Enrolment season is upon us! 

Next week, we have the second of our opportunities for families who are not already part of the College community, to come in and have a look at what it is like to be a student here at OLSCC. This will take place on Tuesday 23 May, and includes:

• Preppie for a morning, 9:00am-10:30am, parent remains with child.
• Come and Try Day Yrs 1-10, student attends for the day (or part thereof) without parent

If you know any families outside of our current community who may be interested in this, please encourage them to attend by phoning the College office.

Applications close for Enrolment Round 1 very soon, on Wednesday 21 June. Enrolment interviews for 2024 places will occur in the last week of this term, 19-23 June. Following this, successful applicants will receive letters of offer for 2024.

We will once again be offering our Pre-Prep Transition Program, Shooting Stars, to successful Prep 2024 applicants. This program has been amazingly successful and has resulted in an increased number of families wanting to access our College which, in turn, has hindered our room availability for Shooting Stars. As such, there will be changes in the way the transition program will operate for 2024. This year, Shooting Stars will continue to run from mid term 3-mid term 4, culminating in the College ‘Up Day’ towards the end of term 4. There will be two sessions available:

• Friday morning session – 9:00am-11:00am
• Friday afternoon session – 12:45pm-2:45pm

Shooting Stars will continue to be free and will continue to be staffed with outstanding early years educators, with Mrs Nikki Morrison once again running the program. We have seen outstanding value in setting future OLSCC students up for success by participating in the program, and successful applicants will be able to attend their current kindy or early learning centre program pre or post the Shooting Stars session they are booked into. Bookings for places in each session will occur once successful applicants return the official Acceptance of Offer letter following the enrolment interview process.

As this newsletter goes to print, we will be participating in the culminating activities of our College celebration of Under 8’s week. Our Prep-Year 2 students were offered a range of activities every lunch time, including footy, netball, dance, art and paper plane building. The week finishes in style with a wonderful festival of fun on Friday, facilitated by Praxis classes from the Senior Years. It is a terrific experience for our oldest and youngest alike, with cross sector input that builds relationships throughout the College. We are grateful to leaders in our College community who stepped up to facilitate the lunchtime activities, including the Confraternity Rugby League team, the QISSN netball team and House Leaders and members.