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Dear parents, This will be our last newsletter before the September holidays. If we need to bring any important information to your notice, we will email you.

Sports Camp Thank you so much to Mr Ross & Mr Gillanders for organising this great event! To the dads who supported the camp, and to Miss Pra-sad and Miss Brown, your help was awesome!

Speeches Yesterday our speech finalists went to High Grove to deliver their speeches as a practice for the finals. These will be on Wednesday 13th September beginning at 11am if you wish to come along.

Mrs Goodwin Mrs Goodwin is away for the remainder of this week as she is doing a Science Course, She will be able to bring lots of useful information back for our teachers, I’m sure.

Year 3 and 4 BYOD / eLearning Information Night We will be holding the information night this Thursday, 14th Septem-ber at 7pm. This will be a valuable time of sharing of information on how we integrate Digital Technology into the classroom. Please come along if your child is in Year 3 or 4, or will be next year. Any parents of students in Years 5-8 with questions about BYOD or eLearning are also welcome to attend.

ASB Get Wise Facilitators from ASB Bank will be in our school over three days (18th—20th September). They will be giving the children advice and strategies in dealing with money matters. They will be doing lessons right across the school.

Auckland Christian Schools Cross Country This will be held on September 19th at Owairaka Domain, Sum-

mit Drive, Mt Albert. Mrs Cooper will be taking a team to compete from our school.

Cricket Tournament On the same day, 19th September we have a girls cricket team attending a tournament at the North Harbour Hockey Stadium.

Year 7 Leadership Seminar Elim Christian School are holding a seminar for student leaders on 21st and 22nd September. We have a small team of Year 7 leaders going to this to build up their leadership skills. What a great oppor-tunity!

Election Day If you don’t know where to vote, our school is going to

be a polling station on 23rd September for the General Election.

News from Proprietors We are now up to the stage of our new buildings where the archi-tects are drawing up how the buildings will look.

End of Term The last day of Term 3 is Friday 29th September. We will be finishing at our normal time of 3pm. Term 4 begins on 16th October.

Enjoy the rest of the term and stay safe over the holidays. Regards,

Kent Wilson, Principal

REMEMBER TO FORGET ‘If you have anything against anyone, forgive him.' Mark 11:25 NKJV No matter how much two people love each other, conflicts are sure to arise that call for extending grace and showing forgiveness. Do you know that couples who are happy and stay married have the same number of disagreements and conflicts as couples who are unhappy and get divorced? Statistically, that is true! It’s not the absence of con-flict that preserves marriage, but the ability to manage conflict when it happens. How do you manage conflict? By practicing the kind of self-control that keeps conflicts from mushrooming into hurtful and divisive standoffs. It also means knowing what to do with hurt feelings like anger, disap-pointment and dashed expectations. In other words, it means knowing how to forgive it and forget it. But emotional hurt and tension are almost impossible to forget; the harder we try, the more we remember. So, what’s the answer? Remember to forget! Try to act like God, who chooses not to hold against us what he knows about us. He says in his Word: ‘I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins’ (Isaiah 43:25 NKJV). That means if you are holding something against your spouse, there’s only one solution: Forgive it and forget it. You may never forget how you’ve been hurt, but you can choose to forgive it and move on. No, it’s not easy, but you can do it. How? By remembering the things, known or unknown to others, that God has forgiven you for and extending that same grace to your spouse.

Soulfood: 2 Tim 1-4, Mark 13:24-37, Ps 3, Pro 24:23-25

Week 6 - Love Week 7 - Self Control

Room 1—Sophia Han Room 1—Marshall Liang

Room 4—Samuel Lee Room 4—Madeline Joseph

Room 6—Joshua Bailey Room 6—Ellie Yu

Room 7—Aiden Abin Room 7—Grace Jiang

Room 8—Ellie Hartwig Room 8—Claire Zhang

Room 9—Luke Drummond Room 9—Michael Alexander

Room 10—Cairo Anthony Room 10—Emma Han

Room 11—Mackenzie Craig Room 11—Cameron John Room 12—Tegan Flooks Room 12—Bianca Gouws Room 14—Michaela Bycroft Room 14—Rhys Gillanders

Room 15—Ru Won Lee Room 15—Megan Fang

Room 16—Kalos Yim Room 16—Saige Cronje

Room 17—Keith Wong Room 17—Abigail Lai

Teacher—Mrs Marsch Teacher—Miss Brown

Your School News — 12 September 2017

Mission Statement Westminster Christian School, through the Spirit of God, educates the children of Christian parents for time and eternity by providing a Christ-centred

academic curriculum founded on a Biblical World View. Our Vision

To be a leading primary/intermediate school in New Zealand Christian Education, built to full capacity and reaching out to those in need.

