Advent Prayer
O Mother of our Advent, be with us and see to it
that he will remain with us in this difficult Advent
of the struggles for truth and hope, for justice
and peace: He, alone, Emmanuel. St. John Paul II
Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving others with God’s own love and concern. (Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
https://catholic-link.org/7-advent-resources-the-whole-family-will-love/
CULTURAL FESTIVAL
We watched an amazing spectacle on Saturday 26th November. Our Kapa Haka & Pacifica Groups performed at the Eden Albert Cultural Festival with such pride. After months of hard work, regular practices and superb guidance each child represented Marist with great skill and mana.
Aimee Glucina, Mila’s mum, spent the morning with us and took some incredible photos. She has compiled this gorgeous collection of photos & a slideshow. Thank you so much Aimee for your generosity.
https://aimeeglucinaphotography.pic-time.com/-kapahakapasifika/gallery
It was a fabulous morning. A huge thank you to Naomi MacDonald, Sheila MacDonald, Marie Walker & Anne Politini. Without their support these groups would not be able to occur. Also a big thanks to whānau who helped with makeup, costumes and attended the celebration.
If you would like to purchase any individual photos of your child/ren please contact Aimee at: aimeeglucinaphotography@gmail.com
CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR THOSE IN NEED
The St Mary's Parish Caring Committee will once again be collecting and distributing Christmas gifts to children in need. If you are able to, and wish to donate a gift, these can be left at the office during school hours. Please wrap gifts and label with the age and gender that the gift would suit. Gifts will then be placed under the St Mary's Jesse Tree
A huge thank you to the Marist School Community for your ongoing support of our parish food bank and for all the families that we as a community are able to assist.
PICK UP TIME ROSARY
Every Tuesday afternoon 2.30pm in the Church, finished in time for school pick-up.
All welcome - pre-schoolers, students on study leave, those new to the Rosary, and those who can't find their beads (10 fingers work just as well!). An opportunity to pray for our children, families, and any other intentions that you wish to bring with you.
Starting this Tuesday the 1st of November.
Any queries, please contact Antonia antbutchard@gmail.com
YUMMY STICKERS
When you reach for that delicious apple for your morning brain snack please
remember to peel off the ‘Yummy’ sticker and keep it safe!
We are collecting the Yummy Fruit Company stickers from their apples, and the labels off their
plastic bags, for our share of $200,000 of free sports gear. The more labels/stickers we collect the more free sports gear we get for our school!
This year we were able to purchase $1018 worth of sports equipment for the school thanks to the stickers collected.
Put your stickers on a sticker collection sheet (below) and drop them into the school office in exchange for house points!
HALLOWEEN ESCAPE ROOM
By Sofia, Hub 2
Two girls go trick or treating. The girls are Lexie and Sofia. They have a deep down feeling that something is going to go wrong, but they are happy.
“ Let’s go!” Lexie said excitedly.
After they had been to ten houses they went to a house that had a sign on the porch that said “Go in for Candy”.
They went into the house. Suddenly the floor boards fell into a maze. The girls screamed, fell, and then looked at each other in horror.
“A black cat” gasped Lexie.
“It’s so dark!” said Sofia.
“The cat is going this way, let’s follow it” Lexie said.
Suddenly the room started shaking.
“My candy!” yelled Sofia.
“The lights are flickering” whispered Lexie.
There was a tap on their shoulders.
“ Did you feel that?” Sofia said nervously.
“ Yes” whispered Lexie.
“The cat has gone. Oh no the lights are off!” said Sofia.
“I think it’s an escape room” said Lexie.
They heard a voice through the speaker say “ A bomb will go off if you do not go and do the game. You have 30 minutes, go in 3, 2, 1”.
“Go Lexie, I found a lock. We need a code” said Sofia.
“ I found a book” said Lexie.
“Ok, see if there is a code in it”said Sofia.
They found a uv flashlight next to the book, and used it on the book to see if they could find a code.
“ I found it, give me the flashlight. Okay it says 19234. I’ll put it in”. Lexie said.
The door opened.
“Look there’s a key hanging on the wall, and another door!” yelled Sofia. She tried the key and the second door opened to a science lab.
Suddenly a voice over the loud speaker said “You have 20 minutes left”.
“Oh no” shouted Sofia.
They looked around the science lab and saw lab coats hanging on the walls, cages and bottles of potion. The walls in the lab were dark purple. They walked around the room searching for clues and saw that inside the cages were keys.
They also saw a hook on the wall that they used. They tried to get the keys out of the cages. They tried a few times but couldn’t get the keys out. Sofia and Lexie were starting to feel nervous as they didn’t know how much time they had left to escape.
They tried one more time and got the keys out.
The speaker went off again and said
“You have 10 minutes left, there are still two rooms”.
Sofia and Lexie grabbed the keys and used one of them to enter the next room.
When they ran into the room Sofia said to Lexie
“Can you take five keys and doors and I’ll try the other five”.
Lexie agreed and they started working. One of the doors opened and they entered the last room. It was a candy factory that had a bomb with a timer which read 5 minutes.
The bomb needed a specific type of candy to deactivate it. They hunted through the glass jars of candy and Sofia found a box on the shelf. It had a piece of candy in it. Lexie looked at the bomb and it read “1 minute”. Lexie yelled
“Sofia we only have 1 minute left until the bomb goes off”.
“I found the candy!” Sofia yelled back.
Lexie grabbed the red candy from Sofia and she put it in the little hole on the side of the bomb. The bomb deactivated and the final door opened. They saw the rest of the maze and the black cat. They decided to follow the cat and made their way out. They saw a witch who laughed and said “Congratulations, you have made it out of my Halloween escape room, here is your candy”.
They looked down in amazement at the big bag of candy that the witch had given them.
They started to walk home and felt so happy about their Halloween adventure and all of the candy they got.
MARIST MEALS
This year we are continuing with Marist Meals - a pastoral care initiative. These meals are provided to families in the school & parish community when a little extra support is needed (e.g. a new baby, sickness, bereavement). With the impact of covid and many of our school and parish families isolating or unwell, it would be great if we could fill up the freezer so we can help lighten the load for families during these challenging times.
If you would like to contribute, we welcome any homemade, brought meals or baking for our freezer. Meals can be dropped off to the school office.
Containers available at the school office.
Contact Us
Email: admin@marist.school.nz
Website: https://www.marist.school.nz/
Location: 14 Kitenui Avenue, Mount Albert, Auckland, New Zealand
Phone: 09 846 7408