St Joseph's School Newsletter
16th November - Week 5 - Term 4 2022
Principal's Message
Kia ora, Hi, Kia orana, Kumusta, Ciao, Hallo, Dia duit, Halo, Namaste, Bonjour,
Friday Mass; students and staff will be attending the parish mass this Friday, 9am we invite our parents to attend with us.
The staff would like to thank the community for coming along to Ag day and supporting the students. I would like to thank the staff for all their hard work preparing students and the school for the Ag day.
Board By-election
Please look in your email inboxes on Friday for nomination forms for the by-elections. If we do not have your email address your child will have a printed copy.
End of Year Reports
As you may already be aware, St Joseph’s Catholic School will not be posting home a paper copy of the traditional end of year report. Instead, comments will be posted on Hero in the last weeks of this term. The same as what occurred for our mid-year reporting.
In the last week you will have seen new Reading and Maths posts. Students are currently working on Writing stories which will be published later in the term. There will also be a Religious Education post in the last week of term.
The reporting will be based on progress the student has made, highlighting students strengths in Reading, Writing and Maths. There will be a general comment under the Key Competencies page in regards to your child’s overall learning and development.
Please note:
No goals are set for your child at the end of the year. New goals will be set by their new teacher early in 2023. You will however be able to see goals that have recently been completed. The last goals will be checked off by teachers in Week 8.
End of year Important dates:
14th November: 11am Classroom certificates /Music concert
15th November: 5pm Nativity Play / Prizegiving / Community Supper
16th November: 9am End of year school thanksgiving graduation mass
20th December: School closes at 12:30 - last school day of 2022.
Teresa Rush
Principal
ST JOSEPH'S COMMUNITY GROUP
Dear school community,
On Tuesday 22 November 2022 at 5pm, the first meeting of the St Joseph's Community Group will be held. Children are welcome. To be held in the school library.
This group is similar to the old PTFA. It is a place for parents and members of our school community to meet and assist the school and board with fund raising projects, school events and to help growth and strengthen our school community. It will be a place for parents to share their ideas to help our school prosper.
Whilst there will be some formal elements to the group, which we must do so in order to continue to receive our funding from the Waihi Beach Op Shop, the focus will be on a social and inclusive group, operating for the benefit of our students.
We have many wonderful and hard working volunteers in our school and we would like to see you all come to this meeting, so we can discuss ways we can assist the school in 2023, including helping the children meet fundraising schools for projects.
We look forward to seeing you.
Gemma Barden
CATHOLIC CORNER
Our Prayer Liturgy this week honoured the Saints in Heaven. There are many special saints…St Francis of Assisi, St Teresa of Calcutta, St Vincent de Paul, St Joseph to name a few. These saints can inspire us - none of them were perfect but all strived to do their best to follow Jesus in their own way. We can also take our own path to sainthood by being kind, working hard, thinking of others and being faithful to God….small steps, trying each day to be a better person so that one day we can join the saints in Heaven.
Our school value this week is “Being Honest by Doing Our Best.” Are we encouraging our children to be the best they can? Do we acknowledge their efforts when they are helpful at home, do schoolwork without being told and share with siblings?
DRS
Linda Hughes
Congratulations to our Great Athletes
Congratulations Athletes
Thank you Mrs Hughes for taking our students to the Waihi Athletics. All our students who participated did extremely well.
These great students below have now qualified for the North Cluster Athletics.
SUSHI on Friday
There will be Sushi this Friday.
LIBRARY UPDATE
Well done and thank you to everyone who has contributed towards Dinosaur Week - actually two weeks! This finishes tomorrow, Thursday, and prizes will be awarded next Tuesday. Remember you have to be in to win!
Nativity Play - our performance is beginning to take shape with everyone being involved. One request please- does anyone have an old blanket they would like to donate to the shepherds - they get very cold up on the hills at night and we need 3 blankets - no fancy fluro colours please - to keep them warm. If you are able to help us please leave in the library. We are most grateful.
God bless and regards
Mrs Mac
UPCOMING EVENTS
17th November - Burger Lunch orders
18th November - Parish Mass
25th November - Whole school to Catholic School Athletics
28th Nov-2nd Dec - Swimming week, water safety
2nd December - Parish Mass
5th December - Year 5/6 Tapuwae Tournament
8th December - Board meeting, 5.15pm
9th December - Accord Day (Teacher only day)
12th-13th December - Year 5-8 camp
14th December - Year 0-8 classroom certificates 11am-12.30pm
15th December - Prizegiving and Nativity Play, 5pm-6.30pm
16th December - End of year Thanksgiving Mass
20th December - End of Term 4
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Prayer for the Week
November- Pope Francis' prayer intention.
In November, we pray with Pope Francis
For all children who suffer, those who are homeless, orphaned or victims of war; may they have access to education and the opportunity to experience family affection.
Amen
‘To see children suffer wounds our hearts because children are Jesus’ favorites. We can never accept that they are mistreated, that they are denied the right to live out their childhood peacefully and joyfully, that they are denied a future of hope’
– Pope Francis
Please watch the Pope's video below. May God Bless all children of the world.
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Phone: 07 863 8653