whats’ happening this week school diary...school newsletter 4th june term 2 2020 ph: 348-7790...
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School Newsletter
4th June
Term 2
2020
ph: 348-7790 www.olv.school.nz [email protected]
Whats’ Happening this Week
Greetings
I hope that you all enjoyed the long weekend. It was great to be able to get back into the church to celebrate Mass. Hopefully next week there will be further loosening of restrictions. Please return your PFA Easter Raffle Tickets and money by tomorrow Friday June 5. Even if you haven’t sold any the tickets need to be returned for audit purposes. We wish to ensure that our car park is safe so it is important to follow two of the key rules: Please back into carparks and exit onto Main
South Road.
The Craven Street Driveway is for entrance to the school only.
If it is wet at the end of day for pick up from school please enter as normal for Rooms 10, 11 and 12. Collect Room 9 children from the field area near the sandpit. Room 1 will be in their classroom. Room 4 and 6 on the Room 9 veranda. Rooms 7 and 8 will be in the Creative Space. The children will come to the Room 1 gate when they see you arrive. The School Term Dates have not changed. This term finishes as planned on July 3. Term 3 ends on September 25 and the school year ends on December 10.
Best wishes
Denis
School Diary
6 June 8 June Easter Raffle draw Class Masses 9.00 a.m. Tuesday, 9 June Rooms 1 and 6 Wednesday,10 June Rooms 7 & 12 Thursday, 11 June Rooms 4 & 9 Friday, 12 June Rooms 8, 10 & 11
Car parking today
after school
Please note that there is a funeral today (Thursday) at 2 p.m.
This will mean that car parking will be at a premium and you may have to park out on the street
when you collect your children.
Thank you.
Happy birthday SANDRA!
School Newsletter
4th June
Term 2
2020
ph: 348-7790 www.olv.school.nz [email protected]
Welcome to our new learners who have joined Our Lady of Victories recently:
Zaine, Mia, Joanna, Jordan & Joshua
We hope you all enjoy your time here!
School Newsletter
4th June
Term 2
2020
ph: 348-7790 www.olv.school.nz [email protected]
Prayer Packs
This week’s Prayer packs go to:
Reign, Neviah, Erica, Serena, Amiya, Chris ,
Tia, Juliette and Mikaela
Please bring the Prayer Packs back on Friday morning.
School Newsletter
4th June
Term 2
2020
ph: 348-7790 www.olv.school.nz [email protected]
Congratulations to all the students
who received certificates at last week’s assembly
Room 10: Izaylia for learning all her letters and sounds of the alphabet! Lyanna for learning all her letters and sounds of the alphabet! Room 11: Dylan for making a fantastic start to school and sharing his knowledge so confidently in class discussions Liam for making a fantastic start to school and demonstrating awesome Maths thinking Room 9: Adriaan, Phillip, Maggie and Sophia For showing an awesome attitude, excellent self-management and perseverance skills over lockdown by completing work on Seesaw to a high standard! Ka Pai! Room 12: Ethan—for your huge effort with home learning and for working hard on STEPS This term! Way to go! Isaac—for growing your retelling skills...you are able to recall key information and Supporting detail, and use specific vocabulary! Wow! Room 1: Sofia—for a great choice of words in your description writing Elza—for wonderful reading and comprehension Judith—for a great choice of words in your description writing
School Newsletter
4th June
Term 2
2020
ph: 348-7790 www.olv.school.nz [email protected]
Room 4: Delaney—for having a great positive mindset towards maths and working hard on her fractions Mikaela—for being a wonderful helping hand in class for all her peers and Creating some beautiful Autumn art Room 6: Zural—for his positive attitude, self management and daily emails while at home during lockdown Eleanor—for her creative ways she presented her work. For going beyond my expectations and examples in her Passion and Travel projects. Well done. Francesca—for her daily check-ins online, her hats, her makeup and her stories. Thank you for your positive approach to online learning. Room 7: Euan—for all of the superb, creative efforts you put into your lockdown home learning. Your willingness to engage in every activity, across all learning areas, was inspirational. Thank you for going ‘above and beyond’ particularly with your baking, origami, writing and mathematics. Ka pai, Euan! MacKenzie—for your outstanding drive, determination and initiative in all areas of school life. You exhibit great motivation when it comes to practicing new concepts always displaying a growth mindset and the confidence to ask questions when you are unsure of something. Your terrific efforts in mathematics have been especially Noted! Well done, MacKenzie! Room 8: Eric—Demonstrating a positive attitude and living our school Mercy & Gospel Values. You have consistently shown kindness, co-operation and respect to everyone you work with this term. You are demonstrating a genuine interest and a positive Growth Mindset in all you do. Well done! Sophie—Showing excellence and living our school Mercy & Gospel Values in everything you do. You consistently show kindness, co-operation and respect to everyone you work with this term. You are demonstrating a genuine interest and a positive Growth Mindset in all you do. Well done!
