Week 3

Week 3 already! I hope you have all had a relaxing weekend and are ready for another action packed week!

We are supposed to be having swimming this week, however our school pool is currently having heating problems. At this stage, we will not be swimming tomorrow but have our fingers crossed the pool will be back up and running later in the week. I will let our class know as soon as I know more information. Thank you for your understanding and patience with this.

Homework Project Due on Tuesday - the homework task that was given out last week is due on Tuesday. Children will be presenting their idea of a local issue and solution to the class, and we will be voting on which idea we would like to use for our next Student Volunteer Army project. I am looking forward to hearing all about the brilliant ideas our children have come up with!

Athletics practise continues tomorrow afternoon and on Wednesday. Please bring proper school uniform PE gear for this. Our Athletics day is scheduled for Monday next week and we are in desperate need of Parent Helpers. Please look at the notice below and contact Lorna if you are able to help out. It will be hugely appreciated!

Enjoy your evenings and I look forward to having another week filled with fun and successes!

Nga Mihi,
Nicole Hunter

THIS SATURDAY: November 3rd, we are having a working bee at our school. We have a number of jobs on our list ranging from handy-man jobs, maintenance on the playgrounds, putting together an aviary, painting the boundary fence on Ranolf St, building a frame around the sandpit, painting the container, constructing a fence bordering the library grounds, painting Kakano’s playhouse, clearing the hall gutters (we have hired a scissor lift) and I am sure there will be plenty more jobs to do. Come along and meet other parents, enjoy a morning tea and a delicious lunch. Children are welcome also. For catering purposes please let the office know if you can assist, even if it is just for an hour or two.

9th November Friday-Week 4:

Grandparents/Friends Day

Please advertise on your blogs from week 1!

• 9:00 Mass

• 10:00 Back to classes to show visitors around and shared morning tea in classes.

• 10:30 Performing groups to get dressed
• 10:30 Cuppa provided by PTA-Hall if wet or outside hall if not.
• 11:00 Mini concert begins (5-10 mins per group)

Outside on stage if fine, otherwise in the hall.

• 12:30 Visitors free to roam or go home.
• This year again for something different we would like to add a ‘photo board’ opportunity. Students with visitors to have their family photo taken with a cool backdrop to remember Grandparents /Friends Day 2018!

The Order for the Concert:

1st	Gymnastics Club
2nd	Pasifika Group
3rd	School Choir
4th	Item form 2 classes-CRT Teachers
5th	Filipino Group TBC
6th	Mirimba Group -Millie
7th	Kapa Haka

St Mary’s Catholic Primary School, Rotorua

Interhouse Athletics

9:00am – 3:00pm

Monday 5th November

Postponement date: Thursday 8th November

International Stadium, Ground 2, Devon Street West, Rotorua

Event Overview

• The Inter-house Athletics is for our middle and senior school students - Years 3, 4, 5 & 6.
• The Interhouse Athletic Sports will be held at Field 2 by the stadium in Rotorua.
• Years 3 – 6 students need to be taken to / dropped off at the  International Stadium, Ground 2 Devon Street West Rotorua on Monday 5th November, meeting their teacher by 8:45am in the designated area.
• Interhouse Athletics will finish at approximately 2:30pm on Monday. Children need to be collected from the International Stadium, ground 2 by 3:00pm at the latest.
• Children may come to Interhouse Athletics in their house colours, they must wear their school PE gear.
• Children will need – sunhat, sunblock, warm clothes, lunch & a drink.
• Should the event need to be cancelled this information will put on our website by 7:30am

Parent support is needed for this event. If you are available to help on the day please email lornad@stmarysrotorua.school.nz

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WEEK 3, TERM 4, 2018

WEDNESDAY 31ST OCTOBER.

8.45am Rosary Senior School

THURSDAY 1ST NOVEMBER..

