Notices from the Parish

FROM FATHER EAMON; Training for new Altar Servers will begin on Wednesday
2nd September 3.30 pm at St Mary’s and a parent is also required to be present.
Children are very welcome to serve at both churches. As mentioned last week the
Sacramental Programme is beginning this year in November. It is for children who
are 8 by the 1st November 2015. Many children these days are supported in their
faith by their grandparents, if this is the circumstances in your family please don’t
be afraid to bring them along, with parent permission.
ENROLMENT FOR THE SACRAMENTAL PROGRAMME
At St Mary’s Catholic Church, 7.00 pm the 14th October and or 21st October there
will be an information session. Dates will be given and for those who are not
baptised in Rotorua, please bring a baptismal certificate. The children are required
to be 8 by the 1st November 2015. Children who are not baptised and would like to
become Catholic are also very welcome to be a part of this Sacramental
Programme.

Week 7 notices

MONDAY 31st AUGUST

• Pass It
• 10.30am Church choir in room 15. Years 2 and up.

TUESDAY 1st SEPTEMBER.

• Pass It
• 12.30pm Gym Club in the hall.

WEDNESDAY 2nd SEPTEMBER.

• Kapa Haka group performing at Citizens’ Ceromony. Children attending the Citizenship Ceremony need to meet Mrs Dunkley at 12.30pm with their lunch in Room 4. We will eat and then leave by bus from the Church carpark - we will return to school by 2.20pm
• 8.45am School Singing
• 5.00pm Camp Mtg for parents of Year 5 and 6 students.

THURSDAY 3RD  SEPTEMBER.

• Warmer Day
• Library
• 12.30pm Garden Club.
• 12.30pm Gym Club in the hall

FRIDAY 4TH  SEPTEMBER

• 9.00am  Mother of Mary Birthday Mass
• 12.30pm Pasifika Practice in Room 15 at Friday lunchtime. All welcome.

Whoopsie

Whoopsie we put the oven on a level two high so this is what one of the cookies looks like. Hopefully this doesn't happen again because it smelt really bad!!!

Top Sportz Episode 3

Pass It

Tuesday 25th August 2015

Today we went to Pass It. A lady named Esther was our tutor. We learnt the different types of passes that you do in rugby league. We all improved our skills with handling and passing a ball. It was really fun.

A request from Mrs Todd

Next term I am going to be making these - with some help - with a group of senior students.  In order to do so we will need about 40 toe toe, and A LOT of raupo (bullrushes).  If you have access to one or both,  I would be very pleased to take it off your hands.

Week 6 Term 3

MONDAY 24TH AUGUST 

• School Photos.
• Pass It Seniors (Bring your PE gear)
• 10.30am Church choir in room 15. 

 TUESDAY 25TH AUGUST 

• Pass It Seniors (Bring your PE gear)

WEDNESDAY 26TH AUGUST 

• 8.45am School Singing 

THURSDAY 27TH AUGUST 

• 12.30pm Garden Club. 
• 12.30pm Gym Club in the hall.
• Warmer day.
• Library

FRIDAY 28TH AUGUST

• 12.30pm Pasifika Practice in Room 15 at Friday lunchtime. All welcome. 
• Sausage Sizzle
• 2.10pm School Assembly. Room 6

Top Sportz Episode 2

Can you help us?

Do you have a spare green sheet, piece of material or curtain? At the moment our class green screen is a little sad. We would like a green screen to help us create some great audio visual presentations. Thanks in advance for any offers of help. 

Stacey Gregg

Today we were so lucky that Stacey Gregg came to our school. She showed us her books and the one that she is holding is her newest book called the girl who rode the wind. All her books are about horses and are based on a true stories. She travels around the world for more information about horses. She is really cool.

Kahukura's final

On saturday Meleki and Brooke's team were in the final.They played Whaka and won for the central rugby competion. Out of 6 teams. They have beaten kahukura before and tied with them as well. They won 31-15.

What's on Week 5?

Monday

• Teacher only Day

Tuesday

• Lunchtime  Gym in the Hall

Wednesday

• Author visiting

Thursday

• Library
• Lunchtime  Gym in the Hall
• 12.30pm This term the Garden Club is open to all senior students on Thursdaylunchtimes (unless raining) in the vege garden near the caretaker’s shed.
• PE
• Warmer Day (Bring something yummy to warm up for lunch).

Friday

• Doodle 4 Google entries due (Students can have time in class to submit their online entry if needed).
• GoldenTime
• R1 will be running assemble starting at 2pm. 

Young Gardeners

These four girls have been helping with the gardens since the start of the year so they got a young gardener book for all their hard work. Today they finally got their badges. 

