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 Good afternoon, Just a few messages for this week... Shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child Thank you to all those parents who have been so organised with their gift, donation money. I feel very lucky to have such organised and motivated parents! Please check the previous blog post to check what your child has been nominated to bring in for this wonderful initiative as well as the information about the $2.50 to get our shoe box where it needs to go.  Mission Markets Stall On the last day of school (Thursday the 24th of September) the children will be participating in our annual feast day - The assumption of Mary.  The Year 2 children are running a pre-loved toy and game store and would love any donations such as: Books Soft & hard toys (clean) Board games & puzzles, with all pieces There will be boxes outside the 2M classroom for you to place your donations in.  It would be appreciated if the families of Year 1 students could bring in a bag of popcorn kernels as they will be

MERIT AWARD WINNERS!!!! Last week we had two amazing winners of a well-deserved merit award for their hard work and dedication.   Dakin has been working so hard to improve his writing and his perseverance to all his work is admirable.  He wrote an amazing description with lots of adjectives and different sentence starters to keep his reader's interest and attention.   Adele has also been putting in maximum effort in her writing and consistently works towards her writing goals.  Her latest narrative writing has detail, character dialogue and lots of action - what every great adventure story needs!  OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD It's that time of year that we participate in the 'Operation Christmas Child' shoe box initiative that has been a wonderful OLC tradition for many years and reflects our school value of Compassion so well. These shoe boxes are sent to underprivileged children throughout the world as a gift for Christmas.  The children will be placed into in groups of