18th October

School Newsletter To live Justly, Love Tenderly, and to walk humbly with God

Upcoming Events

19th October Kapa haka Festival at Waicol 20th October Pet Day 1st -3rd November Wairua Camp 8th November South Wairarapa Athletics at South End School

Dear Parents and Caregivers

Thank you so much to the St Mary’s community for your warm welcome. Monday morning was a lovely ceremony and it is great to be meeting lots of you around the place. I’d like to thank Eleanor and the staff for holding the fort in term three and all of you for your patience in the gap between Tim leaving and me arriving. I’m a strong believer in the power of team work so I’m looking forward to working with students, staff and parents to help these children be the best they can possibly be. The school vision talks about Inspired, Resilient, Inquiring, Global learners who are led by the Spirit so these statements will guide the decisions we make about what we do at school and how we do things. It’s a challenge for schools to get the right balance of teaching and learning that helps students achieve the national standards and the school curriculum and then the extra fun things that inspire passion and motivation in the learners so we will always strive to get the best possible combination of these for the children.

9th November Mass celebrating holy Communion 5.30 at school 22nd November Cluster Athletics Sports Bowl

13th December School Prizegiving Carterton Events Centre 6pm 15th December school finishes 1pm

Aroha Respect Integrity Excellence I am committed to keeping costs down as much as possible so will always consider the financial implications for families when making decisions. When things go wrong for kids (as they will!) I expect them to use their WITS and this is something we will work on at school - walk away, ignore, talk to the person, seek help. This helps them deal with small problems themselves and is very empowering.

The lessons in Life Education next week will reinforce this with Kirsty and Harold talking to the students about reacting and responding. Enjoy the long weekend and I hope to meet lots of you at Pet Day.

Karen

Some inspiration:



Principal Awards

Tristan Laing for a great effort with his writing.

Izaiah Codde for wonderful leadership in Kapa Haka

No school lunches this week.

Mass

Middle Syndicate

Production-“Pirates of the curry bean”

DVD’s for sale in the office for $10-thanks Mario.

Aroha Respect Integrity Excellence

Pet Day

Pet day is upon us this Friday and here are a few details that you will all need to know.

Please bring pets to school between 10:30 and 10:50. There will be designated areas for animals with signs, so you know where to go. Lambs and calves are on the field, dogs on the courts and cats, chickens and other will be outside the classrooms in the quad. Please ensure your animals are safely secured at all times and water is available for them. Children will need to stay with their animals while being judged as they will be asked questions.

Judging starts at 11:00, so please be here and organised before then.

Children will be class until 10:30 completing their crafts and will then be released for morning tea. You may view their creations after judging has finished, so please observe the signs that are placed on the doors while judging occurs.

Children need to bring all their arts and crafts to school in the morning and may also bring their decorated cakes, iced biscuits and teddy bears at this time too. There will be signs for cakes, biscuits and teddy's. Children may wear mufti on Friday.

Friends

Friends will be selling food at school on Friday for “Pet Day”.

Sausages $2.00

Baking $1.00

Chippies .50C

Drinks- Cans of Fizz $1.50 & Cup of juice .50C

Next Meeting Tuesday 14th November at 7.15pm.

Kapa Haka

Kapa haka is tomorrow and is held at Wairarapa College in their school hall. The juniors will be performing at 12:30 and the seniors will be on at 1:15. Please ensure your child has a good packed lunch and drink bottle, as we may not have access to water fountains. Please send children to school in their uniform, as we will change into our kapa haka uniforms at the venue. Boys need to bring black shorts - skins, togs or sport shorts - to school to wear under their kapa haka uniform.

Doors will be closed for all performances, so please arrive at least 10 minutes before we perform to ensure you gain admittance into the hall.

We will be leaving Wairarapa College at 2:30, so will be back in time for school buses and normal pick-up times from school.

We look forward to seeing you at our performance.

Map and programme attcahed.

Life Education bus

Kirsty and Harold will be visiting us next week and each class has two or three lessons.

School photos

School photos will be on Tuesday 31st October with PP date Tuesday 7th November.

Photo envelopes will come home today.

Aroha Respect Integrity Excellence

Lonestar Girls Cricket-Thursday Nights

It is very exciting that we have been able to enter a second girls team in this competition by combining with Carterton School. I am looking for an adult who can help manage/supervise Milo shield team(they are very self sufficient), I will look after the combined/beginners team. Games should start next week. Mr B

Twilight Hockey

So far we have plenty of interest, these are the names I have got so far. Parents who can help are in bold. There is still time to be included I will enter teams at the end of the week. Brent (Mr B)

Year 1-4 (not in teams yet)

Year 5&6

Year 6,7 & *8

Archie

Lucas & Josh -TIM

Tessa

Matt

Myla

JackC

Maggie

Luka

Tyla

Dimitri- ROB

Jessie

Isla

Marcus

Angus

Maiah

Rhys-MARTIN

Macy

Zach

Ella W H

Jack-KERRY (if available)

Aidan

Jack McG

Josh

Rebekah

Felix

EThan

Campbell-NIC

Lucy

Byron & Thomas

Lachhie- NIC

Emmett

Nieve-DUNCAN Jacob E

BINGO NIGHT

Unfortunately we have cancelled this event this year due to a variety of reasons. I hope to run this first term next year. Prizes that have

been donated so far will be up for silent auction in the office, starting from next week’s newsletter for 2 weeks. The items will be listed in next week’s newsletter and all funds will be put towards the 2018 Rarotonga trip. Mr B

Children and Young people’s Mass In Carterton! Come and join young people in this mass! We will dance, we will sing, we will welcome you in! Date: Saturday 21 October, at 5.30pm Where: St Mary’s, Carterton