24 September

Dear Parents

A big thank you to all parents who have assisted in our class programmes, sports teams, cultural and spiritual events this term.
I hope the weather improves and look forward to seeing you all on Monday 11th October.
As you can see at school, we have no drains in our fields and the back of the school is now a duck pond. If the water had continued to rise on Tuesday and got into the foyer, I would have been forced to close the school. Luckily this did not eventuate. One of the items of work to be completed this year as part of our 10 year property plan is to install suitable drains.
This week has certainly been very interesting with the predicted storm wreaking havoc through the city and rest of the province. Aside from the damage to buildings, our thoughts are with the farming community as this storm continues unabated.

Convent Cup
With the destruction of the stadium last weekend the Convent Cup was cancelled and will be unlikely to be rescheduled this year.

Year 4, 5 & 6 Reports
At present the teachers in Rooms 7, 8 & 9 are compiling their assessment results. These will be completed over the holidays and the numeracy and reading graphs will be sent home at the beginning of next term. If you haven’t already done so, please send your e-mail address to the office and your child’s teachers.

Sisters of Mercy Mass
Thank you to the children who were prepared to sing at mass on Sunday. Unfortunately the weather put paid to this. At a future school mass we will invite the remaining sisters of Mercy, and hopefully will be able to celebrate their 60 yrs involvement in our parish with them. The sisters were thankful for the efforts put in by the children on their behalf.

Basketball
We have been informed by Southland Basketball, Mini-Ball will be run as planned next term.
Also the school holidays camps are still on and registration forms are on the notice boards.

Yee Haw Boutique pony parties, western themed indoor arena and party room, Beautiful 12.2hh palomino pony, ph Kris in Otatara, 2130157 or 0278585515, secure your Childs special day today.


Room 2 Class Happenings


We have done some fabulous writing in Room 2 this week. Our stories are getting much longer and we are beginning to remember to make them more interesting by saying how we feel in our story.







Yesterday we had 'opposite day', where everything was back to front! We did our normal timetable backwards, we said 'No' when we meant 'Yes', and we even called each other the opposite name (sibling names). I was Mrs Russell for the day! The teacher also was the one who sat on the mat, and the children sat on their chairs.
It was a very backwards day.



CARITAS sent us this certificate in appreciation of our efforts earlier this year for the Pakistan flood appeal.