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WELCOME BACK
It's always great to return to work at OLV after a break. The children are so full of stories and excitement and ready to share stories and experiences. It sounds like everyone had a great break and are ready for the run to Christmas.
NEW STAFF
We have 3 new teachers who started this week. We welcome:
Miss Jazmin Jones in Year 1 - replacing Mrs Fren.
Mr Patrick Moran will be working with Mrs Deegan to share the Year 6 class - replacing Mr Fren
Mrs Stephanie Sturgess is taking on the RFF role, teaching CAPA to all classes - replacing Mr Fren
I am sure you will make them feel welcome as you always do for our new school members.
NAPLAN RESULTS
Parents of our Year 3 and Year 5 should have received the results of their children's NAPLAN Assessment this week. Please let us know if you haven't received them. If you have any questions or concerns please make contact with your child's teacher.
NEW ENTRANCE
Our new entrance is almost complete. We are just waiting for the hand rails for the stairs, a new intercom to be connected and new signage on the wall.
You are now welcome to use the path into the office and for pick ups in the afternoon. No need for the long hike to the bottom gate. If you are visiting the school you will need to check in at the office as usual. It is preferred that children arriving in the morning do so via the bottom Lovell Pde gate.
ASPIRE EXCURSION
The children in Year 4 to 6 will be attending the Diocesan ASPIRE production of DISCONNECTED. This production is prepared and performed by the talented staff and students of the Diocese. The productions are always spectacular and a great showcase of the wonderful talent developed in our Catholic School system. Please confirm your permission and payment through the appropriate APPs .
If your child is in Year 4, 5 or 6 with talents in singing, dancing, acting our playing a musical instrument and would like to be considered for one of these production, lookout for the auditions for 2025 coming up later this year.
SOO 2024
Well done to NSW this year. A very strong showing dominated the Maroons this year and deserved their series win.
Pity I couldn't go out on a winning note, but it should be noted that during my time the score was 19 series to 11. I'm happy with that.
Welcome back everyone I hope you all had a relaxing holiday and some quality family time. This term we have a few big events happening we will celebrate Father’s day, Grandparents Day and Our Lady of Victories Patron Saint mass. More information will come out about these celebrations at a later date. Please note all Monday Liturgies will begin at 8:50amPlease take note of the following dates for Liturgies this term. Please join us.
|
Date |
Time |
Liturgy/Mass |
Class |
|
26th July Friday |
1:50- 2:55pm |
NAIDOC Liturgy and activities |
AbED students |
|
29th July Monday |
8:50am |
Forgiveness |
Year 6 |
|
5th August Monday |
8:50am |
Mary MacKillop |
Year 4 |
|
12th August Monday |
8:50am |
Families |
Kindergarten |
|
19th August Monday |
8:50am |
God’s Colourful World |
Year 2 |
|
30 August Friday |
8:50am |
Father’s Day |
Year 3 & Year 4 |
|
2nd September Monday |
8:50am |
Helping |
Year 1 |
|
13th September |
10:00am TBC |
Grandparent’s Day |
Year 5 & Year 6 |
|
23rd September |
8:50am |
Listening |
Year 3 |
|
27th September |
9:00am |
Our Lady of Victories Mass in the church. |
Whole school |
Please note the following dates that each group will attend Friday morning mass at Our Lady of Victories Church. Mass will start at 9am therefore students attending mass that morning will all need to be at school no later than 8:45am. Please join us at mass.
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Date |
Time |
Classes |
|
9th August |
9:00am |
Kinder & Year 5 |
|
16th August |
9:00am |
Year 2 & Year 6 |
|
23rd August |
9:00am |
Year 1, Year 3 and Year 4 |
|
6th September |
9:00am |
Year 2 & Year 6 |
|
20th September |
9:00am |
Year 1, Year 3 & Year 4 |
|
27th September |
9:00am |
Whole School |
Cuppa & Chat dates
If you would like to meet new people at our school why not come along and join our Cuppa and a Chat! Everyone is welcome. Please extend this information to Grandparents as well.|
Date |
Time |
|
8th August Thursday |
2:15pm |
|
22nd August Thursday |
2:15 pm |
|
19th September Thursday |
2:15pm |
Kind regards,
Patty Dunn.
