Our Lady of Mercy

Dear Parents and Carers

From next term the newsletter will be coming out on a Friday. This will best help us to set families up with information for the forthcoming week.

A big thank you to our P&F for running our Father’s Day stall and to those who helped in setting up and selling the Father’s Day gifts. I am sure there were many happy dads on Sunday.

We have a busy couple of weeks coming up. Next week is a short one with a pupil free day on Monday for all students. We have our Edu-Dance Concert on Wednesday with Blue classes performing from 1.30-2.15pm and White classes from 2.20-2.50pm. Our Edu-Dance Concert is followed by our Open Afternoon. We welcome all families to come and see the wonderful learning your children have been engage in this term. If you are unable to visit your child’s classroom after the Edu-Dance concert, our classrooms will be open on Thursday from 8am for you to visit. Please make use of this opportunity to celebrate your child’s hard work.

For those interested in finding out more about the Catholic Faith, Our Lady of Mercy Parish is running an RCIA program. This program will commence in late September. Please direct all enquires to Fr Sam or the Parish Office.

God bless you all.

Ondine Komnick

Principal

THIS WEEK

Thursday 5 September

• Kindy 2025 Play Date

NEXT WEEK

Monday 9 September

• Pupil Free Day

Wednesday 11 September

• Edu-dance Concert
• Open classrooms - come and visit after Edu-Dance - 2.50 pm - 4 pm

Thursday 12 September

• Open classrooms - come and visit in the morning 8 am - 8.30 am

Thursday 12 - Friday 13 September

• Year 5 Camp

OTHER DATES

Wednesday 18 September

• Athletics Carnival and P&F sausage sizzle (pre-orders only)

Friday 20 September

• Last day of Term 3

Our amazing P&F are holding two fundraisers and require parent volunteers to help with the Father's Day stall and the Athletics Carnival sausage sizzle. Please let the front office know of you can help admin@olom.wa.edu.au

Our wonderful P&F are running a fundraising sausage sizzle at the Athletics Carnival. Only pre-orders can be accepted - your child can pay $3 to their teachers before the carnival.

We have had many wonderful sporting opportunities are the past few weeks. Our younger students are enjoying sporting carnival activities, while older students have experienced sport in a wheelchair, plus the fun of competing against other schools in the Spring Carnival of basketball and badminton.

All students need to be enrolled for a secondary school. Mercy College invites OLOM families to visit and tour the school on Tuesday, 10 September to see all that is on offer.

Register by scanning the QR code below, or email mercyenrolments@cewa.edu.au or phone 9247 9223.

Get your Colour on, Our Lady of Mercy is hosting a Colour Explosion Run 4 Fun!

Our Colour Explosion Run 4 Fun will be on Friday 11th October from 1:45pm to 2:50pm.

Not only are we hosting an awesome Colour Explosion Run 4 Fun, Students can order up to a total of 5 prizes based on their donations received. They can even mix and match! Don’t want the prizes, donate your donations to one of the five causes – Carbon Neutral (tree planting), Great Barrier Reef Foundation (coral planting or turtle protection), The Smith Family (reading support) or OzHarvest (providing meals).

Students have received a sponsorship book with instructions on setting up their cybersafe, online fundraising profile at www.australianfundraising.com.au. This is an entirely online fundraiser; all cash donations must be converted to online donations to redeem your prizes.

Extra Incentives to Fundraise!

• Online Golden Coins – complete fun online tasks to redeem an extra $75 towards your prize credit.
• Monty the Monstar’s Bonus Prizes – achieve milestones to unlock Monty’s bonus prizes.
• $10,000 Budget Booster Bonanza Spending Spree for one organisation’s highest fundraising student
• Our school will win an extra $5,000 if we have the highest average fundraised amount per student in 2024.
• A Play Station 5 Gaming Bundle – see your child’s sponsorship booklet for more!

For more information, please contact Kristen at olompfcommitee@gmail.com.

Happy fundraising!

Please mention to your friends that we are now enrolling for Kindy 2025 and other years. You can win a free new school shirt if anyone you know (that is new to the school) applies for enrolment.

Entertainment is the easy-to-use App packed with incredible savings of up to 50% off and 2-for-1 offers, so you can save on takeaway, dining, shopping, groceries, gift cards, activities and more! And what’s even better, 20% of every membership purchased goes to support Our Lady of Mercy Primary School!

Kids Academy runs before and after school care here at OLOM. Pop into see them if you are interested in using this service to help look after your child before or after school.

Term 1: Wednesday 31 January - Thursday 28 March 2024

Term 2: Tuesday 16 April - Friday 28 June 2024

Term 3: Monday 15 July - Friday 20 September 2024

Term 4: Monday 7 October - Friday 6 December 2024

Term 1: Monday 4 March (Labour Day Holiday), Friday 29 March (Good Friday Holiday)

Term 2: Monday 15 April (Pupil Free Day), Thursday 25 April (ANZAC Day Holiday), Friday 26 April (Pupil Free Day), Friday 31 May (Pupil Free Day), Monday 3 June (WA Day Holiday)

Term 3: Monday 19 August (Pupil Free Day) Monday 9th September (Pupil Free Day)

Term 4: Friday 8 November (Pupil Free Day)

Please note, pupil free days are subject to change. Parents will be advised well in advance.