28 October

Dear Parents

Only one week to go until the school fair. Please keep the items coming in to the office and look out for the forms circulating to help with the various stalls the classrooms are responsible for.
We were visited this week by the “Share the Road” Tour of Southland team with their message promoting bike safety on the roads. We look forward to fine weather next week while the Tour is on.

Our prayers are with the Reitsma-Smith family this week.

Office Closed
Mrs Forbes and I are away tomorrow morning so the office will be closed.
The phone will be checked on a regular basis.

Activity Fees
At present we have 22 families with outstanding activity fees, sports fees or uniform costs. These equate to $2745 and the school is not in a position to cover these debts. Please arrange payment as soon as possible.
At present some parents use the purchase now, pay later method which usually works. But with an increasing number of unsettled accounts, this option may no longer be available. A large number of parents use the drip feed, direct credit option, which is a win win situation for both parties. Please see Christine if you are unsure of any debts.

Numeracy Support
We are looking for parents to help one afternoon a week with maths support. The sessions will incorporate some counting and playing of games with groups of four children. If you are interested, please see Miss Swney.

Congratulations to Eli & Anika Winders & Aimee Brookland who between them all got 1sts, 2nds, 3rds & VHCs in the Open Tap Dancing competition held last weekend.

Touch Southland will be using SportCheck text messaging system this season.
This is for any last minute changes, cancellations and defaults. You can receive a txt message from Touch Southland but there is a cost.
Option 1: 50cents per text or Option 2: 25cents per text, charged at a one-off $5 for 20 texts. If you are interested in putting your name forward for this, please see Miss T or email stagomoa@shsinv.school with your cellphone number and child’s team name.

Weet-Bix Tryathlon 2011 registrations are open now. You need to be between 7 - 15 years of age and can enter as a team or individual. For any further information see Miss T.

Room 8 request
Do you have any old Jars, Juice Bottles, buttons, ribbon, bright coloured tests pots of paint, bright material, or any other crafty bits n bobs?
Please drop them into Room 8, they will be gratefully received.

Basketball Results
Shooters won 15 - 14
Sharks won 24 - 2
Slamdunkers drew 4 - 4
Spurs lost 15 - 27

Children’s Fashion Show – All Saint’s Church – 6th November 10 – 12 pm
$10 entry. Morning Tea & children’s entertainment provided.



SACRED HEART SCHOOL FAIR Sunday 7th November

Only 2 weeks to go, remember to tell all your friends that Sacred Heart School is having a Fair on Sunday the 7th November 2010. Please make sure your bright posters/flyers advertising the fair have found their way into places people can see them, extras are available from the office should you have a need for anymore.

Cake bakers, our cake walk auction works like musical chairs, each person takes a ticket and the cake is won and taken home by the person on the winning chair, when the music stops. We would love to know if anybody could bake a nice cake for this, please give your name to the office or to Carolyn 2159662 (these are wrapped in cellophane, by volunteers on the morning of the fair, to look gorgeous and extremely desirable to cake lovers).
We are also after any home baking to be sold in the cake stall – this can be anything like biscuits, cakes, muffins, loaves, slices, homemade lollies etc. These are very sought after on the day, so it would be great if you could help us to supply some home baking for this stall. These can be dropped at the hall on Sat 6th Nov between 2.00pm and 3.00pm, or prior to 10.30am on the day of the fair.

Some of you may have already had a call from a volunteer parent within your class, and others will be contacted over the next two weeks. We are asking parents to help where you can and join your child’s class roster to man the stall this class is responsible for or in some cases, help us to man other stalls where greater numbers of volunteers may be required.

As advised last week, we need scones for our Devonshire Tea stall on the day of the fair. To help keep our costs to a minimum, we ask our parent community to help in making the scones. Below we have published the recipe and ask any parents, who are able, to make a batch now and store these in your freezer to bring on the day of the fair (or make them the weekend of the Fair) - we would really appreciate your help with these.

