Week 9

This week’s blog is aimed at reminding you of some important upcoming dates:

The Scholastic Book Fair

When: this Tuesday, September 15^th and Wednesday September 16th

Where: OLC hall (note the change of venue)

Times: Before( 8 - 8.40 am) and after school (2.40-4 pm) on both days.

The hall be open 20 minutes before school finishes each day for those parents who would like to browse without their children.
The hall will also be open from 1.10 pm – 1.30 pm on each of these days for the children to come in , browse and buy.
If you are sending money to school with your child no more than $20 please.
With sustainability a high priority on our school improvement plan we have decide to limit the amount of ‘landfill’ sold, in the way of novelty items often wrapped in plastic.
Posters, pencils, pens, and some erasers will still be available.
Scholastic give the school a generous commission which can be spent at Scholastic or taken as cash to spend at local book stores.

Walkie, Wheelie, Waste Free Wednesday - Is on again this week. Please, where possible, assist your child with walking or wheeling and bringing a waste free lunch. Thank you for your support!

Operation Christmas Child

Thank you to those children who have brought in their shoebox item and $2.50 for shipping. For further information about this incredible project please refer to last week’s blog post and the note that was sent home. Please send in all items and money by the end of this week (Friday 18th September). Your participation in this is greatly appreciated.

Mission Markets

On the last day of school for Term 3 (Thursday the 24th of September) the children will be participating in our annual feast day - The Assumption of Mary.

The Year 2 children are running a pre-loved toy and game store and would love any donations such as:

· Books

· Soft & hard toys (clean)

· Board games & puzzles, with all pieces

There will be boxes outside the 2M classroom for you to place any items in. We thank you in advance for your donations 😊

Pupil Free Day

Friday the 25^th of September

Plastic Free for the Sea

Pecky the Pelican will be on display outside the admin office until the end of this term. Claire Jeffrey (mother of Max in 3Mc and Angus in PPL) was largely responsible for it’s creation! He is at OLC to spark loads of valuable discussion, awareness, investigation & understanding about PLASTIC POLLUTION and the devastating outcomes it has on our sea birds & marine life environment.

After huge storms earlier this year, a beach clean-up at Meelup was organised by the amazing ‘Cochella’ team. It was attended by 30+ volunteers and sadly (in only 1 hour), a massive amount of rubbish and plastic was collected (the marine debris found was used to create Pecky). Could you remind your child that it is ‘ok to look’, but please … DO NOT TOUCH! Over the next few months, Pecky the Pelican will be visiting many more schools & businesses throughout the South West & we would love for him to stay in his original condition & be in tip top shape for his entire journey.

We highly recommend you viewing him with your child to open up discussion surrounding this important topic.

Congratulations to Lara for being our 5H super star last week!

Wishing Pearl a very Happy Birthday for this Thursday!

Mr Ts Corner....

A terrific way to finish off our Speaking and Listening projects this term with some very inspirational presentations....Congratulations to everyone on such quality speaking and presenting skills that have just got better and better this year.

This week we are really keen to complete our "Light" Sunglasses project.

We are looking forward to some very stylish designs.