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Welcome to 6R for 2020!

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Good morning, Welcome to Year 6!  I hope you all had a relaxing holiday enjoying the summer weather and making precious family memories. Whilst it has gone quickly, I am happy to be getting back into it and setting some routines to keep me on the straight and narrow.  Words fail to express how lucky and privileged both Alison and I feel to be having this group of students again before they leave OLC. Since having them in 2018, I have seen some amazing maturity and growth take place (I thank Mr D and you wonderful parents for that). For this reason, I expect big things from them all, as I know they are incredible little humans and have such great potential as the leaders of the school. Each student will need to take on greater roles and responsibilities this year in preparation for high school, enabling a smooth transition. As well as greater academic responsibilities, they will also be apart of a Ministry team that carries out different roles weekly. Here are some ways you
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Week 9 Term 4

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Good morning, So here it is... the final blog post of the year with all the important information about the upcoming events this week. It has been such a wonderful year with a significant amount of growth, hard work and fun. I have really enjoyed teaching your children, as they all have shown off their own little gifts at some point throughout the year. Thank you for your support and enabling your children to be here with all the things they have needed to ensure their learning could happen. See below for the important reminders. WEEK 9 REMINDERS: End of Year Christmas Concert   - is on tomorrow night Tuesday beginning at 5.30pm. If you can please have your child at school by 5.15pm dressed in Christmas colours...seats will be at a premium so factor that in to your plans! Colour Run  - this will take place on Friday 13th December. This a free dress and we ask that you send in an  extra white t-shirt  for your child to change into.  Reports  - these will be sent home w
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Week 6 Term 4

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Good morning parents, Welcome to another wonderful week here in 4R...I hope that you enjoyed the beautiful warm weather. We took a bike ride around the bay over the weekend and once I blocked out the whinging from my boys...I came to the realisation that we are so lucky to live in such a gorgeous place with such beautiful sights at our doorstep. From Mrs Martin...Thank you to all our parent and grandparent helpers who helped us with the Uthando Doll Project. It was such a lovely afternoon shared by all, the children were so proud to show what they had completed. Thanks to those who could make it, it was nice to be able to reward you with your efforts.  Last Wednesday we enjoyed time spent with Mrs Campbell and her friends, along with our parent and grandparent helpers, sharing our gorgeous dolls and afternoon tea. Everyone was very impressed with the children’s love and effort displayed during the project. Mrs Campbell told us that our dolls with be part of a shipment of 3000
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Week 5 Term 4 Update

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Good afternoon parents, Welcome to another amazing week here in 4R. I hope that you stayed cool in the heat of Saturday...I was lucky enough to enjoy a delicious high tea for an important charity and then spend time chilling by the pool. It was a little devastating when I soon realised it was time to start reports! We had a fantastic excursion to Eagle Heritage last Thursday and another huge thank you to Fiona, Michelle, Mike and John for coming along to keep us safe and make sure that no birds of prey carried anyone off! The students will be using this information that they gathered to begin planning for the bird of prey information report that we will be starting next week! Our day was then finished off superbly with an artist workshop conducted by Alan Meyburgh...after a slight change to plan he came up to school and we had a great time working in the hall on creating a sculpture of a bird using a variety of recycled materials. I was blown away by the
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Week 4 Term 4 - OMG the End is Near!

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Good morning parents, Welcome back to what is shaping up to be a much nicer weekend weather wise! I hope the rain filled up your tanks and gave your car a good wash! REMINDERS - WEEK 4 Mr John Hogan Healing Mass  - You may have read in the newsletter that John Hogan has recently been diagnosed with cancer. We will be holding a whole school mass on Friday morning at Our Lady of the Southern Cross beginning at 9.30am. All parents are warmly invited to attend if you are able. Award cards and MJR awards will be given at Mass as well. Excursion to Eagle Heritage  - We will be putting on our research hats on Thursday and heading off to visit Eagle Heritage to observe the features of the birds of prey. We will then be heading off to visit Mr Alan Meyburgh at his studio to experiment with making our own birds of prey using recycled materials...it is looking to be a beautiful day and I am sure the kids will have a lot of fun! Please make sure your child's permission slip has been return
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What week 3 Already!?!

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Good morning everyone, It's amazing the difference a bit of sunshine can make to one's mood and outlook on life!  Yesterday was such a perfect summer's day in the middle of spring, a great little taste of what's to come. I know I made the most of it while it was here, I hope you too had fun out in the sun with your loved ones xx This morning was such a beautiful way to start the week, my heart was filled with so much love and gratitude watching the students interact with their grandparents. The students first treated their guests with a little gift we had made for them. They then completed an interview with their grandparent, exploring many new things about them like what they loved to play, read and do at school. Lastly the students proudly took their grandparents on a little tour of the class, showing off their quality pieces of work! Here are a few pics from this morning😊 REMINDERS - WEEK 3 Assembly Week 3 -  Assembly will begin at 2.10pm
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Week 2 Term 4

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Good morning everyone, What a dream weekend, I hope you had a great one! Perfect for any activity whether it was relaxing at family camp, mulling around Dunsborough and getting to the beach or hitting the big smoke to visit family and friends. For us, it was hanging by our pool and soaking up some much needed sun! Last week, we ended it with a visit to St Mary McKillop for an Open Day at the college. It was so fantastic to see so many OLC parents taking up the opportunity to take a tour and see what was on offer. Our students were so well behaved and loved the activities they got to experience. We first got to test our cooking abilities and make scrumptious fruit smoothies. It was great to see the students work so closely with the Year 9's listening and following their every direction. It was quite funny to see the shocked looks on their faces when it was time to wash up and clean their kitchens.  We then got to draw self portraits of themselves using oil pastels without li
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