St Patrick’s Primary School Together in Faith & Learning

Nau mai, welcome to a new year of discovery. What a blessing it is to be back. Thank you all so much for the way in which your children were ready for the year. Stationary is important but the mental positive attitude is life changing. Your children were so positive the first week and this week. Last Sunday’s Gospel invited us to be salt to each other. I don’t think Jesus wanted us to give each other heart disease or to harden arteries, but he was asking us to bring the flavour out of the other person, to make them be a better person. Salt by itself is not a great snack, but by adding it to other foods, it brings the flavours out more fully. It allows the other food to be more full of flavour, taste and subtlety. We too are asked to help bring out the best in those we come in contact with, to be salt. So the question is what can you do today to help bring the best out in someone else? A word of warning though; the Gospel for this coming week commands us to love our enemies, not just our friends. A challenging proposition for us all one would think. However, your children have a wonderful capacity for forgiveness of each other and acceptance of each other. It is so heartening to see them play together, work together, problem solve together and just ‘be’ together. Welcome to our new families. Tadiwos Solomon in Kauri (Rm1) Aidan Joy in Pohutukawa (Rm4) Toka’ikolo Lakai in Manuka (Rm5)

Welcome to younger siblings of current families Hazel Kehoe-Rowden in Kowhai (Rm6) James’ younger sister Pearl-Ina Latu in Kowhai – Darius’ younger sister Leonel Youkhama in Kowhai – Lavenya’s younger brother Welcome back to Nardos Tafery who had a year living in Ethopia last year.

Week 2 Term 1 2020

Warm welcome to our three new staff members. Thank you for the way in which you have introduced yourselves to our new teachers. If you haven’t been able to do so yet, they are very friendly and don’t bite…much. Claudia Patrao – Pohutukawa class Rm 4 Fay Woodall – Totara class Rm 2 Rob Ngan-Woo – Manuka class Rm 5 Dates for the term Calendar • Swimming Thursday rms 1, 2 & 4 • Swimming Friday rms 5 & 6 • Wednesday 26th 2:00pm Ash Wednesday Service • 12/3 Japanese students visits • 17/3 St Patrick’s day celebration at school • 19/20 March Marae visit sleep over • 24/3 Mufti day for Syndrome awareness • 7/4 Futsol ASB Year 5/6 • 8/4 Futsol ASB Year 7/8 • 9/4 Holy Thursday liturgy 1:45pm School • 9/4 School closes for the term at 3pm • 27/4 Monday Anzac day • 28/4 Tuesday First day of term 2 • 2/7 Thursday last day of Term 2

Claudia Patrao

Fay Woodall

Rob Ngan-Woo

Breakfast Club -All Welcome. Join us in the Library for breakfast from 8.30am - the best way to start your day!!

Tuesday (Weekly) Thursday (Weekly)

SCHOOL CALENDAR

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Weekly

Thursdays 1.40pm-3.15pm (weekly).

Senior School swimming NO SWIMMING 19 MARCH NO SWIMMING 9th APRIL

Fridays 1.40pm-3.15pm (weekly).

Junior School Swimming NO SWIMMING 20 MARCH

Important information for the next fortnight.

Wednesday 26th 2:00pm

Ash Wednesday Service

Important dates for your diary.

Thursday 12th March

Japanese students visits

Tuesday 17th March

St Patrick’s day celebration at school

Thursday 19 & Friday 20 March

Marae visit sleep over

St Patrick’s Primary Staff 2020

Tony Kelly-Smith Principal

Room 1 Helen Barber Deputy Principal

Room 2 Fay Woodall Director of Religious Studies

Room 4 Claudia Patrao Teacher

Room 5 Rob Ngan-Woo Teacher

Room 6 Elsa Dimock SENCO (Special education needs co-ordinator)

Reading Recovery Martin Herring

Support Staff

Office Manager Leanne Saunders

Learning Support Paula Mulvey

ALL STARS Week 1:

Room 1: Selam, Marianna, Surafil, Ryan J, James, Silone, Nardos, Rachel,& Lavenya Room 2: Charlie, Joelle & Arabella Room 4: James & Urmata Room 5: Mason-Khan, Fori, Meke, Toka, Dean, Ahzaria & Blaine Room 6: Christopher

PB4L GO GETTERS

FORI, NATALIA, RACHEL, LIUFAU, SERENTY, RYAN J & LEONEL

Our Mercy Values

Encourage your child to think about our Mercy values and write a prayer for our prayer wall.

Happy Birthday to You! This fortnight we pray for the following children who have celebrated or will celebrate their birthdays in January and February this year.

We start our year reviewing our gospel values

Meet the teacher evening This went really well. Thanks for coming along and supporting your children. Having strong family – school ties sup-

ports your child’s learning. If you were not able to attend, please contact your child’s teacher to make an appointment.

PARKING SAFETY Thank you to the Parish for enabling our Parents to park in the Parish car par before and after school. Please make sure YOU still walk into the playground to pick up your child/ren as we have seen some children running over on their own.

We are a Positive Behaviour for Learning School. We encourage our children to be Go getters, this means that they are ready to learn, respectful of people and property and take responsi-bility for their actions. Ask your children about our new traffic light system that encourages our students to take on leadership and make good choices. This is how our Traffic light system works: • Every class uses the Traffic Light system to monitor DAILY student behaviour. • Every student starts on the green zone each day. • When a student makes positive choices, in particular the ones that you are focusing on that week, THEY get to move their name up to pink – great choices! If throughout the day a student continues to make positive choices, ( we link these choices to our PB4L values, the 3RS of being ready to learn, responsible for actions , respectful of people and property) then the student moves up to the yellow light and is a Go getter for the day.

Those on Go Getters 2 or more times a week get to take home a special certificate that acknowledges their efforts. Go Getter certificates are presented in assembly and acknowledged in the newsletter. So keep an eye out for certificates coming home

so we can all celebrate your child/ren’s success.