5 - 8th September, 2023 - Term 3, Week 9
Principal's News
Dear Families,
This week has been a busy one, with an excursion for the junior grades and Summer Sports for our senior students. The Prep, One and Two students enjoyed a day of bowling, pasta, pizza and play before taking part in activities after school. Our Preps headed home after tea, while our Grade Ones and Twos stayed on the sleep in the Multipurpose Room. A great time was had by all, although there are a few tired little people in class today! As I write this, the Volleyballers have just returned victorious from their round of games at the P-10 College! Needless to say, the team is very happy with themselves! We are yet to find out how our basketballers and tennis players have gone, but I’m sure they have enjoyed the day! A big thank you goes to all of the teachers involved in these activities and to the parents who helped out, especially those who were brave enough to sleep the night at school! We appreciate your support.
Next week is our final one of term, finishing ten weeks of learning and activities. The students have worked very hard and there have been plenty of activities and events that have taken place. It is hard to believe that we are heading into the final term of the year, which is always action-packed. Please make sure you have read and recorded the calendar dates so that you are aware of when events are happening, as well as noting the days that are school closures or pupil-free. I draw your attention particularly to the closure days around the Melbourne Cup holiday. This will be a great opportunity for children to reset during the term or for families to have a break together. Click on the calander tab at the top of this page to see all dates.
The second half of next week will be busy with the Sunray Warrior excursion on Wednesday, the Disco and R U OK? Day on Thursday and Footy Colours Day on Friday! Information about all of these events has been in past newsletters or on Seesaw. The Sunray Warriors excursion was a great one last year, with the students engaging in many fun and informative learning activities centred around the environment. Thank you to those families who have done their permissions on PAM. Students are asked to wear a splash of yellow on Thursday for R U OK? Day and their favourite team colours on Friday. The weather is expected to be very warm so it will be a great way to end the week with activities and a pie or hot dog for lunch. Orders can be placed through the CDF Pay site - NO LATER THAN 12PM NEXT MONDAY 11TH SEPTEMBER.
As mentioned in last week’s newsletter, on Monday we celebrated Indi’s first birthday. She enjoyed her birthday treats and celebration with the students and the children enjoyed a cupcake as well! We made the local newspaper today, so make sure you check this out if you have a chance.
As usual on the last day of term, we will have an early finish at 2.25pm. The Victorian bus will run at the earlier time, while any students on the NSW bus will need to make arrangements for an early pick up. We thank families for organising this.
I hope you all enjoy a good weekend!
Narelle Gallagher
School Contact Hours
Email:
- Narelle Gallagher: principal@olshmerbein.catholic.edu.au
- Office staff: admin@olshmerbein.catholic.edu.au
Office hours: 8.00am to 4.00pm - Monday to Thursday 8.00am to 3.45m - Friday
Teachers: 8.45am to 4.00pm - Monday to Friday
Upcoming Events
R U OK? DAY
14th September
OLSH DISCO
14th September
ORDERS CLOSE
11TH SEPTEMBER AT 12PM
Religion
Sacrament of First Communion: Last Wednesday night parents were invited to attend an information session about the sacrament of first communion. Work packs were given out. For those who were unable to attend the packs have been delivered to the school and sent home with your child.
The Sacrament of First Communion will be celebrated on the weekend of October 20th - 22nd 2023. Please keep the following children in your prayers: Zali Breewel, Ava Barnes, Isaac Longeri, Ember Baylin, Davien Maher, Fletcher Pollock, Michele Dichera.
Sport
Summer Sports: Today the Grade Five and Six children participated in the Summer Sports against Merbein P-10 and The Lake Primary Schools. The children played Basketball, Volleyball and Tennis. All children represented the school with pride.
Congratulations: To Eamon Breewel who will represent OLSH in the 200m race in Bendigo in October. Eamon came second at the Mini Olympics last weekend and has been selected to the next stage.
To Poppii Driscoll who came runners up in the soccer tournament in South Australia. Poppii has been playing representative soccer over the last couple of years and has shown amazing improvement in her skills.
Student of the Week
Congratulations to the following students:
| Prep: Rheon Baylin | His fantastic effort during writing this week. |
| Grade: 1/2 L: Chelsea Arnold | Working hard in maths when learning about volume and capacity. |
| Grade: 1/2 R: Meila Goodger | Reading with fluency and expression and always contributing great ideas to discussion. |
| Grade: 3/4 L: Isaac Longeri | His excellent Information Report on Apollo 11 |
| Grade: 3/4 P: Izobel Matulic | Being thoughtful of others and for her fluency and effort when reading. |
| Grade 5: Matilda Field | Making great progress in maths and having a positive can do apporach to new learning. |
| Grade 5: Cosimo Dimasi | Always doing your best and using your creativity to make your work interesting and unique. |
| Grade 6: Eamon Breewel | Displaying maturity when learning about changes in health. |
Happy Birthday
We wish the following students a Happy Birthday:
Sophia Moroni - 12th September - 11 yrs
Evie Chirgwin - 13th September - 7 yrs
Faith Lawrence - 14th September - 11 yrs
Elki Garraway - 15th September - 7 yrs
Wyatt Field - 17th September - 9 yrs
Zahleya Grayson - 17th September - 8 yrs
Junior News
P/1/2 Activity Day, Dinner and Sleepover
Yesterday students had a great day at Ten Pin Bowling, Pizza Cafe and Park for Play. Students then returned to school and completed some fun activities before a BBQ for tea. Prep students headed home and the Gr1/2s had a great night staying over. A big thank you goes to Jo and Mrs Garraway for their helping during our excursion and to Thel O’Shea, Marree Tresize, Lana Borchard, Phil Williams, Carly Davis and Laura Bloomfield for staying the night. A big thank you to all the parents who helped with tea and breakfast!
