Important Dates Mon 8 – Fri 12 April

Parent Interviews

Wed 10 April 7pm

School Board Mtg

Thu 11 April 9am

Y5 Holy Thursday Prayer Assembly –

Fri 12 April 9am

Free Dress Day Leeuwin

Y6 Good Friday Assembly

Easter Egg Raffle Draw 1.30pm

END OF TERM 1

Mon 29 April TERM 2

STAFF PD

Student Free Day

Tue 30 April

Students Commence

Fri 3 May 9am

General Assembly

Wed 8 May

P&F Mtg 9am

Eucharist Workshop 5.30pm

Fri 10 May

Mothers Day Breakfast 7am

Whole School Mass 9am—OLOSC

For more dates, go to https://www.ladyofcape.wa.edu.au/calendar.php

Note: dates are subject to change and the calendar should be checked regularly.

Many Hearts, One Voice

29 March 2019

Our Lady of the Cape Catholic Primary School

PO Box 562, 245 Cape Naturaliste Rd, Dunsborough WA 6281 Tel: 9781 3200 Absentees 9781 3201

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

Newsletter: newsletter@ladyofcape.wa.edu.au Staff firstname.secondname@cewa.edu.au

Dear OLC Parents,

Carers and families,

Our Catholic Identity

Holy week

Many classes will be leading the school in our Holy Week celebrations and

understandings of this special time in our Faith calendar. This began with 2S

today with their wonderful and meaningful Palm Sunday prayer assembly

and will continue later next week and in the first week of Term 2.

Great thanks to Mrs Meyer and the teaching staff for their preparation of

the students for our Holy Week.

Learning

NAPLAN

This week the Year 3 and 5 students participated in a NAPLAN online

practice test. For the first time nationally, the NAPLAN assessments will be

online. Besides the Year 3 Writing assessment, all other tests will be

completed on iPads and processed digitally.

Some important points about NAPLAN Online:

NAPLAN Online will provide better assessment, more precise results and

faster turnaround of information. The assessments can run through a

real-time internet connection or onscreen without an internet

connection.

NAPLAN Online features ‘tailored testing’ which gives students questions

that are more suited to their ability – resulting in better assessment and

more precise results.

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.

Individual student performance is shown on a national achievement scale for each

assessment. A result at the national minimum standard indicates that the student has

demonstrated the basic literacy and numeracy skills needed to participate fully in that year

level.

A NAPLAN individual student report will be issued by your child’s school later in the year.

https://www.nap.edu.au/online-assessment

I’d like to thank Mrs Murphy, Mr McSevich and Mr Danaher for their thoughtfulness in preparing

the students for the practise test and for the professional learning required for the new NAPLAN

platform.

Although NAPLAN is not our only form of important and individual assessment, it does provide us

with crucial data on our students but also the effectiveness of our teaching and learning areas.

And of-course, all our other programs in the school such as Religious Education, Physical

Education, Music/Arts, Friendology, MJR, Digital Technologies, Indonesian and our Learning

support programs, all assist us in fostering the whole-child at OLC and to further develop our

student’s strengths and interests.

Classroom Visits – I love what is going on in our classes!

Having visited many classes over the past few weeks, it’s so pleasing to see the impressive level

and teaching and learning occurring around the school. In particular the focus and structure

provided towards writing has been really terrific.

With great uses of descriptive language, writing frameworks, punctuation and student

engagement towards writing tasks, this is a hugely advancing area at OLC. Congratulations to

all teachers and students.

Parent Teacher Meetings

I have had so many positive comments from parents in regard to our Parent

Teacher meetings. Over the past 4 weeks, our OLC teachers have completed

testing and prepared detailed summaries of their students’ learning so far this

year.

While this takes hours of preparation and meeting time, we pride ourselves on the face-to-face,

accurate and professional feedback that our parents are receiving about their children. Not

many schools have this level of interaction and detail at the end of Term 1.

I’d like to deeply thank our OLC class teachers on a truly world-class experience that they have

been providing to parents over the past couple of weeks.

Interschool Certificates

Today at assembly, I presented our 2019 Interschool Swim

Team with a certificate of appreciation to each member.

