Tokelau Language Week

Celebrate: Sunday 23 October – Saturday 29 October.

This year's theme for Te Vaiaho o te Gagana Tokelau – Tokelau Language Week is "Halahala ki vavau, kae ke mau ki pale o Tokelau" which means "To plan for the future is to understand the past."

The theme connects to the overall theme for this year’s Pacific language weeks ‘sustainability’ and the launch of the UNESCO Decade of Indigenous Languages.

Sunday, 24th October

What an Amazing Long Weekend!

Just a quick reminder again to bring your library books, school hat, togs and towel. Your Chromebooks need to be charged and your headphones working please.

Whats On

Week 2: Athletics Day (see below for details) -Tuesday

Wednesday - swimming, Library

Thursday - Rosary,

Friday - Grandparents day and Andrew Chinn

Week 3: All Saints Day Mass

Week 4: Teacher Only Day, Cricket & Kuhui Ako Kapa Haka

Week 5: Cricket

Week 6: Mystery Trip, Cricket, Assembly

Week 7: Advent liturgy

Week 8: Swimming Sports

Week 9: End of Year Mass and Farewells

Our Term 4 Learning

RE: We are learning about what it means to belong to our Church family

Literacy: We are looking at narratives (more accounts of events than Once upon a time)

Maths: We're exploring some statistics and measurement and having a really good review of number knowledge and strategies to cement our learning before testing for end of year

Structured Literacy: we are learning about when to double a constant when adding a suffix. We first had to identify what a suffix was, some examples we came up with were: ed, ing, ly, er, ion, meant, ship, able. The rule that we learnt is that if the base word ends in a constant like nut and we want to add a suffix if the suffix starts with a vowel we need to double the last constant we made lots of nonsense words but had fun.

nutter, nuttest, nutship, nutly, nutted. Do you see when we doubled them and when we didn't?We will continue to play around with this spelling rule this week.

Reminders:

We had lots of uncharged or forgotten Chromebooks last week. Please remind your child to put them on the charger and in their bags. With all the added exercise we need to make sure kids have their water bottles, it's so important for health, well-being and learning to stay hydrated.

Colour Fun Run

Thank you everyone for your support for our Colour Run. It was an awesome event and lots of fun. There are lots of photos on our Facebook page

You are able to go online now and order the prizes. This needs to be done by October 31st. Prizes will be delivered to school. https://schoolfundraising.co.nz/

There are lots of photos on the St. Marys Facebook Page.

St Mary’s Catholic Primary School, Rotorua

Interhouse Athletics

9:00 am – 2:30 pm

Tuesday 25th October 2022

International Stadium, Ground 2, Devon Street West, Rotorua

Event Overview

The Interhouse Athletics is for our middle and senior school students - Years 4, 5 & 6.
The Interhouse Athletic Sports will be held at Field 2 by the stadium in Rotorua.
Years 4 – 6 students need to be taken to / dropped off at the International Stadium, ground 2 Devon Street West Rotorua on Tuesday 25th October
Students sign in at the stadium gate and then go to their appropriate age group area.
Interhouse Athletics will finish at approximately 2:30 pm on Tuesday. Children need to be collected from the International Stadium, ground 2 by 3:00 pm at the latest.
Children may come to Interhouse Athletics in their house colours or their school PE gear.
Children will need – sunhat, sunblock, warm clothes, lunch & a drink.
Should the event need to be cancelled, this information will be put on Educa/App/Facebook by 7:30 am

GRANDPARENTS/GRANDFRIENDS MASS; Friday, October 28th at 9.00 am (PLEASE NOTE TIME)

This Friday we have our Grandparents / Grandfriends Mass, 9am at St Mary's Church, we ask that you find a seat at the church prior to 9 am as children will be sitting with their classes. We would love to have all our special Grandparents and Grandfriends at school with us on this day.

After Mass, Grandparents are invited back to the classes to share in morning tea with their grandchildren (there will be tea and coffee provided in the hall) We ask all children to bring a plate to share for morning tea.

WORKING BEE

We intend to have a working bee this Saturday, October 29th. There are a number of jobs that need to be done. If you are willing to help, can you please let the office know? The projects include painting, spraying the cobbles, painting wooden Christmas Trees, building two picnic tables, playground equipment maintenance, replacing a damaged panel on a classroom wall and maintenance work on our unicycles and putting together new unicycles. I’ve been amazed at the support we receive for our working bees and I would really appreciate your support with this one too, please. Come along and meet other parents and enjoy morning tea and a delicious lunch. Children are welcome also. For catering purposes please let Shanelle know in the office if you can assist, even if it is just for an hour or two.

We have a Teachers’ Only Day on Monday 7th November. There will be no school for children. If you require after-school care you can ring Maryanne Roling from Glenholme Afterschool Care. Mary Anne’s contact number is 347 0709 or 0211 215599