Welcome to Week 3 Term 3

Welcome to Week 3

What a wonderful day Year 4 had at the Blue Mountains last Thursday. The children were extremely  well behaved and the teachers were very proud of them. No doubt they were very tired when they got home. We hope they have shared some stories with you about the day as well as interesting things that they learnt from the National Park guides. We will be following up on the excursion this week in class and the children will be required to create a project on the information they learnt on the day.

Religious Literacy Assessment
During the next few weeks all Year 4 students will be involved in the Religious Literacy Assessment task (RLA). This requires the children to create a creative project based on either the parable of The Prodigal Son or the story of Zaccheaus the Tax Collector. The project will be done at school, however some children may need to bring in items from home to use on their task. The children will bring home a list next week of the items they may need.

Towards the end of the term the students will also do an online assessment to assess their religious knowledge. We are working with the children to help prepare them for this assessment task. On Thursday this week they will do a practise test to ensure that their usernames and passwords are working accurately. 

WHAT'S ON THIS WEEK:

Monday: 4G library borrowing

Tuesday: 

Wednesday:  Sport & Soccer Gala Day

Thursday: 4B and 4W Library borrowing

Friday: 

Have a wonderful week

Donna, Kylie, George and Angela

                     

                     Welcome to Week 2
     
Year 4 have a very busy and exciting week ahead!

Excursion Reminders:
A school excursion is always everyones  favourite part of the year!
Thank you for returning the permission notes so promptly. 
We need all children to be at school on Thursday morning by 7:20am so that the buses can leave at 7:30am sharp. 

A note of clarification is that the classroom teachers will be bringing some i-pads for the children so that they can take some photos during the day. Please DO NOT allow the children to bring any devices of their own. 

The Blue Mountains are cold at this time of the year! The bus will be nice and warm and we will warm up during our walking activities. It is best that the children wear layers of clothing that they can "peel off" or put back on  throughout the day as needed. Please label all clothing and bags. 

                      The Bureau of Meteorology Katoomba Forecast for our excursion is:  

(Please check the day before the excursion as well as keep up the prayers for this continued beautiful Winter weather!)

Thursday 27 July

Summary

Min 5

Max 13

Mostly sunny.

Possible rainfall: 0 to 0.2 mm

Chance of any rain: 10% 

Mostly sunny. Winds westerly 20 to 25 km/h.

Please wear:

·      Full school Winter sports uniform (tracksuit pants please- however navy tracksuit pants are acceptable if you do not have school tracksuit ) 

·      Enclosed walking shoes/ sports joggers

·      School hat & sun screen 

.      Gloves (optional)

In your backpack you need to carry: 

·      A minimum of 600ml water (not soft drink or juice) 

·      Recess and lunch 

·      A raincoat 

·      Any personal medications e.g. asthma puffer, epipen; 

**please label all items

Grandparent Day News:

    Wednesday, 26th July is the feast day of Saints  Joachim and Anne who were the grandparents of Jesus. All Grandparents are invited to OLOR to celebrate the important role that they play in the lives of their grandchildren. 

LITURGY: 9-9:45am in the school hall

MORNING TEA: 9:45-10:15am 

OPEN CLASSROOMS: 10:15-10:45am

Netball Gala Day :

    Please refer to all previous notes for the details of Wednesday's Netball Gala Day. Good luck to all the children participating in this day. We know that these children will represent OLOR with great 'sportspersonship.'

Term 3 HOMEWORK

     The speaking and listening task for Term 3 was sent home with the children last week to glue into their Homework Books. The children do not need to hand in this book weekly. They can use their Homework books for the draft copies of each section for their presentations and the teachers are more than happy to view these for children who would like to show their weekly progress. 

      We have added the task to a new tab on this blog - just incase the Homework sheet didn't make it home!

Year 4 Daily Homework:

** Daily reading - 20 minutes per night (or more!!) It would be great if the children could read out loud to an adult at least once a week as this is a very different skill than reading to yourself.

**Mathletics - tasks are regularly set by the teachers, but playing "LIVE" is very important too.

News from TEXAS !

     We have heard that Nikolas and his family have safely arrived in their new home state of Texas. They are looking for a house to live in and awaiting the ship to arrive with their belongings. Currently Nikolas in on Summer holidays and will start at his new school in August. Here is a photo Nik sent us... (Go the Giants!)

Monday: 4G library borrowing

Tuesday:

Wednesday:   Netball Gala Day

                        Grandparents Day

                        Sport

Thursday: Year 4 Excursion to the Blue Mountains

Friday: 4B and 4W Library borrowing

Thanks for all your support and positive comments,

Donna, Kylie, George and Angela

Welcome to Term 3, we hope you had a relaxing holiday. Please remember that Monday is a Staff day and that the children return to school on Tuesday. 

We will be discussing the Year 4 excursion and the homework  task with the children and then sending home information for you in the coming days. 

Week One:

MONDAY- STAFF RETURN

TUESDAY -     CHILDREN RETURN

WEDNESDAY - SPORT

THURSDAY - 4B and 4W Library

FRIDAY- Sausage sizzle - Year 6 fundraiser

TERM 3 DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

▪   Monday 17th July – Staff ONLY

▪   Tuesday 18th July – Students return to school

▪   Friday 21st July- Year 6 Sausage Sizzle

▪   Wednesday 26th July – Grandparent’s Liturgy- details to come 

▪   Thursday 27^th July – Year 4 excursion – notes will go home with more details this week

▪   Friday 18th August – Author Visit, Guest Speaker Andrew Daddo

▪   Monday 21st – Thursday 24th August – OLOR Book Fair (School Library)

▪   Tuesday 22nd August – Book Week Parade (School Hall)

▪   Friday 1st September – Father’s Day Liturgy -more details to come

Have a good week,

Donna, Kylie, George and Angela