Year 6H OLC

  K A Y A It is with great sadness I say that this will be my final blog post for the year. I can not describe how incredibly proud of the students and leaders this group has become.  What a great year of laughter and learning!  They have worked hard and played hard.  The have been great leaders...what more could I have asked for! A sincere thank you for all of your support, patience and kindness you have all shown me over the past year. Thank you for your quick responses to my endless requests and willingness to help in anyway has been noted and appreciated throughout the year.  A special thank you for my wonderful gifts and even more beautiful cards, I definitely shed a tear or two reading them, they are so thoughtful and extremely appreciated, I did not expect anything, thank you so much.  💕 GRADUATION The mass will commence tomorrow in our church at 9am, we ask that you are seated and settled 10 minutes prior to this.  The students are to wea...

  K a y a, It is incredibly hard to believe that this is the final week of Primary School for your children. I think I am in denial, I sit back and reflect on the year and can't believe we have reached this point already! Whilst I am sad to be saying goodbye this week, I know the students are grateful for what they have had at OLC and are ready with excitement to move on to their next big adventure ahead! Sorry this blog is not so exciting, it covers a bit of housekeeping for the busy week ahead. ⭐ Star Citizen ⭐ Well done to Oliva Breheny for receiving the 6H star citizen award this week for Excellence. When when you look up the definition of excellence, there are certain words that are linked directly like; greatness, achieving, striving, personal best and positive attitude. Olivia, not only do these words describe excellence but they also describe you. Olivia is an exceptional leader who has a positive influence on her peers and those she mentors. She has a mature understanding ...

   K a y a, My goodness, the end is in sight, only two weeks left with our little 6H family. I am full of mixed emotions, sadness that they will be leaving but happiness and excitement for our excursion and graduation.  I would like to take this opportunity to send you all a massive thank you for your support this year. Thank you for your kind emails, patience and laughs over the year.  As there a lot of reminders below I have not included much other information. Thanks guys for your patience and understanding over the last two weeks. We will have a very busy two weeks ahead with lots of practice and preparation for both the Christmas concert and the graduation so lots of rest ahead for the Year 6 students. Thanks guys!  ⭐ Merit Award ⭐ Well done to Carter Reynolds for receiving the 6H merit award this week. This award was for your excellent effort this term with measurement in math. Carter, you are a marvelous measuring mathematician! Carter you are also an ama...

  K a y a, Strap in guys, we have a busy three weeks ahead!!!!!  ⭐ Merit Award ⭐ Well done to Xavier Armstrong for receiving this weeks merit award. This is for the development and dedication to your leadership role this year. Xavier, you enter every day at school with envious energy and an incredible zest for life. Xavier, you display excellence when the task taps into your deep creativity and imagination. A perfect example of this excellence is listening to your creative, hilarious, and imaginative poetry this term. Well done Xavier. Graduation Practice and Year 6 Busy Bee  On this upcoming Friday, the Year 6 students will be very busy! We have our first graduation practice on Friday at the church. We will then help out some of the parish community with a busy bee around the garden of the church. The students will need to wear their sport uniform, have a hat, wear suncream and bring a packed recess and lunch and water. MacKillop and Grammar Orientation  This week t...

K a y a, Can you believe we are heading into week 6 and we finish in week 9?  OH-MY-GOODNESS!  The year 6 students have now completed all their PAT testing - Yipee! We just have a few more units of learning ahead of us, so still a few more busy weeks ahead. We will continue looking at poetry in writing, measurement in mathematics, Asia in HASS, novel studies in reading, preparation for graduation in health and MJR in Religion. In the next two weeks we will be starting our artwork for graduation. See below for what your child requires for this. ****Photo of the week, some of the Year 6 students enjoying lunchtime**** Wheelie Walkie Competition 🏃🚶🚴🚲 Reminder - until this upcoming Wednesday, there is a competition at the school to win an excursion. Every day, the leadership team will visit the classes and count how many students either walked or rode to school. Let's go 6H!   🏃🚶🚴🚲 Saint Vincent De Paul Collection  Each year at OLC we take time to be thankful for...

  K a y a, We are halfway there - yipee!  Well done to all the Year 6 students on demonstrating excellence at the Swim Carnival on Friday! What awesome leaders we have at our school. A massive thank you to Mrs Sinclair on a wonderful day at the pool!   💓 ****Reminder for the students for Monday to bring in their novel and their book club work**** *Also* There is a pupil free day on Friday this week!  Important - Graduation PowerPoint  I am are hoping that you can find and email me a photo of your child as a baby and and a photo of your child in Kindy . We would like to create a PowerPoint for Graduation with these special photos, as well as others from their time at OLC. If you have any ripper photos from your child's time at OLC, we would greatly appreciate any donations. Please email them through so I can get onto this job as soon as I can. Term 4 Important Dates: 11th November - Student Free Day 23rd November - OLC AGM 2nd December - International Day o...

K a y a, 2 weeks down - 6 to go, can you believe it?   What a jam packed week we have had, from Journey Sticks, dancing, swimming trials and grandparents day! I cannot believe we are on the countdown with only 6 weeks left to go. We have another busy week ahead with testing and the swimming carnival on Friday.  Thank you so much to all the grandparents that visited our 6H family on Friday, it was a pleasure to welcome you to our classroom. It was so lovely to watch the students show you their work with pride! Well done to 5R for kicking off the prayer and performance assemblies, it was a beautiful assembly and it was wonderful watching the students dance and sing in celebration of their grandparents. 💓 ⭐ Merit Award ⭐ Well done to Emerson Hughes for receiving this weeks merit award. This was for her mammoth effort and energy she puts into everything she does. Emerson, gives 110% whilst working on her learning journey. She exhibits consistent leadership skills and can be ...