advance for your support.

We will contact the parents who are attending the excursion early Week 4.

Permission Slips are to be returned by Friday 27th October.

Yours Sincerely,

Roslyn Earl, Sarah Jeffriess and Danielle Hutchinson

The Year 1 Teachers

A reminder that tomorrow is Crazy Sock Day

Students are to bring a gold coin donation and their craziest socks

 

Friday 20th October – World Mission Month – Crazy Sock Day

October is World Mission Month and we are called on a Mission to raise awareness of people in other countries who are not as fortunate as we are.  On Friday 20th October, Term 4 Week 2, OLOR students are invited to wear their craziest socks on our Crazy Sock Day. Students are to donate a gold coin to participate in Crazy Sock Day.

Socktober is an initiative of Catholic Mission which aims to ‘sock it to poverty’ to help some of the most needy and vulnerable children in the world have better opportunities in life and a hope-filled future. Locally and globally, Catholic Mission answer the call to love God and to love others. Socktober is just one way that our school can fundraise and engage in advocacy and mission activities for Catholic Mission during World Mission Month in October.

Important Dates

• Monday, 16th October 11:20am – ICAS Award Presentation
• Friday, 20th October – Crazy Sock Day- fundraiser for Catholic Mission (see newsletter for details – gold coin and crazy socks)
• Monday, 13th November – Remembrance Day Liturgy
• Friday, 15th December 9:15am – End of Year Mass