GO4IT

10.00am All Saints/All Souls’ Liturgy. Hall

2.05pm  Kapa Haka

FRIDAY 2ND NOVEMBER

11.00am Pasifika Practice

12 Noon Choir in the hall

Assembly. Room 2

SATURDAY 3RD NOVEMBER.

Working Bee

JPC Entrance Testing

WEEK 4, TERM 4, 2018

MONDAY 5TH NOVEMBER.

Totara and Kahikatea Athletic Sports. All day.

TUESDAY 6TH NOVEMBER

Middle Block Year 6 Pre-puberty

WEDNESDAY 7TH NOVEMBER.

1.30pm Pre-Puberty Yr6

THURSDAY 8TH NOVEMBER..

GO4IT

8.45am School Singing

Middle Block Year 6 Pre-puberty

2.05pm  Kapa Haka

FRIDAY 9TH NOVEMBER

9.00am Grandparents’ Mass

Go4it - Hockey Skills

For the first half of this term we are continuing to participate in the Go4It program. Today we focused on building our hockey skills. Have a look at some photos of us in action!

ACTION DAY! Our Garden Display

This morning Room 12's Student Volunteer Army, led by our two platoon leaders Imogen and Maiah, walked down to Ranolf Medical Centre to deliver our creations and set up our garden display.

Over the past two weeks we have worked incredibly hard to plan, design, create and then present our sculptures. We worked in groups to collaborate on these designs, and collectively as a class worked together to make sure each team's product fitted in well with our spring theme. Our platoon leaders coordinated the entire project, making sure we were all on track with the timeline, that our creations were weather durable, and that they suited the theme.

Everyone did an amazing job. They all displayed creativity and worked hard to collaborate and debug any issues that arose, and most importantly they all problem solved so that their creation was their very best work.

We know that our service to Ranolf Medical Centre has met our goal, which was to bring joy to sick children in a creative way! If you are ever there, have a look out the window and see if you can spot all of our creations. If you want to learn how to make them, have a look for our book in the waiting room that describes each creation and also has instructions for how to make it yourself!

Ka Pai Room 12! I am so proud of you all and am looking forward to seeing what our next service to our community will be!

Week 2

Kia ora Whanau,

I hope you have all had a lovely long weekend and made the most of the gorgeous weather we have been blessed with!

This week we have two key things happening...

Thursday - ACTION DAY!
We will be walking to Ranolf Medical Centre at 9am to set up our Garden Display and we should be back at school in time for morning tea at 10.30am. I am in desperate need of 2 parent helpers....please contact me if you are available to help out.

Friday - I am away on Friday at a Course. Our class will have a lovely reliever and will be continuing their new homework project (this will be given out tomorrow and is not due until Tuesday Week 3).

Other notices for Room 12 this week include...

Homework Project - This is focused on finding a local issue and coming up with a solution that we can carry out as a Student Volunteer Army. It would be great if you could please support your child in researching and choosing an appropriate issue/solution that will benefit our community. Things like helping out in retirement homes (showcasing skills, making them things etc.), something to support sick children in the hospital, charity work, cleaning or improving local parks or DOC areas in Rotorua, using our cooking skills to provide food for children in need etc - basically anything that we are able to organise at school and then complete in an action day in Week 6 of this term. The homework task is to then create a presentation (in the style of their choice) to persuade the rest of the class that we should choose their issue & solution. These presentations will be done in Tuesday in week 3 and we will vote on which action we want to take.

NO SWIMMING THIS WEEK

Athletics & Go4It: Athletics practise is on Wednesday afternoon and Go4it is on Thursday afternoon. Please bring your PE gear on both of these days.

Other school wide notices...