Thanks to those families who have already left a bottle at the office. Remember we are asking for each family to donate a bottle for our mystery bottle auction on the chocolate wheel and as we’ve only had about 20 in so far, we really would appreciate if these could be left at the office asap. We need to prepare these for the day and can do this in advance, so it would be great if you could help take some of the stress out of the few days prior to the fair and get these to the office this week.

Please keep stashing items for the white elephant stall. Also gardeners, if there are veggies spare in the garden (or in Granddad’s) please bring these on the day of the Fair for the Chocolate Wheel – these are always a hit.
Kids remember to keep those coins to bring on the day to help with the flow of change.

Scone Recipe (can be doubled)
2 cups self raising flour
Half cup lemonade
Half cup cream
Bake at 200 degrees for approx 10 mins.
Please freeze and bring the morning of the school fair.




Room 3 Class Happenings



I brought my Peking ducklings to school and I got to pick one up in my hand. Other people were patting the ducklings. The mother duck wasn’t a good mother because she didn’t sit on the eggs. So we got a bantam to sit on the eggs instead. George

Room 3 got to see George’s ducklings and it was fun. The ducklings looked something like a yellow duck. They had little beaks. Luke

On Wednesday morning George brought a basket of ducklings to school. When the ducklings were eggs, the mother duck did not like looking after them. So a bantam looked after the eggs. The ducklings were four days old. They were Peking ducks. Jasmine

On Wednesday the 20th of October George brought ducklings to school. The ducklings were four days old and they were cute and cuddly. The mother duck wasn’t a good mother so George’s dad got a bantam to sit on the eggs. The bantam was fluffy as. She had her mouth open because she was worried. Xanthe



Remember to check out our blog at www.room3shsinv.blogspot.com to see what we have been doing in class.

22 October

Dear Parents

A big thanks to the PTA for running such a successful disco last night. The children had a great time, it was much appreciated.
The countdown is on to the School Fair on Sunday 7th November. Each class this year is responsible for individual activities or stalls and I ask that you avail of your time if asked.

Activity Fees
At present we have 22 families with outstanding activity fees, sports fees or uniform costs. These equate to $2745 and the school is not in a position to cover these debts. Please arrange payment as soon as possible.
At present some parents use the purchase now, pay later method which usually works. But with an increasing number of unsettled accounts, this option may no longer be available. A large number of parents use the drip feed, direct credit option, which is a win win situation for both parties. Please see Christine for any further details.

Welcome to Braedyn Francis who joined the children in Room 1 on Monday.

Phone Outage
Our apologies for anyone trying to contact the school this morning. The contractors laying pipes for the new building accidentally cut the phone lines.

Numeracy Support
We are looking for parents to help one afternoon a week with maths support. The sessions will incorporate some counting and playing of games with groups of four children. If you are interested, please Miss Swney.

Congratulations:
MX Competitions - To Jake Meikle who returned this week after taking home the titles “King of the Canterbury” in Christchurch, and the “South Island Champs” in Reefton, in his age group class for MX. Jake would like to thank all the mum’s who sacrificed their waist measurements in support of his chocolate sales.

Mitre 10 Takahe Art Competition - To Abby Humm & Caitlin Smith, whose art work has been chosen for national judging in the above competition. Both their art work will be on display at the New Dowse Art Gallery in Wellington next month.

Gymnastics - To Patrice Brookland who won a gold medal in Level 3C Women’s Gymnastics & a Silver medal for the individual bar apparatus for overall Level 3. Patrice's team also came first in the Southern Gym Competition which was held in Balclutha last weekend.

Basketball Results
Shooters lost 14 – 30
Sharks won 20 – 4
Slamdunkers lost 2 – 20
Spurs lost 15 – 24
PTA

Now is the time to get the word out that Sacred Heart School is having a Fair on Sunday 7th November 2010. We have included with this week’s newsletter for each family, a couple of our bright posters/flyers advertising the fair. We would love it if you could arrange to put these up in your workplaces, local shopping centres, fish & chip shops etc – anywhere that they may be viewed by people who may like to come to the fair. Extras will be available from the office should you have a need for anymore. Special thanks to Juliette Clapperton for producing these for us. Also watch out for a photo and info about the fair in the Express – they have been into school and we hope to see this in next week’s issue.

