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