OLR News Term 1 Week 5 2024
Bishop Anthony Randazzo’s Prayer
Lord, be the beginning and end of all we do and say.
Prompt our actions with your grace, and complete them with your all-powerful help.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen
Assistant Principal's Update
Dear Parents and Carers,
As a school, we often have the opportunity to share with parents the wonderful learning that is happening for our students in class, but we rarely share the learning that teachers undertake to ensure they are developing their practice as teachers and meeting the needs of our students.
Professional Learning is a very important part of our ongoing development as educators, and I would like to share with you some of the exciting things that have been happening in the Professional Learning space currently for our teachers.
Our teachers are released each week to work together as a grade with the Literacy Coach. We call these “Collaborative Learning Meetings”. We have a school focus for these meetings at the moment which is linked to our Student Achievement Goal “for all students to demonstrate growth in syntax/sentence level writing”. We also provide time for teachers to work with our Maths Coach and our Gifted & High Ability Coach. These sessions allow teachers to focus on the four essential questions of:
- What is it we want our students to learn?
- How will we know our students are learning?
- How will we respond when students don’t learn?
- How will we respond when students are already proficient?
Recently, as a whole staff we have also undertaken Professional Learning focussed on the Science of Learning and Explicit Instruction and are incorporating this learning into our teaching and learning as we implement the new curriculum in English and Maths.
Important Building Works Information for Tuesday 5th March
Next Tuesday 5th March will be the main day for the concrete pour for the new building slab. This means we will be having trucks coming in and out all day at 15 minute intervals, beginning at 6am until late in the afternoon.
To ensure the safety of all students, staff and parents, the following procedures will be put in place:
- There will be representatives from the building company guiding trucks in and out and staff supervising movement of students
- Students will be in their classrooms from 8:30am, including recess and lunch
- Students in demountables and hall classrooms will be guided and supervised by staff to access their classrooms in the morning
- Movement around the school will be limited with necessary movement closely supervised
- Afternoon pick-up Procedures
- Kinder and Year 1 to be collected from classrooms
- 2W, 2R and 4R students to be picked up from their classrooms with parents accessing these classrooms on the office side (not oval side)
- For all other classes, parents will be directed to the basketball courts and classes will be brought out
Kind Regards,
Maree Sawyer
PCN Meeting #1
We invite all parents and carers to join us on Wednesday evening at 6pm either in person at school or via zoom for our first PCN meeting for 2024.
In The Loop - School and Office News
2025 Kindergarten Sibling Enrolment EOI
If you have a child due to start Kindergarten in 2025, can you please complete the attached expression of interest form.
Please note this is not an enrolment application just and EOI to give us an indication of numbers due to siblings having priority. We kindly request you complete the information by Friday the 15th March.
K2025 Sibling Enrolment EOI Form
Emergency Contacts & Change of Routine information
Please note that the Emergency Contact we have for your child is for the school to use in an emergency if we can't contact the parents/guardian. Emergency Contacts do not have permission to collect your child during school hours.
If your child is being collected early by someone other than parent/guardian, or has a change of routine after school, please contact the school office to notify us of this. Do not send a message to the teacher via Seesaw re these changes as they may be away or not see it as they are teaching. The Office staff will not allow collection of a child until we have confirmed this with a parent/guardian.
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).
PBL RULE
Sport News!
CCC Swimming Carnival
A huge congratulations to all of our swimmers who attended the CCC Swimming Carnival at Mingara last Monday. They all did such a fantastic job and had a wonderful day at the pool. A further congratulations to our students who have progressed to the 2024 BROKEN BAY COMBINED SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS being held at Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre, Homebush, on Tuesday the 12th of March.
We have a number of swimmers who have progressed to Homebush!
Jack, Evie B Lukas N & Will Mc
The Boys Junior 4x50m Freestyle Relay Team also progressed, Lukas N, Hunter H, Oliver B & Lenny B.
Good luck to these students and Congratulations to all.
Project Compassion
Every year, across the six weeks of Lent, Caritas Australia run their Project Compassion appeal. Project Compassion brings thousands Australian schools, parishes and supporters together to raise funds for people living in some of the most vulnerable communities across the world. The theme of this year’s Project Compassion appeal is “For All Future Generations”.
Every classroom has a Project Compassion box which students can donate coins in. They might like to do some extra jobs at home to earn money. Another idea is to donate the money they may have for the canteen rather than spending it at lunchtime.
In the weeks leading up to Easter, classes will be learning about some of the communities that Caritas has supported as well as the difference that each donation can make to support them.
We encourage you to support this worthy cause if you can. As a school community, let’s make a difference “For All Future Generations”.
Central Coast Atrium
Central Coast Atrium - Where children come to discover, explore, and experience God's love for them.
Our Lady of the Rosary Parish, The Entrance is thrilled to welcome Amanda Paton and Ashleigh Donnelly as Coordinators and Catechists for The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Atrium.
This program is designed for children aged 3-6 years old and is a Catholic faith formation program grounded in scripture and liturgy of the Church. It is framed by Maria Montessori's principles of education, which allows children to hear the Gospel through the use of sensorial-rich materials. It is a great introduction to the Religious Education curriculum taught in our Catholic schools, and it is also designed to help children nurture their own personal relationship with God.
If you would like to know more about the program, you can visit https://cgsaust.org.au/
Bishop Anthony Randazzo's Pastoral letter to the community of the Central Coast identified The Entrance Parish as a resource to develop formation in pastoral ministry. In the letter, Bishop Anthony expressed his happiness about the establishment of an Atrium for the ministry of Catechesis of the Good Shepherd at The Entrance Parish.
'The Atrium' will open on Saturday16th for 3-6 year-olds. If you have any inquiries or would like to enrol your child, please contact Ashleigh on 0466 255 033 or email centralcoastatrium@gmail.com.
Canteen News
New Gluten Free Options!
We now stock GF pies and sausage rolls for those children who are gluten free.
Don't forget the cut off for orders on Qkr! is 8.30am each morning.
Fortnightly Roster
Music Bus!
Key Dates
