Year 1K OLC

Dear Parents, What a wonderful week so far with lots of learning and fun.  Today we will finish the week with the OLC's Got Talent Show on after an early lunch break.  The children all looked so wonderful yesterday thank you for sending them to school reading and looking very f i n e ! We have had a great time this week so far, having two Year 5 Challenge Academy students coming to teach us about bees, making some bee craft, learning to draw still-life pictures with Mrs Sorgiovanni, reversible and irreversible changes in science and learning about the three persons of God as our Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.   In Initialit reading we have been learning about reading with fluency, verbs and using the suffix 'ed' to show it has already happened.  In reading groups we have been working on sounding out loud tricky words, chunking longer words into syllables and asking someone if we don't know what a word means and can't imagine anything.  We know how important it

 Dear Parents, What a performance on Friday!!! I am so proud of how well they performed with confidence, getting through some excited nerves and beaming smiles throughout! Thank you to the parents who helped their child pick out the perfect 'dad costume' -  they definitely all looked the part. I hope the dads all had a wonderful day today with their families and enjoyed a little bit of sunshine too as an extra gift. Congratulations to Yara for being our merit award recipient last week for her personal growth in the area of subtraction.  She has worked hard to improve her personal skills to solve subtraction number sentences using some of the strategies we have been learning to help us solve some of these problems.  Well done Yara, you are a maths magician!  School Photos This Thursday 9th of September our school photos will be taking place. Please ensure your child comes to school ready wearing the  full winter uniform , including trousers, grey socks and the teal  woolen  jump