Learning & Teaching
Josy Reeder
Hello from our Sustainability Leaders
On Thursday 8th March our Sustainability Leaders attended a peer mentoring workshop at St Joseph’s Primary School, Chelsea. The students collaborated with their peers from Mentone Primary School and Moorabbin Primary School to educate a Prep class about the marine environment. Abi, Zali, Connor and Tony were excited to each receive their official iSea iCare badge and t-shirt acknowledging their important roles as iSea iCare Ambassadors for The Great Southern Reef.
On the 9th of March the Sustainability Leaders went to St Joseph’s Primary School and we learnt about sea animals and how to teach and run activities with Prep students. We received our badges and official t-shirts that say iSea iCare on it. I went with Connor, Zali and Abigail and my role in the workshop was to ask the Prep class about how the ocean feels and looks. We were there for four hours and I am looking forward to teaching our OLA Preps.
- Tony
On the 9th of March 2023 the Sustainability Leaders (Abi, Tony, Zali and Connor) went to St Joseph’s Primary School. We were taught some tricks about sustainability and did a workshop with the Preps. We got our sustainability badges and our t-shirts. In the workshop we had specific roles and my role was to ask the Preps what to use to drink instead of a plastic straw. We rehearsed the workshop two times before the Preps came in. We will teach and do this workshop to our Preps this term. We were there for 4 hours and got back at 2:30. That was our day at St Joseph’s Primary.
- Zali
The Perceptual Motor Program (PMP) is a movement-based program which helps younger students improve their eye/hand and eye/foot coordination, fitness, balance, locomotion and eye-tracking skills. Our Prep students started the program this week!
What's in PMP session?
- Gross motor activities
- Visual motor activities
- Auditory motor activities
- Tactile activities
- Lateralisation activities
- Body awareness
- Spatial awareness
Meaningful Student Engagement with Seesaw. Watch the clip!
How Seesaw works
Seesaw creates a powerful learning loop between students, teachers, and families
Students show learning
Students use built-in multimodal tools to capture what they know in Seesaw’s digital portfolio
Teachers gain insights
Teachers see all stages of student thinking and progress — enabling them to teach better
Families connect
Families gain a window into their student’s learning and engage in home-to-school connections
Each family received a QR code to log into their child’s class at the parent teacher interviews.
Excellence at OLA
We celebrate achievements at OLA every day in the classroom. Outstanding achievement is celebrated at every assembly in the front of the school. Congratulations to all the students who received an award last week.
Josy Reeder
Learning and Teaching Leader