Once again, I stated the impressive performances, attitude

and effort displayed by the team last week in Bunbury.

Our new Interschool certificates will become a new part of

our interschool sports culture with certificates designed for all

interschool sports that OLC participates in (Swimming,

Athletics and Cross Country).

Our Community

Sloan Drive

Once again can I please insist that parents collect students from the school grounds,

as opposed to asking their children to come to their parked cars unsupervised.

The school provides sufficient carparks in Cape Naturaliste and the Oval carpark as

well as two pick up areas. Please avoid risking the safety of our students by asking

them to cross carparks/roads unattended and please ensure you drive carefully through these areas at

drop off and pick up times.

School Promotional Photos

Today we had some new school marketing photos taken

around the school and classroom.

I would like to sincerely thank Katie Garcia for her time and

expertise in taking some wonderful new photos that capture

the culture and spirit of our school.

New Air Conditioner in the Canteen

Thank you to Stinson Air for installing a new air conditioner into

the canteen today. This is a welcome addition to our wonderful canteen. I am sure Sara will be very

pleased and will continue to produce the delicious and healthy food for our students, staff and

Assistant Principal!

Great thanks to our P&F for raising these funds and providing Sara and our canteen helpers with some

welcome relief. P&F, we are so lucky to have you!

Soccer Frenzy this Week at OLC

This week we have been fortunate to have

had two soccer incursions for a large

number of our students.

On Tuesday the Perth Glory conducted a

great day that had our classes participate

in a soccer clinic during their PE times.

And today we’ve had Pro Football Training conduct a Soccer

Carnival for Years 2, 4, 5, and 6. PFT have become regulars at OLC

and our students love their high energy and values-based

sessions.

We usually don't have two sport incursions in the same week, but

we’ll certainty take them in Week 9 of Term 1!

We look forward to more clinics and carnivals from different sports

and codes throughout the year.

Warm Regards,

Adrian Torrese

Acting Principal

CRAZY HAIR DAY FOR PROJECT COMPASSION

What a fantastic day we had yesterday with some very inventive hair do’s

and crazy wigs coming to school! We raised $347 in donations for Project

Compassion. Along with the proceeds from Popcorn day, it means we

have exceeded our $500 target, with a

total of $601 raised for Project Compassion

this term. Many thanks to everyone for your

creativity, participation and generosity.

More photos attached

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION

Congratulations to our Year 3 students who received their

Reconciliation certificates today, and shared in a celebratory cake

for morning tea. We sincerely thank the Year 4 Parent reps who

organised this special morning tea. Delicious!

YEAR 2S PRAYER ASSEMBLY

Year 2S kicked off our Holy Week celebrations

today with a prayer assembly based on Palm

Sunday. This was a beautiful reminder of how

excited people were when Jesus entered

Jerusalem on the donkey.

Next Thursday and Friday we will celebrate

Holy Thursday with the Year 5’s leading the

prayer assembly and Good Friday with the

Year 6 class taking the lead.

Easter Sunday will be celebrated after the school holidays, and we will also have the traditional Pre

Primary Easter hat parade on the Friday of Week 1, Term 2. We’d love to see parents come along to all

of these prayer assemblies to help share the true meaning of Easter.

PALM SUNDAY MASS - HELPERS REQUIRED

Palm Sunday actually falls in the school holidays this year and we are looking for 6 students to

participate in the Saturday evening Mass on Saturday the 13th April at 6.00pm. The children will be

required to be part of the entrance ceremony holding palm leaves. If you are available on this date

and your child would like to participate, please let me know as soon as possible via email at

amie.meyer@cewa.edu.au . It is a lovely way to meaningfully participate in Holy Week which marks

the most important week in the Church calendar.

MAKING JESUS REAL

Our MJR program identifies students who show the Spirit of Jesus by being Welcoming, Encouraging,

Saying Sorry and Saying Thank you (WESTies). We are always considering how we greet, treat and

speak to each other at our school. This week’s student winners of the OLC Cape Crusaders were:

(see next page)

OLC EASTER RAFFLE

Be a Good Egg This Easter!

