RBHS Footloose Show PLUS Library Trip - Parent Help Needed Urgently!

On Friday the 24th of August we are going on two trips:

9.30-11.45: We will be walking to Rotorua Boys High School to attend their show ‘Footloose’.

11.45-2.30: We will leave Rotorua Boys High School to go to the Rotorua Public Library for lunch (12-12.30) and then an art and technology lesson about David Trubridge’s work (12.30-2.30).

We have tight time constraints so will be needing parent transport from RBHS to the library (at 11.45am) and then again from the library back to school (2.30pm).

We need 7 parents (4 children per car) that would be able to transport children to and from the Library. Please let me know as soon as possible if you are able to help so that final arrangements for the trip can be made.

Thank you for your support with this - it should be a fun and exciting day with lots of learning opportunities for us!

Week 4 Notices

Thank you to everyone for your participation with Mary MacKillop Day last Friday. I was unfortunately away, but I have heard wonderful feedback about how everyone participated in the various celebrations very positively. It is such a great way for us to celebrate the life and work of Mary MacKillop. This is now going to lead into a Saint Study for our children, where they will choose their own Saint to research and create a presentation around. This will run over 2 weeks, which will strengthen our knowledge around the work different Saints did and how they followed in the footsteps of Jesus. It will also help us to explore initiatives and skills that can be used to positively impact the lives of others.

Show Quest is on tomorrow night! Around 70 St. Mary's students have been working incredibly hard to put this performance together - with amazing organisation and support from Shanelle and Kelley. These students will be practicing tomorrow morning and then heading to the Events Centre for rehearsals around midday. Below is a schedule for those who are involved...

Timetable for Monday 8.30am   - 8.45am Arrive at school and meet in the hall. Roll call 8.45am - 10.30am   Practice 10.30am - 11.00am   Morning Tea/Play 10.50am - 11.15am Eat and pack up 11.15am - 11.30am Prepare to head down to the Event Centre by bus 11.30am - 11.45am Arrive at the Event Centre 11.45am - 12.00pm Prepare for dress rehearsal 12.00pm - 12.40pm Rehearsal 12.40pm - 01.20pm Lunch break 01.20pm - 04.15pm Getting hair and hip hop makeup done.   04.15pm - 04.45pm Dinner Time (provided by the school - Pizzas from Dominos) 04.45pm - 07.00pm Getting everyone ready! Lock down is at 4.45pm, so no  one will be allowed in and out of the preparation area after this time! 07.00pm - 08.45pm Show should finish no later than 8.45pm

Our school choir is ready to begin! Please encourage your singers to sign up.

Mr Norman has agreed to work with the choir.

Over the first couple of weeks Mr Norman will be watching and listening to those students who show they want to be part of this. So your behaviour is being noted.

To sign up..add you name to the list on Room 7's window. There will be a variety of songs-traditional, fun, Christian, pop!

Also a reminder that School is closed on Wednesday this week. We really appreciate your support with this, as we try to improve education for our children.

Friday 24th August is our Library Visit. We will be walking to and from the library, but will need 1 car to bring the bus students back. Please let me know if you are able to come with us on this trip - your support will be greatly appreciated!

WEEK 4 TERM 3.

MATHS WEEK

MONDAY 13th AUGUST

Show Quest (Renamed 3 times- JRock, Arts in Motion and now ShowQuest.

Timetable for Monday 8.30am   - 8.45am Arrive at school and meet in the hall. Roll call 8.45am - 10.30am   Practice 10.30am - 11.00am   Morning Tea/Play 10.50am - 11.15am Eat and pack up 11.15am - 11.30am Prepare to head down to the Event Centre by bus 11.30am - 11.45am Arrive at the Event Centre 11.45am - 12.00pm Prepare for dress rehearsal 12.00pm - 12.40pm Rehearsal 12.40pm - 01.20pm Lunch break 01.20pm - 04.15pm Getting hair and hip hop makeup done.   04.15pm - 04.45pm Dinner Time (provided by the school - Pizzas from Dominos) 04.45pm - 07.00pm Getting everyone ready! Lock down is at 4.45pm, so no  one will be allowed in and out of the preparation area after this time! 07.00pm - 08.45pm Show should finish no later than 8.45pm

11.00-12.30pm Totara Explorations

7.00pm Show Quest

TUESDAY 14th AUGUST

Sevens Tournament

9.00am ICAS Maths

WEDNESDAY 15TH AUGUST.

