Dear Parents, Grandparents and Caregivers in the OLC Community,

All our Year 3-6 students participated beautifully in our Ash Wednesday Mass in the Parish Church last Wednesday morning. Fr Ian chose Hamish O’Dea, Emily Hopkinson, Lakey Thompson and Indiana Harber-Niemann to role play out the story behind Ash Wednesday. Fr Ian is to be commended on inspiring everyone to be better people. We follow the life of Jesus within our OLC school values. The junior classes received their ashes in the liturgy held at school.

All the candidates and their families attended the First Eucharist Meeting on Tuesday afternoon at OLC. Well done to all families and staff for leading the presentation.

There are several immunocompromised members in our school community. Please keep your child at home if they have any cold or flu-like symptoms.

We are not permitted to administer Rapid Antigen Testing on students and also not permitted to breach the privacy of students/community members by disclosing those who are impacted by COVID-19. We will keep our community informed when there is an outbreak in your child’s class.

Our students were treated to various netball and soccer clinics last Wednesday. A large number of SEDA students from Perth came down to share their organisational and sporting skills with our lucky students.

All the students were treated to an art lesson with Artist in residence last week. Some of the students will have picked up some skills for life. Andrew has had a massive audience while he has been painting the new murals. Totally mind blowing watching this outstanding artist in action.

This Friday 3 March is a pupil free day. The focus is on behaviour management. Esme’s (2) dad Arun from Oh Deli is preparing a delicious lunch for all the hard-working staff. (The editor is not sure whether the staff are looking forward to the Professional Development, having no students for a day or Arun’s lunch! Currently suspecting it may be the latter.)

Please ensure that you have sent back the” Payment Plan Advice’’ form (included with your fee statement) to the office admin@ladyofcape.wa.edu.au as soon as possible.

Any outstanding amounts from last year should also be paid.

• The payphone in town is free.
• Joel (2N) played golf with his grandad last Sunday.
• Tom Ryan (6) has an 11-year-old Brindle Boxer dog named “Bear”. Tom is also working on an old HJ Toyota with his dad.
• It is tricky to spell Mrs Knezevic’s surname
• Lyla Pearson and Tom Ryan (6M) gave a tour of school to a prospective new family on Monday morning. They obviously did a good job as they signed up straight away!
• Jamison Hart (6) and Lyla Pearson (6) created two magnificent signs to publicise our Monday morning fresh fruit, veggie, eggs and worm wizz stall.
• Kiki Thompson (1K) and Liam Hulse (1K) came to show Mr. Lee some outstanding artwork at 12.52pm on Wednesday.
• Beau means beautiful in the French language.
• Our new Year 1 teacher, Mrs Tarma Neal, was in the top one percent of all graduating students in her final year at university.
• Dylan Hart (3D) is a human dynamo at playing footy.
• What do you call a hundred rabbits walking backwards? A receding hare line.

I am sure there used to be a wall here once!

A few bananas needed for these cheeky monkeys

Huge numbers using our super special playground. Very lucky students to have dedicated parents to provide these excellent facilities

There could be worse places to be on a Monday morning. How lucky are we to live and work in such an outstanding environment!

Principal