Interhouse Athletics

9:00am – 3:00pm

Monday 5th November (Week 4)

Postponement date: Thursday 8th November

International Stadium, Ground 2, Devon Street West, Rotorua

Event Overview

• The Inter-house Athletics is for our middle and senior school students - Years 3, 4, 5 & 6.
• The Interhouse Athletic Sports will be held at Field 2 by the stadium in Rotorua.
• Years 3 – 6 students need to be taken to / dropped off at the  International Stadium, Ground 2 Devon Street West Rotorua on Monday 5th November, meeting their teacher by 8:45am in the designated area.
• Interhouse Athletics will finish at approximately 2:30pm on Monday. Children need to be collected from the International Stadium, ground 2 by 3:00pm at the latest.
• Children may come to Interhouse Athletics in their house colours, they must wear their school PE gear.
• Children will need – sunhat, sunblock, warm clothes, lunch & a drink.
• Should the event need to be cancelled this information will put on our website by 7:30am

Parent support is needed for this event. If you are available to help on the day please email lornad@stmarysrotorua.school.nz

SCHOOL WORKING BEE

During the following weekend, November 3rd, we are having a working bee at our school. We have a number of jobs on our list ranging from handy-man jobs, maintenance on the playgrounds, putting together an aviary, painting the boundary fence on Ranolf St, building a frame around the sandpit, painting the container, constructing a fence bordering the library grounds, painting Kakano’s playhouse, clearing the hall gutters (we have hired a scissor lift) and I am sure there will be plenty more jobs to do. Come along and meet other parents, enjoy a morning tea and a delicious lunch. Children are welcome also. For catering purposes please let the office know if you can assist, even if it is just for an hour or two.

ENROLMENT FOR THE SACRAMENTAL PROGRAMME At St Mary’s Catholic Church 7.00 pm, Thursday 25th October. There will be a briefing on the Sacramental Programme, dates will be given and fees of $20.00 are required to be paid. For children who are not baptised in Rotorua, please bring a baptismal certificate. The children are required to be 8 years old by the 1st November 2018. Children who are not baptised or who are baptised in another Christian faith and would like to become Catholic are required to book an appointment with Fr Eamon through the Parish office to discuss options.

WEEK 2 TERM 4, 2018.

TUESDAY 23RD OCTOBER

5.00PM Totara Parent Mtg - Puberty.

WEDNESDAY 24TH OCTOBER.

8.45am Rosary Junior School

3.00-3.45 Library open

THURSDAY 25TH OCTOBER.

Go4It

8.45am School Singing

2.05pm  Kapa Haka

FRIDAY 26TH OCTOBER.

11.00am Pasifika Practice

12 Noon Choir in the hall

Assembly. Room 7

WEEK 3, TERM 4, 2018

WEDNESDAY 31ST OCTOBER.

8.45am Rosary Senior School

THURSDAY 1ST NOVEMBER..

GO4IT

8.45am School Singing

10.00am All Saints/All Souls’ Liturgy. Hall

2.05pm  Kapa Haka

FRIDAY 2ND NOVEMBER..

11.00am Pasifika Practice

12 Noon Choir in the hall

Assembly. Room 2

SATURDAY 3RD NOVEMBER.

Working Bee

JPC Entrance Testing

MONDAY 4TH NOVEMBER.

Totara and Kahikatea Athletic Sports. All day.

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Looking forward to having another productive week with our wonderful class, especially seeing all of their hard work pay off when we put our garden display together at Ranolf Medical Centre on our ACTION DAY!

Nga Mihi,

Nicole Hunter

Progress Towards Our Garden Project

This week we have begun our first Student Volunteer Army Challenge. We are aiming to bring joy to sick children, by being creative in designing a spring themed garden display for Ranolf Medical Centre. Imogen and Maiah are our platoon leaders; they visited the Medical Centre on Tuesday to draw a map of the garden and put together a plan. We have now been working in small teams to plan and create various sculptures for the garden. Here is a sneak peek into our creations in progress!

Reminder: we are going to set up the garden next Thursday and we need a few parent helpers to support us please! Please let Mrs Hunter know if you are able to help out. Thank you :)

Swimming

This week we had our first week of swimming! The weather has been so nice, so we have been very lucky to cool off in the water. Today we practised our freestyle technique and focused on rolling to breathe after every third stroke.

Reminder: We do not have swimming again until Week 3....so don't bring your togs next week.