1 May 2009

Dear Parents

Welcome back to Term 2. It was good to have such fine weather over the Easter break.
A reminder about interviews on this Monday & Tuesday. School closes at 12.30 pm on Monday.
The interviews are 3 way for all classes – with your child having input into their learning goals and next steps. Please leave other children outside. Our aim is to raise self-esteem by making each child the most important person for each interview. The time limit for these is 15 mins each so please be punctual and adhere to the bell.
The major item in the news this week is the threat of “Swine Flu” pandemic. It does show how small the modern world is and how easily these viruses can spread.
A couple of years ago all schools had to develop pandemic plans to combat the Saars Virus prevalent in Asia. While at the time it seemed rather pointless to worry about this in Invercargill, recent events in Mexico show nowhere is safe. An interesting fact around the current media circus is that the first fatality was recorded in
March, yet there hasn’t been any coverage until this week.

Some of the terms events include:

Skills programme at Stadium for Rooms 3, 5, 7
Aerobics Festival
School Production

Welcome to Emma Livingstone & Max Sievwright who joined the children in Room 2 on Monday.
We hope they enjoy their time with us at Sacred Heart School.

PRAYERS - Our thoughts and prayers are with the Boyle & Blee families this week.

SCHOOL JERSEYS ~ These can be purchased from either Postie Plus or H & J Smiths. The school has no preference whether they are dark blue or royal blue.

SCHOLASTIC BOOKCLUB - Issue 3 closes Friday 8th May.

FRUIT ORDERS ~ The next delivery of fruit is Thursday 7th May. If you would like to order Pears, Apples or Pumpkins, please fill out the order form in the junior corridor and have the money to Christine by Tuesday 5th May.

BEAN BAGS ~ Many thanks to Joanne Fennell for kindly making bean bags for Room 1.
Can the person who offered to make these for Room 2, please see Mrs Stupples for the materials. Thanks.

HOUSE FOR RENT ~ COMING AVAILABLE 13th MAY
North Road location 3 bedrooms new interior (kitchen, bathroom, carpet and walls painted). Double garage, large section well fenced, country outlook. $260 per week. Contact John 021 717 414 or 215-8151.

Voice Your Choice – Invercargill City Council is asking residents to get involved in deciding how Councilors are elected, how many Councilors there should be, and whether there should be community boards for different areas of the district. An information booklet will be sent home with pupils this week which explains the choices. To ‘Voice your Choice’ you are encouraged to attend your nearest public meeting and to complete the questionnaire at the back of the booklet (also available online at the Council website; www.icc.govt.nz). The dates of the meetings are: North Invercargill, Mon 11 May, James Hargest Junior College: South Invercargill, Wed 13 May, Elles Road Bible Chapel: Myross Bush Wed 20 May Myross Bush Hall: Otatara Mon 25 May, Otatara Community Church: Bluff Wed 27 May Bluff Cooperating Parish. All meetings start at 7.00pm with tea/coffee/biscuits available beforehand. There will a door prize at each meeting of a $100 dinner voucher. For further information call Janette at the Council 211-1689.

SCHOOL CLOSES 12.30 PM THIS MONDAY FOR INTERVIEWS
ROOM 1 CLASS HAPPENINGS
ROOM ONE CHILDREN love the new bean bags TESSA’S MUM and NANA made. We have been thinking of ways we can use them. WILL and BILLY think we can throw them up and get them to land on our heads. BREYAH and KATELYN think we could throw them up and get them to land on one hand. TESSA and LUCY decided to balance them on their heads. BROOKLYN and AVA-MOLLEE thought they would throw them up and catch them with two hands. CORBYN and OLIVER tried to crawl around and balance them on their backs. XANTHE and ALEX tried to throw them up and catch them on their knees. GRETA and MATTHEW H tried to throw them up and catch them on their heads. PARIS and MATTHEW F are going to walk around and balance them on their heads.


PTA ~ Mothers Day Fundraiser –Friday 8th May
The PTA asks that each child brings a small unwrapped gift suitable for a Mothers Day present. The value of the gift should be no more than $2 and may in fact be hand made by your children. For example it could be a small $2 trinket from the $2 shop, children’s poems, paintings, pictures etc put together by children as a gift of art, baking by children (eg a muffin in a home made box).
Items are to be left at the office but obviously if your child would like to bake, then this will need to be dropped off on the morning of Friday 8th May. On this Friday, the children will have the opportunity to select and buy a gift for $1 per child, from the gifts brought to school by all the children. They will then have a surprise gift to give to their mother without her seeing what it is.

NETBALL ~ If you are interested in participating in any Netball for term 2 please send the slip below back to school by MONDAY 4th May.

Fun Ferns: Yr1-3 will be played at the stadium, starting on the 4th June
Future Ferns: Yr 4-6, will be played at the stadium, starting on the 2nd June with a cost of approximately $190 per team
• This is for both boys and girls
Parent help is essential in both grades Coaching development is available through Invercargill Netball, and all coaches are encouraged to attend.




NETBALL
____________________would like to take part in the
(NAME)
Fun Ferns, Future Ferns (please circle) I can/can not assist in COACHING

Signed_____________________________________________