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Newsletter and Cross Country Results

Thu May 19 04:32pm

 



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Reminder: Cross Country Wednesday 18th May

Mon May 16 04:13pm

Reminder: Cross Country Wednesday 18th May
The first race will be starting at 12.00 pm approx (she’s normally all over by 1pm). The event will be on sun, rain, hail or snow – this is what cross country running is all about. It will only postponed if the grounds are closed due to conditions.
Please have children come to school dressed in their P.E. gear, sports shoes and polar fleece. A spare change of clothes for back at school would also be a good idea if it is wet. Children will need to bring a drink bottle. If your child requires an inhaler or any other medication, please make sure they have this with them.
All children in the senior girl’s and senior boy’s races (y5 and 6) will be competing for Cross Country trophies, donated by the Pearce Family. Only 10 and 11 year olds are eligible to represent our school at the Eastern and Southland Cross Country Event.
Running Order (age as of the 31st of December 2022 – opposite end of the year to Athletics)
Pukeko and Kereru – girls then boys
Tui and Kea – girls then boys
Ruru, PW, Moa (y4) – girls then boys
Moa, Takahe and Kiwi – girls then boys
Trudy will be there with her coffee cart from 11.45am.
Parent helpers – I’ll send your maps home tomorrow, if you could meet with Jayne Davis on the day, she’ll make sure you’re heading in the right direction

Matariki Celebrations

Fri May 13 01:34pm

 



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Newsletter T2 W2 2022

Thu May 12 04:38pm

 



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Updated lunch menu – please note, as of next week, water will be the only drink available to purchase. Cheers 🙂

Thu May 12 10:21am

 



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Reminder: Permission – Year 5 – Tree Planting – 12th May

Wed May 11 03:52pm

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Lunch Orders – start tomorrow. Available on Thur and Fridays. Pop your money in an envelop with your order and drop to Di in the morning.

Wed May 11 11:39am

 



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We are having trouble with our phone lines today. They should be fixed by the end of today. You can email di: admin@stmarys.school.nz 🙂

Mon May 09 01:42pm

Year 5 and 6 Rippa Tournament …

Fri May 06 12:13pm

Hi Guys, 


Wow – we had so many kids keen for this opportunity, it was crazy! Sadly I’m only allowed to send one team, and a team of 24 kids is a tad large. For this reason, I’ve pulled the 5’s as they will get a chance to go next year. Mrs Broome pulled the other names out of the hat (5 girls and 5 boys). If one of them goes down with the Vid, I will draw another player from the hat. 


The names drawn were: Kate Hoar, Gus Turnbull, Moss Wilson, Mason Chittock, Drake Newton, Zavier Hansen, Olivia Sanson, Kate Wilson, Mia Brock and Lucie Drummond. 


I have sent parents an email – please read and fill out the form in the link (for registration) – it’s not in my email it’s part of Hua’s original email.


Cheers,
Mal 🙂

Newsletter W1 Term 2

Thu May 05 04:41pm

 



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Reminder – Mother’s Day Liturgy and Afternoon Tea

Thu May 05 04:39pm

 



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Cross Country 2022

Wed May 04 04:23pm

 



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If you have anything you’d like to put in the newsletter, please get it to mallory.hood@stmarys.school.nz by 3pm each Thursday. Cheers 🙂

Wed May 04 03:42pm

Mother’s Day Liturgy and Afternoon Tea

Tue May 03 03:18pm

 



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Term 2 – orange traffic light setting

Fri Apr 29 04:12pm

Dear whānau,
We hope that you managed to fit some relaxing family time into the Easter holidays. We are looking forward to having our children back for term 2, which will be filled again with lots of great learning experiences including Cross Country, swimming and Matariki.
You’ll be aware that, as a country, we are now in the Orange traffic light setting, however, COVID-19 is still widespread in our community, the Ministry of Education and our Southern DHB still strongly encourage that masks continue to be worn by ākonga (students) and staff in Years 4 and above when indoors. As caregivers, aside from those with exemptions, we would also ask that you wear masks when you are indoors onsite e.g. classrooms, the office and the church and that you continue to keep your wee people home when they are unwell.
We will regularly reassess this, taking into account community case numbers and public health advice. We are hoping it will be a more settled term where we can enjoy sharing assemblies, whole school Masses, and the other cool things we get up to with you – in person!



God bless,
Mallory 

Reminder for tomorrow … don’t forget your gold coin donation for a good cause!

Tue Apr 12 06:11pm

 

This Wednesday …

Mon Apr 11 09:27am

 

Home & School Newsletter

Fri Apr 08 04:20pm

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Home and School Newsletter

Change of time for Board meeting this Thursday (7th April) it is now at 6pm.

Tue Apr 05 03:12pm

Don’t forget that this Thursday is St Patrick’s day! Come dressed in green and bring a gold coin donation for Caritas. Thank you ?

Tue Mar 15 05:24pm

 

St Patrick’s Day is next Thursday 17th March. Dress up in green and please bring a gold coin donation for Caritas. ?

Wed Mar 09 07:36pm

 

Sunday School Mass – Zoom Invite. Please click for more information.

Fri Mar 04 08:34pm

Sunday School Mass – Zoom Invite
This weekend, the Sunday Mass was due to be a school Mass. Since we can’t be there together as a school and parish we have pre-recorded our lovely year 6 students doing the readings and some beautiful singing from some of our classes. This is a way that we can as a school still celebrate with the parish without being there in person. 
Here is the zoom link for the 10am Sunday Mass.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85175975551?pwd=SEsxc092TlFTcDBnZTJxTjNKSG9WUT09
Meeting ID: 851 7597 5551 Passcode: 454427

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Seesaw

Seesaw is a platform for student engagement that inspires students of all ages to do their best, and saves teachers time! Students use creative tools to take pictures, draw, record videos and more to capture learning in a portfolio. Teachers find or create activities to share with students.The Seesaw platform is used for homework activities as well as in class work.

Parents are also notified by the class teacher about classroom and school activities and events via the Seesaw platform. Parents can also Seesaw their child’s teacher.

 

Families only have access to their child’s journal. This means you will see student work tagged with your child’s name and posts the teacher tags with ‘Everyone’. Families will also be able to see any comment made by another user on their child’s journal posts.

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