21 May

Dear Parents

Our prayers are with the Blue family and Glenda Rankin an ex-staff member this week.

Well done to all the children in Rooms 7, 8 & 9 who took part in our school cross country yesterday. What was pleasing was seeing and hearing the support for each as the races progressed.
The Zone cross country will be at Elizabeth Park on Wednesday 2nd June.

A reminder about the school mass on Sunday 23rd May.
All children are to be at school in their uniforms at 10.15 for mass at 10.30.

Lester Flockton - National Standards Meeting
Invercargill Working Men’s Club – Wednesday 26th May @ 7.30pm.
While National Standards may have disappeared from the newspapers, there is still a lot of confusion about how and what is expected to be taught and reported. Lester Flockton is a professor at Otago University who has worked as a consultant for the Ministry in the development of the new Curriculum. He has presented throughout the country and would be well worth hearing if you have an interest in the future direction of your child’s education.

Uniform Survey
On the attachment please complete the survey regarding ties and return to school. Thank you.

Notes
Please send a note if your child needs to stay inside at intervals. Also ensure they have coats as we encourage all children to be outside unless it is raining.

Congratulations to:
Emma Harrington who represented Southland in the Under 11 yr Basketball team.
Eli Winders who had a 1st, two 2nd’s & a 3rd’, plus won a trophy for personality in the under 10 years Tap Dance competition last weekend.
Aimee Brookland got three 2nd’s & a Highly Commended, in the same competition.
Also to Patrice Brookland who competed in the Invercargill Gymnastics Club inter house competition & got 3rd overall in Level 3 Woman’s Artistic Gymnastics.

Upcoming Events
Pentecost Sunday - 23/5
Heart Jam – 28/5
Sacred Heart Day Mass - 11/6

Altar Servers
22nd May = Shaun Swain
23rd May = Georgia & Cassidy Mackie

Bookclub – Issue 4 closes Friday 28th May.

Wonkey Donkey
The Rooms 1, 2 & 3 children MUST bring a COAT or JACKET on Monday for our walk down to the Christian School to meet the author of the "Wonkey Donkey" story. Fingers crossed for reasonable weather!!
Thank you to those parents who are able to join us. Any others who wish to join us are also welcome. We plan to leave at 11.15am.

Lost Glasses
An expensive pair of child’s glasses have been lost somewhere on the school field. We ask children to keep an eye open for them.

Lost Jersey
Luke Barlow from Room 2 has lost his jersey. It is named so could parents please check their child has the correct one.

For Sale ~ Dry firewood old man pine $60 sq metre. Also cones $5 per bag. Contact 213-0636.

House to Rent ~ Kilmarnock Ave
4 bedrooms, very warm house, multi fuel burner, dishwasher, security system, garage & carport. $230 per week. Enquiries to Tina 215-8234 or 0277594590




Room 6 Class Happenings

Room 6 are working on 'show, don't tell' in writing this week. Our learning intention has been to describe something well enough that the reader could guess who or what it is and have a picture in their mind.

Who am I?
This is an animal. It sometimes goes on ice. This animal is cold-blooded.
It lives in the sea. It looks like it has got two tails stuck together. It has eyelashes. It is a little bit scaly. It is wet after it comes out of the sea. It has black eyes. It is brown. It goes 'oor, oor." This animal has long whiskers. Some people go to sea and look at this amazing animal.
By Charlotte Sherriff

I am an animal. I am very quiet. I swim under water. When I walk, I walk wobbly. I live on ice. I am black and white with orangy-yellow feet. I have a beak and I have wings that can't help me fly. I have webbed feet and my feet are short.
Who am I? By Jacob Sullivan

I live in the ice. I eat fish. I move around slowly. I have flaps instead of fins. I have tusks and a tail. I sleep on the ice all day long. I am gray. My tusks grow out of my mouth. Can you guess what I am?

A walrus By Shaun Wilkes




Cross Country
Yesterday we ran our school Cross Country. The children participated
well and it was great to have such great parent support. A big thank you to Mr Baker for setting up the course.






Below are the results:


Placing Boys
11 Girls
11 Boys
10 Girls
10 Boys
9 Girls
9 Boys
8 Girls
8
1st Keegan Georgia
Eli
Abby Alex A
Emma
Alex W
Aimee

2nd Tom H
Chanae
Sam T
Charlotte
Harry O
Isabella
Callum
Kayla

3rd Jack N Mackenzie
Harry
Bree
Ben H
Hannah
Mitchell
Lucy

4th Callum
Meg Sam H
Ashleigh Mike
Elsie
Logan
Briana

5th Campbell
Emily
Damian
Molly
Erik
Rylee
Liam
Thamsyn










Uniform Survey
I wish to get parent feedback regards making the wearing of ties optional.
The reasons for this include
• Safety issues during play.
• Cost – the elastic breaks easily and can’t be repaired easily.
• Hygiene – a number of children spend a lot of the day sucking them
• Equity – at present girls have the option to wear a skivvy
• Parent resistance – a number of families do not follow the uniform guidelines in regards ties.
• A lot of children especially boys do not suit ties and far from looking good (which has always been the argument for retaining them) would look better without them.
• Relevance – we are not an elitist private school and ties in the workforce are on the way out. I would prefer if the only person to suffer wearing a tie here was me.

Please complete the slip and return to school. A clear majority is needed to change our uniform policy.

Thank you
Peter Forde

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Uniform Survey

I agree / disagree that ties should be an optional part of the

Sacred Heart School Uniform.