Week 5 Blog Post

 Good Afternoon,

I hope you all had a wonderful long weekend. It was another quiet weekend in the Hurst/Schoen household, filled with dog walks on the beach and some much needed R & R for the week ahead. The highlight of my weekend was catching up with some friends on the beach. On Wednesday, the students will have the wonderful Miss Gilpin as their relief teacher as I will be attending a professional development course in Bunbury, I look forward to seeing the students again on Thursday for the swimming carnival. We also have two new focuses as a whole class, this include whole body listening and lining up quietly. We are working our way towards two class rewards for this term.


I want to congratulate the wonderful Ellie Crawford on receiving our merit award last week. She received her award for her excellent start to the school year. Ellie is a new addition to our class and OLC, she is always ready to say yes to a friend and is already embodying the OLC school's values of Compassion, Appreciation, Respect and Excellence. Well done Ellie we are delighted to have you in 6H.


March Birthdays: 
Cielo Howard - 6th March
Jeremy Collis - 10th March
Happy Birthday to you both, we hope you have a wonderful March and a fantastic Birthday!
Week 2 Learning

Religion - Lent:
The students of OLC this week, raised a wonderful $75 in the lent project compassion boxes. The boxes will remain in each room in the school until the end of Lent. To find out more on project compassion and where the funds will go to please click the link below. We also created a visual eye to represent what we will be looking for, inspiring towards and inspiring to show during Lent. 








Visual Art:
In Art, we started working on a rhythmic quarter circle collaboration. We used repetition, pattern, and rhythm and oil pastels to design 1/4 circles with visually interesting, rhythmic patterns. After making our own individual quarter circle, all of the completed artworks were arranged together in full circles to enhance the effect of visual rhythm in a collaborative display. This lesson also focused on showing the students that individually we are beautiful and unique however, together as a team we can also be beautiful and compliment each other with our differences. 
Writing:
In writing, we focused on questioning skills. Looking at both thick and thin questioning skills. The students had to differentiate between thick and thin questions and then write an interview with their hero using 5 thick questions and 5 thin questions. It was so interesting to see all the students heroes and the people that they choose to interview. 
Parent Challenge - Ask your child 2 thick questions and 2 thin questions. 

Technologies: 
In technologies we started our project for this term - travel choices. This project focuses on posing a real life problem and question to the students and providing them with the learning and steps to pose a possible solution to the question. The question for this project is - How can we engage the school community in good travel choices? In this module, students will collect data about various modes of travel to and from school and assess the impact on people’s health, wellbeing and the environment. This module promotes community activism and responsibility by engaging students in analysing data related to modes of travel and its various effects on individuals and the community. Students develop solutions for a chosen problem around transport to school and then they will present this to the admin of the school. 

Week 2 Reminders 

Housekeeping:
Can you please send the students headphones in with them this week? Can these headphones please remain in the school, as when they are needed for activities there are a few students without them, thank you. Can you also please ensure that the students laptops are on charge every night! We have had quite a few flat laptops this week, and it this causes issues at times with the students learning in class, thank you so much. 

PAT Testing:
This week we will have the last of our series of formal PAT assessments, which will help further inform our understanding of your child's learning needs, as well as guide groupings within the classroom.  The students do not need to prepare for these in any way, however it is important that they get a good night's rest to ensure they are refreshed and ready.
PAT Tests:
Wednesday - PAT Spelling Test
Wednesday - PAT Reading Test

Choir Invitations:
A choir invitation was sent out by Mrs Sherborne last Friday. Could all students interested in joining please fill out the form on the following link by this Friday 26th Feb https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=Iy-FxTM2KU-zhlHaU-NeIycYwXYnxdBNs984jk5_lRdUOU9EVDVVWDdTUEcyQTNKNTRGMEdCTzRBMy4u
Thank you!

Swimming Carnival:
We will be hitting the pool on Thursday 4th March for the annual OLC Swimming Carnival. All parents are warmly invited to attend if you can...come dressed in your child's colours and get ready to yell for your team!

If you can please make sure that your child comes in their faction uniform with thongs to wear to the pool. They will also need bathers, rashie, towel, their school hat and goggles. Suncream is to already be applied before coming to school, we will take extra too!

If you would like to take your child home with you from the pool you will need to come and let me know at the conclusion of the carnival, however this should have also been indicated on the permission slips sent home earlier in the term. If someone else will be taking your child, please write a note to give to me.


Upcoming Events
1. Swim Carnival - Thursday 4th March
4. Swimming Lessons commence at the beach in week 6 and 7 for Year 6 (we will depart the school at 1pm for the beach and return at 2.30pm).
5. Parent Teacher Interviews week 8 and 9 (timetable to be emailed for booking slots soon, please let me know if these weeks will not be suitable and we can organise a time sooner in the term.)

Homework
Due: Friday, 5th March
Our homework diaries having not arrived as yet. The students will continue using their homework books for now. Thank you to those parents that sign the students work, please ensure you do this especially on a Thursday night before they return to class on a Friday. 
Home Learning Grid includes:
1. Reading 20 minutes each night - write title and amount read into their homework book each night.
2. Spelling Activities - no activities this week, due to shorter week. 
3. Mathematics - Times Tables - Orally practice (x6 times tables) 
4. Three well-being tasks from learning grid.
Have a good week everyone, hopefully the sunshine will continue into March.
Miss Hurst

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