OLR News Term 1 Week 1 2024

Principal's Update

Dear Parents and carers,

Welcome back for the 2024 school year. I hope your Christmas and New Year were beautiful celebrations with your family and friends. It was so good to see all the children and to welcome the kindergarten children.

We have had a really lovely and very settled start to the school year.  The children have come in very happy and ready to learn after a wonderful break.

Building update & Safety Reminders

It is wonderful to see the amazing progress that has been made with the building and we can’t wait to see the finished product.

While it is exciting to see all that is happening, we are also very conscious of the safety aspects of having a building site in the middle of the school.

As a school, we have put many procedures in place to ensure the safety of our children and they are really great about following these procedures.

We also need to ensure any visitors to our school are safe. Whenever you enter the school, can you please remain vigilant with what is happening around you. Trucks enter our school grounds, usually before or after school or at pre-organised time and there are always adult spotters to ensure safety. However, we still need any adults, particularly when coming in for drop off and pick up for before and after school or vacation care to be super aware of what is happening around them and to keep their children next to them.

Keeping our children well supervised at all times is always important but even more so with the building project. School supervision begins at 8:30am. We ask that you drop your children to school from 8:30 or consider Before School Care if you need to drop them in earlier.

We also ask that you do not park across the neighbours driveways or in the school disabled car park unless you have a disability and in this case please ensure your car has the sticker visible. We realise the building project has added extra traffic and consequently a few extra minutes to your drop off and pick up routine but we would really appreciate if everyone is mindful of where they park.

On Friday we welcomed our 2024 Kindergarten students to school for their first day. What a special morning it was for the children and their families. They had a wonderful day exploring their new school.

I am looking forward to this year and the exciting times ahead. I hope 2024 is a great year for us all.

Please see below key dates for Term 1 to add to the diary!

Kind regards.

Yvette

Class Teachers 2024

Sport Days

2024 Sport Days for all grades! Please note these can be subject to change and the teacher will communicate any changes via SeeSaw.

Parent Information Sessions

We will be holding K-6 Parent Information Sessions on Tuesday evening, the 13th of February. These sessions will be an opportunity to meet your child's teacher and to get key information about the year ahead. 

There will be two session times - the second session will be a repeat of the first. If you are unable to attend, your child's teacher will send home an information sheet. 
Session 1: 4-4:45pm

Session 2: 5-5:45pm
Location:

Kindergarten: KB
Year 1: 1G
Year 2: 2B/2G
Year 3: 3R 
Year 4: 4B/4G
Year 5: 5B
Year 6: 6B

We look forward to welcoming you!

In The Loop - School and Office News

Break Times

Due to the building works we are trialling new break times to ensure the children have adeqaute space to play safely. Please note the times below.

Recess      Years 3-6: 10.15 - 10.55

                 Years K-2: 10.55 - 11.35

Lunch        Years 3-6: 12.55 - 1.35

                  Years K - 2: 1.35 - 2.15

Fees - School fees will be sent out soon.

Medication at School - A reminder that Request to Administer Medication forms need to be completed each year. If your child had the completed form in 2023,  you are covered for a short time, but please have the doctor complete this asap.

If your child has never had medication at school but now needs to do so, please have the attached form completed, signed and stamped by the doctor and bring the medication to the school office in the original container. This includes prescription medication as well as over the counter meds (pharmacists can complete this form for puffers and over the counter meds. Without this completed form, we are unable to have the medication on site (please do not put medications in your child's bag for them to take).

Canteen News

Welcome back for another great year in the OLR Canteen!!  

You would have all received the Canteen Volunteer form online, if you are available, even for one day, we would love to have you in the canteen. All help is greatly appreciated, the kids love it and it's a great way to meet new friends or clatch up with old ones, so please fill out the form asap so I can finalise the roster for this term.

Volunteer Form

We have some new items on the menu which I hope will tickle some tastebuds.  Sushi, nachos and pikelets will be available daily and we are bringing back the hugely popular Fairy Bread Friday for recess orders.

Pancake Day will be on Tuesday 13th Feb, information will be sent out with price and options this week, if anyone is available on the 13th from 9.30-11.30am I would love the help to serve, no pancake flipping skills necessary!!

Here's to great year of good food in the Canteen!!

Amber

Key Dates