Prep News
Show and Tell- Week 10’s topic is ‘Something that has a tail.’ A new list will come home next week.
On Monday I will be in a meeting. Mrs Lohmeyer will have the students on this day.
Prep Students will be doing a performance at assembly on the last day of term- Friday 16th September. Please feel free to join us!
Reading- Extra books will be sent home on Friday to read over the holidays.
STEM-We will be completing a STEM activity next week. We will need cardboard boxes for this activity (similar in size to A4/A3 paper) and bubble wrap. If you have any please send these in at any time.
Grade One/Two News
STEM Day : This will happen on Monday. Please send in any small cardboard boxes, plastic bottles and cardboard tubes to school.
Sunray Warriors: This is on Wednesday. Please ensure you have given permission on PAM for this event. Further reminders will be given via SeeSaw prior to the event.
Footy Colours Day: This is on Friday- any sport's team uniform can be worn, hockey, soccer, football, netball etc. The Grade Sixes will run some football games on the day.
If you have any questions you can email us at:
Prep: Rebecca Appledore - rappledore@olshmerbein.catholic.edu.au
1/2 L: Grace Laity- glaity@olshmerbein.catholic.edu.au
1/2 R: Lisa Ryan- lryan@olshmerbein.catholic.edu.au
Friday - 1/2 R contact: Emma Garraway - ewood@olshmerbein.catholic.edu.au
Middle News
Grade Three / Four:
Next week is going to be a busy one. We have STEM spread out over two days and we will be watching the movies that go with the class novels. This will happen on Thursday. If students want they can bring in pillows, blankets etc...
Well done to Grade 3/4L on their excellent singing at assembly. If you missed it check it out on the school's Facebook page. Remember if you haven't already please fill out the permission form on SIMON for the Sunray Warriors excursion.
Students completing their Sunlight experiment.
If you have any questions you can email us at:
- 3/4 L: Adam Lawrence – alawrenc@olshmerbein.catholic.edu.au
- 3/4 P: Julie Phelan – jphelan@olshmerbein.catholic.edu.au
Senior News
Grade Six News
Students have now completed their puberty and personal devlopment unit. I would just like to congratulate the class on their maturity. Well Done Grade Six!
Students loved competing at Summer Sports today. As usual, they displayed sportsmanship and represented the school with great pride!
If you have any questions you can email us at:
- 5: Cheryl-Anne Courtney - ccourtney@olshmerbein.catholic.edu.au
- 6: Danielle Ford- dford@olshmerbein.catholic.edu.au
General News
School Advisory Council Members:
Thel O’Shea, Hannah Mills, Grant Finlayson, Amy Cupper, Sandra Hammet, Lana Borchard, Adam Lawrence (Staff Rep) & Narelle Gallagher (Principal)
SIMON Everywhere App
This can be downloaded from either the Google Play Store or the Apple Store. The app has been updated earlier this year and an email was sent out to parents. If you are having issues with logging in, can you please contact Mia in the office.
Student Medical Profile
Medical Profile: Please make sure that the school has been notified of any changes that have been made to your child’s Medical Profile on PAM and to also include this on the pink Parental Authority and Consent Form each year.
IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PARENT TO MAKE OLSH AWARE OF ANY CHANGES.
Parent Notified Absence
If your child is unwell and will be absent from school, you are able to complete a Parent Notified Absence (PNA) on the SIMON Everywhere App or Parent Access Module (PAM) which will automatically notify the teacher and a text message will not be sent.
Newsletters
These are distributed every Friday on SIMON Everywhere and the OLSH Website. Please contact us if at any time you have any queries or require any further explanation about events, dates etc. Any items for the newsletter are asked to be handed in at the office by 9.00am on Friday.
Attendance & Sign in
A reminder to parents that the school needs to be notified of a student absence by 10 am on the day. This can be done by calling the school office or by using SIMON Everywhere or sending an email to admin@olsmerbein.catholic.edu.au.
Second Hand Uniform
Please contact the school if you require any second hand uniform.
Local News
Coomealla Wentworth Cricket Club Junior Training
UNDER 10 (J1), 12 (J2) 14 and 16
- Training will commence Thursday 7th September from 4:30pm at George Gordon Oval, Dareton. All players will be made most welcome.
Woolworths Junior Blasters (Milo) cricket program (ages 5-10)
- Registration day Thursday October 12 (first week of term 4 NSW), George Gordon Oval, Dareton from 4:30 – 5:30pm.
- Junior Blast cricket offers children the opportunity to learn lots of new cricket skills like batting, bowling, catching and throwing, as well as social skills allowing them to meet new friends and have fun.
- Participants receive a 10-week structured program.
For all cricket options register online at: https://www.playhq.com/cricket-australia/register/553efb Or search Play HQ and enter Coomealla.
NSW Active kids voucher available
For further information phone Jeremy Giddings on 0427 102285 (ah)