Newsletter—Term Three Week Eight 2017

HOUSE WINNERS

Cross Country - Kiwi Week 6 - Tui

Week 7 - Kiwi




Newsletter—T3.W8.2017—

TERM THREE DATES: 13 Sep Speech Competition Finals 18-20 Sep ASB Financial Literacy Lessons

19 Sep ACS Cross Country 21 Sep Year 7 Leadership Training Day 23 Sep Elections (Polling Booths at our school) 26 Sep BOT Meeting 28 Sep Rain Date for ACS Cross Country 29 Sep Last Day of Term Three TERM FOUR DATES: 24 Oct BOT Meeting 26 Oct Senior Water Safety / Swimming Begins 1 Nov Football Promo Day 11 Nov Dave Gatman’s Guitar Concert 14 Nov Choir visiting Glenfield Baptist 17 Nov GO SPOTTY DAY (Melanoma Awareness) 21 Nov BOT Meeting 30 Nov Senior Swimming Sports Competition 1 Dec Westminster Gives 12 Dec BOT Meeting 14 Dec Prize Givings (Junior / Middle / Senior) 15 Dec Last Day of Term 4

UNIFORMS Please ensure you keep up to date with the current

uniform requirements as per our website:

www.westminster.school.nz/prospective students/

uniform

The uniforms are available through NZ Uniforms,

who also have a detailed list of Westminster’s Uni-

form requirements:

westminster.nzuniforms.com

Unit F, 19 Orbit Dr, Albany 0632

Correct uniform must be worn at all times,

including hair ties in school colours, and no

jewellery please.

MAKE IT CLICK!

If everyone wore their seatbelts, it is estimated that 25

lives could be saved from road crashes each year.

Wearing a safety belt reduces the risk of being killed or

seriously injured in a road crash by about 40%.

Library

Please remind

your children that

library books need

to be returned by

the end of next

week.





At Westminster Christian School, we have been doing a lot of work on what Respect is.

The definition of Respect we have is, “Thinking and acting in a way that shows others you care about

their feelings and well being.”

Our Biblical World View is Luke 6:31, “Do to others as you would have them do to you.”

At assembly I went through the following:

We don’t have to like someone to respect them

We need to respect people who have differences

Respect is showing manners, not interrupting, listening to one person at a time

Wearing the correct uniform, it is how you present yourself and the school, being respectful

We are giving out weekly Respect Awards to be presented at assembly. We can only do so much as

teachers but the model God gave us is critical.

God has an order, Respect God first, Parents second and Teachers and other adults Third.

Over the next four months we will be focusing a lot on Respect as it is critical.





Te Reo Māori in Westminster Christian School

We have been including some more content in our teaching of Te Reo Māori in our classrooms recently, such as more common words,

phrases, waiata (song) and karakia (prayer). Our teachers have also been pursuing Professional Development in Te Reo Māori to build up

their own knowledge.

The Treaty of Waitangi that was signed in 1840 by the Māori people and the government is a founding document for all of New Zealand. It

has three main principles that are important for all New Zealanders:

Partnership Working together

Participation We are a bi-cultural nation (two main cultures – European and Māori)

Protection The language, knowledge and values of the Maori people are protected.

I am aware in all cultures that they have their own myths, legends and beliefs. Our children need to have a strong Biblical World View which

we built at our school. This is so the children can discern what is truth and what is fiction. We always learn about many cultures and their

beliefs and then weigh it up against Biblical Truth. This is critical for our children to grasp as they will, in life, meet many things that they need

to pray about for discernment.

We then direct the children to compare and contrast against Biblical truths. This is crucial learning for the children, helping them build critical

thinking skills in order to defend our faith. I am sure you agree that they will, in life want to build the strongest faith in God they can.

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