16 June

Dear Parents

Success

To laugh often and love much,

To win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; To earn the approval of honest critics; To appreciate beauty; To give of one¹s self; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived-

That is to have succeeded.

First Reconciliation

The children being prepared for the Sacrament of Reconciliation have their third session tomorrow morning with Miss O'Neill in Room One at 9.15am.

The Rite of Reconciliation for those children takes place at the church next Thursday night (23^rd) @ 6.30 pm

School Mass – This Sunday 19^th

Children are to be in the foyer at 10.15 am.

The last school mass turnout was very disappointing, so please support the time and effort that has gone in to the preparation thus far.

Children are to wear mufti, due to the picnic lunch afterwards.

BOT Meeting – Monday 20^th June 7 pm. All welcome.

School Charter & Parent Consultation

This year we have re-designed our school charter to cater for new requirements from the Ministry of Education. Part of this requirement is further consultation with our parent community including Maori parents.

I am looking for a representative group to read the charter to see if:

a) It makes sense (parent friendly)

b) The learning goals are adequate and achievable

c) The wishes of our community are covered

If you are able to help, please contact me on 0274918694 or principal@shsinv.school.nz

No Otatara Bus – Tuesday 21^st June pm

Please arrange alternative travel for your child for Tuesday afternoon. James Hargest is finishing early again!

Southspell

Congratulations to Jessica Hawkes, Brenna Smith, Aidan Jones & Samuel Russell who made up our Southspell team last night. They were placed 2^nd out of 36 teams. A wonderful result, well done.

Closure of St Patrick’s School South Dunedin

Ex-Pupils, Staff, Boards of Trustees, PTA, Parents and friends of the school are invited to a special Mass to celebrate133 years of St Patrick’s School on Sunday 24^th July at 11am

in St Patrick’s Basilica, MacAndrew Road, South Dunedin followed by a ‘potluck’ lunch in the Parish Centre. Please bring a plate of food to contribute to the lunch.

Tea, coffee and cold drinks will be provided. We look forward to sharing this day with you.

Achievements

Congratulations to the McGregor family on the arrival of Flynn.

Eli Winders- U38 rep team for Central- Western Rugby.

Tyler Pool – Player of the Day for the Waikiwi Ripper Rugby team.

Cory Foleni – Player of the Day for Waikiwi Rugby team.

Out of School Art Classes 5 – 12 yrs

Enrolments for Term 3 & 4 are now being accepted.

Phone Andrea Morrow 217- 9923

Welcome to Cole Harrington who joined the children in Room 1 this morning.

Altar Servers

Saturday 18th June - 7.00pm - Caitlin Russell

Sunday 19th June - 10.30am - Sam Russell & Elsie Wallace

PTA

Oyster Raffle Results

1^st Nicole Shirley 6^th Winders Family

2^nd Jan Livingstone 7^th Lizzie

3^rd Colin Sanford 8^th Sheree Telfer

4^th Vicki Wong 9^th Claire Newell

5^th Karen Connor 10^th Tony Leonard

The family who sold the most cards was – Newell Family.

The room that sold the most cards was – Room 3.

Sunday 19^th June School Mass

PICNIC LUNCH (Inside the Hall) KIDS LOLLY SCRAMBLE

BBQ Sausage’s - Camp fundraiser

The PTA would like to invite you to stay after the mass and enjoy a picnic lunch with the school and church community. The Year 6 students and parents are holding a sausage sizzle fundraiser and will have BBQ sausages in bread for sale @ $2 each. Or you can bring a picnic lunch to share with your family inside the hall after mass. Hot tea and coffee will be available. After lunch there will be a lolly scramble for all the children. Please come, bring your family and enjoy some time with the school and parish community.

Sports Results

Netball

Stars lost 6 – 3 against St Johns Yellow. Briana Henson was POD for making herself available to receive the ball.

Ferns won 14 – 1 against Salford Swish. Hannah Dawson was POD for an overall great 1^st game.

Shooters lost 2 – 11 against Otatara Steelers. Charlotte Chesters was POD for an overall great 1^st game.

Hockey

The Hockey season has started off very well. We have a great team and thank you to Trish for the Wednesday practice. The Sacred Heart team consists of Georgia Blue, Hayley Maloney, Mathew Books, Rory Horn, Jeremy Bower, Sam Sherriff, Briana Henson, Cameron Roulston & Zane Flawn.

Our first game for the season was 25^th May, we played Otatara Fantails and won 3 nil. Briana who wasn’t letting that other team get the ball was our player of the day.

Our second game was 1^st June against Ascot and we won again 3 – 1. Matthew was our player of the day, acknowledging his great improvement from last year.

Our third game was 8^th June against Waihopai Stingers. Unfortunately we lost 2 nil. The two goals we did score did not count, due to our player being off side and then the whistle for half time had just been blown. Player of the day went to Sam for using his initiative on the field.

This week we played Fern Sticks and the player of the day was Rory Horn.

Our next game is Wednesday 22^nd June against Myross Bush and we would appreciate anyone wanting to come to the turf and cheer us on.

Thanks for your support – Megan Roulston (Manager)

Tap Dancing

Come along and watch local Tap Dancing @ Centre Stage, Sat 18 June 8.30am-5.45pm, Sun 19 June 9.30am-11.30am. Adults-$10 weekend pass, $4 per session

Children-$5 weekend pass, $2 per session Preschoolers-FREE, Programme-$2

Gladstone Scouts Garage Sale – Saturday 25^th June

Gladstone Scouts are holding a garage sale at their den, corner Holywood Terrace

and Russell Street. If you have any goods you would like to donate, please contact

Denise 214-3004.

Craft Garage Sale – Tomorrow 4 – 9 pm

St Mary’s meeting room next to the mission shop off Nith Street.

Rubber stamps and other card making items, Scrapbooking papers, tools

embellishments etc.

Southland Cross Country

The children did very well at the Cross Country last Friday.

Thank you to all the parents and staff who braved the cold.

ROOM ONE CLASS HAPPENINGS

We have had a busy term so far and we are now gearing up for the production.

The children have reaffirmed their fire safety rules and can tell you what they would do in the event of a fire. Here are some of the rules we have written:

Get out, stay out, well done!

Get low and get out the window!

Don’t play with matches!

Get down, get low, get out fast!

Don’t put candles near the curtain.

If you hear the smoke alarms get out!

You have to remember not to leave matches and lighters around!

When you don’t have any beep alarms you could die!

We are now very excited about the production. If you approach our classroom at any time you may hear snippets of our song. We want to keep it a surprise but here is a little hint…

The ………….on …………….plod…….

…….day……..!

We will see you all at the production!