Using technology in the Classroom

Walking and Parking Around the School Zone

A reminder to families to always use the school crossing on Botting Street if your car is parked on the eastern side of the road.

Parents are reminded not to park and leave your car in the Kiss’n Drop area if you are going into the school to collect your child.

Welcome to my new blog!  This week is Part One of a series of handy hints on how to assist and help at home with Literacy.

Working With Your children On Reading

Top 25 Tips for emerging readers:

1. Read to your child as often as you can
2. Talk about books/characters/plots/letters and sound relationships
3. Enrol your child and family in your local library
4. Provide a good role model by reading yourself, pointing out signs, street titles, names of shopping centres, cafes, print in general!  It is everywhere.  This is called Environmental Print
5. Watch popular...

Next Wednesday we will be opening our school to visitors to view our school facilities and students’ at work in their classrooms.

Please pass on this invitation to anyone you know who is considering enrolling their child in the near future.

Hi everyone and welcome to week 5!

Catholic Schools Music Festival Choir

Students are reminded to bring their forms back ASAP (with the $45 fee), in order to receive their books and CDs.  Students are also reminded to come to rehearsals prepared with their choir books and drink bottles.  1sts rehearsal after lunch from 1:30 – 2:15pm on Friday afternoons, while 2nds rehearsal from 2:15 – 3:00pm on Friday afternoons.

Students will be receiving Media Consent forms this week – these must be returned ASAP via your child's class box.

OLQP School Band

The OLQP School band rehearses on Thursday afternoons, from 2:15pm.

Instrumental music students are welcome to join, depending on availability of instruments. For example, limited places for piano, voice and drums are available. Currently, the band

Hello Everyone

We are already in week 5 of the school term….it’s gone quick !

Welcome

Shrove Tuesday - Tuesday 5 March

The children all look forward to this day and love pancakes in the morning so we would appreciate any donations for the following  item:  pancake mix, lemons, maple syrup, paper plates and serviettes.  All items can be placed in the Parent Room or left with staff in the School Office.  Thanking you in advance!

Next P&F meeting will be on Wednesday 20 March.

We look forward to a great year and raising some funds for the school.

Do you have a toddler or a child currently attending Kindy? Have you enrolled them yet?

Whilst priority is given to siblings of children already attending Our Lady Queen of Peace, we still require a completed Application for Enrolment form for each and every child.  Places are filling quickly.  All families wishing to enrol their children in Reception for 2019 must lodge a completed Application for Enrolment form as soon as possible.

Note: If your child is born between 1 May & 31 October, he/she is eligible for our Semester 2 intake.  Application for Enrolment forms are available from the School Office.  Contact Ali or Maureen, on 8345 4036 for more information.

We are travelling towards the middle of the term, which seems amazing!  There has already been so much great learning occurring in all the learning spaces here at Our Lady Queen of Peace.

This is also an opportunity to reflect and name what we all look forward and work towards in 2019. 

Parents have a significant influence on their child’s learning.   On average a child will spend 75 – 85% of their waking hours outside of school.  Therefore, parents’ engagement in the education of their child is pivotal in enabling them to achieve their potential.  Parents can help...

Congratulations to all our swimmers who participated in the SAPSASA Swimming Carnival yesterday.  All swimmers contributed confidently in all their swimming events.  They should all be very proud of their fantastic effort, excellent behaviour and the way in which they showed great support to their team members as they competed in each event.

Congratulations to Ivy Avina and Harvey O’Brien who have been invited to the State Trials for Freestyle and Breastroke events later this term.

Next week we will begin our important cycle in the Church Calendar: Lent.  We will be celebrating Shrove Tuesday with an abundant supply of pancakes from our wonderful parent volunteers.  Many thanks to the families who have donated items for our pancake morning next week.

We have tutors for:

Guitar – Vocals – Piano – Drums - Flute - Clarinet – Saxophone – Trumpet - Trombone

If your child is interested, please contact:

• Ken Cooke (Guitar) – forms are available from the school office or phone 0419802276
• Julie Candido (Piano) – 0412979081
• Michelangelo Micelli (Drums) –0421373314
• TBA (Trumpet) -
• Virginia Rawlinson (Voice) - 0421 912 408
• Catherine Haynes (Violin) – 0432 850 842
• Andrew Heuzenroeder (Clarinet/Saxophone) – 0437 440 863  

The P & F Committee would greatly appreciate your support of the school's first 2019 fundraiser by selling a box of chocolates for our school.  This is one of our most successful fundraisers and all proceeds contribute to purchasing valuable resources that benefit our children's learning.

A note will be distributed shortly so if you are happy to support this fundraiser please complete and return it via your child's class box and we will arrange a box of chocolates to be sent home with your child.  Alternatively you can call into the Parent Room after 3.00pm each afternoon and collect your box to sell, OR email Christine at cwhicker6@bigpond.com with your child’s name and classroom and we will arrange a box to be sent home.

This year we have 2 varieties: Freddo Frogs/Caramelo Koalas OR mixed Chocolate Bars.  Each box contains 60 bars or frogs/koalas @ $1.00 each.

We would be most grateful if all families could help support this fundraiser.

Thank you, Christine Whicker

OPEN THURSDAYS

(Located in Parent Room)
OPENING TIMES*:

• 8:50am – 9:15am
• 3:00pm -3:25pm

* Unless otherwise advised via the OLQP App.

Do you have any uniform items that your child no longer wears?  If so, please ensure all items are in good condition and laundered to re-sell.

PLEASE NOTE!

Parents receive 60% of the sale as voted by the School Board. 

Thank you!

Anna Macri
2^nd Hand Uniform Coordinator)

Please click on this link for more information.

Parenting Ideas

The latest blog by Michael Grose is on ‘The Language of Independence Building’.  Reliability is closely connected to responsibility and other aspects of independence. Every child over the age of five, at the eldest, should do something that someone else relies on whether it’s looking after a pet, clearing the meal table or emptying the garbage on a regular basis. 

Please click on the link to the blog: