Learning Across the
Junior School
Oliphant Science Awards
Congratulations to Marnie Sherwell (Year 6) who won First Prize in the Year 5-6 Multimedia section of the recent Oliphant Science Awards. It is a well-deserved success after it was announced at the Oliphant Science Award ceremony on Friday 20 October. Her creative stop motion animation was superb on so many levels, combining detailed scientific information with an engaging format using Lego brick construction.
Catholic Schools Music Festival
In Week 10 of Term 3, the Catholic Schools Music Festival held this yearly spectacular event at the Adelaide Festival Theatre.
On the Tuesday evening, six girls from Year 6 volunteered to do an extra performance at the Catholic Schools Music Festival, to fill in gaps with some schools who did not have enough students. The Festival was very grateful to have our girls sing with them, and they performed beautifully. Thank you Emily R, Greta H, Vivienne C, Meleah P, Kartia M, Beatrice M.
On the Thursday evening, ALL the girls in Year 6 performed at the Catholic Schools Music Festival. This is an enormous, high quality music festival event, with students from Catholic schools all over South Australia. Songs included I Want You Back/ABC, Do You Know The Way To San Jose, Pure Imagination and a medley called “Celebrating Disney”.
Lisa Schulz
Music Teacher
Scholastic Book Club
Dear Junior School Parents, due to the quick turnaround needed to receive items prior to the commencement of the Term 4 holidays, the last day to order on the Scholastic LOOP for Issue 7, is Wednesday 1st November. Thank you for you ongoing support of the Book Club in 2023. We look forward to offering this again next year.
Ms Julie Staley
Information Resources Coordinator R-12
Loreto Leadership Program
On Tuesday the 24th of October, the Year 5 students were fortunate to virtually collaborate with 3 other Loreto schools from Normanhurst, Kirribilli, and Toorak in the annual Leadership Program.
Our very own Martina O’Connell, Assistant Principal: Mission and Identity, conducted this session for us to connect with our founder Mary Ward and begin conversations about leadership to prepare our students for opportunities to come. Our girls had the chance to share and hear from the schools’ how we all have been guided by Mary Ward so far, and how we can adopt her qualities in future leadership positions.
We had the opportunity to hear from Carolyn Young the Director of Mission and Identity of the Loreto Ministries. She shared her wisdom about leadership through a lens of Mary Ward. She sparked conversations about leadership with the students and inspired them to see leadership in many ways.
The students were also blessed with a special visit from some of our upcoming Year 12 leaders, who shared their experiences so far and how they used specific qualities to show kindness.
To end off the exciting day, our students met up with their Pen Pals whom they had been communicating with via letters for the past term. They got to chat away about their past, current, and future Loreto journeys.
Overall, it was an amazing day filled with lots of joy, connectedness, curiosity, and passion.
Year 5s
OSHC Updates
Welcome back to Term 4.
We had a successful rocketeers program where we experienced new activities, excursion and cooking. We are looking forward to celebrate National Recycling Week with Rubbish Robots program starting from 13-11-2023 to 17-11-2023. The motive of celebrating this week is to experience the fun in saving the world. Here at OSHC we encourage children to be respectful towards each other by following good communication skills, helping each other and following directions by staying positive.
I would like to request you to book your children in advance for the ASC to avoid last minute bookings. We are also encouraging children to bring hats to OSHC to stay sunsmart. We always welcome new ideas, suggestions and concerns as well. So feel free to reach us to discuss your views.
Contact number: 0429 840 240
Email id: saloreto@oshccampaustralia.com.au
Thank you.
Navneet Kaur (OSHC Coordinator)
Camp Australia - Rubbish Robots
Join Camp Australia for engaging and educational experiences during After School Care that encourage children to save the world through sustainability. Using recyclable materials to build their unique creations, your child will be involved in hands-on learning experiences that promote their creativity, raise important environmental awareness, and have fun with their peers!
When: 13-17 November
For more information, download the flyer below.
OSHC - December Edition
As we enter the final term of the year, we are very excited to be offering summer holiday Out of School Hours Care to our Junior School families. Camp Australia will once again be offering a fantastic Rocketeers Holiday Program starting from Friday 8 December - Friday 22 December and back again on Monday 8 January through until Thursday 25 January.
Download the flyer below for more information on what's included. Visit https://www.campaustralia.com.au/rocketeers to book.