It is time for the annual OLC Easter Raffle.

We would like to ask that each family donate an Easter treat that will be

raffled during the last week of school.

Please place all donations in the box located in classrooms and re-

member that we are a NUT FREE SCHOOL.

Food for thought…

Pope Francis said that “every person ought to have the awareness that purchasing is always a mor-

al – and not simply an economic – act.”

Cocoa is a key ingredient of chocolate and many children in West Africa are enslaved to pick the

cocoa beans. They will never taste the delicious chocolate their slavery helps produce.

PLEASE BRING IN YOUR EGGS BY WEDNESDAY

MEELUP: Saffi Jennings

NATURALISTE: Cameron Hunt

GEOGRAPHE: Rose Rawling

LEEUWIN: Ashton Finn

(Absent)

MAMA CC: Ruby Eastaugh

(The Mother Cape Crusader):

Congratulations to all our winners

and nominees! Please take the

time to look at our Spirit of Jesus

display in the undercover area.

Here the token tally is visible, but you will also see a tree for each faction. On these trees are leaves

showing the names of the children who have been nominated for a Spirit of Jesus award this term.

Some children have been nominated multiple times!

FACTION TOKEN TALLY

Students are rewarded with tokens for demonstrating the Spirit of Jesus, following the school rules

and for demonstrating our school values of Compassion, Appreciation, Respect and Excellence.

The winning faction at the end of this week has free dress next Friday. Congratulations LEEUWIN!

God Bless Everyone! Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Amie Meyer

OLC RE Coordinator

LEEUWIN MEELUP NATURALISTE GEOGRAPHE

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Year 4 Race Placing Year 5 Race Placing

Ebony Edwards Breastroke Freestyle

3rd 2nd

Zahra Love Breastroke 2nd

Kirra Chandler Backstroke 4th Sophie Summers Breastroke 4th

Lara Murray Breastroke Backstroke

4th 2nd

Ruby Eastaugh Breastroke Freestyle

1st 2nd

Flynn Eastaugh Freestyle Breastroke

1st 1st

Saffi Jennings Freestyle 4th

Cooper Bidesi Backstroke

1st Banjo Jennings-Hopkins

Freestyle Backstroke

2nd 2nd

Jaz Currie Freestyle Breastroke Backstroke

1st 1st 1st

Remy North Open Butterfly Freestyle

3rd 2nd

Vincent Rock Freestyle Breastroke Backstroke

1st 1st 2nd

Year 5 Boys Freestyle Medley 1st

Year 4 Boys Freestyle Medley 1st

Year 6 Race Placing

Leila Campbell Breastroke 4th

Rhys Antonio Breastroke Freestyle

1st 3rd

Sam Rolfe Freestyle 2nd

Open Medley 2nd

INTERSCHOOL SWIMMING CARNIVAL RESULTS

Ballet Visit

On Monday the 1st of April the Year two students were lucky enough to be invited to watch the

Dunsborough Ballet Company perform ‘Reflections’. The performance took place at the Old

Dunsborough Hall and the students saw six talented dancers performing classical ballet.

The students were impressed by the creativity and skill shown by the ballerinas. We saw both

classical and contemporary dances. Congratulations and thanks to Mrs Jonnine Carrol for

inviting us to this concert and for her time in explaining this ballet to us.

Congratulations to the following students for receiving a Merit Certificate

Hazel McDonnell - (PPL)

Max McMaster - (P1B)

Jaxon Schult - Orange Room (Y1P)

Isla McLaren - Blue Room (Y2K)

James Jackson - Blue Room (Y2S)

Xavier Goodall / Matilda Davidson – Red Room (3MC)

Sam Duffield – Red Room (3MU)

Madi Rogan - Yellow Room (4D)

Charlie McClenaughan - Yellow Room (4R)

Remy North - Purple Room (Y5)

Jay Peterson - Silver Room (Y6)

JUNIOR HOCKEY

Anyone that is interested in Junior Hockey (grades 3, 4 and 5) email Michael

Hutton on huttonwines@westnet.com.au.