16 February

Dear Parents

With swimming almost finished a big thank you to all the parent helpers.

It has been a big effort to have swimming so soon after school started, but we have been fortunate to have had such good weather.

School will return to some degree of normality next week and we will have our first school assembly on Monday @ 2.15pm.

Miss Gaines

We farewell Miss Gaines on Monday as she begins her studies to become a teacher at the College of Education.

I wish to take this opportunity to thank Nichola for her excellent contribution and commitment to the students at our school and wish her all the best in her studies.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the Horrell family.

Upcoming Events

21 Feb Meet the Teachers Night

22 Feb Ash Wednesday Mass 9.30 am

6 Mar Zone Athletics

13-16 Mar Year 6 Bannockburn Camp

26/27 Mar Parent Interviews

31/3 Mar Southland Athletics

Meet the Teacher

A reminder about the ‘Meet the Teacher Night’ on February 21^st starting at 6 pm. Each teacher will run 2 info sessions, then there will be a parent meeting in the library at 7pm.

The format for the ‘Meet the Teacher’ is:

6.00pm Session 1 – Each teacher will give a brief overview of the class routines and rules, modes of communication and issues such as class events, sports days and homework.

6.25pm Session 2 – A repeat of session 1.

6.55pm There will be a whole school meeting in the library to briefly go over school wide issues, such as reporting, school events, our RE Programme and events associated with the school jubilee this year.

Ash Wednesday

Families are welcome to join us as we attend Ash Wednesday Mass next week – 22^nd Feb @ 9.30 a.m. in the church.

PAT Tests

Next week the middle and senior classes will be sitting PAT tests. These will be in the morning so please be aware of this with regards to absences and other appointments.

Sports Results

Under 6 Soccer team lost to Myross Bush 0 – 1. POD was Keara Paraki.

Achievements

Congratulations to the Young family on the arrival of a baby sister for Azriel.

Congratulations to Breyah Takitimu who was awarded the Lamuse Dance School Scholarship for 2012, and has also found out in her AJDA Jazz Exam for Level 3 that she got the highest mark in New Zealand.

Congratulations to Jacob Downing who has been selected for the Southland Year 5/6 Cricket Team, with games during February/March.

Pita Pit

A reminder Pita Pit has started up again for the year. The children can order this on a Monday. Orders must be in the envelope provided, obtained from your child’s classroom teacher and put in the yellow box outside the school office, by 9am. Thank you.

Altar Servers

Saturday 18^th Feb 7.00 pm Reuben & Caleb Brown

Sunday 19^th Feb 10.30 am Patrice & Aimee Brookland

Children’s Liturgy Nicki Brookland

Touch

Due to lack of numbers there has been no teams entered into this terms competition.

Cricket Kiwi 8's

This is played on Thursdays from 3:45pm at Queens Park. There is a bye today, due to lateness of the draw being received. The competition is for six weeks, the final game being 22nd March. If your child has shown interest in this a notice will go home with them today.

Flippa Ball

We have entered two teams this year. The competition runs in Term One and Term Four. We have a year 1-3 (Seals) team as well as a year 4 – 6 (Sharks) team. All game times will be written on the whiteboard outside the office. There has been some confusion with the year 4-6 team, this has been sorted and they WILL play tomorrow at 5:35pm.

If you have any further questions in regards to sporting events please don't hesitate to contact me stagomoa@shsinv.school.nz

Room 2 Class Happenings

We have had a wonderful start in Room 2. Miss Paulin has been a great help to us during her three week posting.

We have been busy swimming of course, which doesn't always leave much time for everything else.

This week we created some grass people. We drew some faces on yoghurt pottles, and then we wrapped some cotton wool and grass seed into some nylon stocking.

We put the tied stocking into the yoghurt pottle (the kids think that it looks like a real brain!) and when the grass grows it will look like funny hair for our people.