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Week 8 Term 4

 Dear Parents,

Transitioning to Year One. 

As we draw closer to the end of the year and the beginning of Year One we are beginning to implement a few transitions in order to make Year One easier for our students. 

Last week we ate our recess near the nature playground at the oval. This week we are eating our lunch near the hall with the 'big kids' to get used to their Year One lunch location. 

PPL Christmas Concert Information

The OLC Christmas Concert is Tuesday, 7th Dec (Week 9) commences at 5:30pm, so please ensure that your child is here at 5:15pm. Your child will be required to attend their classroom by 5:15pm and will walk down to the oval as a class, while you can find a nice spot on the hill. The theme for the end of year concert dress is ‘Casual Christmas Wear’. Christmas colours, t-shirts, dresses etc and Christmas accessories are all perfect for the occasion. PPL are performing a Chipmunks/rockstar themed dance. If your child would like to wear any 'rockstar' accessories (sunglasses, leather jackets, funky hair style etc) please feel free to wear them! Students to wear sneakers please. Any questions please email ellie.haines@cewa.edu.au. I can’t wait for you to see your children shine, they have all blown me away this Semester! Thank you- Mrs Haines


Library Books

Please make sure your child's library book comes back this week. There will not be bringing home a new library book for the rest of the term.


Home Reading Books

This will be the last week that new home reading books will be sent home. Please make sure reading folders are sent to school next Monday along with any home readers you have at home.


The Season of Advent:

We celebrated the beginning of the season of Advent today.

Advent is a period of spiritual preparation in which many Christians make themselves ready for the coming, or birth of the Lord, Jesus Christ.

Celebrating Advent typically involves a season of prayer, fasting, and repentance, followed by anticipation, hope, and joy.

We celebrate Advent not only by thanking God for Christ's first coming to Earth as a baby, but also for his presence among us today through the Holy Spirit, and in preparation and anticipation of his final coming at the end of the age.



Character Strengths:

Dear Parents, currently at OLC we are focusing on modeling and observing different character strengths. The strengths that we will focus on are taken directly from the VIA Institute for Character. If you wanted to learn more about this please follow the link to the 24 character strengths: https://www.viacharacter.org/character-strengths
This upcoming week we are looking for people who show Self-Regulation. Can you encourage your child to reflect on the following?

Thanks
Kristie Leahy

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