Pastoral Care
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ATHLETICS SUCCESS
CONGRATULATIONS to Shammah and Henry who made it through to the Diocesan Athletics Trials to be held next week. Shammah impressed everyone with her strength to be selected in Shot Putt and Henry used his speedy legs to gain selection in the 100m and Long Jump events. Well done children and we wish you the best of luck next week. Olympians in the making!!
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 (e.g. speech therapist or occupational therapist) 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.
COMPASS
OLV uses the "Compass" App. Log in details for parents/carers have been emailed to all new parents. If you are still unable to login, or your account has been made inactive, please contact Leanne in the office to arrange a reset of your password.
- For all new families please familiarise yourself with the information booklet you received in your information pack or enrolment pack, "Parent Portal Compass User Guide" This is also attached
- Only Parents/Carers have access to Compass Parent Portal. Parents must have separate email addresses in order to both have access to compass
- New Users when logging into Compass are given the opportunity to update their details. It has been noted that some parents have updated their mobile phone number by taking out the gaps within the phone number. This is not required. The system requires phones numbers to be in this format
- REMINDER: PLEASE ONLY EXPLAIN WHOLE DAY ABSENCES - PLEASE DO NOT REPORT PARTIAL ABSENCES through the Compass App. Reporting partial absences will cause inconsistences with your child's attendance
- SMS's are sent to parents of students who are absent from 9.35am each weekday morning. You will receive a text message if your child was not present during the marking the roll process. Please logon onto compass and explain your child's absence. Do not reply to the text as compass does not accept reply texts
- Please notify the office beforehand if your child is going to arrive late; you will however still receive an SMS. The arrival time of the student will be logged as an explained absence when they present to school on their arrival
- On occasion you may be sent a text message even though your child is in attendance at school, this may be because they have arrived late and not come to the Office for sign in. If your child is late, please come into the Office with your child and sign them in via the compass kiosk.
QKR APP
Part of “progress” is moving towards a cashless society. To assist with the banking, ordering and handling of money, we are moving more of our payments to the Qkr system.
You will find attached instructions for the QKR App. This easy to use phone app gives you the flexibility to place orders for Canteen and fundraisers from your phone. It also reduces the need for your child to bring cash to school. Please remember to amend your child's year group on the QKR App to aid the timely collection of their order. We will be moving to a wider usage of this app as the year progresses.
- Make sure your child matches the class they are in now. You may need to go to your account settings and change their class. This will have to be completed at the beginning of every school year
- Please do not send in a paper bag as well as ordering online; this will stop any double up of ordering
- If your child is away or sick and you have ordered their lunch, you have until 8.00 am to cancel your order on QKR and receive a credit for next time
- All ordering is now closing at 8.15 am Monday morning. This allows enough time to print out the relevant reports for our volunteer ladies
- As of Term 2 all lunch orders will only be able to be ordered through QKR. Cash on the day will only be for ice blocks, lollies and chips.
We will be looking at providing this service for other quick financial transactions such as sausage sizzles, raffles, pie drives etc,
Thaks to everyone for taking up this service.
Health Care Card
Most families have already completed the attached Health Care Card Forms and returned to the school with a copy of their Health Care Card. If you have a Health Care Card and have not handed it in please contact the Office. Health Care Cards gives up to 50% off your tuition fees.
We would like to wish the following children a Happy Birthday.
| Kindergarten | |
| Year 1 | Evie C, Hannah H |
| Year 2 | |
| Year 3 | Christopher H, Josie B |
| Year 4 | Eli O |
| Year 5 | Toma V, Max B |
| Year 6 | Emmesen P, Virginia P |
Congratulations and we hope you had a happy day
MONTHLY MEETING
Our July meeting will be held on Monday 29 July at 7pm. It will be a Face to Face meeting as well as availble on TEAMS. (lookout for the link on Monday).
Mrs Deegan will give us an update on Positive Behavior for Learning (PB4L) and give a presentation around the the impacts of teaching on students' writing.
Items to be discissed will include:
the dissolution of the P&F Association and associated account;
Canteen Supervisor;
Fundraising events.
We had a pretty good roll up last month and it would be great to see a few more new faces.
ST NICHOLAS OOSH Services
How to enrol for our OOSH Services:
You will be able to access the school newsletter here, special dates notifications and other messages from time to time.
Go to this link to download the Schoolzine App: