St. Mary’s School,

Monday 26 August 2013

Newsletter No. 3

CONGRATULATIONS... Samantha Anderson on being selected to the Central Re-gional Under 13 Girls Talent Centre Development Squad for Soccer reps. Jacob McNeil on gaining selection to the U14 Ca-noe Polo HB Representative team. Isaac Skews came first on the weekend at the East Coast challenge beach racing competition for Motorcross. Well done children.

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION In Religious Education, we are exploring and learning about the Church. We know that Jesus was a teacher, and His teaching was continued by the Apostles. Through our Pope, and our Bishops, the Church continues Jesus’ teaching role today. Priest, lay persons (including teachers) help the Bish-ops with this teaching. We too help with this very important mission by sharing the Good News with others, and providing service especially to those in need. Things you could try at home …

Invite a neighbor, extended family member, new school family over for afternoon tea or din-ner

Do extra chores and give your pocket money to Caritas, St Vincent de Paul, (or similar organiza-tion who assist the poor, destitute, and /or marginalized)

Make prayer cards, bookmarks for elderly mem-bers of a local rest home

Use your gifts to make a positive difference for someone else

Share your extra home grown vegetables with someone in need.

Teresa Neilson, D.R.S.

We welcome Hepi Brown to our St. Marys School

Community. With open hearts and minds we pray God’s blessings on her.

2013 – 2016 School Charter Consultation Thank you those of you who have considered and responded to the Charter Consultation questions, issued at Student Conferences. Please keep these rolling back into the Office. Your feedback is important and highly valued. If you have misplaced your envelope the questions are included in this Newsletter.

Intermediate Evening Presentation Parents and Year 6 students are warmly invited to attend the

St. Mary’s Intermediate Department Presentation on Tues 10 September at 7pm in Room 1. Mrs Hawke and the Intermediate staff will present an overview of the programmes and opportunities offered to the Intermediate students. This will also include Presentations from current students, and Mr Doug Sutherland, who leads the Tech Arts Programme at Havelock North Intermediate. We look forward to seeing you there.

Student, Parent, Teacher Conferences Thank you parents, caregivers and whanau for your

continued commitment to your child's education, through attending our Student Conferences. These were

an excellent opportunity for our students to share and

celebrate their successes and learning with you. Please remember that you are most welcome to make an

appointment at any time of the year, to speak to your child's teacher. If you are unable to come in personally

to talk, the Office Staff will book a time that is

convenient with you, to speak to your child’s teacher by phone.

RESPECT IS..

“Not hurting anyone” Moss Warne

“Do not hurt anyone, and be nice” Liam Bowden

“Helping one another” Hana Thompson

“Saying nice words to friends” Tayla Hampton

SAUSAGE SIZZLE HELPERS: Helpers for the next two weeks are …. Friday 30 August - Tim Hutchins Friday 6 September - Rachel Barclay and Rachael Daly

Week 5 Events at St. Mary’s...

Monday

Tuesday School banking every Tuesday;

Wednesday Assembly;

Thursday Tech Arts Yr 7 & 8. Library open for preschooler's 8.30am—9.00 am; Sacred Heart College Interviews 2014

Friday Mass R 7,9, 10, Barefoot 7s rugby

Term 3 Upcoming events ...

Week 6 Home & School meeting School cross-country Planterium visits R 9, and 10 Mass R 2,3,1

2 Sept 3 Sept 4 Sept 6 Sept

Week 7 Planetarium visit R 7 Intermediate Dept presentation Junior Folk Dance evening Mass R 5,6,4

9 Sept 10 Sept 12 Sept 13 Sept

Week 8 Interschool x country Board of Trustee meeting Mass R 9, 10, 7 Gala 12 noon

17 Sept 18 Sept 20 Sept 21 Sept

Week 9 TACs x country Mass R 1,2,3 End of Term 3

25 Sept 27 Sept 27 Sept

ACHIEVERS OF THE WEEK

R 1 R 2 R 3

Blake Charman, Ella Fostkett, Hayley Cameron Holly Barclay

R 4 R. 5 R. 6

Yvette Pudney, Anna Haronga Tom Cavaney; Megan Godwin Matthew Walters; Marina Robertson.

R. 9, R. 10 & R. 7

Jeremy Gaffaney; Bridie Price, Heath Lawrence, Isabella Bradley Megan Thomas; Thomas Flashoff, Annmaria Joy, Gurkiran Johal Joshua Sunny: Georgia Epplett, Carter Jones, Lucy Summerfield

R 12 R 14 R 15

Rueben Sunny Kaitlin Black Olivia Hudson,

Well done children.

SACRED HEART COLLEGE INTERVIEWS—YR 9, 2013 Parents can enroll Year 8 girls for Sacred Heart College next year at this school on this Thursday 29 August. Please phone St Mary’s office for an appointment. Appointments take 15 minutes and run from 2:30pm onward. If this date is not con-venient, Thursday 5 September could also be arranged.

