Filter Content
- Welcome
- Parent Teacher Interviews & Session Keeper
- Swim Squad
- Covid Compliance
- A Change to Before School Protocols
- Year 3 & 4 Camp
- Our Lady of Lourdes Feast Day
- Leadership Speeches
- Welcome Disco
- Uniform
- Absences
- Classroom Cuisine
- Flag Raising and School Assemblies
- Rest Days for Prep
- Specialists Classes
- Holt Swimming Carnival
- Termly Overviews and Home Learning
- Speedy Pick Up and Drop Off
- Open Days 2021
- Birthdays
- Extend Before and After School Care
- Photo Permission Form
- Hip Hop
- Circus Skills
- ABC Music
- Glee Club
- Prahran Junior Football Club
- SAVE THE DATE!
This first newsletter is ridiculously long so I will limit myself to this very brief welcome and thank you.
Looking forward to 2021
Francine
Parent Teacher Interviews & Session Keeper
Instructions on how to book an appointment with your child's Class Teacher are as follows :
Session Keeper Instructions
Parent Teacher Interview Bookings are open between 28th January, 8am
and 1st February, 3pm.
- Click here to access the Session Keeper website
- Click ‘Add New Student’
- Enter your child’s name and click ‘Save’
- If you have more than one child at OLOL repeat step 3 as necessary
- When you have added all children, click on one child and then ‘Save and Continue’
- Choose your child’s Class Teacher and click ‘Next’
- Choose the date and time from those available and then click ‘Next’
- Review the date and time then click ‘Next’
- If you need to make an additional booking for another child click ‘Book Again’ and repeat the process
- To view all bookings made click ‘My Bookings’
A reminder to our Swim Squad participants that training commences next Tuesday 2nd February and will continue on 9th and 16th February 2021.
Please note that if your child is participating in Swim Squad the $35.00 fee for the term must be paid next week. This fee covers lane hire and breakfast as well as contributing toward the bus for the Carnival.
Please also remember that the children will be travelling back to school by tram together at the conclusion of each training, hence they will need to bring a Myki card (with credit on it) for the tram.
Many thanks!
Also, school toilets are not to be used to change clothes for after-school activities. If students use the toilets to change, it means it changes "toilet use" and the cleaning rules surrounding that change. Therefore with Hip Hop and Circus Skills both commencing from Week 2, it is important parents understand this compliance standard. Students are not to use the toilets to change in.
A Change to Before School Protocols
As mentioned at the end of the term last year, a change that the school would like to implement as a direct result of measures that we were forced to put in place during COVID restrictions is that of parent access to the classrooms.
This year in Term 1, Year 3 and 4 students will be going on an overnight camp to Candlebark Farm in Healesville on Thursday 4th to Friday 5th March (Term 1, Week 6).
Students will participate in a variety of activities over the three days including a range of team building and outdoor activities.
The students will leave school at 8am sharp and arrive at Candlebark Farm by 9.30 am on Thursday 4th March. Students are scheduled to arrive back at Our Lady of Lourdes on Friday 5th of March at 5pm.
Parent letters and forms will be sent out at the beginning of next week via our school sZapp. If you have any questions regarding the 3/4 camp please email Adrian McAlister (adrian.mcalister@olprahraneast.catholic.edu.au).
Looking forward to a fun and action packed 3/4 camp!
Adrian McAlister
Thursday 11th February is the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. The whole school usually attends a special Feast day Mass however due to remaining Covid restrictions on numbers in Churches we will instead be holding a liturgy via Zoom. You are most welcome to join us via zoom.
Click here to join our liturgy via Zoom
Also, please be advised that our size 6, 8 and 10 sports polo tops have all arrived! If you placed an order and paid for a polo, please call us in the office and let us know and we will put one in your child's bag. Thank you!
When your child is absent, please go on to the SZapp located on the Home tile entitled 'Absentee & Appointments' notifying the office by 9.15am.
Classroom Cuisine's lunch service will recommence next Wednesday 3rd February.
Classroom Cuisine has created an option that:
- is easy to use and affordable
- offers variety and choice within a healthy framework
- allows busy parents to provide great lunches for their children
- takes the headache out of coming up with lunch and snack ideas
- empowers children to make their own healthy food choices
No nuts
Nude food
Take home what's left
Classroom Cuisine is an Online alternative to the traditional and disappearing 'tuck-shop', offering a convenient, user friendly service; creating, preparing, packing and delivering high quality School Lunches at the most affordable price.
Classroom Cuisine’s Mission is to delight both our ‘Diners’ with the quality of our lunches as well as the Schools that offer our service by ensuring it’s hassle free for them.
A Healthy Alternative
Classroom Cuisine has created an option that:
- is easy to use and affordable
- offers variety and choice within a healthy framework
- allows busy parents to provide great lunches for their children
- takes the headache out of coming up with lunch and snack ideas
- empowers children to make their own healthy food choices
How it Works
- Register your child
- Select dates you wish your order for
- Choose delicious menu items
- Confirm your order and payment
- Relax while we do the rest
Flag Raising and School Assemblies
Our Prep students do not attend school on the following days for the month of February :
Wednesday, 3rd February
Wednesday, 10th February
Wednesday, 17th February
Wednesday, 24th February
Day | Specialist Class | Teacher | Requirements |
Monday | Art (Years P, 1, 2, 3) | Mrs Luisa Vivarelli | Art Smock |
Tuesday | Physical Education | Mrs Rachel McLeary | Sports uniform to be worn all day |
Tuesday | Maths Specialist | Mr Lyndon Waddell | |
Tuesday | STEMS | Mrs Luisa Vivarelli | |
Friday | Art (Years 4, 5, 6) | Mrs Lusia Vivarelli | Art Smock |
Friday | Sport | Class Teacher | Sports uniform to be worn all day |
The children will be catching a bus to and from the event. The bus will be leaving at 9am so please have your child at school by 8:45 am.
