20 March 2009

Dear Parents

Swimming is finished!! Thank you to all the school staff and parents for ensuring our swimming programme ran so smoothly. We choose to run it over 10 consecutive days to give it a greater impact than 1 or 2 days over 5 weeks. I know this can be a struggle for towels (and pyjama’s for my group) and is a major interruption to our normal routine at school, but we do see a huge improvement in children’s confidence and progress.
Also this week we were fortunate to be able to hold our Zone Athletics sports. Our children were brilliant in both effort and results. Listed below are the place getters (those in bold will represent the Zone at the Southland Athletic Sports on Saturday 28th March).
Apart for a number of excellent individual performances noted, the relays were very exciting with our children first in 4 of the 6 races and a close 2nd in the other 2.
Well Done and thanks to the teachers and parents who were able to help prepare the children.

PRAYERS ~ Our thoughts and prayers are with the Keenan family.

BOT MEETING
On Monday 23rd March Board members will be meeting with Stuart Young, General Manager of The Catholic Office in Dunedin. This is the first time we have had the opportunity to speak to an office representative and we look forward to their thoughts as to future development at our school.

OTATARA BUS EARLY WEDNESDAY 25TH MARCH ~ With JHHS finishing early on this day, the Otatara bus will leave Sacred Heart School at 1 p.m. Please inform the school if your child will be catching the bus early or making other arrangements. Thank you.

ZONE ATHLETICS ~ What a fantastic day we all had. Check out these results:
N.B. All highlighted children will represent school at the Southland Athletics next Saturday.

Long Jump 8yr old 1st Sam Hogan 2nd Eli Winders 1st Abby Humm
9yr old 1st Shaquila Blee 3rd Sophie Reitsma-smith

Discus 8yr old 3rd Eli Winders
9yr old 1st Shaquila Blee
10 yr old 1st Michael Walker 2nd Caitlin Russell

Shot Put 8yr old 1st Sam Hogan 2nd Eli Winders
9yr old 3rd William Clapperton
10yr old 1st Michael Walker

High Jump 8yr old 1st Sam Hogan
9yr old 2nd Keegan Fiebig 1 = Shaquila Blee 3rd Sophie Reitsma-Smith
10 yr old 2nd Caitlin Russell

1500 m 10 yr old 3rd Michael Walker

800 m 9 yr old 1st Keegan Fiebig

200 m 9 yr old 2nd Keegan Fiebig 1st Shaquila Blee 3rd Sophie Reitsma-Smith
10 yr old 2nd Olivia Thornbury

100 m 8 yr old 1st Sam Hogan 1st Abby Humm
9 yr old 3rd Keegan Fiebig 1st Shaquila Blee 3rd Sophie Reitsma-Smith
10 yr old 2nd Olivia Thornbury

60 m 8 yr old 2nd Sam Hogan 1st Abby Humm

Relays 8 yr Boys & Girls, 9 yr Boys and 10 yr Girls are all going to Southland Sports




NUMERACY
We welcome back Anne Lamond to school from next week to begin Numeracy assistance for some of our Year 3 & 5 children.

MILK BOTTLES
Thank you for the milk bottles brought to school during swimming. Miss O’Neill’s dog Holly would appreciate it if you continued to bring them as she uses them as toys. They are suppose to prevent her from digging in the garden. It doesn’t really work but for 5 minutes the bottle distracts her.

CONGRATULATIONS
To Michael Walker who was selected to play in the Year 5/6 Metro Cricket Team representing Invercargill.
They are playing Central Western/Fiordland this Sunday. Good Luck Michael.

FRUIT ORDERS ~ The next delivery will be Thursday 2nd April. Please have your orders and money into the office by Tuesday 31st March. Available this time are Cox Orange Apples 4kg $10, Pacific Beauty Apples 4kg $10, and 3 pumpkins $10.

OLD SCHOOL FURNITURE ~ The desks and chairs next to the sand pit are surplus. You are welcome to help yourselves to these, on a first in first served basis.

FOR SALE ~ TV on trolley – 25”. Inquiries to office please.

‘Waikiwi Rugby Football Club Schoolboy Registrations’
Tues 24 &Thurs 26 March 4 – 6pm & Sunday 29 March 2 – 4 pm
Subs - $20.00/player or $35 family. Enquiries to Jayne McWilliam 215-7079

PTA EASTER RAFFLE
All tickets should have been returned by now. If not - please have them to the office 1st thing Monday morning. Thank you.




CLASS HAPPENINGS ~ ROOM 5

As we have just finished our two weeks of swimming we are a bit tired and coming down with a few bugs, so please make sure that we rug up to keep warm and keep those bugs away.
Next week Mrs Fortune is back teaching, so some children will be going to Room 6 for Literacy and Numeracy on Monday.

We have just started to concentrate on our goal setting for the term – so keep asking your child what they are working towards.

I have just introduced a buddy system that makes the children help one another during playtimes and class times. The children are relishing the opportunity to interact with other children they might not necessary choose to play with.

Can I please ask that reading and spelling is done every night and is returned back to school the next day. On occasions, some RE homework will be sent home. The page that is book marked is the one that is to be completed. Please assist your child in completing this and returning it to school the following day – THANK YOU.