Term 1 Week 4

February 24, 2020

Good evening everyone,

Back into it for another week. If you went to Hotter then Hell, I hope you have fully recovered.

Eucharist Family Workshop:

On tomorrow night Tuesday 25th February beginning promptly at 5.30pm in the hall. All students that are receiving this sacrament are expected to attend with their parent/s.

Ash Wednesday Prayer Service:

We will be coming together as a whole school on Wednesday, 26th February (10am) to celebrate Ash Wednesday with a prayer service that helps the students to focus their prayers and actions during Lent.

Swimming Carnival:

We will be hitting the pool on Thursday 27th February for the annual OLC Swimming Carnival. All parents are warmly invited to attend if you can.

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. If someone else will be taking your child, please write a note to give to me.

Laptops:

These went home on Friday, I am sure that it was quite the excitement over the weekend! I would like to see over the next few days the students taking some time to familiarise themselves with their devices.

This is new tech to the students and they do need time to learn. We covered a few things in class today, most importantly the use of our two main forums in Teams and One Note. We encourage you to sit with your child and familiarise yourself with these and how they work.

One of the main points we discussed for you to be aware of is, these devices are for learning. We talked about the importance of using the Teams messaging function for learning only and is not to be used for social conversations. Class work will be placed into One Note for the students to access - this is particularly helpful if your child is away and misses their spelling words for example.

OUR LEARNING - STEM

On Friday we got together to create home made boats. The students had a chance to work with their partner to create a boat that could float for a minute. Every single boat could float for a the whole minute. Once they had floated for this period of time we tried to see how much weight each boat could withstand.
We had two boats that were able to hold 98 marbles and Eva Paterson made a boat that was able to float with 100 marbles in it!