The bus will arrive back at school at 3pm.
The children must wear sports uniform on the day.
In a bag please make sure that your chiild has the following- towel, underpants, water bottle, hat, snack and lunch. Thank you.
Termly Overviews and Home Learning
Termly Overviews and Home Learning will be available on the SZapp from 5th February.
Access to the Termly Overviews and Home Learning is now available via the SZapp and here. To keep up to date in what your child is learning and support this at home we strongly recommend you read the Termly Overview and keep an eye on Home Learning.
- There is no parking at all in the front section of the school until after 9.00am
- This is the speedy drop off area
- Drivers are asked to remain in their cars
- Mr McAlister will supervise the drop offs helping children from cars
- Students will then go directly to the top playground where Mrs Walsh will be on duty
If you would like to accompany your child onto the playground, please park your car away from the designated drop off section and walk with your child into the school. Supervision on the playground is from 8.30am. Prior to 8.30am your child must be booked into before school care with Extend (www.extend.com.au).
AFTERNOON – 3.30pm – 3.45pm
- No parking in the designated pick up section
- Students to be picked up will come to the front of the school
- When a parent/carer pulls up, drivers are to remain in their cars and Mr McAlister or Mrs Walsh will help the student/s into the car
- Please drive right into the curb so cars can pass you
- Car, parent/carer and students drive off allowing for the next car to move up into the section
- Please DO NOT make a U-TURN from the parking zone into the house opposite (No. 18) driveway. We understand that you need to turn around so that you are not faced with trying to get out onto Orrong Road. We are asking that you drive off down Wynnstay Road, over the children’s crossing and then use the driveway on the other side of the crossing to make your U-turn
Finally, of an afternoon ‘Speedy Pick up’ operates from 3.30pm to 3.45pm. You do not have to be at the front of the school at 3.30pm sharp. There is a 15-minute window in which you can arrive. There is no pressure from us that you are out there at exactly 3.30pm.
Parking
Please be aware of the parking restrictions on Wynnstay Road on Wednesday and Thursday mornings. The parking officers are lethal!
Please also pay close attention to the parking restrictions in A’Beckett Street. This is the street that our back gate opens on to. If you need convenience and speed, please use the front Speedy Pick-up service mentioned above. If you’re not in a hurry, please park near Orrong Romanis Park, walk up to the school and then accompany your children back to the car.
Birthday Party Invites
We ask that parents be responsible for giving out birthday party invites (not the children). Please be careful and discreet with invitation handing out as it can be hurtful if an entire grade is not invited. If you are working parents and do not get to see students or parents at pick up or drop off it might be an idea to email invites.
Teachers are not responsible for handing invites out.
Celebrating Birthdays
While on birthdays … we ask that you do not send birthday treats (cakes, lollies etc) to school to be shared. The students will sing happy birthday to your children on or close to, their birthdays and they will receive their birthday award in assembly.
Extend Before and After School Care
Extend understand that high quality care and education doesn’t ‘just happen’. They believe it takes a committed team of quality staff all working towards great outcomes for children, parents and school communities. Their ideals, expectations and vision fit easily into the OLOL philosophy and so we enjoy a very successful program of out of hours care. I regularly receive feedback from parents about just how happy they are with the care the students receive.
As Extend is a professional group, it takes several days to process a new ‘enrolment’. We ask that every student is enrolled in the Extend Before and After Care Program so that if you ever need to use the service you are ready to go.
Extend have a comprehensive website which they invite you to browse to learn more about Extend or to enrol your child: www.extend.com.au.
All families requiring bookings for Before School Care and After School Care (existing and new families) must create a new account with LookedAfter. Go to https://www.lookedafter.com.
Classes are taught by Cathy Vertkas and students can be enrolled by contacting her directly on her mobile telephone: 0406 022 919.
Cathy Vertkas (our Hip-Hop teacher) will be running lunchtime "Glee Club" classes.
The cost of OLOL Glee Club is $110.00. This includes: ten lunchtime lessons as well as competition registration.
If you are interested in joining OLOL Glee Club, please contact Cathy Vertkas on 0406 022 919 or email : cathyangel@bigpond.com.
A message from the Prahran Junior Football Club :
Hi Mrs Walsh
I am the President of the Prahran Junior Football Club located at Toorak Park. We are very fortunate to have many of your students playing junior football with our Club and we are proud of our strong focus on skill development, community and inclusiveness.
We have teams that can cater for all ages of girls and boys from Under 8 (Year 2/born 2013) onwards and would welcome the opportunity to have the attached flyer included in your school newsletter/notice board for the next few weeks as we are currently accepting registrations for our 2021 teams. We can also offer financial support to any player that may not otherwise be in a position to play football.
Regards,
Rob Lacey
We are very excited that Georgina Manning (founder of the Peaceful Kids program and Wellbeing for Kids) will be joining us for a Parent Information Session on Tuesday 23rd March 2021. This session will support our school's Wellbeing curriculum and programs, and it is therefore very important that parents and carers attend. Please book a babysitter and save the date NOW! We are looking forward to the session and believe you will find it extremely valuable.
All details are on the poster below, with RSVP dates in following Newsletters.