22 August 2008

Dear Parents
Welcome to Lynley Ingham, our new Teacher’s Aide who started with us this week.
Also to Ethan Turnhout and Caleb Wolf who have joined the children in the junior school.
We hope they enjoy their time with us at Sacred Heart School.
I heard Darryn Ludlow talk this week in regards the plan for the upgrade of the Southland Museum and Art Gallery. A point he made was that only about 5% of their collection of exhibits is on display at any one time. He explained the greatest need was for more/appropriate storage space and display area. Their plan is for an inverted pyramid to match the existing one. From a school point of view, future plans would hopefully include an interactive set-up, such as Dunedin Museum which is brilliant and one of their main attractions. This would be beneficial as the increased space would mean the Museum could attract national tours such as the Butterfly exhibition it currently can’t house.

SPECIAL CHARACTER REVIEW 1 – 3 SEPTEMBER
We will be visited by representatives from the Catholic Education Office on Monday – Wednesday 1 – 3 September to carry out a Special Character Review. The reviewers will be Pam Robertson, Monsignor Vince Walker and Br Dennis Turner. They will be observing RE lessons in all classes.

CLASS MASS ~ Room 3 are having a class mass to celebrate the gifts and talents God has given us. This will take place in our classroom at 11.30am on Thursday 28 August. You are most welcome to join us and then stay for a picnic lunch. The children will bring their normal lunch and sit on picnic rugs.
So please, feel free to bring your lunch and a rug.

SCIENCE FAIR ~ Congratulations to Kelsey Waddell, Cassidy Mackie, Clarke LeBreton, Michael Walker and Ryan LeBreton who all received prizes in this year’s Science Fair. Well done.

FLU EPIDEMIC ~ As you may have seen on the news or in the paper, we are in the middle of a mini flu epidemic. We have a large number of children away at present and unfortunately this strain seems to take a while to shake off.

TOUCH COACH ~ The children have been lucky to have had Grant Milne from Touch Southland working with them this week on developed touch skills.

SCHOOL JERSEY ~ After discussions with Postie Plus we would like to inform you that they have deleted the dark blue jersey from their shop and will now only stock the royal blue one. This is the correct colour of our school jersey.
BOOKCLUB ~ Scholastic Bookclub Issue 6 will close next Friday 29th August.

PTA ~ The next meeting will be held on Monday 25th August at Lynley Steven’s place:
17 Northwood Avenue 7.30 p.m. All welcome.

NETBALL
Stars won 14 – 13. Player of the Day was ‘the whole team’.
Steel lost 7 – 8. Player of the Day was Erica Forde.
Sting won 5 – 3. Player of the Day was Brittany Shuttleworth.
Thank you to all the coaches and parents who have supported teams this season.

CONGRATULATIONS ~ To Keegan Fiebig who got ‘Most Valuable Player’ for the Under 9 Marist Rugby team at their prize giving last night.

REMINDER ~ ENROLMENTS FOR VERDON COLLEGE CLOSE 1 SEPTEMBER 2008


Tickets are now on sale for Sing Out at the ICC Booking Office.
Our school’s performance is on Wednesday 17 September.Tickets are (once again, thanks to the assistance of the ILT) $12.50 for adults and $6.50
for children.

CLASS HAPPENINGS ~ ROOM 9

Mini Olympics ~ Room 9 went to the Mini Olympics at Stadium Southland. Most people liked the power shoot and the hockey activities. Room 9 liked it when we were doing the activities like doing the power shoot. Our Mini Olympics began with an opening ceremony. Ryan ran in with an Olympic torch. At the end Ryan blew out the Olympic torch. We were in different countries. By Sam T.
Skype ~ On Thursday the 7th of August, we skyped Mr Forde. It was cool and fun. The whole class liked it. We had to wait for a ring to know when to say hello. It took a wee while until we saw Mr Forde on the Whiteboard. Baillie and Rory and Rylee told Mr Forde about Bluey the pengiun.
It was a bit fuzzy. By Sam S.

WENDY TELFER
In Room 9 we have been learning about the Olympics. So in the holidays Mrs Lieshout rang Wendy Telfer and asked if she could come into our classroom. Wendy said yes. She also rang Glen Horton and asked if Glen could write to us.
Room 9 enjoyed having Wendy in our classroom. We even got her autograph and asked her heaps of questions. I was the leader and was allowed to take photos. That was fun. It was on Mrs Lieshout’s camera. I also got to sit on a chair. Wendy was fun to have in Room 9. We also got to take a few photos of the whole class with Wendy. But Mrs Lieshout took them. Wendy wrote down her signature on a piece of paper for each of us. When she had gone we got a piece of paper and wrote the answers to our questions. We put these on the wall. By Rylee


TERM 4 – TOUCH ~ PRIMARY COMPETITION GRADES
The module this year will run on Wednesday afternoons from 3.45pm – 5.45pm at the Turnbull Thomson Grounds (off Islington St ) with grades available as follows:
Year 1 & 2 (includes Year 0) Year 3 & 4 Year 5 & 6

COMPETITION DATES - The season will commence with the first round of the Primary competition on Wednesday 22nd October 2008. The last round before the Christmas break will be played on Wednesday 10th December 2008.

COST - The cost for this is $15 per child; this is to be paid before the competition begins

PARENT HELP - To make touch a successful sport, we require parents to help coach the teams. If you are able to assist with this please fill in the form below.

PERMISSION SLIP TO BE RETURNED TO SCHOOL BY 29TH AUGUST
NO LATE ENTRIES WILL BE ACCEPTED

TOUCH – TERM 4

My child _____________________ would like to play touch for term 4 in the following grade.

Year 1-2 Year 3-4 Year 5-6 (please circle)

I am able/unable to coach a team Signed: ____________________________