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KINDER ORIENTATION
We had a great day last week as our wonderful Year 5 Buddies greeted the 2023 Kindergarten cohort. It was great to see how they nurtured and led their Buddy in different activities during the morning.
We will be hosting the 2023 cohort again on two more occasions – 8 November and 22 November. We look forward to seeing them all again soon.
YEAR 6 GRADUATION
We will be celebrating our Year 6 students with a whole school Mass and Graduation on Tuesday 13 December. Everyone is invited to share the morning with our Year 6 children and their families in the church form 9:15am. All classes will have an active role in the ceremony and celebration. More details as the day draws nearer.TELL THEM FROM ME
Thanks to all the families that participated in the survey. Our late plea certainly prompted a more useful response. The responses are collated by an independent firm and a report will be prepared and forwarded to us in the near future. The ideas expressed will be shared with parents later this year and will help guide us as we prepare our Improvement Plan for the next 3 years.
OUT OF UNIFORM
CHRISTMAS CONCERT
Grandparents' Day
We would like to thank all Grandparents, Parents and visitors who attended our Grandparents Day celebrations. We had a wonderful roll up with 5/6 leading our Liturgy and each class performing an item for our guests. Throughout the day our book fair was well supported by our visitors and we Thankyou greatfully for your contributions which will be going towards our library. Thank you Mr V and his helpers for organising the sausage sizzle. We hope the Grandparents enjoyed visiting their grandchildrens rooms and finding out all the wonderful work they have been working on this year.
2022 SCHOOL FEES
- Letters have gone home this week please see the following:
- If paying fees by instalment, please ensure your payment commences before the 31 March 2022 and is paid in full by 30 November 2022.
- If paying fees in full in one payment please finalise prior to 30 June 2022.
- Our preferred method of payment is either BPay or direct debit. Please avoid using COMPASS Pay.
- For Fee Payers wishing to establish a new Direct Debit, or adjust their existing direct debit, please complete the form on the Catholic Development Fund web-site www.CDFmn.com.au and return to Leanne in the Office.
- For those families experiencing financial hardship, or wishing to discuss other payment arrangements, please contact the school office to arrange an appointment with the Principal.
- If you would like a weekly, Fortnighly or Monthly breakdown please contact Leanne in the office, some parents received this already.
- School's will commence the school fee management process after the 31 March 2022, if there has been no contact with the school office or no initial payment received.
VOLUNTEER REGISTRATION
In order to Volunteer at OLV you are required to complete the Volunteer Induction and be cleared by the Catholic Schools Office to Volunteer.
Please follow this link https://www.mn.catholic.org.au/people/volunteer/ and complete the steps.
EXTERNAL PROVIDERS
If your child will be seeing a provider (eg; speech or OT ) this year at school,
please complete the attached application form and return to school. If you require further information, please don't hesitate to contact the office.
Kinder
Year 2
Year 2 have just completed their persuasive writing unit. Below are some of their post unit cold writes. Miss Payton is really proud of all of the writing happening in Year 2!
Stage 2 - Year 3 & 4
Stage 2 have been working hard on developing their use of compound and complex sentences. The students have been focusing on using conjunctions and commas in their sentences as well as adding more details by using adjectives and adverbs. All of Stage 2 have come up with some amazing compound and complex sentences and I have included some for you to enjoy. I have very much enjoyed my time in stage 2 so far. Miss Baker (student teacher).
Stage 3 - Year 5 & 6
This term Stage 3 have been looking at developing their writing skills to enhance their text. We have looked at including metaphors, adjectives, similes and show not tell language. Using these language features in our writing allows the reader to visualise the story in their head. We are learning the more descriptive and interesting words we use in our story the more vivid the picture is in the reader's mind. Have a look and see if you can visualise our story.
SWIMMING CARNIVAL
A heads up – the school swimming carnival will be held on THURSDAY 8 DECEEMBER. There will be events for all levels of swimming ability and the opportunity to be selected to represent the school at next year’s regional swimming carnival. Nominations forms for events will be circulated next week.
We would like to wish the following children a Happy Birthday.
| Kindergarten | Theo B |
| Year 1 | Matilda B |
| Year 2 | |
| Year 3 | Kasey S |
| Year 4 | Blake B, Ashton F, Heath F |
| Year 5/6 | Caleb J |
Congratulations and we hope you had a happy day
The P&F would like to thank our school community for their support this year. Thanks to your fundraising contributions we have recently donated significant funds to go towards new library shelving, decodable readers and sporting equipment.
Thankyou also to the many local businesses who have kindly donated goods and vouchers for raffles and fundraising events this year:
Bunnings Wallsend Not Just Apples and Oranges
Kmart Revolution Sports Park
Nas Obray Tupperware Shorty Hotel
Ozzie Meats Shortland My Community Pharmacy Shortland
Megamania
Wishing you a wonderful festive season
OLV P&F
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