Year PPT OLC

We made it!!! Well done on an amazing year!!! All of the kids have worked so hard and made awesome progress!! Here we come Year One!!! A few reminders for this week.... Christmas Play and Awards Evening  - is scheduled for  Wednesday 5th December commencing at 5.30pm .  All  students are asked to come dressed in their Christmas colours. Christmas hats, t-shirts and extras are most acceptable. They will need to be at school by 5.15pm. We will be lining up in our classes outside the hall. Students will need to be collected from their teacher at the end of the concert. S T. VINCENT DE PAUL CHRISTMAS HAMPER APPEAL – PLEASE HELP!  - Each year at OLC we take time to be thankful for our blessings and to assist those in need by contributing to Christmas Hampers distributed by the St. Vincent De Paul Society. There is a box in our classroom.  Please contribute something to make another less fortunate family's day a little more special.  Fun Day. The preprimary fun day is on Thursday t

This Wednesday, the 28th of November is Multicultural Day... and we can't wait!   So far we have Oscar B's mum, Gulnara, teaching us some Russian, Manoa's Dad Titsiano making Pizza, hopefully Manoa's mum Anne telling us about Sri Lanka and we have two other guest presenter parents who are just confirming their availability.   We could do with more presenters so if you would like to share something about your cultural heritage then let me know.  It could be craft, cooking, dancing, music, a game.... what ever you can think of.  We love it when our parents share their knowledge with the children.  As we forewarned you earlier this term...your child will need to dress in some form of costume representing a nationality.   They could always be an Italian soccer player or an Aussie stockman if you have difficulties in finding a costume. A Chinese dressing gown easily turns into a kimono.   It is a awesome day, especially since we have parent involvement. If you are inter

A few reminders for the weeks ahead. 1.  The children will be participating in PLD differentiated spelling groups for the last few weeks of school in preparation for Year One next year.  They all completed the PLD Year One placement test last week and did very well! The process of sending the children off to their like needs groups is very matter of fact.  Each group has a title and it is explained to the children what their learning focus is in that group.  It is not a competitive process but rather a sensible way of allowing children to consolidate their personal needs in spelling. These groups will be housed in PPB, PPL, the central wet area and in some Year One classrooms. This session is only 20 minutes long.  2. We plan to have the children eat their lunch with the 'big school' in weeks 8 and 9.  This is another preparation for Year One. The Preprimary children will be kept in a circle and closely supervised.  3.   Multicultural Day  is getting closer. ( Wednesday We

Tomorrow (Thursday 1/11) we will be participating in World Outdoor Classroom Day.  The Pre primary students will complete a series of play based learning activities in our outdoor area.  It would be great to have a couple of extra helpers on this morning.  If you can help then let us know.  We could also do with some help with resources on the day.  We need; 1.  Old sheets.  White or light in colour that you don't want back! 2.  Leaves.  Non toxic.  As many different sorts, shapes, colours that you can find.  A shopping bag full would be great.  3. Gum nuts.  We need a few hundred of these! 4. Small flat rocks.  Like the ones that come in bags from Bunnings for your garden.  If you have some of these that you haven't used we sure can make use of them.  5. Spray bottles. Empty and cleaned out.  6.  Boxes for box construction.  7.  Milk bottle lids.  8.  Lots of sticks.  In lengths of about 20cm.  Pencil thick.   If you can bring in some of these things it will be a

Welcome back for the home run!! Not long now!!! This term will fly by!! A few notes about the term..... Gathering time The roster will remain the same as last term. Please remember that the days are flexible, if another day works better for you feel free to swap. Just remember to let your child try to attempt words themselves. Accurate spelling is not the focus - having a go is. Please praise their efforts no matter how big or small. During gathering time the students will also be practicing their sight word reading with our EA and may also be asked to read their home reader as well. This is all about reading milage, the more they read the better they will get. R eading the same book 3-5 times improves a reader's speed, confidence and fluency. It helps them to understand the book, and to read in phrases. It may sound a waste of time, and that your child needs to change their book as soon as it is finished but reading a text again really works, especially with early readers.

