Learning and Growing
Book Week 2018
One of the greatest treasures we can pass onto our children is a love of reading
Book Week is Week 6: August 20 - August 24.
Activities for Book Week this year include:
* Book Fair: Tuesday August 21 - Friday August 24 sales in the sports centre before & after school
* Book Week Parade where students are asked to come dressed in their favourite book character
* OLSC Spellathon: sponsor forms and words were sent home this week.
Spellathon Day is Tuesday August 21
Buddy Reading for Book Week
Our seniors have come to share their story reading skills with the Prep and Year 1 students today.
Whole School Book Parade
eSmart Week
OLSC building a cyber safe community during National eSmart Week
Our Lady of the Southern Cross is participating in children’s charity, the Alannah & Madeline Foundation’s National eSmart Week from 2-8 September 2018, to show its commitment to keeping children, teens and adults safe online.
Held to coincide with National Child Protection Week, National eSmart Week creates awareness, solutions and ideas and encourages the whole community to be smart, safe and responsible when using digital technology.
As we at OLSC are lucky enough to have so many technological devices at our fingertips, it is essential that we learn about being safe with and on these devices. We believe the teaching of cyber safety and responsible online behaviour is essential in the lives of students and is best taught in partnership between school and home.
The Alannah & Madeline Foundation CEO, Lesley Podesta, said last year’s National eSmart Week initiative proved how important it was to Australian communities to protect young people online, explaining that Foundation programs such as eSmart Schools and eSmart Libraries are pivotal in educating people of all ages about cyber safety.
“The internet is a great place to learn, be creative and stay connected, but with one in five young Australians found to have been cyber bullied each year, it is important that we invest in giving our communities the skills they need to be responsible and safe online,” Ms Podesta said.
“The best way to build an eSmart Australia is to engage with the whole community. We know that National eSmart Week gives us the chance to promote important themes and messages by running engaging activities for all Australians.”
National eSmart Week is an initiative developed by the Alannah & Madeline Foundation, in partnership with Telstra Foundation.
Further reading: National Centre Against Bullying
The National Centre Against Bullying (NCAB) is a peak body working to advise and inform the Australian community on the issue of childhood bullying. Find out more including the findings from the recent Economic Cost of Bullying Report.
For teenagers and adults:
Twitter: @eSmart_AMF or @alannahmadeline
Facebook: AlannahMadelineFoundation
Instagram: @alannahmadeline