Room 15 2021

  Aloha parents and whānau, welcome to week 5! I hope you've had a wonderful weekend and managed to find time to relax with your family. We are over halfway through the term and the busyness is well and truly upon us. We had a fantastic day at Athletics on Monday. The kids all did so well and it was awesome to have some parent helpers as well. A huge congratulations to those students who competed in the gymnastics competition, I know you have been practising hard all year.  Just a friendly reminder that all students need to bring their  hats  to school, we know how harsh our New Zealand sun is. Also, please continue checking that your child is bringing their  device to school fully charged . We will be doing some assessments this week, which students will require their Chromebooks for.  With Delta cases now in Rotorua, sanitising and staying home if unwell is more important than ever. Please do not send your child to school if they are sick.  We have s...

Kia ora Room 15 whānau, We would like to express our gratitude to all families that helped and supported our school with the working bee yesterday. It was a very successful day with such a great turnout. Plenty of jobs were completed. Thank you once again for your extra helping hands. It is great to see manaakitanga ( kindness) and kotahitanga ( unity) in action at our school. PTA Raffle Results 1st Prize Bye Family 2nd Prize Ruden Castillo 3rd Prize Grace Defensor Sustainability learning This term, Sustainability is the concept that the children's learning will be based around. We are very lucky to learn about terrariums. Terrariums are miniature gardens, housed inside small – and usually sealable – containers like bottles and jars. As fully functioning (albeit tiny) plant ecosystems, they’re mostly self-sustaining, with the plants watering themselves through transpiration and condensation. Science! Our request is for any clear plastic or glass jars at home that you are ...

Kia ora parents and whānau Welcome to week 3, which is another busy week.  There is no swimming this week or next, and Kahikatea's next turn will be in Week 5.  Team Kahikatea did a great job of leading the school in the Rosary on Thursday.  This was live-streamed from the hall to the rest of the school.             Reminders RAFFLES:  Thank you for your support with the selling of our PTA’s Raffle Books. The books must be returned immediately, sold or unsold. We cannot draw the raffle until all the tickets are in. Thank you. EARLY FINISH FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR STAFF:  Tuesday 2nd November at 2.30 pm, our staff, along with teachers from St Michael’s Rotorua, St Mary’s Putararu and Bishop Edward Gaines in Tokoroa are involved in Titiro Whakamuri kia haere whakamua Professional Development. We will need to finish school at 2.15 pm on that Tuesday so I ask that you pick your child up at 2.15pm. If you require after-school car...

Talofa, welcome to   Tokelaun Language Week! This year’s theme for Te vaiaho o te Gagana Tokelau - Tokelau Language Week is Tokelau! Tapui tau gagana ma tau aganuku, i te manaola ma te lautupuola , which means Tokelau! Preserve your language and culture, to enhance spiritual and physical wellbeing. Coming up this week: Swimming  - Kahikatea will be swimming each day this week.  It is very important that everyone takes part in swimming and note will be needed from home if your child is unable to participate, otherwise they will be given spare togs. Swimming is part of our P.E. curriculum where children can learn valuable swimming skills.  Tuesday - Library Thursday - Sorrowful Mysteries Liturgy.  THE MONTH OF THE ROSARY   This month is the month of the Rosary. Kahikatea is leading the Sorrowful Mysteries on Thursday. RAFFLES Thank you for your support with the selling of our PTA’s Raffle Books. The books must be returned tomorrow Tuesday sold...

Welcome back to Term 4 all parents, caregivers and children.  We hope that children had a refreshing break and you are enjoying the nice Spring weather (on most days). It is going to be a very busy term with a lot of things happening, including the St Mary's RE Review in Week One. We will have special visitors checking out our lovely Catholic School on Wednesday and Thursday this week. Covid-19  As you are no doubt aware NZ is in the midst of a Covid-19 Delta variant outbreak. St Mary's will continue to operate under Level 2 restrictions. We are continuing to ask parents not to enter the school except for essential matters. If you do need to come in you must wear a mask and sign in at the school office (or use the NZ covid tracer app). We will need to continue to use basic hygiene measures such as handwashing, use of sanitiser, cough and sneeze etiquette and regularly cleaning and disinfecting high touch surfaces. We will continue to make sure everyone sanitises or wash hands ...

Kia ora parents and whānau, congratulations on making it to the last week of term!  It has been a whirlwind of a term with lockdown and everyone has done a tremendous job getting to the end happily and safely. Thank you again for giving our students supportive and loving homes, the adjustment make to school was made a lot easier thanks to that.  In maths this term, we had a focus on geometry and fractions. Here is some translation art that some of our fantastic tamariki has done.  Things on this week:  Monday - Principals Morning Tea. Congratulations to those students who were chosen! Tuesday - STEAM EXTRAVAGANZA and Library.  Wednesday - Catholic Schools Day  Thursday - Girls 7's Tournament at St Marys and St Vincent De Paul Liturgy  Friday - Golden Time.  Important messages from Mr Macmillan and Mrs Cato: Last week all Year 0-5 students should have brought home a letter inviting parents to provide some information for consideration re the 2022 c...

 Tena koutou, welcome to our second to last week of Term 3! Last week had a strong focus on celebrating Māori Language week. It was fantastic listening to the tamariki giving new te reo a go! For Golden Time, we made catapults from skewers, rubber bands, clay and a plastic spoon. There was a lot of trial and error, but most students managed to make a successful catapult.  As we are still at Level 2 we are still encouraging that our kids sanitise before they come into class. Please ensure they bring in a drink bottle as water fountains are still out of bounds. Thank you very much for your support in this. Last Friday, some kids came with some fabulous wigs to wear for the day. The school managed to fundraise $580 to go towards the Cancer Society. What a fabulous effort. What's happening this week: Tuesday: Library Friday: Golden Time It is so lovely to see the sun out today. Let's cross our fingers that this weather continues for the rest of the week. Have an awesome ...