We have made it through Term 3 and are finishing off with our amazing assembly!!! Just a reminder to try to get to school early so we can all get over to the hall to get organised. There won't be any home readers going home this week. New books will be issued next term. Keep practicing your sight words though!! Thank you to all of our wonderful parent helpers!! The classroom help, excursion help and PMP help is hugely appreciated. If it wasn't for your willingness to help we wouldn't be able to do half the things we do. So a big thank you and make sure you have a very restful holiday. Our excursion to Caves House was an awesome day. Here are some photos from the day.... Thank you Kristie and Katie

Good morning parents We have just two weeks left of this term! Well done to all of the PPL students on being such little superstars at the Athletics Carnival on Friday. Not only were they all so excited, but so well behaved, grown up, and everyone had a go! This Tuesday the students will be lucky to attend the Jungle Book 1pm Matinee. Learning Journeys This will be held next Monday 17th September after the excursion. During this time parents and children will be able to wander around the classroom looking at the amazing achievements made by their child. If the classroom is looking very crowded maybe you and your child could wait outside until others have finished and then come in. Christmas Shoebox Appeal If you haven't brought in your gift and money for the shoebox could you please bring it in by the end of the week so we can make them up ready to send. Performance Assembly (21st September) The students have been busy preparing and practicing for our Performance Assem

Good morning and welcome to Week 6! Thursday is SCHOOL PHOTO DAY. Please see the newsletter from Friday for the schedule.  Ensure you have photo orders in asap. This week sees our Integrated study classrooms swap – this means the students who were in with Mrs Leahy for Science activities each week will now be in with Mrs Nottle with topics in Humanities covered and vice versa.  Book Week – Dress up Thursday 30 th  August This years theme is ‘Find your Treasure’, we will have some learning stations throughout the classroom next week to celebrate this, including gold panning. This sensory activity also links with our olden days topic in Humanities and Pioneer Village. Dress up for the day next Thursday is to be centred around a special book if possible. We also have an author DC Green visiting the school this day. Parents are welcome to stay for this incursion. Details in the newsletter. The Pre-primaries will be involved in the Christmas Shoebox Appeal. A note will go ho

Thank you for remembering to bring in home reading folders each day. We will change the books on a Tuesday and Thursday if we can see that the book has been read. Please help your child to remember to place their folder in the container in the classroom each morning. If it's not there we won't be able to change their book. Just a reminder that Julie Birch and I are happy to run a Home Reading Information session with any parents interested in how it all works. So please let us know ASAP. Here is a video discussing the importance of the types of readers we send home and why we ask that the book is read at least twice before it is changes. It is worth a look!! Sight words Everyone now has some sight words to practice at home. Each fortnight the children will be tested on their ability to read and spell their words. If they have success they will receive a new set of words to practise. Sometimes they will receive a new set and may have one or two from the previous set to

Welcome back to Term 3. I hope everyone enjoyed their break, I know I certainly did. A trip to the warmth and sunshine of the north was an awesome getaway for the Leahy family. Term Three is traditionally a time when we step up the learning yet again.  There will be a big emphasis on early writing and reading. So far this year we have worked on, 1.  Recognising  and  saying  the  sounds  for each symbol of the alphabet.  2. Listening for sounds in words and writing symbols to match those sounds.  This does not mean that their spelling will be perfect but that they can represent key single sounds.   eg.  little = litl       tree = tre     table = tabl    They have not yet been taught digraphs and are not expected to recall them.   3.  Blending two sounds using onset and rime.    c -at   = cat 4.  Blending three sounds  c - a - t  = cat 5  Segmenting three sounds   cat = c-a-t  Students will be introduced to digraphs sh, ch, th, ck this term as they show readiness.  Some studen