STRIKE DAY. School will be closed for instruction

THURSDAY 16TH AUGUST

10.00am Assumption of Mary Liturgy

2.05pm Kapa Haka

3.00pm Pasifika Homework Club

FRIDAY 17TH AUGUST

Mandarin Speech Competition

11.00am Pasifika practice

11.45am School Choir

2.05pm  Assembly

WEEK 5 TERM 3.

MONDAY 20th AUGUST

9.00-10.30am Totara Team Explorations

THURSDAY 23rd AUGUST

8.45am School Singing

2.05pm Kapa Haka

3.00pm Pasifika Homework Club

FRIDAY 24th AUGUST

9.30-12.30pm  RBHS Show. ‘Footloose’ Walking to RBHS Totara Team

12.30-2.30pm  Room 12 Public Library visit

2.05pm  Assembly

Week 3 Notices

Welcome to week 3, I hope everyone is ready for another week of fun learning activities filled with positive attitudes to help us reach our goals! Thank you to everyone who attended an interview last week; it is great to have the time to celebrate successes, discuss your child's learning goals and work together to ensure we are supporting your child in the best way that we can.

This week is Mary MacKillop Week! We will be doing a range of activities based around Mary MacKillop and also have a celebratory day on Friday as a whole school. This consists of Mass at 9am and then a variety of fun activities for the rest of the day. Please encourage this at home by asking your child questions about Mary MacKillop and the learning we have done each day.

This week is also the LAST week of practices for Arts in Motion. We wish them the best of luck for their final practices and know they will have an incredible performance in a week's time. Thank you to our families for supporting this and to our wonderful Shanelle for organising this for our school.

On the 24th of August Room 12 will be having a trip to the library for the Trubridge and Technology programme from 12.30-2.30. We unfortunately do not have any transport for this. I thought it would be nice for us all to walk down to the library a little earlier (11.30) and have lunch there first. However, we will need some transport back as there may not be enough time for us to walk back to school before bus students need to leave. If you are available to meet us there and drive the bus students back, please contact me. We will also need parent helpers to walk to and from the library with us. Thank you!

THIS WEEK; WEEK 3

WEDNESDAY 8th AUGUST.

3.00-4.30pm Arts in Motion Practice (Everyone)

THURSDAY 9th AUGUST

JPC Interviews

8.45am Singing

2.05pm Kapa Haka

3.15pm Pasifika Homework Club

FRIDAY 10th AUGUST

JPC Interviews

9.00am Mass. St Mary of the Cross Mass

WEEK 4 TERM 3.

MONDAY 13th AUGUST

Arts in Motion practice at Event Centre (TBC)

7.00pm Arts in Motion

TUESDAY 14th AUGUST

9.00am ICAS Maths

WEDNESDAY 15TH AUGUST.

9.00am Assumption of Mary Liturgy

THURSDAY 16TH AUGUST

8.45am Singing

9.00am Room 1 Public Library visit

2.05pm Kapa Haka

3.15pm Pasifika Homework Club

FRIDAY 17TH AUGUST

Mandarin Speech Competition

9.30am Room 2 Public Library visit

2.05pm  Assembly. Karen T

STEAM Extravaganza

On Tuesday we had our STEAM Extravaganza day. This was a time where we could explore a range of different STEAM related activities that require problem-solving.

Before we attended the workshop we signed up for, we had a guest speaker called Chris who works for Microsoft. He talked to us about the importance of Whanaungatanga (caring for our whanau and world) - in the STEAM context this relates to the idea that every problem solved has happened because somebody has CARED about it. Problem-solving is a vital skill in the 21st Century, as it is necessary for us to be active participants in our world. There are so many things in our world that we CARE about that need to be improved and fixed; think about poverty, pollution, hunger etc. Building problem-solving skills through STEAM activities are the first stepping stones we need to be able to help solve these problems when we are older!

We then chose one workshop to attend that was organised and run by some of our wonderful senior students. Imogen and Leah ran a breakout EDU challenge that they created all by themselves - ka pai girls, we are so proud of you! Senior students from other classrooms also ran some other workshops including minecraft, stickman animations, mBots, brainteasers, pixel avatars, scratch and stop motion photography. We had so much fun exploring new skills and activities! Well done to everyone for branching out into the unknown, giving new things a go, and persevering through problem-solving situations. Have a look below at some photos from today!