26 Sept

Dear Parents

This has been a busy week with the many activities and it continues tonight with the disco and our final term assembly tomorrow afternoon.

I thank you all for your support this term.  We have had lots of parents helping with sports, cultural and other school events and I wish to thank you again for your work with our children.

Thank you also to the parents and community who have supported the class Masses this term. It is always great to have you join us.

Unfortunately we farewell Ms Hoskin today. We thank her for her input into our school and children and wish her luck with her new venture.

Our prayers are with the O’Connor family.

School Mass ~ Thank you to Mrs Winders and Fr. Jacob for our school Mass last Sunday. A special thanks to all our great readers and singers who contributed.

Room 6 Mass ~ Thank you to all those who were able to attend the Room 6 class Mass yesterday.  It was lovely to have you all there.  I am sure you are all as proud as I am of the children.  Their readings, singing and general behaviour are a credit to you.  Many thanks ~ Mrs Buxton.

Mercy Day ~ On Tuesday we celebrated our family order of the Mercy sisters with a prayer liturgy followed by a sausage sizzle. Thank you to the PTA for providing this, and thank you to the children for donating cans to the Southland Foodbank.

Convent Cup ~ Well done to all the teams and coaches who took part at the Convent Cup on Monday at Verdon College. All teams played well with our basketball team placed 2^nd and our rugby and netball teams in 3^rd place.

Kids Can Cook Kitchen & Science Lesson ~ Yesterdays ‘Kids Kitchen’ was the final part of our science unit based on ‘change’ – which started last week with our science rotation and the Science in a Van visit. A number of classes will be posting blog entries about the event and their findings.

Pastoral Care ~ Please take the time to complete the survey which was sent home last Thursday and return to school. Here is the link if you prefer to do it on-line: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/T9P7MF2

Have a Safe and Happy Holiday!

FAITH  FACT FOR WEEK 9  ~  People of God

A biblical image for the Church popularised by the Secon Vatican Council.  The image of the People of God emphasises that we are saved, not as indivicuals, but as a community – laity, religious and clergy – share in the three fold mission of Christ as prophet, priest and king.

PTA School Disco -Tonight

Gold coin donation (per family) please. Chips, drinks and a variety of glow products available to purchase from .50c -$2. Tea and coffee is also available for adults.

Juniors Yr 0-3 from 6.30 pm-7.30 pm (younger siblings are welcome to stay for the junior disco, if accompanied by a parent).

Seniors Yr 4-6 from 7.30 pm -8.30 pm. Look forward to seeing you all there.

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Pet Day Meeting – Monday 14^th October 7.30pm in the school staffroom.

Volunteers are required for this day, so please come along to this meeting.

Sports Results

Basketball:              Sharks - bye

                            Slamdunkers drew 13 - 13                         

                            Shooters lost 6 - 22

                            Flyers lost 2 - 16

Flipperball:                   Sharks won 10 - 6

                            Seals lost 4 - 7

                            Whales won 13 - 0

Altar Servers ~ Volunteer ~ School Holidays

Hockey Notice 

Big Thanks to those Mums and Dads who came along for our ‘fun’ hockey game yesterday! 4 all! Perfect way to end the season!

Tim and I would like to thank all our hockey supporters this season and it was great to see the children so enthusiastic and keen to get as involved as they did! See you all next year!  Tim and Cimone Page

Singing & Drama Holiday Programmes ~ Workshops for 6 – 12 yr olds

7 – 11^th October - $20 per session. For more info contact Miriam 0276004631 for Drama and Alice 0212054412 for Singing.

NZ Red Cross Southland Open Day – Sunday 29^th September

10 am – 12 noon @ Gala Street Reserve. Children are invited to participate in the colouring-in competition, bring it along to the open day and every child wins a prize. Mrs Forbes has these forms in her office.

                                                                          

Aubrey Page and Laura Boniface took part in the Women's League Function on Saturday.

Room 1 Class Happenings

On Tuesday we finished off our final science rotation.  Here are some children's recounts of the day.

I made pudding yesterday, and I felt happy because I went to Room 2 and broke ice cubes.  I did dancing raisins and it was fun.  We got a coke bottle and put lollies in it.  It went up to the tree and it was very fun.  Oliver 

We did some science, we went with our house teams.  My favourite thing was making the bag explode, and I made coke explode.  The less mentos you put in, the higher the coke goes.  The more mentos you put in, the lower the coke goes.  I felt happy.  Alex 

We did science in the classrooms.  We exploded coke bottles and we made pudding, and sherbet and we made dancing raisins.  My favourite thing was exploding the coke bottle because it went higher than the tree.  Rohan 

Yesterday to finish off our science week rotations, we had  'Kids Can Cook' come and show how science can be in the kitchen.  It was great to see the children giving things a taste.  Tyler from Room 2 made an excellent sous chef, and I can see that we might have some budding chefs in the making!

Summer School Uniform  ~  Term 4

Girls                                               

Pinafore                                  

White open necked short sleeved blouse           

White socks                                                    

Tan, brown, navy or black shoes/sandals                                              

Blue V neck jersey

Sunhat

                                                Boys

                                                Light weight grey shorts

                                                Grey open necked short sleeved shirt

                                                Grey socks

                                                Blue V neck jersey

                                                Tan, brown, navy or black shoes/sandals

                                                Sunhat