Dear Parents,
Please note that the children are now allowed to wear their sports uniform with their jersey over the top in support of Jersey Day.

          

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Week 7

Book Week Parade:

Thank you to everyone for getting into the spirit and dressing up for Book Week.  We have included some photos on the photo page of this blog. Thanks to Mrs Walter for organising a fun week. Any books that are on back order from the Book Fair will arrive in the next few weeks  and sent directly to the children. Thank you for your support.

RLA:

Part B of the RLA has now been completed for Year 4. The creative day was very fun and productive. The children expressed themselves and the message of God's love, forgiveness and Reconciliation in original, thoughtful and innovative ways. We have also included some photos of the children hard at work. 

Fathers Day:

Wednesday 30th and Thursday 31st August is the Fathers Day stall at OLOR. All gifts are $4

Friday 1st September Fathers Day breakfast starting at 8am, followed by a liturgy in the hall. Children are encouraged to wear a sport jersey over their uniform to raise awareness of the organ and tissue donation, through DONATE LIFE

What's on...

Monday:

4G library

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

Fathers Day Stall

Year 4 Sport

Thursday:

4W and 4G library

Fathers Day Stall (lunchtime only)

Friday:

Fathers Day breakfast and liturgy  (Dads, Pops, Grandads, Godfathers very welcome)

Jersey Day - to be worn OVER the uniform

Happy Fathers Day to all the Fathers , Grandfathers and Godfathers for Sunday...we hope you are very spoilt !

Donna, Angela, Kylie and George

               Welcome to  Week 6

Happy Book Week 2017!

Last Friday we enjoyed the visit from the well loved author, Andrew Daddo.  He was a brilliant presenter and kept us all laughing with his great stories mainly based on his experiences as a child. Year 4 were very motivated to write their own stories when they returned to the classroom. 
There are many events planned to celebrate Book Week and the joy of reading with details sent home last week on the green note from Mrs Walter. 

Tuesday is the Book Week parade. This is meant to be a fun and easy event, not to cause any stress to families. Year 4 have been reading Rowan of Rin by Emily Rodda this term. We have suggested to the children who are having difficulty thinking of something to dress up as, that they might want to come as a character from this book - jeans, shirt, boots, backpack etc - similar to what you wear going on a bush walk/ hiking. 
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A message from Mrs Walter:

BOOK PARADE- TUESDAY 22nd August @ 9am in the School Hall

All the children and teachers are invited to take part in the Book Week Parade. All parents are welcome to come and watch. The children are to come to school dressed in their outfit. They will remain in their outfit all day therefore they must have enclosed shoes on their feet and their outfit should be simple and comfortable.

The BOOK WEEK theme is “Escape to Everywhere”.

The Book Parade is a fun way to celebrate Book Week and the Book Fair and shouldn’t be a stressful time for parents with regard to costumes. The children can come dressed as a favourite character from a book OR come dressed as anything or person that could be found in any book housed in a primary school library. Play clothes would be fine if you are stuck for ideas as there are plenty of girl characters (Billie.B.Brown, Juliette The Vet, Zac Power, Charlie Bucket etc) that don’t wear special costumes.

We have books on everything in the library, so children can be dressed in anything from animals, superheroes, sports gear, clowns, magicians, cooks, robots, aliens…whatever is easiest for you but no weapons please. Each class will parade around the Hall, but there will not be any prizes awarded. The children DO NOT have to have a book to reflect their outfit.

What's on this week...

MONDAY:

Year 4 children view the Carnival Book Fair and write their wish lists at an allocated class time

**No library this week due to Book Week events

TUESDAY:

BOOK WEEK PARADE- 9am School hall, parents welcome

WEDNESDAY:

Year 4 SPORT AND HEALTH

Book Fair Year 4 class buying day - after recess

RLA CREATIVE DAY - please ensure that the children have all of their resources (see last week's blog and the note sent home last week for details) 

THURSDAY:

Year 4 to attend Parish Mass at 9:15am

RLA CREATIVE DAY continues

**No library this week due to Book Week events

FRIDAY:

Diocesan Athletics

SUNDAY:

ORANGE BLOSSOM FESTIVAL - 

Congratulations to all the Year 4 dancers. 

Even if you are not dancing, you may like to come and support the performers from OLOR and join this great community day.
Event program
Event map and Local Blooms stage program  
Map of Bella Vista Farm

Dates for the diary:

• Friday 1st September – Father’s Day Liturgy *more details to come*

Have a great week!

Donna, Kylie, George and Angela

Welcome to Week 5 Term 3

Welcome to Week 5.
This Tuesday we will celebrate the Feast of the Assumption Mass with St Angela's school. It will take place in the OLOR church. All welcome.

Religious Literacy Assessment
The Year 4 children have been busy over the last week completing the written components of the Religious Literacy Assessment (RLA). They have been asked to choose either the parable of The Prodigal Son or the story of Zaccheaus the Tax Collector and have written responses about these stories. During this week the students will be looking at the Sacrament of Reconciliation and how this helps them to renew their relationship with God.

This week they will also be involved in planning for the creative part of the RLA. This is a creative response of their choice to their chosen gospel. We encourage you to talk to your child about what they have chosen to do for their creative response. During this week they will bring home a list of items they may need to complete their project. The school will provide many materials, however some materials may need to provided from home. 
e.g. shoe boxes for dioramas, canvas boards for paintings, lego to make characters. The children will be completing their creative project on Wednesday and Thursday NEXT WEEK.

WHAT'S ON THIS WEEK:

Monday: 4G library borrowing

Tuesday: ICAS Mathematics (for registered students)

9:30am Feast of the Assumption Mass with students and staff from St Angela's

Wednesday:  Year 4 Sport

Thursday: Zone Athletics Carnival

Friday:  Author Visit - Andrew Daddo
               4B & 4W library borrowing (changed from Thursday this week)

Dates for your diary:
Monday 21st August - OLOR Book Fair
Tuesday 22nd August - Book Week Parade - school hall
Sunday 27th August - Orange Blossom Festival - OLOR dancers to perform

Have a wonderful week

Donna, Kylie, George and Angela

                  Welcome to Week 4 

WHAT'S ON THIS WEEK:

Monday: 4G library borrowing

Tuesday: 

9am Mary MacKillop Liturgy in the school hall

Wednesday:  

Thursday: 

9:15am Year 4 Parish Mass

4B and 4W Library borrowing

Friday: 



Dates for you diary:
Tuesday 15th August - ICAS Mathematics (for registered students)
Thursday 17th August - Zone Carnival
Friday 18th August - Author Visit - Andrew Daddy
Monday 21st August - OLOR Book Fair
Tuesday 22nd August - Book Week Parade - school hall

Sunday 27th August - Orange Blossom Festival - OLOR dancers to perform

Have a wonderful week

Donna, Kylie, George and Angela

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