Our Lady of Fatima Primary School Caringbah

Year 5 loved learning and playing Tri Tag Rugby! ☀️🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏽‍♂️

Year 4 have had a BUSY week attending Tri Tag on Wednesday and the OLM Curriculum day today! 🏉📏🏃🏽‍♀️💃🏼

And the winner is… Year 5!

Celebrating our Year 5 Olympic Demathlon with our medal ceremony 🏅

Yesterday, our Year 6 students participated in their first Tri-Tag Rugby interschool sports competition. Their enthusiasm and sportsmanship were incredible as they embraced the challenge of learning to play a new sport.🏉🏆

Kindergarten had a FARMtastic day at Calmsley Hill City Farm 🐄🐑🚜

Adventure awaited Year 5 on Friday in the wild world of science! Year 5 dove into explosive experiments and unravelled the mysteries of the material world. 🌋🔍

We enjoyed celebrating our Dads and father figures on Friday with a BBQ breakfast, handball, basketball, a scavenger hunt, paper aeroplane competition and a beautiful liturgy. 🌭🎾✈️

We wish all of the Dads a Happy Father’s Day! We hope you have a fabulous day with your families! 💙☀️

Congratulations to the winners of our Father’s Day Raffle - T.C #422, J.F #1487, D.M #173, M.N #1157, D.V #807, K.H #599, H.A #705, A.H #1398, K.C #1387, E.D #90, J.M #1270, C.S #819, J.G #917, D.T #8, M.N #1148, N.T #1312, S.D #313, A.P #445, Z.B #285, R.S #56, J.W #200, N.T #1324, V.F #67! The winners will be notified by the school office!

🌟 What an incredible day at the Sydney Athletics Championships!🌟 Our students shone brightly, showcasing amazing passion and sportsmanship. We’re thrilled to announce that our 4 relay teams came in 1st place and 4 records were broken by our students!🏆👏

A huge congratulations to everyone who participated and supported our team. You all made us so proud! Go OLF!!! 🎉🥇💪

Another successful Family Father’s Day event celebrating dads and father figures. 🩵🩵🩵

Year 4 had a very fun and windy 💨 day at Shark Tag today. OLF played hard and showed great sportsmanship. Well done YEAR 4 🏃‍♀️🏉🏃‍♂️

The OLF ensembles enjoyed watching the OLM and De La Salle production of High School Musical last week. They were amazed and inspired by the talent!🎭🎤🎵

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Book Week Extravaganza at OLF 📚

Reading is magic 🪄🔮✨

Book Week Incursions 📚

🌟 K-2 Students enjoyed a performance which was adapted from the CBCA award winning book Timeless by Kelly Canby. The key message was focusing on quality time with loved ones.

🌟 The incredible illustrator David Legge visited this week. He shared his inspiration for his book BAMBOOZLED and showed us how picture books are published and printed.📖🎨

🌟 Christine Kodomichalos, an author of newly published book, A Big Fish is Waiting for Me, visited today! 🎣 Students were highly engaged learning all about fishing, sea creatures and understanding why the book has the particular title. Students loved reading the picture book with Christine!

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Year 6 had a wonderful excursion to Parliament House and St Marys Cathedral today. The sun ☀️ was out and we enjoyed a train ride to town and lunch in Hyde Park. We learnt all about local and federal parliament which compliments our History Unit in class.

Today, as part of our Book Week celebrations, 100 students took part in a Harry Potter trivia competition in the hall. Twenty teams competed in 7 rounds of questions aiming to win the TriWizard Trivia Cup. 🏆🧙🏼‍♂️🧙🏼‍♀️🪄

Congratulations to our equal first placed teams: Lily, Anna, Maddison, Josie & Daphne and Hendrix, George, Maddy & Aisling. 🥇

Thank you to Mrs Clifford and our Year 6 helpers Allegra, Xavier, Harry I, Harry E, Chloe, Billi, Ethan, Natasha, Emma and Ellanore for your fantastic help with the organisation and scoring! 👏🏼

Today we were lucky enough to attend the CBCA Book of the Year Awards. It was a day filled celebrating the magic of reading. 💫

Alessia was a shadow judge reviewing the short listed book, Real Pigeons - Flapout by Andrew McDonald. She presented an engaging review to the audience and this novel received an honour award. 🎤

We were also lucky enough to be surrounded by many talented authors and illustrators including award winners Tristan Bancks, Briony Stewart and Kelly Canby. 📚

Last week, OLF held a schoolwide maths investigation, called the ‘Potato Olympics,’ which added a fun twist to our curriculum.

The ‘Spudletes’ (potatoes) competed in various mathematical challenges such as estimating weight, measuring circumferences and calculating rolling speed.

The event was a huge success with students, enthusiastically engaging in hands on activities that reinforced key mathematical concepts and encouraged critical thinking. The joy and excitement was evident as students collaborated and supported each other.

Thank you to all the students, teachers and parents who made the Potato Olympics a memorable and educational experience! 🥔

Years 5 and 6 were lucky enough today to hear famous author, Morris Gleitzman speak and reveal his secret key to writing stories. 📖

The Conference 3 Athletics Championship was a HUGE success for OLF!

Congratulations to all our athletes for their outstanding performances and exceptional sportsmanship. OLF achieved fantastic results, with all relay teams securing 1st place and our students breaking record after record! Here’s to celebrating your hard work and dedication. Well done to everyone involved—your efforts truly made the day unforgettable! 🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏽‍♂️

🏀🌟 Make the most of the school break with our Sport Holiday programs for students in Years 4 to 9! From rugby to volleyball, table tennis and martial arts, there's something for everyone. 🌟⚽ Registrations close Tuesday 10 September. For more information visit: https://ow.ly/zwhz50SRJnJ

Today we celebrated the special bond between generations on Grandparents Day at OLF! 🌟

We loved watching our students and their grandparents create memories together. Thank you to all the wonderful grandparents who joined us today! 💜

Year 5 started our day with a heartfelt prayer this morning, honouring Mary MacKillop on her feast day. Inspired by her words, "Never see a need without doing something about it," we are reminded to live with compassion and serve others. 🙏✨

Year 5 were so lucky to be inspired by ex Olympian Kirsten Hill on the morning of their demathlon, who shared her Olympic medal and race from the Sydney 2000 Olympics! 🏊🏼‍♀️

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Year 3 enjoyed playing Tri Tag Rugby today! 🏉

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi! 🇦🇺

Supporting our inspirational Olympians from afar! 💚💛

Today was filled with FUN, fitness, treats, a teacher verse student netball game and a special talk from an aspiring Olympian! 🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏽‍♂️

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