Term 3, Week 8 |
13 september, 2022 |
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School
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School Prayer School Prayer for Term 3 will alternate between Grade 3 - 6 Monday Week 1, and P - 2 Monday Week 2. On occasion there may be a liturgy or service that takes the place of the School Prayer. |
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Mrs gratton's Reflection
Student support co-ordinator
To be at home, is to be known.
Brene Brown
Brene Brown
Welcome all to Week 8.
As we edge towards the final weeks of the term, I’ve been reflecting upon connection. Recently I’ve had the privilege of Morning duty. This has been a highlight of the term for me. I thrive on the opportunity to greet families as they enter school each morning. This truly ‘charges my battery’. I very much appreciate being a part of the connected school community that OLOL is.
There are so many ways we as humans experience connection to self, others and the world; through culture, place, memory, imagination, the environment, personal values and family history, just to name some.
The importance of these connections cannot be underestimated. A connected school community encourages shared responsibility among all, and students who have access to strong relationships are more academically engaged, have stronger social/emotional skills, and experience more positive behaviour.
A collaborative setting where community members possess diversified knowledge and skills naturally creates an inclusive learning community. The respect we have for one another allows us to recognise our unique contributions, resulting in an environment where we can all be teachers and learners.
As the old African proverb says, "It takes a village to raise a child." Or a community to raise a school. Thank you to our OLOL community for working together to create a sense of belonging for all.
Have a wonderful week.
Eve
As we edge towards the final weeks of the term, I’ve been reflecting upon connection. Recently I’ve had the privilege of Morning duty. This has been a highlight of the term for me. I thrive on the opportunity to greet families as they enter school each morning. This truly ‘charges my battery’. I very much appreciate being a part of the connected school community that OLOL is.
There are so many ways we as humans experience connection to self, others and the world; through culture, place, memory, imagination, the environment, personal values and family history, just to name some.
The importance of these connections cannot be underestimated. A connected school community encourages shared responsibility among all, and students who have access to strong relationships are more academically engaged, have stronger social/emotional skills, and experience more positive behaviour.
A collaborative setting where community members possess diversified knowledge and skills naturally creates an inclusive learning community. The respect we have for one another allows us to recognise our unique contributions, resulting in an environment where we can all be teachers and learners.
As the old African proverb says, "It takes a village to raise a child." Or a community to raise a school. Thank you to our OLOL community for working together to create a sense of belonging for all.
Have a wonderful week.
Eve
Student Free Day
OLOL will be having a Student Free Day on Monday October 17th. This is to enable all staff at OLOL to participate in a Spirituality Day, as required for all employees in Catholic Schools.
Students will return to school to begin Term 4 on Tuesday October 18th.
*The School Office will be closed on Monday October 17th.
OLOL will be having a Student Free Day on Monday October 17th. This is to enable all staff at OLOL to participate in a Spirituality Day, as required for all employees in Catholic Schools.
Students will return to school to begin Term 4 on Tuesday October 18th.
*The School Office will be closed on Monday October 17th.
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COVID-19 Update
COVID UPDATE - Term 3
Please be advised that as of 9 September 2022 a person who has tested positive for COVID-19 can now leave isolation 5 days after their first testing positive provided:
If a person continues to have fever or acute respiratory symptoms on or after day 5 they must remain in isolation until they meet the criteria in points 1 and 2 above.
Public Health will continue to send registered positive cases an email during their isolation period.
*Pending another outbreak of COVID we will no longer be reporting Covid cases.
Thank you for your support and co-operation.
Please be advised that as of 9 September 2022 a person who has tested positive for COVID-19 can now leave isolation 5 days after their first testing positive provided:
- All acute COVID-related symptoms have gone or have significantly resolved (e.g., cough, runny nose, sore throat, or shortness of breath).
- They have not had a fever (or signs of fever such as chills or night sweats) for at least 24 hours.
- They (everyone aged over 12 years old) wear a facemask in all settings (including schools) away from the home until 7 days after first testing positive.
- They do not attend any listed high-risk settings (hospitals, residential aged care etc) until 7 days after they test positive.
If a person continues to have fever or acute respiratory symptoms on or after day 5 they must remain in isolation until they meet the criteria in points 1 and 2 above.
Public Health will continue to send registered positive cases an email during their isolation period.
*Pending another outbreak of COVID we will no longer be reporting Covid cases.
Thank you for your support and co-operation.
RE NEWs
First Eucharist
Please keep our First Communicants in your prayers as they celebrate the sacrament of First Eucharist at Parish Masses on the weekend of the 17th and 18th of September.
*Reminder that First Communicants are receiving a copy of the Our Father at this weekends parish mass.
