On Monday the 19th of August we celebrated Book Week, and what a celebration it was!
In the morning Kindergarten, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 5 students received a visit from the author Ursula Dubosarsky. She shared her writing process, where she gets her ideas and how she develops these ideas into stories. Our students were able to ask many questions as Ursula discussed her popular children titles, The Terrible Plop, Too Many Elephants in This House, The Blue Cat and Tim and Ed.
It was then time for the much anticipated assembly. Students paraded their extremely creative costumes with students and families cheering them on. The teachers also got into the spirit and came dressed as the hungry caterpillar. Some of the teachers even presented a Readers’ Theatre about a bikie gang who stumble across a library and are immersed in the wonderful literature they find there.
Later in the day, students formed teams of four to participate in a ‘Scavenger Hunt’ across the school. They visited different classrooms to complete activities and earned points for showing respectful and collaborative behaviours.
On Wednesday, Year 3 and Year 5 students were spoilt with a visit from popular author Louise Park. She shared her writing strategies of show, rather than tell, creating memorable characters, techniques for developing quests and adventure stories and much much more!
Our Lady of Mt Carmel | Wentworthville
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30 May 2025
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🌟 Year 3 Learning Highlights from Our Classroom! 🌟 Our students have been buzzing with excitement as they explored life in early Christian times through drama! Around our cozy ‘campfire,’ the children shared stories and then continued their conversations at the ‘watering hole,’ where small groups exchanged ideas about questions they had about God. We also enjoyed a special music session with Mrs Diaz! In Maths, students practiced their directional language by creating maps with compass points and classroom materials, to represent landmarks. In English, we have learnt all about dingoes and practiced writing declarative sentences to share interesting facts about them. We’re so proud of how engaged and enthusiastic our learners have been! 🙌📚![763565872230263_1215527993700713-1]()
28 May 2025
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This week, we hosted our second Coffee and Chat with our Year 1 parents. Mrs Anderiesz & Mrs Diaz enjoyed their conversations with the parents who were able to make it. We spoke about excursions, child protection requirements, preventative measures to address bullying, future developments to the school and the benefits of allowing our children to be bored to force them to develop creativity. Next week we look forward to meeting with our Year 2 parents at 2:30 in the school library. If you haven’t had the opportunity to RSVP, no worries at all, come along anyway, the more the merrier!
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30 May 2025
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🌟 Year 3 Learning Highlights from Our Classroom! 🌟 Our students have been buzzing with excitement as they explored life in early Christian times through drama! Around our cozy ‘campfire,’ the children shared stories and then continued their conversations at the ‘watering hole,’ where small groups exchanged ideas about questions they had about God. We also enjoyed a special music session with Mrs Diaz! In Maths, students practiced their directional language by creating maps with compass points and classroom materials, to represent landmarks. In English, we have learnt all about dingoes and practiced writing declarative sentences to share interesting facts about them. We’re so proud of how engaged and enthusiastic our learners have been! 🙌📚
28 May 2025
From Facebook
This week, we hosted our second Coffee and Chat with our Year 1 parents. Mrs Anderiesz & Mrs Diaz enjoyed their conversations with the parents who were able to make it. We spoke about excursions, child protection requirements, preventative measures to address bullying, future developments to the school and the benefits of allowing our children to be bored to force them to develop creativity. Next week we look forward to meeting with our Year 2 parents at 2:30 in the school library. If you haven’t had the opportunity to RSVP, no worries at all, come along anyway, the more the merrier!