Congratulations to all the students
who received certificates at last week’s assembly
School Newsletter
4th June
Term 2
2020
ph: 348-7790 www.olv.school.nz [email protected]
Pentecost Letter from Bishop Paul 2/6/2020
My dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ
Today we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit to the apostles gathered in the upper room. Those apostles, who had been with Jesus during his ministry and since his resurrection, were waiting for the arrival of the Holy Spirit. They be-lieved the words of Jesus at his Ascension that he would send the Spirit and now they received what he had promised.
And the power of that Holy Spirit drove them from that room to go out into the world and spread the Gospel of Christ that they had heard and experienced. They were no longer timid or worried for themselves. They were alive with the Spirit of God and able to communicate this message to the people who had gathered from many different nations. This message was for all people.
We have received this same Holy Spirit. We have received this same mission to go out and spread the Good News of Jesus Christ. The life of God dwells in us, giving us the strength and power to be his witnesses in our world.
Unlike those first apostles we are not just starting out on this quest. We are the recipients of the fruit and work of so many before us. The faith has been handed on to us, and we have experienced in our faith communities the graces of gathering together to worship God, to support one another spiritually and indeed practically. We call this our parish and we have been very blessed with the parishes that have been established and the life of faith and witness that have come from them.
On this day in 2020 our Pentecost celebrations also mark the establishment of new parishes for those members of our diocese living in the Christchurch and Selwyn areas. These new faith communities are bringing together parishes which have been beacons of the faith. They have been wonderful communities and now our new parishes bring the best of these places together for the sake of being more effective in our mission and also so we are able to pray and worship God together and support one another in faith.
While the ramifications for the practical elements of parish life are more obvious in these newly constituted parishes this day is significant for all parishes in our diocese. It marks our desire to be more deliberate in our pastoral planning, in forming our parishes to be places where people’s faith is supported and nourished every day of the week, where we are focused on going out from our parishes to witness to Christ by our words and actions. This is a time of reinvigoration and renewal for us all. It will involve changes in the way we function as a parish, what we offer for spiritual support and nourishment, where we target our resources and energies. We have an urgency to bring this Good News to our society where so many are hungry and yearning for peace but looking for it in the wrong places, rather than in the power of the Good News of Jesus Christ and in the faith communities that worship in our Catholic churches.
My prayer is that this day marks the beginning of new life and grace in each of our hearts, in our faith communities and in our diocese. Please pray for the new parishes that come into existence today and for all our parishes that the Holy Spirit will inspire us all the members to work together for the mission to which we are called. I encourage you as part of your baptismal call to examine your own lives and hearts and see what is it that God is asking of you? Are there things that you can do to deepen your faith commitment?
May you be blessed this day, especially as we are able to gather again for Mass after our time of lockdown. We join the psalmist in asking God to ‘send out His Spirit to renew the face of the earth’.
Yours in Christ, Paul Martin SM, Bishop of Christchurch
School Newsletter
4th June
Term 2
2020
ph: 348-7790 www.olv.school.nz [email protected]
Please return all Easter raffle sheets / money to the office
by tomorrow Friday, 5th June. If you would prefer to deposit the money directly into our OLV PFA bank account details:
ASB 12-3148-0240055-00 Please put your child's name & room number as the reference with "internet banking" noted on the raffle sheet. Thank you for your support of our fundraiser—all money
collected is for the upgrade of Room 9 and the Creative space.
Jo McGirr (President - OLV Parents and Friends Association).
School Newsletter
4th June
Term 2
2020
ph: 348-7790 www.olv.school.nz [email protected]
If you wish to purchase a scrunchie please email office [email protected] and pay direct to our school bank account Westpac 030855 0560820 00. Once payment is received I will give scrunchie to class teacher to give to your child.