Please keep our First Communicants in your prayers as they celebrate the sacrament of First Eucharist at Parish Masses on the weekend of the 17th and 18th of September.
*Reminder that First Communicants are receiving a copy of the Our Father at this weekends parish mass.
Vinnies Winter Appeal - Last 2 Weeks
We need your help! Don't forget to bring in an item of food for out Vinnies Winter Appeal.
We ask families to make donations of the following items to support those in our local community in need. Bags/boxes will be placed in each classroom, we ask students to put the donated goods in these when they can.
We need your support please!
School news
Public Holiday - Thursday 22nd September 2022
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced there will be a one-off public holiday to mourn the Queen’s death on Thursday 22 September 2022. The public holiday will be a single observance for 2022 to allow Australians to pay their respects.
As a result, the TCEO and all CET schools and colleges will be closed.
Class allocation for 2023
Class allocation for 2023, involves a variety of factors including balancing academic, social and emotional needs of all of our students. Our staff are in the best position to objectively do this. They spend 800 hours with your child over the school year.
From the OLOL Class Formation Policy it states that we:
• Provide each child with the opportunity to be part of a class of children where they will have the best opportunity to learn.
• Provide evenly balanced classes in which the social, emotional, academic, spiritual and physical needs of each child are taken into account.
• Ensure that optimum use is made of prior knowledge that teachers, parents and other key stakeholders have of each child before class placement.
I have monitored the effectiveness over the last 5 years of student and parent input into the selection of friends for their child in classes. Most students may choose 1 or 2 students who enable them to continue learning to their best, however many choose ‘friends’ who do not enable this. Parent input likewise can be skewed by friendships that again do not assist the student in learning. I acknowledge that each student needs to feel secure and safe to facilitate strong learning and I have observed that teacher judgement of student class grouping is more often than provides the best model.
We do appreciate working with you the first educators of your child and you are welcome to meet and share any valid concerns with the Principal as part of this process. These concerns are not friendship requests, but born of a genuine need that would affect the future learning of your child.
We do state that this process does take us considerable time and discernment, therefore any parent requests received after 28th October will not be considered.
As in previous years if any parents have valid concerns for class allocation in 2023, please contact the school office for an interview with Carol between Monday 26th September and Friday 28th October: olol.school@catholic.tas.edu.au
If parents know that they will not be continuing enrolment of their child/children at OLOL in 2023 please let the School Office know as soon as possible. The realities around budgets in schools rely heavily on maintaining the right numbers of students. It helps our school out immensely with maintaining staffing, allocating resources and balancing classes whether any students will be moving schools.
Canteen
AFL Special Day
PLEASE NOTE:
Due to the public holiday on Thursday 22nd September our AFL Special Day will change to the following days:
Prep - Grade 6 - Friday 23rd September
Kinder - Thursday 29th September
*There will be NO other lunch orders available on Friday 23rd September
*There will be a LIMITED canteen menu on Thursday 29th September (to aid fulfilling Kinder AFL orders)
SunSmart Policy - Hats required from September - April
From the 1st September - 30th April staff and students are required to wear Sun Hats. Sunscreen is also provided for staff and students to use.
Emergency Practice
This term we will hold an unannounced emergency practice with staff & students, to test our response to a potential scenario that staff identify a threat warranting the school go into lockdown (opposite to evacuation). This will occur during lunch time.
Like for fire evacuation drills, we recognised the worth to test this process.
We have plans in place to make this practice as least disruptive as possible.
If you have queries you are welcome to call our Safety Officer Simon Natoli on 0400 105 476
Assemblies
Parents are invited to attend all assemblies held on a fortnightly basis in the school gym, The McCarthy Centre. Below are the classes presenting for the rest of the term. OLOL also live streams these assemblies via our facebook page.
Assemblies Term 3 at 2:00pm
● Week 10 - Friday 30th September 2B
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced there will be a one-off public holiday to mourn the Queen’s death on Thursday 22 September 2022. The public holiday will be a single observance for 2022 to allow Australians to pay their respects.
As a result, the TCEO and all CET schools and colleges will be closed.
Class allocation for 2023
Class allocation for 2023, involves a variety of factors including balancing academic, social and emotional needs of all of our students. Our staff are in the best position to objectively do this. They spend 800 hours with your child over the school year.
From the OLOL Class Formation Policy it states that we:
• Provide each child with the opportunity to be part of a class of children where they will have the best opportunity to learn.
• Provide evenly balanced classes in which the social, emotional, academic, spiritual and physical needs of each child are taken into account.
• Ensure that optimum use is made of prior knowledge that teachers, parents and other key stakeholders have of each child before class placement.
