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Kia Ora Koutou, Warm Greetings, Talofa Lava, Malo e lelei, Annyong Haseyo
Dear Parents and Friends of OLV,
Welcome back to Term 2, 2012, we hope you had a great holiday and enjoyed some much needed family and “down time” . Holidays are a great opportunity to recharge the batteries and spend quality time together. The weather has been great lately and it is really good for your health, to refresh yourself with ten or twenty minutes in the sun, as this provides much needed Vitamin D.

Our focus for this term’s Inquiry Learning is “God’s Bountiful Earth???”. The reason there is a question mark after the theme, is that our aim in the unit is to teach the children, that we need to look after the earth and all that we have been given by God, as it is a finite resource. Resources are precious and they, along with our bodies, need to be cared for. Part of the focus in this unit is Caring for ourselves through Healthy Eating and Exercise, and we will be introducing the Activschools programme, which will be led by Ms. Harwood across the school.

One change we are making to the school day this term, is that children are eating their lunch in class together for the first ten minutes of the lunch hour, which we have moved slightly to 12.30 and children are having a longer lunch hour now until 1.20. We hope that with the new sports equipment which is a big hit, the safer environment which the students have fed back on, and the Activschools programme we are starting, that the children will make the most of this time to exercise and play together. Teachers are keen to revert back to the slightly longer lunch break too.

Children are being encouraged to look at what their food is wrapped in, as part of our Term Value of Sustainability and to try and be more aware of lunch wrappings and healthier lunch food. They will have a brain food break (fruit and water) in the middle of the afternoon also.
We really appreciate your support and helping us at home with reinforcing the focus for this term.

Winter Sport begins in Week 4, for Year 5-8 students, and in the second week of term two Mr Jack will be giving out Winter Sport uniforms to these students.

We look forward to your ongoing support and involvement at OLV and we value the contribution that parents make in so many different ways to our school.

God bless you all and your families,

Barbara Perry (Principal) and staff.