Mother’s Day Stall

Thank you to the staff and students from OLSH who organised and ran the Mother’s Day Stall last Thursday. The children enjoyed shopping from a great range of gifts. 

Thanks to Natalie Taffe who organised ‘Certificates of Appreciation’ for the students and staff. These were presented by our Foundation students.

We hope our school mum’s and grandmother’s all had a wonderful Mother’s Day.

Book Fair

Our Learning Hub/Faith Leaders are all set up and ready for customers for our Book Fair. This morning we had a number of students visit the Book Fair and purchase items. Books are not the only items for sale. Pop in sometime this week to see what else is on offer.

Book Fair is open:

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday morning from 8:30-8:45am

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon from 3:30-3:45am

Classes will also visit the Book Fair during their library time.

Jump Rope for Heart

Established in 1983, Jump Rope for Heart is a skipping and fundraising program run in Australian primary schools throughout the year. It encourages kids to have a positive attitude towards exercise, healthy eating and heart health while raising vital funds to fight heart disease.

Funds raised goes towards The Heart Foundation. The Heart Foundation supports over 580,000 Australians living with heart disease today, as well as working tirelessly to prevent and manage heart disease for future generations. Their work is purpose-driven, with a focus on stopping Australia’s number one killer: heart disease, which takes 50 lives every day.

The Heart Foundation acts to make a difference in the fight against heart disease by:

• Funding high-impact research, supporting emerging and leading heart health researchers
• Working to improve heart disease prevention, detection, care and support for all Australians
• Advocating to governments and industry for increased funding and resources for heart health
• Building community awareness about living a heart-healthy lifestyle. We do this through public health awareness campaigns, accessible information and resources
• Supporting health professionals in their work to prevent, diagnose, treat and manage heart disease.

Our school has registered to participate in this program and will send further information to parents in the weeks ahead.The conclusion of the program results in a Jump Off Day whereby students have a chance to show off their new skipping skills. We will provide a number of skipping opportunities for students in the weeks leading up to the Jump Off Day. We hope our school community will get behind this initiative and support this great cause, develop skills and have fun at the same time.

Student Voice

Our student voice group this term is working on ways to  improve play areas in our school grounds. Today the Student Voice group conducted an audit of our play areas, looking at safety and possible improvements. 

We were looking around the playground to check if it is safe - Sam

We were looking around the school to see what improvements we can make and how we can keep the courtyard clean and tidy - Leila

We walked around to check if we can make our school better - Aston

We talked about taking off the wooden borders to make it flat and level the ground on the oval garden - Alice

The courtyard looks good but we would like different plants - Georgia

We talked about the oval mural and what we could paint on it - George

We are going to improve the courtyard with the parents and friends help - Albie