Our Lady of the Cape Catholic Primary School

PO Box 562, 245 Cape Naturaliste Rd, Dunsborough WA 6281 Tel: 08 9755 3866

Web: www.ladyofcape.wa.edu.au Email: admin@ladyofcape.wa.edu.au

Newsletter: newsletter@ladyofcape.wa.edu.au

Staff firstname.secondname@cewa.edu.au

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Dear Parents, Students and Members of Community,

On Wednesday evening, we conducted a very well attended AGM with

fifty two people present. It was great to see so many attending to hear

reports from the Parish, P&F, School Board and school. It was an

opportunity to share the successes of 2017 and outline the goals and

initiatives for 2018.

The other pleasing aspect out of the AGM was that we had plenty of

nominations for leadership positions on the P&F executive and School

Board. This, combined with all our class representatives being elected at

the parent meetings, is another strong example of the parental and

community support we have present at OLC.

Week 1, February 5, 2014

Important Dates

Fri 23 Feb

P&F Simmo’s function

4.30pm – 7.30pm

Sat 24 Feb

Busy Bee – 9am

Y5 & Commissioning

Mass – 6pm

Fri 2 Mar

General Assembly

8.50am

Mon 5 Mar

Public Holiday

Tue 6 Mar

Student Free Day

Fri 9 Mar

General Assembly

8.50am

Mon 12 Mar

School Board

Orientation

Wed 14 Mar

Buddy Mass Y3 & Y4

Board Meeting 7pm

Thurs 15 Mar 7pm

P&F Mtg

Fri 16 Mar – 8.50am

Y1S Prayer Assembly

For more dates, go to

http://www.ladyofcape.wa.edu.a

u/pdf/calendar_yearly.pdf

Note: dates are subject to

change and the calendar should

be checked regularly.

Our Lady of the Cape Primary School is a community where each child is

valued as an individual and nurtured spiritually, by many hearts working

together as one voice to fulfil their overall potential.

Many Hearts, One Voice

23rd February 2018

Our School Board will comprise:

Eloise Jennings

Louise De Chiera

Tracey Barnard,

Sue-Ellen Phillips

Sasha North (P&F Rep)

Michelle Baker

Fr Ian, Des Wilkie, Adrian Torrese

The P&F leadership positions will be:

President: Gary Hodge

Vice President: Anna Sidebotham

Secretary: Shantell McClenaughan

Treasurer: Nadia Murphy

Pastoral Care: Deb Brice & Laura McGinley

Food Garden: Sally Gray

P&F/School Board Rep: Sasha North

My thanks to all for accepting election to these leadership positions. Once again we have a very

capable team to continue the improvement and development of our school.

This Saturday 24th February – 9.00am

We have had a very good response to our call for volunteers to complete

some improvements to the pre-primary and kindy play spaces, together with

some general school maintenance. Any further volunteers would be

welcome and appreciated so we can complete the work quickly. Morning

tea, lunch and some refreshments will be available. Thanks also to the

families who have made generous donations of materials and will be

providing equipment.

Professional Development Day

Our staff will be participating in a Professional Development Day on Tuesday 6th March. Students

will not return to school after the long weekend until Wednesday 7th March.

Faction Swimming Carnival

Congratulations and thanks to all our students for their excellent

and sporting spirit. Thanks again to all the volunteer parents for

all your help. Mrs Sinclair will provide a full report in next week’s

newsletter.

Interschool Swimming Carnival

Advance notice that the Interschool Carnival will take place on

Thursday 22nd March at the South West Sports Centre in Bunbury.

Mrs Sinclair will send out the necessary information to those

representing OLC in the next week.

Sloan Drive Pick Up Lane

We encourage parents to please make use of the Sloan Drive pick-up and drop off facility in the

afternoons. Some important points for afternoon pick up: Please park and wait in your cars in the 6 bays provided. Students will be ready from 3:10pm to be collected. We ask parents to avoid walking up the drive through (if they are parked on Sloan Drive) as this is a

safety hazard. Year 4 to 6 students can collect younger siblings prior to coming down. Year 3 students without younger siblings are also welcome to use the drive-through.

P&F Welcome Function

Please join with the P&F for the Sundowner tonight. Details later in this newsletter.

See you all there.

God bless,

Des Wilkie

Principal

OLC CATHOLIC COMMUNITY CORNER

OLC OPENING MASS

This morning we celebrated a Mass of Thanksgiving for the beginning of the new school year.

Students from Year 1 to Year 6 walked to OLOTSC Church and were joined by families and

parishioners in the celebration of the Eucharist. The theme of the mass was love, and how we can try

to be more like Jesus through our actions. Congratulations to our Year Six student leaders who

received their badges following mass, after they were blessed by Father Ian during the service.

PROJECT COMPASSION

One of the ways we can make Lent meaningful is to make sacrifices to give to others in

need. OLC families are encouraged to donate to Project Compassion during Lent by

making a contribution to the collection boxes located in classrooms and offices around

the school. A sacrifice like giving up a weekly treat (like treats or ice cream) and instead

donating the money to this cause helps students to make Lent meaningful, and develops

compassion and empathy for others. Please be generous and support Project

Compassion to help those in need.

YEAR 5 FAMILY MASS & TEACHERS, BOARD & P&F COMMISSIONING MASS

The first of our Family Masses hosted by a different class, commences THIS Saturday night (23rd

February) with our Year 5 students taking the lead. The Teachers, School Board and P&F Executive for

2018 will also be commissioned during the mass.

The Year 5’s will participate by way of greeting, prayers of the faithful, collection, offertory and choir.

We warmly invite all families from any year level who would like to attend and celebrate Mass to

come along and to share fellowship and pizza following the celebration. The pizza is generously

funded by the OLC P&F. and by the Dunsborough parish. Please RSVP with numbers to

meyer.amie@cathednet.wa.edu.au for catering purposes ASAP.

God Bless and have a great week everyone.

Mrs Amie Meyer, OLC Religious Education Coordinator.

Early Childhood Corner. Week 4 Term One 2018.

What a wonderful beginning to 2018 our little people have made. Walking around the

classrooms it has been a joy to observe the delightful classroom environments that the

classroom teachers have worked so hard to set up. The uncluttered and well lit work spaces

provide an environment aimed to maximise learning for your children. The teachers have

worked to support our present focus on sustainability by choosing to use natural products and

colours in their displays.

Enquiry learning projects have formed the basis of classroom programmes. We have tried to

use the interests of the children to provoke questions from the children that require deep

thinking and creativity.

It is an important focus of Early Childhood Learning to foster positive dispositions for learning.

What are learning dispositions?

Dispositions are ‘relatively enduring habits of mind and action’ (Katz & Chard, 1989, p. 30) that

encourage learners to respond to experiences in particular ways (Carr, 2001). Carr defines

dispositions as ‘participation repertoires from which a learner recognises, selects, edits,

responds to, resists, searches for and constructs learning opportunities’ (2001, p. 21).

Dispositions are linked to our attitudes and feelings about ourselves and our views about the

different identities or ‘possible selves’ (Carr, 1995, p. 4) that we can be and become.

Positive dispositions for learning.

Children are enthusiastic when they initiate and engage in investigations, interactions and

play. When children are curious they explore, ask questions and solve problems, and can often

demonstrate great commitment and persistence in focusing on a goal.

The Early Years Learning Framework identifies positive dispositions for learning as:

◆ enthusiasm

◆ curiosity

◆ commitment

◆ persistence

◆ confidence

◆ cooperation

◆ reflexivity.

Learning processes are also featured in the EYLF. These include:

◆ problem-solving

◆ inquiry

◆ experimentation

◆ hypothesising

◆ researching

◆ investigating.

Children engage in these processes as they take part in everyday life with their families and in

Early Childhood settings. From the time they are very young, children are interested in

investigating how things work, and ask many ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions. Problem-solving

involves viewing situations from a range of different perspectives, and posing problems as well

as searching for their answers. Children involved in collaborative problem-solving in small

groups also share ideas, challenge each other’s thinking, negotiate and work towards shared

goals. This means they also develop their capacity to communicate their ideas to others

(Outcome 5 of the EYLF) and contribute to a group (Outcome 2 of the EYLF). As children’s

vocabulary increases, they are able to use language to: ask questions, make predictions,

articulate their hypotheses, give reasons for their predictions and solutions, and reflect on their

learning.

Busy Bee

We are all very excited about this weekend’s busy bee. Our new water tank and garden beds

have arrived for the pre-primary playground area and these will be installed tomorrow. A

HUGE thank you to the parents who have donated plants, logs and other natural resources for

us to use.

We have a Dingo loader coming to help and offers of utes, high pressure sprayers and most

importantly manpower.

It’s not too late to come. Just turn up tomorrow morning at 9am. Don’t forget to bring your

garden tools (wheelbarrow, shovels, rakes and garden shears). Work gloves would be handy

too.

SEE YOU THERE!

Julie Birch

Your support for this campaign in the past has resulted in our school being rewarded with many sporting items.

Please put your vouchers in the box outside Coles or outside the school office and let’s see what we can get this year!!

Hot Chocolatte very generously

donated $500 each to OLC & the

other 4 regional schools from a 5c

challenge that they held.

Thank you to Donna, staff and all the

customers.

Please support businesses that

support our school!!

Busselton Hockey Stadium Hook in to Hockey, Years PP-2 register online at hookin2hockey.com.au

Years 3-5 (school based), Years 6-8 (club based Years 9-12 (club based), Seniors (Club)

Masters (Club), South West League (Club)

Development Coaching, mainly funded by the Association, with a few exceptions. Some clinics run by current and past Olympians and World Cup Winners.

A game the whole family can play, from the grandkids and all in between to the grandparents. We have a kitchen to cater for your breakfast, lunch and dinner, with a bar to cater for our older members.

Numerous Carnivals to attend if you and your children wish too. You can be coached by a past Olympian, to become a great coach yourself, you can also become the controller of the game, the Umpire. The sky is

the limit with hockey. We welcome everyone with open arms and encourage you all to play our friendly games. Season commences for clubs 5th April. 3-5’s 1st week, term 2. PP-2 (Hook in to Hockey) 2nd week , term 2.

Please contact your school co-ordinator for junior years Name: Lauren Bidesi Phone: 0418 950 049 Email: lbidesi@hotmail.com or Dunsborough Hockey Club President Name: Lara Currie Phone: 0427 611 622 Email: glenayrfarms@bigpond.com Or, for all other enquires Director of Juniors: Kylie Callow. Ph: 0428554103. Email: callowstransport@bigpond.com

OLC Black Rain Jackets for Sale Sizes 6, 10 and 16 $25 Call Elizabeth 0417 904 982