Focus On Learning: Play, Talk and Write
Last week we welcomed our new Kindergarten children to our St Oliver’s community. Already the children have been hard at work in their classroom. Each morning, after waving their parents goodbye, the children go straight into the classroom and begin their developmental play.
This is a valuable time where they play alongside their classmates and are involved in rich conversations with them and their teachers. Children are offered opportunities to play in home corner, with construction tools, cars in the garage, a doctor’s medical bag as well as a variety of other equipment including blocks, beads and pattern blocks.
After playing, the children sit with their teacher while she displays photographs for them to discuss and then a labelled drawing is modelled. After discussing their play with their “shoulder partner” and then the whole class, children are invited to complete their own drawing and labelling. The classroom is a rich print environment with a word wall, labels all around the classroom as well as the teacher modelled texts (anchor charts) displayed for the children to use.
Already the Kindergartens are using words such as patients, medicine, construction, robots and dinosaurs.
We have children attempting to write the sounds they hear in the words or taking words off the wall to copy.
children were introduced to sentence writing based on the labelled drawing they had completed. The children are all at different levels and all attempts at drawing or writing are welcomed and celebrated. They are very enthusiastic with their writing and are well on their way to becoming confident and competent writers.
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23 Aug 2026
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πβ¨ Itβs a big week of books, learning and adventure! Weβre looking forward to celebrating Book Week, browsing at our Book Fair, heading off on exciting excursions, welcoming special visitors for incursions, and finishing the week with our much-loved Book Week Character Parade! ππ Stay tuned for plenty of fun, learning and magical moments throughout the week! ππ
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23 Aug 2026
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πβ¨ Itβs a big week of books, learning and adventure! Weβre looking forward to celebrating Book Week, browsing at our Book Fair, heading off on exciting excursions, welcoming special visitors for incursions, and finishing the week with our much-loved Book Week Character Parade! ππ Stay tuned for plenty of fun, learning and magical moments throughout the week! ππ
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19 Aug 2026
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Voice of Youth Cluster finals π€ Congratulations to Alex and Georgia who represented our school with such grace.
18 Aug 2026
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On Friday, our school community came together in faith to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption of Mary. ππ Through prayer, reflection, and fellowship, we were reminded of Maryβs faith, humility, and loving βyesβ to God.
16 Aug 2026
From Facebook
WEEK 5! Good luck to our students in Year 6 representing our school at the Voice of Youth cluster finals. Have a great time on your excursion Stage 1. Just a reminder that next Friday the 28th is the book parade. Looking forward to seeing everyone dressed up as their favourite book character.
15 Aug 2026
From Facebook
π Book Week Performance π What a wonderful celebration of stories, imagination, and creativity at our school! πβ¨
13 Aug 2026
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It was a fantastic day for our students at the Zone Athletics Carnival. All our students represented St. Oliver's with pride, showing great sportsmanship and giving maximum effort in every event. It was great to witness our students improving on their performances from last year. Several students achieved outstanding results, with Heeva continuing her strong form by placing 4th place in the Senior Discus event. Tanvi came 1st place in the Junior Discus and 2nd in Shot Put. Both girls will go onto the next Diocesan Carnival. Thank you to parents and teachers Mr Fortu and Mrs Roberts for supporting our student athletes and me. Mr Tucker
11 Aug 2026
From Facebook
Hi parents and students. Just a reminder for our zone athletics carnival students to be at school early tomorrow morning. Our bus will leave by 7:15am. It is recommended that all students wear their St. Oliver's blue sports shirt, even Year 6 students so we look more unified. E.g. If possible, not the Year 6 shirt with the names on the back. Thanks.
09 Aug 2026
From Facebook
Welcome to Week 4! What a busy and exciting week it is. Good luck to our students representing our school at the Zone Athletics carnival. Have a wonderful time on your excursion Stage 2. We look forward to seeing our community at our Liturgy, Mass and Celebration of Learning this week.