Yummy Food!

Warmer day was a big hit in our class! 

Here are some of the comments from our class mates,

Awesome!

Delicious!

Perfect!

Top Sportz Weekly SPorts reports

Here is our first episode of Top SportZ written and recorded by Room 1 students and produced by Meleki.

Warmer Day!

On Thursday every week, we will have a warmer day. Everyone can bring in something to put in the warmer like pies, cookies, pizza, Etc. We will eat them at lunch. Try not to bring something too big and only one thing so that there will be enough room on the tray for everyone else's. Please bring your food in tinfoil.

Tough guys and gals

Last Friday some members of our class joined in the Tough Guy and Gal challenge. It looks like great fun. #tough #brave #cold #fun

Find us App

Did you know?
Parents can also access information about our school through the ‘find us’ App,
which parents can download onto their phones. Parents can also notify a child’s
absence through this app. More information will be in the school newsletter.
Once you have the App you can scan this QR code to access the St Mary's information.

Week 4 Term 3

This week is NZ Maths Week. We will be having a focus on learning our X tables and accessing the Maths Week resources to make Maths fun and a real focus for this week.

MONDAY 10TH AUGUST.

• 10.30am Church choir in room 15. Years 2 and up. We have some wonderful new songs to start learning.

TUESDAY 11TH AUGUST.

• Sport BOP Rugby Tournament. Year 6 Boys
• 9.00am ICAS Maths
• 12.30pm Gym club in Hall

WEDNESDAY 12TH AUGUST.

• 5.00-5.30pm Parents of Year 6 children mtg: Pre-puberty.

THURSDAY 13TH AUGUST.

• 12.30pm This term the Garden Club is open to all senior students on Thursday lunchtimes (unless raining) in the vege garden near the caretaker’s shed.
• 12.30pm Gym Club in the hall
• 5.30pm PTA Disco
• We have PE on Thursday afternoon.
• Kapahaka practice starts at 2pm.
• Library

FRIDAY 14TH AUGUST.

• 10.00am Assumption Liturgy. (Room 6 and 14)
• 12.30pm Pasifika Practice in Room 15 at Friday lunchtime. All welcome. 
• 3.30pm Homework Club

Here are the results of our survey to see what vegetables we want to grow in our garden. I will pass on the results to Mr Macmillan who will organize the plants.

Winter sports

Here is Rebekah playing netball in a rainy Saturday morning. Remember if you are in R1 and you played or watched this weekend you can write a report on our shared doc. 

Mary Mackillop day.

Mrs Dunkley has put together this sideshow of the fun we had on Friday.

Mary Mackillop

Today is Mary Mackillop day. Here is a comic room one would like to share with you.

Chinese lessons today

Today Jack helped us learn about Beijing and some more Chinese. We are getting quite good. 

Our Matter investigation

We used Comic Life on our Ipad to investigate Matter.

What's the matter

Here is a matter investigation from Poppy, Gabriel and Taylor.

Notice how this group have used:

Contrast

Alignment

Repitition

Proximity

Donovan Bixley: Author/Illustrator

Quotes from Donovan Bixley:

An author/illustrator visiting R1 today.

"Writing is really important"
"A picture can tell a story."

"Everyone starts off scribbling, even Leonardo Da Vinci started off scribbling."

"If you want to get good at anything you've got to practice."

"Catch onto your dreams."

"Thinking up the ideas is my favourite part."

Visual Note taking

We have been having a go at using visual note taking  as a way or organising our thoughts. Here's Isabella's visual notes about the water cycle. 

Visiting Author

Tomorrow we will have a visit from Donovan Bixley, an author. Here is a link to his website and here is a preview of one of his books.

Solids, liquids and gases

Today we went outside to find pictures of Solids, Liquids and Gases. We now know what the properties of these matters are.

Next week

This week was busy, next week is busier.
Some students do not have blue pens - Please make sure you have a blue pen ready for learning.
If you have a ChromeBook please have it charged and bring it to school every day.

Monday
JPC interviews - 9:20am Isabella, 9:30am Tom, 9:50am Mary, 10:00am Rebekah, 10:30am Mya, 11:10am Taylor, 11:40am Kesiya, 12:30pm Callum, 12:40pm Kyla, 1:30pm Brooke M,
Home readers will be issued.

Tuesday
9:00am Aimee, 11:20 Meleki, 1:30pm Cailyn, 3:00pm Amelia
11.00am Author Visit. Donovan Bixley.

Wednesday

Thursday
Library
PE in the afternoon

Friday
Home readers returned.
St Mary of the Cross Mackillop - School Feast Day

This letter went home on Friday.