18 June

Dear Parents

With 2 weeks left of Term 2, we look towards planning for Term 3, which often includes a lot of joint school events we take part in.
I have outlined some of these below.
Thanks to David Brookland and SKM for the donation of a replacement phone system for the school. We were in the process of updating our current system and SKM were moving offices and had a surplus system.
Brilliant timing! Many thanks.

BOT - The BOT welcomes Ann McCloy as a new Bishop’s representative.
The June meeting will be held this Monday, 21st @ 7 p.m.

Prayers - Our thoughts and prayers are with the Read/Nolan family this week.

Altar Servers
19th June = Caitlin & Samuel Russell
20th June = Keegan Fiebig & Keiren Perkins

Staff Changes Term 3 - Next term Mrs Williams returns to Room 5 from maternity leave and Mrs Buxton returns to Room 6 after teaching in Dubai. We look forward to their return.
Unfortunately this means Mrs Stanley and Mrs Rutledge will be leaving us.
Mrs Stanley to St. Patrick’s School and Mrs Rutledge to Waihopai School.
We wish them all the best in the future and thank them for their commitment to the children at our school.

Term 3 Events - At any one given time, we have groups of children involved in a wide range of sporting or cultural events. While a lot of these happen in school time and are part of our normal programme, there are an increasing number of events that require external help or after school practises.
We are looking at ways of communicating more efficiently with parents in regards the commitment required – often in terms of time and cost. One of these will be an update to the website with an events calendar and displaying the information on the school notice boards.
I hope to have this in place by the end of the term.

Netball Tuesdays & Thursdays
Hockey Wednesdays
Polyfest 5/8
School Science Fair 6/8
Invercargill Science Fair 17/8
Choir Practices - 24/6, 5/8, 2/9, 15/9 & Concert 16/9
Speech Competition - Cluster 9/8, Ingill 14/9, Southland 23/9
Zone Netball Tournament 11/8
Life Education Van 10, 11, 12/8
Gym Festival 28/8
Drama Festival 6, 7, 8/9
Convent Cup 20/9
Disco Possibly in September


Table Tennis - Good luck to Harry McLean, Damian Mitchell and Reuben Brown who will take part in the Southland School team champs on Wednesday.

Cross Country - Well done to all the children who took part in the Southland Cross Country last Friday. Placings were:
Eli Winders 8th
Sam Thornbury 12th
Keegan Fiebig 16th

Aerobics - Well done to our Aerobics teams who competed in the festival last weekend. A special thanks to Julia Van Eden, Miss Tagomoa, Miss Gaines and all others who assisted.

Website - I am currently in the process of updating our school website.
My apologies for any inconvenience.

Enrich - Congratulations to Sam Russell who was in an Enrich Chess team that was placed 3rd in the Otago Chess Champs last weekend.

50th Jubilee for Fr. Brian - There will be a pot luck lunch after mass on Sunday 18th July, 12.00 pm in the hall to celebrate Fr. Brian’s 50th Jubilee.

PTA
Thank you once again to Paul Wallace and Countdown Supermarket (Tay St) for the generous contribution of free bread for the PTA Sausage Sizzle on Sacred Heart day.

Fair Committee
We will be holding our first fair committee meeting on Monday 28th June 7.30 in the school staffroom. Please bring any ideas of activities that may be popular and also suggestions of where we can obtain donations of prizes.
All welcome.

Free Car Trial Sunday 27th June
The PTA will be running a Family Car Trial on Sunday 27th June leaving from the school hall @ 2.30pm. Lots of fun to be had, with prizes to give away. To finish off the day, pick up your Fish & Chips and join the other families in the hall for tea. No need to register just turn up on the day with a digital camera or camera phone, some pens, a clipboard or something to write on and warm clothes.


Invercargill's Junior Repertory Show - Invercargill Galactica is on at the Invercargill Repertory Rooms, this Thursday (24th) @ 6.30pm, and Saturday (26th) @ 1.00pm.
Cost is Adults $8, Child $5 or Family $20 (2 Adults, 2 Children).
Come and support Meg O'Connell, Isabella Wild, Reuben Brown and Logan Thompson who are all in this show.

House For Rent ~ Phone 2157643
Tidy 3 bedroom, open plan living, yunca heating. $250 per week.

Firewood for Sale ~ Old Man Pine dry $60 sq metre.
Also pine cones $5 per bag Phone: 2130636.
Year of the Priest Art & Writing Competition - For more details of this, look on the notice board in the junior corridor.


Cure Kids Weekend
Eight-year old Mckenzie Devlin was diagnosed with Hypophosphotasia - a rare bone disease - after breaking his leg in 2008. He has the only known case of this disease in New Zealand. Until a cure is found, Mckenzie will continue to be treated with anti-inflammatories which help reduce inflammation of his bone marrow caused by the disease.
Recently Mckenzie was selected to attend a weekend of fun with Cure Kids and this is his recount of the weekend.

When I went to Queenstown we went on the luge and the gondallas. Then we had a welcome party. We stayed at a motel. Next day we went to Michael Hill's golf course and we went on the golf carts around the golf course. The best part was the golf carts. The funniest part was when Dad had to wear funny glasses at the night time activity.
I can't wait to go again! Mckenzie Devlin


Room 1 Class Happenings

This week we have been learning about the skills we need when we read aloud.
We now know that we need to:
*use the right volume (not too loud, not too quiet – “Just Right”)
*stand still and hold the book between our tummy buttons and chin.
*make eye-contact with the people listening (lots of fun to watch this skill develop!)
*make our reading sound interesting (make the bold words sound important, notice the question marks, exclamation marks and speech marks so that our reading sounds like talking.)
In our lessons we have talked about the purpose of developing these skills eg when we read to entertain or inform some one else, for reading aloud at assembly or if we read a prayer at Mass.
We think we are pretty good at reading aloud now!

One of the activities we do in numeracy is to put the numbers from 1 to 20 order. See if YOU can find the path from number 1 to 20. (There is more than one way!)

1 2 18 10 4 15 1
3 3 4 0 11 3 6
17 4 5 6 7 8 4
9 6 7 2 8 5 0
10 8 11 10 9 6 3
3 11 12 2 16 17 7
0 5 13 14 15 18 1
4 14 15 16 17 19 20