MYSTERY ENVELOPES—SCHOOL GALA - Sat 21 Sept.

Do you have any unused gifts or toys?

Are you in a position to donate a prize or two?

Do you have a business that can donate some vouchers

or goods? We aim for 1,000 prizes. If you can help in any way or leave a prize at the office it would be appreciated. Thank you.

Maree Tucker Ph. 876-3895 or 021 2088010

MESSAGE FROM OUR DENTAL THERAPISTS Please could all dental forms be returned to St Mary’s school office or the dental clinic as no treat-ment can begin without signed consent. Our policy is we only send two forms homes and then if we do not received one back your child will be put forward 12 months resulting in incomplete treatment for that year. Children who require more than one visit will receive an appointment in the post, as we require parents and caregivers to attend these treatments. Thank you. Dental Therapists.

St Mary’s at Orchestral ‘Play In’

Good luck to our Recorder Music Group, led by Mrs Emma Grego-ry, who will be playing at the Hawkes Bay Primary and Intermedi-ate Orchestral ‘Play In’ on 29 September, 1pm at the Havelock North Intermediate School Hall. We are very proud of you!

NEW SPORTS UNIFORM HERE

Finally our new model sports

uniform supplies have arrived at the school office.

The shirts are $49 and shorts $44.

Sports Uniforms are required for Year 3 and above.

NEWS FROM ROOM 4,5,6 Thank you very much to the parents and grandparents who helped transport and supervise the year 4, 5 & 6 children to the Hawke's Bay Aero Club on Friday 23 August. This was a very worthwhile visit for the children who are learning about flight. We may even have some budding pilots in the making! Tracey Smith, Renee Jackson and Robyn Windley

Urgent Notice for Year 4, 5 and 6 Camp Omatua

CHANGE OF CAMP DATES

This notice is to inform parents and caregivers of a change

to camp dates for ROOM 4 and ROOM 6 ONLY.

The camp dates for room 5 remain the same.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Revised Camp Dates (Term 4):

Room 4 (Year 5/6): Wednesday 13 November – Friday 15

November.

Room 5 (Year 5/6): Monday 18 November – Wednesday 20

November.

Room 6 (Year 4): Wednesday 20 November – Friday 22

November.

Each class will attend the camp for 2 nights/3 days.

Tracey Smith, Renee Jackson and Robyn Windley

Planning for 2014 We are beginning to look ahead and plan for the 2014 school year! If you a have a New Entrant who will be starting school

and they are yet to be enrolled, please contact the School Office. If you are aware of other families who may be consid-ering enrolling their children at St Mary’s, please encourage them to contact the School Office, or pass the attached form onto them. Thank you. Term Three Sports Teams This term we have had the following sports Teams represent-ing St Mary’s in weekly sporting competitions; 6 x Netball 1 x Barefoot 10’s 10 x Miniball

CHILD RESTRAINT LAWS ARE CHANGING. From 1 November child safety restraint laws state that you must correctly secure your child in an approved child restraint if one is available in the vehicle ( and if not in any child re-straint or safety belt that is available). Until 31 October 2013— this applies from their 5th birthday until their 8th birthday. From 1 November—this new rule applies from their 7th birth-day until their 8th birthday. These changes will help reduce preventable deaths and seri-ous injuries to children travelling in vehicles.’ Your child restraint must be fitted correctly. For expert advice contact a child restraint technician via www.nzta.govt.nz/childrestraints.

INTERMEDIATE DEPARTMENT The following students received certificates for work entered in the Mathletics competition held recently: Kody Ward – Bronze for his Statistical Investigation. Luca Vignolini, Silver & Ella Foskett – Bronze Certificates in the Mathe-matical Hand Drawn Design section. Students have completed their Science Investi-gations and these are on display in the class-rooms. You are welcome to come in and see the work. 3 students, (Ella Foskett, Hayley Cameron and Holly Barclay) Science Investigations were en-tered into the Hawke’s Bay Science & Technolo-gy Fair. Ella’s investigation was chosen by the judges and we look forward to hearing how she did at the Awards evening this Thursday. Last Friday students from the Catholic Discipleship College visited and worked with students. They shared a parable from scripture with the students who then enacted what the message. Very dedicated people who interacted well with the students. Gabe Hawke, Intermediate Department Team Leader

CELEBRATING OUR CULTURES

Punjab region, India Hello—Sat shir akall

Tarshdeep Johal—

Seasons is a peer support grief and loss programme for

children and young people who are missing someone im-portant from their daily life.

This could be through death or major illness, separation or divorce, imprisonment of a family member or other major family change.

Seasons groups are available for children aged between 5 and 18. Seasons groups are held each term in both Hastings and Taradale.

We are now taking enrolments for Term 4, 2013. For more information contact the programme coordinators

Jo and Sandie on 873 4962.

NETBALL The season is now all but over with only 2 of our intermediate teams still having a game to play this coming Wednesday 28 August. Two of our interme-diate teams made semi-finals; one going onto the

finals and the other playing off for 3rd and 4th this coming Wednesday. Progress has been made across the teams, with Kauri managing to reduce the deficit against Puketapu School by 27 goals which was most pleasing. Congratulations to all players, coaches and supporters who helped our students to be part of an enjoyable and successful season. Special thanks must go to the coaches, without whose help we would not have been able to enter 6 teams into this years competition. They are Donna Cameron, Marie Brady, Cat Kynoch, Michelle Edwards, Katy Kerins and Leeanne Nelson. St Mary's is very lucky to have a community that encourage and support each other and our students so willingly. Students in Year 4, 5 & 6 who have played netball this year are being given

a survey form to complete, which will help the Junior Netball Council decide what approach they will be taking with netball in 2014. This may include a decision about whether or not people would like the netball to be played mid-week or on a Satur-day. Please complete the survey and return to the office as soon as possible. Denise Haronga, Teacher in Charge Netball. THANK YOU FROM THE JUNIOR DEPARTMENT Please pass on our thanks to all the Grandparents who were able to come and share last Friday morning with the Junior chil-dren. The children enjoyed sharing their activities with them. Thank you for providing morning tea for the grandparents. Stephanie Shaw, Team Leader

FOR SALE 4 Bichon cross Maltese puppies , 2 male, 2 female, white, nearly 8 weeks old. Vet checked vaccinated etc. Lovely natures. Please phone Leeann or text 0274 205651

ST. MARYS CROSS COUNTRY Cross Country is coming up on Tuesday 3 Sep-tember (postponement Thursday 5 September). We will have an early lunch on this day and be underway by 1pm. Parents, Grandparents, family and friends are most welcome to come and watch the children participate in this school event. We look forward to seeing you there!

Race order, proposed times & distances Yr 3 1pm 1000m 2 laps Yr 1 1.10pm 500m 1 lap Yr 5 1.20pm 2000m 4 laps Yr 2 1.35pm 2000m 1 lap Yr 6 1.45pm 2000m 4 laps Yr 4 2.00pm 1500m 3 laps Yr 7/8 2.10pm 2500m 5 laps

Certificate Presentation 2.30pm (start) The Hawkes Bay Tenpin Bowling Foundation would like to thank St Mary’s children for their involvement in their promotional day at Superstrike on Sunday 4 August. Our school was one of the top schools for entries. There were 29 schools overall and 96 bowlers.

BNT V8 SuperTourers and real estate company LJ Hook-er have combined to deliver families in the Taupo district and surrounding areas the opportunity to redeem a FREE Family Pass to the Saturday of the event. They can meet V8 legend Greg Murphy plus Supercar sensations Shane Van Gisbergen and Scott Mclauglin plus kiwi champions Angus Fogg, John McIntyre, Daniel Gaunt, Andy Booth, Craig Baird and 12 other champion drivers while checking out the country's fastest V8 touring cars in action. All primary, intermediate and high school children and their parents qualify for a LJ Hooker FREE four person family pass. All school staff also qualify. The Saturday programme at the Taupo Motorsport Park, will include two 45 minute test sessions for the V8 Super-Tourers, qualifying and a busy schedule of support catego-ry races. Organisers are aiming to get up to 10,000 young-sters and their parents involved in the day. Any school in the Central North Island region can register and there is no limit to the amount of youngsters or parents that can come along – all simply have to register on the V8ST web site. A special driver signing session and pit lane tour will be organised for the Saturday so that the youngsters can see how the engineers work and how the cars are prepared for racing, as well as meeting the star drivers. Entry to the track for Saturday August 31st for all school children and their parents will be 100% free thanks to LJ Hooker, and there will be plenty of opportunity to see the country’s fastest V8 touring cars in action and meet stars of the show like Greg Murphy, Shane van Gisbergen and 2012 series champ Scott McLaughlin.

Thank you A huge thank you to everyone for the prayers, meals, love and support at this time. We appreciate it greatly.

Rebecca, Charlotte and Lance Lyall. August Board Of Trustees Report Mrs Hawke presented a Special needs report to t he Board. Mrs Shaw presented National Standards Data for children that had been at school for years 1, 2,and 3. School Entry data, for term 2, was presented by Mrs Shaw. The year 4, 5 and 6 camp at Omatua Proposal was presented to the Board. This was approved by the Board. An E-Learning report was given to the board to read. Fonterra Milk for schools programme was discussed. The school will be part of the programme.

Stephanie Shaw, BOT Staff Trustee Aerodrome Visit – Yrs 4,5 and 6 On Friday, as part of our study on flight, we visited the Hawkes Bay Aerodrome at Bridge Pa. The volunteers showed us around and we were fortunate to sit in the jet (that costs $3000 an hour to hire!!) and the smaller planes and handle the controls. We also saw the aerial mapping plane and the workshop where they work on the planes and

helicopters. Renee Jackson, Class Teacher