Week 7

Good afternoon Parents

Welcome to week 3, a short week before a well deserved long weekend.  This week we are working on our second book review with a view to publishing them.  In Maths we are working on the formal multiplication algorithm.

As part of our learning about National Sorry Day, the whole school (yep all of us) came together to make a wonderful art piece as shown in the picture below.  Year 3's also spent time learning about why we have sorry day, why it is important and how people have been impacted by decisions of the past.

Homework this week includes the usual, spelling, reading and maths with our mental strategy being the pattern when we multiply a number by ten/hundred/thousand (hint, we write the number of zeros we multiply by then move the number forward that many times, ie....25 x 100 =   there are 2 zeros in 100 so we write them first moving the 25 along 2 places to give us 2500).

Just a few reminders this week

Pupil Free Days - Please note that this weekend is an extra long weekend. The school staff will will be participating in a session with Fr Tony Chiera on Friday.  On Tuesday we will be spending time with Laura Allison examining strategies on how schools can promote wellbeing for staff and students.

OLC Dance Concert - Last week I put up a blog about the upcoming dance concert - here.  Mrs Haines also put a blog up last week about students that may be away on the last day of school.  If you have not already read the blog, please do so at https://danceolc.blogspot.com/.

Focus Character Strength - This week we will be looking at the character strength of Creativity! 

Ask your child where this strength came in when they completed their Character Strength survey and where they might see this in their daily lives...we are talking in class about occasions where we see this strength in action.

Enjoy the remainder of the week.

Mr Mc





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