Term 4, Week 4



Kaya Parents, 
Thank you and your kiddos for all the love yesterday, on "World Teachers Day"... crazy hats, chocolate, soap, flowers, tea, cake, artwork, honey, and beautiful words....

"I love your hair and grate prize box"
"I will never ever get a fun teacher and funny one like you"
"you are da g.o.a.t greatest of all time"
"thank you for working with the boys"
"you make our class happy"
"thanks and don't run away"
"please never give up"
"teachy you are my favourite"
"you have good ideas"
"is it possible to get more awesome?"
"thank you from the bottom of my heart"



Upcoming events and a few date changes ..... see below.


Important Dates for Term 4 2023

  1. Saturday 28/10 6pm Year 6 Confirmation Mass everyone welcome
  2. Thursday 02/11 and Monday 06/11 Artist Incursion -Kate Driscoll  
  3. Friday 3rd November - Grandparents Day at OLC
  4. Wednesday evening 8th November - OLC AGM 
  5. Week 5, Wednesday 8th November - Remembrance Day Service - Presented by 5C please note date change
  6. Thursday 09/11 Cricket Excursion Busselton
  7. Friday 10th November - Pupil Free Day 
  8. Wednesday 29th November - OLC Christmas Concert
  9. Friday 8th December - OLC Colour Run and Last day of School 



ARTIST INCURSION


Thanks to our wonderful P&F we have a Visual Arts Specialist visiting OLC next week to facilitate art lessons for the Year 4 – 6 classes.  

Each class will enjoy 2 ½ hours of visual art lessons led by Kate Driscoll.  Kate is a very experienced art teacher.  You can view her work on her Instagram page - Art Teacher Life.  

Session 1.  Jelly Paint printing.  1 hour.  

Session 2.  Collage design. 1. Hour.  

Session 3. Final gluing down of design. ½ hour.  




Cricket Excursion

On Thursday 9th November, the year 5 and 6 students will be participating in the SWPSA Interschool cricket Carnival at Bovell Oval in Busselton, scheduled from 9.30am to 2pm. Teams will be of mixed ability levels, to encourage fun, friendship and participation. Permission slips will go out next week. Some points to note:

  • students depart school in the bus at 8.40am
  • students will return to OLC by bus at 2.50pm (you may need to make alternate arrangements for your child to get home if they usually get the school bus).
  • You may pick your child up from Bovell Oval at the end of the day
  • Please provide food and drink for the whole day (no canteen facilities available)
  • Full OLC sport uniform and hat (teal polo shirt)
  • you are welcome to come along to support your child for the day



Remembrance Day Assembly

Due to the Cricket Excursion, the Remembrance Day Assembly, presented by 5C will be brought forward to Week 5, Wednesday morning 8th November.
We will begin rehearsals next week.


IN THE CLASSROOM


HASS: Migration 

Students interview a first generation migrant member of their family or community to explore the push / pull reasons why people migrate, through the eyes of the migrant and as a class we will identify ways to support migrants in their assimilation.

Students are required to submit their interview transcript with notes, and a newspaper article created on Canva profiling the experience of their interviewee. 
Exemplars and resources are on OneNote, Content Library, HASS - as well as a video of a 'modelled' interview with my dad, Malik Mascarenhas a migrant from Sri Lanka.


Please support your child with:

 1. Identifying a first generation migrant - most are interviewing parents or grandparents, but a few students are unclear if certain people in their family circle are migrants or not. You may know a migrant in your workplace, or a friend who wouldn't mind being interviewed. Alternatively, your child can interview Father Archie or Mrs Meyer's mother-in-law, who will be guests in our class in the coming week, to share their migrant stories.

2. The migrant does not have to be someone who has fled a war, or is a refugee, but it could be someone who has decided to migrate to Australia by choice, for marriage or work opportunities.

3. Recording the interview on your phone / ipad. Most children do not know shorthand, and can't write as quickly as the interviewee speaks.

4. I have provided a bank of interview questions to the children as a scaffold, but please prompt them in creating some of their own questions too, as the interview progresses.



Grandparents Day

We will celebrate Grandparents Day on Friday, the 3rd of November (Week 4), so please make sure that your child has taken the time to invite their grandparents along if possible.
We will start at 9.00am with a 1K assembly. 
Grandparents can then go into classrooms for activities from 9.30-10.40am and to look at their grandchild's work. 
At 10:40am, they will have an opportunity to share morning tea with their grandchildren in the undercover area.


Calendar Art

I've had feedback that there is an error with the link to order art. Admin are working on resolving this, please contact Mrs Marrell or Mrs Reilly in the office if you are still having issues. 


Thank you for your ongoing support, have a lovely weekend,



Warmly,
Anne Coltrinari

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