Some of you may have already had a call from a volunteer parent within your class, and others will be contacted over the next two weeks. We are asking parents to help where you can and join your child’s class roster to man the stall they are responsible for. Or in some cases help us to man other stalls where greater numbers of volunteers may be required.

As advertised last week we need scones for our Devonshire Tea stall. To help keep our costs to a minimum, we ask our parent community to help in making these scones. Below we have published the recipe and ask any parents, who are able, to make a batch now, freeze them and bring on the day of the fair. Alternatively make fresh on the day.
We would really appreciate your help with these:
Scone Recipe (can be doubled)
2 cups self raising flour
Half cup lemonade
Half cup cream
Bake at 200 degrees for approx 10 mins.
Please freeze and bring the morning of the school fair.

Thanks to those families who have already left a bottle at the office.
Please remember we are asking for each family to donate a bottle for our mystery bottle auction on the chocolate wheel – this can be any sealed bottle e.g. wine, sauce, cleaner ??? Each bottle is wrapped and the fun is bidding or taking tickets on something unknown! Please leave at the office asap.

Please keep stashing items for the White Elephant stall.
Items can now be left at the office for those families unable to deliver them on the Saturday prior to the fair. We have plenty of storage space available so items large or small are accepted.
If you want Trish to pick up any items, please contact her on 215-8292.

Also gardeners, if there are veggies spare in the garden (or in Grandad’s) please bring these on the day for the chocolate wheel – these are always a hit.





Room 2 Class Happenings

We have been learning about how to make our stories a lot more interesting. One way that we can do this is to use different beginnings to our sentences. We have been practising and are starting to get quite good at our varied sentence beginnings.

Tomorrow we are going to have a disco. It is at six o’clock. The disco is going to be fun. I am going to get a glow stick - By Azriel
Tomorrow is going to be a disco. It is going to be exciting. I am going. Tomorrow I think I am going to wear a costume. My class will be there too. Mrs Stupples will dance with me. Mum is letting me wear a pink and white dress - By Lucy
Tomorrow there is going to be a disco. It will be fun because I’m going to have MacDonald’s for tea. I’ve been to a disco before. At the disco I will get a glow stick - By Tyler
The martian has nine hairs. She has nine eyes. Her foot had nine toes. The martian has one big foot. She has nine bows on her. She is happy. She has nine flowers in her house. When she goes to bed she snores - By Hunter C
My mum is coming back from Dunedin. I’m excited because mum is coming. Campbell and I are waiting. Mum was in Christchurch - By Aiden
The martian has nine hairs. She has nine toes. Her face has nine eyes. She has one big foot. She doesn’t like shopping because she doesn’t like hopping and she snores when she goes to bed. Her body has nine arms - By Sarah

We have also been meditating, and thinking about what God is like to us. Here are some of our thoughts.

God is like my friend because he makes me feel happy - By Megan
God is like hugging Mum because he makes me feel warm and cosy - By Hunter T
God is like my bed because he makes me feel relaxed - By Summer
God is like big blankets because he makes me feel warm - By Ben
God is like running fast because he makes me feel strong - By Scarlett
God is like Mrs Stupples because he makes me feel safe - By Luke
God is like a dog because he makes me feel happy - By Ethan
God is like my food because he makes me feel strong - By Dylan
God is like boxing because he makes me feel happy - By Isaiah-Runi


Tour of Southland
Check out the notice board in the junior corridor regarding competitions
for the children to enter, compliments of Cycling Southland.

Invercargill Tap Dancing Competitions
Saturday 23 October, 8.30am ~ 7pm
Centre Stage, Don Street, Entry Fee $3 per session
Speeds, Song & Tap, Duos, Waltz, Solo ~ come along and support your local dancers. Info for Beginners available by emailing tapping.ingill@woosh.co.nz