I have monitored the effectiveness over the last 5 years of student and parent input into the selection of friends for their child in classes. Most students may choose 1 or 2 students who enable them to continue learning to their best, however many choose ‘friends’ who do not enable this. Parent input likewise can be skewed by friendships that again do not assist the student in learning. I acknowledge that each student needs to feel secure and safe to facilitate strong learning and I have observed that teacher judgement of student class grouping is more often than provides the best model.
We do appreciate working with you the first educators of your child and you are welcome to meet and share any valid concerns with the Principal as part of this process. These concerns are not friendship requests, but born of a genuine need that would affect the future learning of your child.
We do state that this process does take us considerable time and discernment, therefore any parent requests received after 28th October will not be considered.
As in previous years if any parents have valid concerns for class allocation in 2023, please contact the school office for an interview with Carol between Monday 26th September and Friday 28th October: olol.school@catholic.tas.edu.au
If parents know that they will not be continuing enrolment of their child/children at OLOL in 2023 please let the School Office know as soon as possible. The realities around budgets in schools rely heavily on maintaining the right numbers of students. It helps our school out immensely with maintaining staffing, allocating resources and balancing classes whether any students will be moving schools.
Canteen
AFL Special Day
PLEASE NOTE:
Due to the public holiday on Thursday 22nd September our AFL Special Day will change to the following days:
Prep - Grade 6 - Friday 23rd September
Kinder - Thursday 29th September
*There will be NO other lunch orders available on Friday 23rd September
*There will be a LIMITED canteen menu on Thursday 29th September (to aid fulfilling Kinder AFL orders)
SunSmart Policy - Hats required from September - April
From the 1st September - 30th April staff and students are required to wear Sun Hats. Sunscreen is also provided for staff and students to use.
Emergency Practice
This term we will hold an unannounced emergency practice with staff & students, to test our response to a potential scenario that staff identify a threat warranting the school go into lockdown (opposite to evacuation). This will occur during lunch time.
Like for fire evacuation drills, we recognised the worth to test this process.
We have plans in place to make this practice as least disruptive as possible.
If you have queries you are welcome to call our Safety Officer Simon Natoli on 0400 105 476
Assemblies
Parents are invited to attend all assemblies held on a fortnightly basis in the school gym, The McCarthy Centre. Below are the classes presenting for the rest of the term. OLOL also live streams these assemblies via our facebook page.
Assemblies Term 3 at 2:00pm
● Week 10 - Friday 30th September 2B
Uniform Shop
Hats $12.00
Caps $10.00
*Donations of second hand items for sale would be appreciated to continue this much needed service to our school.
Shop hours:
Monday & Tuesday 8:00am - 10:00am
Wednesday 8:00am - 10:00am & 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Thursday 8:00am - 10:00am
Order forms are available on the website or at the school office. Orders will be attended to in the afternoons and placed in class trays.
Hats $12.00
Caps $10.00
*Donations of second hand items for sale would be appreciated to continue this much needed service to our school.
Shop hours:
Monday & Tuesday 8:00am - 10:00am
Wednesday 8:00am - 10:00am & 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Thursday 8:00am - 10:00am
Order forms are available on the website or at the school office. Orders will be attended to in the afternoons and placed in class trays.
STUDENT OF THE WEEK
MOVE WELL EAT WELL
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Policy in Focus
This week in our Policy in Focus section we are sharing a new Catholic Education Commission Tasmania policy - Adult Behaviour Policy. This policy was approved by the Catholic Education Commission Tasmania on 12 April 2022, and came into effect 1 July 2022.
The purpose of this policy are two fold:
1. To set out clear standards of the behaviour of adults when in a CET workplace.
2. To support CET workers to establish and maintain strong and healthy relationships with other members of the CET community.
We encourage you to read through and explore the policy.
The purpose of this policy are two fold:
1. To set out clear standards of the behaviour of adults when in a CET workplace.
2. To support CET workers to establish and maintain strong and healthy relationships with other members of the CET community.
We encourage you to read through and explore the policy.
CECT Adult Behaviour Policy
OLOL School Calendar
Term Dates
2022 TERM DATES
TERM 3
Monday 25 July - Friday 30 September
TERM 4
Tuesday 18 October - Thursday 15 December
2023 TERM DATES
TERM 1
Friday 3 February - Thursday 6 April
(Easter Break - Friday 7 April - Tuesday 11 April)
TERM 2
Wednesday 26 April - Friday 7 July
TERM 3
Monday 25 July - Friday 30 September
TERM 4
Tuesday 18 October - Thursday 15 December
2023 TERM DATES
TERM 1
Friday 3 February - Thursday 6 April
(Easter Break - Friday 7 April - Tuesday 11 April)
TERM 2
Wednesday 26 April - Friday 7 July
