PJ's for Swimming tomorrow

All children have been asked to bring their pj's or t-shirt and shorts as well as their togs tomorrow.
No onesies please!!

Last day of swimming.

Holy Water

We enjoyed having Father Pat visit on Friday. He blessed us with oil and brought us some Holy Water. 

We decorated our Holy Water containers. Aren't they pretty. Put them beside your bed or on your Prayer Table to use at prayer time.🙏🏻

Term 2 Week 5

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Whole School Mass this morning and well done MacKenzie for reading a Prayer of the Faithful.

A very big thank you to those parents who helped out at the Working Bee on Saturday, it was a very productive afternoon and the grounds look great.

This week we have:

Monday 9am - School Prayer at Church, all welcome
Tuesday- swimming, no lunch orders or pie warmers please.
Wednesday - my release afternoon, Science with Mr Hogue
Thursday - LAST day of swimming

This weeks news topic is - A newspaper cutting I like and why

Well done to those children who are doing their Spelling homework each night, tooling and writing out their words.
We have been talking a lot about taking responsibility for our own belongings, so as a class we have all agreed that those children who bring IN their book bag AND put their reading log in the box every morning this week will have some Golden Time on Friday!!!

Have a great week.
Regards
Neroli

Prayer Bags

We have 2 Prayer Bags which will go home with 2 children each Friday for the week. Please support your child in setting up a prayer table at home and praying together. 

Please check all items are back in the bag before returning the following Friday. Thank you

Sacrament Strand

We are learning about the symbols of Baptism- water, oil, a candle and a white gown. Thank you Milla for bringing along your baby's bath for the day. If anybody else has a bath that they are not using, we would love to borrow it for a few weeks, thank you.

Thank you Olivia for sharing your Baptism photos and candle with us.

Water Safety

If there's an earthquake when you are in the pool, huddle together.

If somebody if in trouble, do NOT jump in the water, throw them something to float with, a noodle, life jacket, bucket, empty chilly bin!!

Term 2, Week 4

My apologies for not getting this weeks blog out on Sunday night. We moved house in the weekend and it completely slipped my mind!!!!

Wednesday 24th- School/Parish Mass at 9am, everybody welcome
                             Discovery Time- please send along any boxes, plastic containers, wool, bits and                                    bobs etc

Thursday 25th - Swimming 1.15pm

Friday 26th- Pink Shirt Day. Children have been asked to dress all in pink and there will be a Best Dressed award. We are all going to have lunch under the big tree that we will decorate and children are welcome to bring pink food!! There is a 'Guess the number of Marshmallows ' competition running also.

Saturday 27th am -School Working Bee. Not sure of time yet, 1-2pm

Sunday 28th -Full School Mass. All children are expected to attend Mass at 9am in full school uniform. Children sit with their class.

Last week of swimming next week. The children are really enjoying this and making great progress.
Regards
Neroli Laidlaw

PS will upload some photos.

Term 2 - Week 3

                                      
                            Hope you all had a lovely day!
Monday  - Monday morning prayer at church, lead by Room 1
Tuesday - Swimming 12.15pm (Please no lunch orders or pie warmers today)
Wednesday - Discovery Time
Thursday - Swimming 1.15pm
Friday - Spelling test for those on spelling lists. Please support your child writing out their 5 words each night.

Well done to those who are signing the Reading Log Book each night. Some children have now reached 50 reading nights!!!

Discovery Time -Autumn

Term 2, Week 2

The term got off to a great start last week and was busy with some new activities.

Monday -Tomorrow morning we start with Prayers in the Church, everybody welcome.

We also have Kapahaka with Mary-Anne, then I will be away for the afternoon.

Tuesday - Swimming at 12.15. We will take our lunch with us, so no lunch orders or pie warmers please. We had a few mix ups with clothing last week so please check that everything is named. 

Wednesday - We had our first discovery time last Wednesday which went well, except for the downpour of rain at 2 o'clock when we were outside creating our nature sculptures!! We would appreciate any help at all on these afternoons, thank you.

Parish/School Mass 9.00am led by Room 4.

Thursday - Swimming at 1.15pm

Friday - Full school assembly lead by room 6.

Last Friday some children started Spelling. These sheets are in their Homework book and need to be completed each night with a test on Friday morning. 
The children have been taught how to use their tool hand to hear and stretch out the sounds. We have also identified the tricky part of the word that they need to be aware of. 
Please support them with writing these words out each night. It should only take 5 minutes.

Well done to those of you who are hearing your child read each night and are signing the log book. Many of the children are all working towards 50 reading nights and are enjoying the challenge.

I have decided to postpone Public Library visits until Term 3 as we are out of the classroom with swimming and ice-skating this term.   

Have a great week.

Regards

Neroli