Our Lady of Mercy
NEWSLETTER | TERM 3 | WEEK 6 | 24 AUGUST 2022
Golden Time: Celebrating positive behaviour and promoting wellbeing. Well done girls and boys!
Message from the Principal
Dear Parents and Carers
I think everyone enjoyed the long weekend break. It provided us all with the opportunity to recharge at the mid-term point, ready for the last five weeks of school.
Book Week Assembly Tomorrow
This week we celebrate Book Week with the children encouraged to come to school dressed as their favourite book character on Thursday. The children will enjoy a talk from an author after the Book Week assembly and later on in the day, a pantomime by WA Opera performing the story of Hansel and Gretel.
Wellness Week
Week 6 is traditionally our school’s Wellness Week. Both staff and students enjoy a few treats, like staff wearing their slippers to school on Tuesday and students doing mindfulness meditation practice, team games or 10 minutes of free time at the end of the day on Friday.
Food Item Donations
We would like to remind all families that we are midway through our collection of food items for asylum seekers in the Girrawheen area through the ‘Draw Near Project’. If you have not yet done so, please send a food item allocated to your child’s year group for this very good cause. A list of food items collected per year group can be found further on in the newsletter.
Reflection
In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus describes both what we ought to do and for whom we ought to do it - for “the least of these brothers of mine” (Matthew: 25:40). The least of the brothers and sisters of Jesus are those who are vulnerable. They are the socially, psychologically or economically disadvantaged. Let us work together as a school community to provide practical help in the form of food items for the least of our brothers and sisters.
God bless you all and your generosity.
Ondine Komnick
Principal
Important dates coming up
Thursday 25 August - Book Week Parade
Thursday 25 August - P&F Meeting - all welcome!
Friday 26 August - Year 6 Interschool Carnival
Friday 2 September - Father's Day Stalls
Tuesday 6 September - Athletics Carnival and P&F Sausage Sizzle
Father's Day Stall - Friday 2 September
The P&F Committee are hard at work preparing this year's Father's Day stall.
This will be running on Friday, 2nd September, at recess and lunch (whilst stocks last!). Please bring some money to school on the day and get in quick for a great gift idea for Dad.
Athletics Carnival - P&F sausage sizzle order forms
Order forms
The P&F Committee will soon be sending home sausage sizzle order forms for the Athletics Carnival. The Athletics Carnival will be held on Tuesday, 6th September at Hudson Oval. Any OLOM student is able to pre-pay an order for their sausage sizzle for $3.00. We will also be selling sausage sizzles to parents, along with a variety of other foods and snacks. Keep an eye out for your child's order form and please return it to the classroom teacher by the due date.
Volunteers to help with sausage sizzle
As always, we are going to need volunteers to help on the day, if you are able to spare some time, please send an email to andrea.ludvik@hotmail.comwith your availability!
P&F Colour Fun Run - fundraising page now available
The P&F Committee are seeking volunteers to help run the Colour Run on the 23rd September. The Colour Run is a huge event and we will need a number of parents to help with tasks throughout the day including the oval course set up and of course the fun part, throwing the colour powder at the kids!!
If you are able to help, even for a couple of hours, please email andrea.ludvik@hotmail.com.
Time to enrol for Kindy next year!
- Email office: admin@olom.wa.edu.au
- Call office: 9207 7677
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School Term Dates
Term 1: Monday, 31 January to Friday, 8 April 2022
Term 2: Wednesday, April 27 to Friday, 1 July 2022
Term 3: Monday 18 July to Friday, 23 September 2022
Term 4: Tuesday, 11 October to Friday, 9 December 2022
Pupil Free and Public Holiday Dates
Monday, 7 March (Labour Day Holiday)
Tuesday, 8 March (Pupil Free Day)
Term 2:
Monday, 25 April (ANZAC Day Holiday)
Tuesday, 26 April (Pupil Free Day)
Monday, 6 June (WA Day Holiday)
Term 3:
Friday, 19 August (Pupil Free Day)
Monday, 22 August (Pupil Free Day)
Term 4:
Monday, 10 October (Pupil Free Day)
Sacrament Dates
Holy Eucharist: Saturday, 17 September at 6 pm and Sunday, 18 September at 9.30 am
Our Lady of Mercy Primary School
Email: admin@olom.wa.edu.au
Website: http://www.olom.wa.edu.au
Location: 55 Hudson Avenue, Girrawheen WA 6064, Australia
Phone: (08) 9207 7677
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ourladyofmercygirrawheen/