Term 4, Week 4
Term 4, Week 4
What an incredible term of learning we are having!
The class are busy learning about fractions,
researching and writing an information report about their chosen illness,
creating their presentations delving deeply into the characters of our class
novel, Wonder, revising our Friendology skills and diving into their future
dreams, who they want to be when they grow up and how they are going to get
there. WOW (insert mind blowing emoji)!
Honestly, it is such a blessing to be working
with such motivated and beautiful souls. You should all be extremely proud of these
little legends you have created.
HOMEWORK
Thank you to those of you who are signing our
Home Learning Grids and ensuring your child is completing their set
homework.
Reading Wonder: The children are doing an incredible job of reading Wonder during their class sessions. If they are away for a session or a day, it would be great for them to keep up with the book at home. Or maybe they may like to revisit the parts we have read in the book for clarification or new ideas.
Here is a link to a playlist on YouTube that
is a teacher reading the book Wonder, if
you feel as though your child would benefit from sitting and listening to the
book being read to them.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhKHEsEsPavtzP_BEQCMuCMDcNEDECpE_
Mathletics: Each week I have been setting two teacher tasks
for students to complete for their homework. These tasks, reflect what we have
been focusing on during class. If they don’t complete the tasks weekly, they
start to bank up a bit. Could you please check in with your children and see if
they have completed their required tasks.
WA Country Health: Last week there was an option in the homework
to complete a drawing that reflected one of the core values of the WA Country
Health. It is a competition run by WA Country Health, and if selected, the
drawing will be displayed in one of WA Country Health’s hospital. Thank you to
Cody’s Mum, Danielle Marsden for organising this for us. The entries need to be
in by this Friday, so if we could please make sure they are back by Wednesday,
3rd November, that would be great.
Leaders T-Shirt Design – Last week, Miss Hurst spoke to the children
about an opportunity for them to have their design on 2022’s Leaders T-Shirts. They
were given the following design brief
· Needed
to be done in grey lead pencil
· Try
to avoid a circular design
· Inclusion
of the Wadandi culture would be given bonus points
· Reflect
the environment and/or people of the South West
· Represent
transition or growth in some way
Children
need to have these designs back by Monday, 1st November.
Updating
Laptops
The
following message is from Mrs Johnson and is in regards to updating Laptops AT
HOME please and thank you.
Students who have not recently
(within the last month or two) updated their laptops may experience issues
connecting/printing to the printers at school. This is due to increased
security requirements introduced by Microsoft to fix some printing security issues.
These have been applied to the print server and students need to apply the
updates to their laptops.
Some student laptops are out of
date and need to be updated ASAP. The students need to plug their laptops into
the power at home and then go to Settings, Update & Security and check for
updates. After the updates are installed, the laptop needs to be restarted.
They will need to do this 3 times to ensure all updates are installed.
It is important
that the laptop is connected to power while they do the updates, and they
should not close the lid of the laptop (as this puts the laptop to sleep and
the update will not install).
Unfortunately,
there are not enough chargers or time to do this at school, so carrying out the
process at home would be greatly appreciated. If there is lack of internet
issues at home, please let us know and we can attempt to carry this out at
school.
Thank you,
Janine Johnson
Wellbeing Week
We are holding
a whole week of whole school Wellbeing from Monday to Friday in Week 4. There
will be a small activity each day with a wellbeing focus.
Each day of Wellbeing
Week a member of the Wellbeing Team will lead the whole school in a
prayer meditation and some square breathing over the PA at 12.50pm.
Yoga and Sound
Healing have been organised for all of the classes at various times
over the week. 5H will be doing Yoga on Monday and Sound Healing on Wednesday.
The week will
culminate in a Wellbeing Assembly presented by the year 4's on the Friday.
Friday is also Wear
a T/shirt with your fave colour/ fave band / fave slogan – whatever makes you
feel good! day!
What a way to end the week!!
Character Strength
This week we are looking for people who show "Love of Learning".
Student Leadership Presentation
Mr Torrese has spoken to the Year
5 students in regards to applying for leadership in 2022. In week 7, if they
are interested in it, the students will present their speech to students and
teachers. Below is a rundown of the expectations. If you have any questions,
please see Adrian Torrese.
Student Leadership Presentation
2022 Nomination
Monday 22nd
November Week 7
What
your presentation should include:
1.
Information about you.
2.
How you have contributed to OLC in the
past – interschool teams, community events, choir etc….
3.
How you have lived out some/all of the
school values – with examples….
4.
Why you think you will be a great
student leader in 2022.
Remember
to present using the speaking skills you have learnt this year.
|
Make appropriate eye contact |
Make eye contact with your audience regularly. When speaking
to a larger group, make eye contact with many members of the
audience, in front of you and to the sides, as you speak. |
|
Use clear volume, pacing
and pauses to engage the audience
|
Speak slowly and
clearly when
describing and explaining. Pause after introducing new
information. |
|
Use tone of voice to enrich your
presentation
|
Sound excited when describing exciting things. Speak quietly to add some drama or to add effect. |
|
Use gestures to emphasize a point you
are trying to make. |
Think about where in your presentation you
can use gestures to maintain attention and add interest to your presentation. |
|
Presentation Structure
|
Use the speaking
presentation framework that you have been using in all writing and speaking
activities.
Introduction – be
creative
Important details –
address each of the 4 points above
Conclude – leave an
impression! |
Your
presentation should be between 2-3 minutes. Good luck!
Mr Torrese, Mr Jones and Mrs O’Brien
Congratulations to our Term 4 Merit Award Winners so far
Hamish, Violet and Tiago
UPCOMING DATES
Friday 5th
November – Silent Disco, don’t forget to get your tickets
Friday 12th November: Pupil Free Day
Wednesday 24th November: AGM
Tuesday 7th December: End of Year Christmas Concert
Friday 10th December: Last Day of Term 4 - Colour
Run
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