27 May 2025
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We thank our Kindy Gold class for leading us in prayer this week. We also congratulate the MANY students who received merit and star card awards. We also acknowledge the 30+ Cross Country Squad that participated in Dio Carnival with compassion and dignity. What a fantastic effort from everybody 💙💙💙
23 May 2025
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Did you know? 🌧️ Our amazing teachers have been on Wet Weather Duty all week — this is the absolute, toughest duty of all! 60 energetic kids indoors, who are desperate to be outside! It takes patience, creativity, and a whole lot of heart to keep the day running smoothly. 💪💛 They’ve powered through without actual breaks from the space. So today we showed them some love by calling a mufti day for them, and providing some warm treats. It actually doesn't take much to make them happy because everything they do comes from a deeply pastoral place. 💖
21 May 2025
From Facebook
Congratulations to the 34 students who proudly represented our school at the Diocesan Cross Country! It was a day that truly gave us four seasons in one, sunshine, wind, rain, and plenty of mud. Despite the wet and slippery conditions, every student returned to the grandstand with a smile. There were a few tumbles along the way, but even more determination and laughter. The support from our families was incredible, thank you to all the parents who braved the weather, helped walk the course, and ensured our runners made it to the marshalling area on time. A special thanks to the parents who helped feed both our athletes and teachers,it was very much appreciated! Everyone who attended should feel immensely proud, not only for making it to the Diocesan level but for the enthusiasm, resilience, and sportsmanship shown on the day. The energy and cheering coming from the grandstand was heartwarming and showed the true spirit of our school community. Even getting stuck on the bus for 50 minutes couldn’t dampen our spirits. It was a day full of smiles, teamwork, and memories we won’t forget!
21 May 2025
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Did you know the students at OLMC are practising the 'POWER OF YET!' The power of “yet” is the idea that if you haven't achieved something or learned a specific skill, it doesn't mean you can't or won't in the future. When faced with challenges, people may say, “I can't do this.” By adding "yet" to negative self-talk, we disrupt the negativity bias loop. Instead of a fixed mindset ("I can't do this"), we activate a growth mindset ("I haven't mastered this yet"). This simple word opens the door to neuroplasticity, the brain's ability to rewire itself based on experiences
21 May 2025
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Yesterday, Miss Pirovic, Mrs Anderiesz and Mrs Diaz hosted the first OLMC Coffee & Chat session with our Kindergarten parents. We spoke about the processes around excursions, child protection requirements, homework, managing our own anxieties with our child’s anxieties, the importance of allowing our children experience independence and the benefits to their self-esteem, elements of our pastoral care policy, and best of all, as our parents were leaving, many stopped to exchange phone numbers. Mission Achieved!!!! Next week we look forward to meeting with our Year 1 parents at 2:30 in the school library. If you haven’t had the opportunity to RSVP, no worries at all, come along anyway, the more the merrier!
13 May 2025
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We thank our Year 1G student for leading our community in prayer this week. We congratulate all of our Week 3 award and merit certificate recipients 💙💙💙 Just a reminder for all of our families, there is no assembly next week as we have School Photos 📸
13 May 2025
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We thank Year 1B in leading us in prayer and congratulate all of our Week 2 award and merit certificate recipients 💙💙💙
10 May 2025
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What a beautiful way to celebrate our Mothers! We extend our deepest thanks to the amazing dads in our school community who generously hosted our Mothers' Day Breakfast. The spread of cookies, cakes, pizzas, fruit, right down to the personalised cookies that they so generously donated exemplified a feast made with love and care. Our mums, grandmothers, carers and the special women in our students’ lives felt truly appreciated. Thank you for the time, thoughtfulness and community spirit you brought to this special morning To our 2025 squad of fathers who stepped up and provided, your kindness reminds us all of the power of generosity and the strength of our school family. A full list of volunteers and those who generously donated food for our event will be included in this weeks newsletter🩷
05 May 2025
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Today we are filled with gratitude for the wonderful Dads that stepped up and provided, not only an amazing example to our young students, but also their time, support, and presence, helping to build a stronger sense of community and belonging within the OLMC School Community. They did an amazing job, finishing off the stall before 1pm. Thank you so much and we look forward to seeing you next year (Mrs Anderiesz will have a leader board ready to go!)🤣