7 November 2008

School Fair
This Sunday 9th after the 10.30 am Mass.
Please bring to the hall Saturday 10 am, White elephant stuff, baking, veggies etc.Sunday morning - Cakes for the cake walk to Room 7.
Any other donations to the hall before Mass please, if possible.
The children have created calendars; these are $10.00 and can be viewed and ordered at the fair. Another order form will also go home next week for people who are not at the fair or for extra orders.
Eftpos is available on the day.
The children are not required to wear their school uniform.
Only 2 sleeps to go! Look out for the funny clowns!

Many thanks to the Sisters of Mercy who kindly donated baking!!!!

Dear Parents

The big day is finally here – we are all looking forward to the School Mass and Fair on Sunday. As always happens the weather is horrible for the Tour of Southland, but will be lovely and sunny on Sunday for us.
It has been an interesting week in world and local politics with the lead in to the election here and the USA. It will be interesting to see the impact Barack Obama will have on world affairs. In this weeks media the USA election certainly took precedence over our own general election tomorrow.

WELCOME
To Ben Oosterbroek and Alex Harrington who joined the junior children this week.
We hope they enjoy their time with us at Sacred Heart School.

WATER FOUNTAIN
A big thanks to David Brookland who applied on our behalf for a HEHA Nutrition Fund grant. We received funding which has enabled us to install a new drinking fountain for the children. It has a filter and water bottle filler and tastes brilliant.

SCHOOL MASS
All children are to be lined up in the foyer at 10.15 am for Mass to start at 10.30 am.
Children are not required to wear their school uniform this day.

PARKING
Parking will be a problem so where possible please park away from school and walk. It will be possible to drop off goods tomorrow morning, but we will be ensuring the drive is kept clear on Sunday morning.

BOT
This month’s board meeting is on Monday 10th November 7 pm. All welcome.

2009 CLASSES & TEACHERS
In next weeks newsletter I will be able to outline the class structure for 2009.

REPORTS
I will be having a parent information evening soon to explain some of the new curriculum changes and how our school reports will differ from last years. More about this later.

BASKETBALL RESULTS
Spurs won 9 – 6 Speedsters lost 2 – 30 Shooters won 34 – 14 Dunkers lost 8 - 20

NumberWorks’nWords (Maths to Year 11 and English tuition) invites enquiries for 2009. For a free evaluation and introductory lesson phone Raewyn 2186804.

SUMMER SWIM SCHOOL AT SPLASH PALACE ~ Brochure available at the office.

CLASS HAPPENINGS
Room 1 – We have here an example of a picture plan record of some parts of our Marae trip and some examples of writing.

OUR TRIP TO THE MARAE
We walked down the corridor to the bus. Then we arrived at the Marae. I really liked the beautiful carving at the Marae. Then we went to the kai room and then we got to eat. After that we went back to school.
I like the very cool carvings and the food ~ Dominic

I walked down the corridor to the bus. We saw the Bluff sign. We had to take our shoes off. We had a hongi. We got to eat some food. We saw the mountains. We saw the sun. We went home on the bus.
I liked the Marae. Do you know why I liked it? It is because it had cool things ~ Ellie

We went down the corridor. We hopped in the bus and went to the Marae. We saw the Bluff sign. When we arrived at the Marae we had to take our shoes off. We did the hongi. We had something to eat. I saw some mountains. I saw the moon. On the way home I feel asleep on the bus.
I liked the Marae because it was fun ~ Charlotte

We walked down the corridor to the bus. Then we went passed the Bluff sign “Where the High way begins!”. We took our shoes off. Then we stood up and sang good songs. Then we ate food ~ Piper

ADVERTISE ON OUR SCHOOL WEBSITE
You can advertise your business on our new website for a very reasonable cost, and you will be helping our school raise funds for your children. Any advertising is acceptable, from Situations Vacant, houses to let, to selling goods – or even babysitting services! For more info go to www.schoolground.co.nz/sacredheartwaikiwi

31 October 2008

Dear Parents

Welcome to Xanthe Belesky and Paris Johnson who both joined the children in Room 1 this week. We hope they enjoy their time with us.
Only one week to go!!! Of course I am talking about our school fair on Sunday 9th November not the general election on the 8th.
We have had a busy week with our school trip to the Bluff Marae on Wednesday. Thanks to all the teachers and parents for making this day so successful. Also a special thanks to Gary Davis and Richard Turnball for representing us at our welcome onto the Marae.
As I am writing this, we are looking forward to hearing Storm Uru this afternoon and watching the Tour of Southland next week. I hope they have better weather than last year.
As part of our Thinknet ICT - PD Cluster wind-down, all the teachers will be meeting to review what we have achieved over the three years. I have watched a podcast Mrs Lieshout has prepared and it is really good to hear the children talking about their learning at our school. The link to the podcast is: room9shsinv.blogspot.com


OUTSTANDING ACCOUNTS ~ Reminders were sent out this week. If you have monies owing to the school, we would appreciate immediate attention with this matter. Thank you.

Kid’s Art Classes at Art Supplies Southland - 130 Dee Street Invercargill Phone 2181222

BASKETBALL RESULTS
Yr 5 / 6 Boys won 36 – 6 Yr 3 / 4 Boys won 12 – 6
Yr 5 / 6 Girls drew 6 – 6 Yr 3 / 4 Girls lost 7 – 10



SCHOOL FAIR
It sooooo !!!!!!! Exciting only 9 sleeps to go until the Fair, Sunday 9th November after Mass 11.30am
Remember WE NEED to the office from each family ASAP; A bottle for the bottle auction and a Christmas item for the hamper.
We also will have a cake stall we need baking for.
If you can bake scones the recipe is available from the office, (or email pladams@xtra.co.nz) just freeze and bring on the day.
Please phone 215-9995 if you can bake a nice cake for our cake walk auction. (We will wrap them).
Keep your second hand goods for the White Elephant Stall, for pick ups ph Trish 215-8292 or deliver to the hall 10am -12 Saturday 8th. It’s going to be such fun and such a great memory for the kids ~ see you there!

CLASS HAPPENINGS ~ ROOM 8

On Wednesday we were lucky enough to consolidate our learning from our inquiry unit and
visit the Bluff Marae.
This is us waiting at the gate to be called in. We stopped and remembered the people who
have passed away.

When we had finished the formal greeting we got to have morning tea. We were told lots of stories about what each wall represented in the meeting house. We got to see the wall Kyle and Abby’s family come from.

This is some of the amazing artwork that is inside the Bluff Marae