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From the Principal…. Kia ora koutou katoa, We have had a wonderful few weeks at St Patrick's School, term 3 continues to provide lots of enjoyable school based and community based events for our children. Last week our School Choir led by Mrs Culling performed at the Kātote Choir Festival at Kaiapoi North School. We were treated to a highly enjoyable evening filled with music and stunning singing! A special welcome to the following children and their families who have started their school days in Rimu: Ruby Keep, Iris Gove, George McLean, George Vink and Oakleigh Frisken. Happy School Days to You! We also welcome Sooz Brinkman - White who has joined our Learning Support Team as a Teacher Aide. Yesterday our Year 5-8 Students enjoyed participating in the North Canterbury Winter Sports Tournament, with some amazing results: Our Year 5/6 Soccer Team won all of their games. Our Year 7/8 Hockey Team won all of their games. Our Year 5/6 Netball team got second in their Pool. Our Year 5/6 Rugby team got third = We welcome Harold and the Life Education programme / van to our school from tomorrow to next Wednesday. Your children will be attending two Health lessons in the van learning all about identity and resilience, relationships and communities, food and nutrition and human biology. Please click on the link to find out more about the Life Education Programme The new learning will be followed up and extended with their teacher, in their classrooms. Next week, our Year 4-8 Kapahaka Group are performing in the North Canterbury Kapahaka Festival at Rangiora Baptist Church, on Thursday 17th August in the morning. The group will depart by bus from St Patrick's at 9am, so need to be at school by 8.30am that day. Tickets are $10 each, please let Janine in our Office know if you would like tickets. We wish our Kapahaka group all the best and thank Matua Norm and Whaea Bonnie for all their wonderful mahi with our tamariki! On the same day, our Year 1-3 team and our Totara class children who are not performing in the Kapahaka Festival, have been invited to the St Joseph's School Production on Thursday 17th August @ the Rangiora Town Hall. We will be departing school by bus at 9.45am and returning by 12.30pm for lunch. We would really appreciate some parents from each class coming with us, if you able to help with supervision can you please email or pop in see your child's class teacher. Thank you so much to the people who completed our Strategic Plan Survey. This is going to enable our School Board to use the valuable information you shared with us to formulate a Strategic Plan for the next three years. Our school is growing and we need to ensure that we plan and prepare carefully for this growth maintaining the things that are working well for our students, moving away from the things that aren't working well for our students and continually improving the education that your family is receiving in our Catholic School. The winners of the three CBK Restaurant $100 vouchers for the most detailed and comprehensive answers to our Survey questions were:
Congratulations to you, your CBK vouchers are ready to be collected from Janine at our School Office. This term our School Board are consulting our School Community on Cohort Entry. What is Cohort Entry? Children are able to start school in cohorts (groups) after they have turned five. There will be two entry points per term:
It means our five year old children would start school at the beginning of a term or the mid-point of a term, rather than their birthday. You can read more about Cohort Entry by clicking on the Ministry Of Education's link: We will also be consulting with our main feeder Pre-Schools. Please email principal@stpatkai.school.nz if you have any views, suggestions, questions or comments to share, on St Patrick's School adopting Cohort Entry, in Term One 2024. We have a Staff verses Year 7 & 8 students Basketball Game, planned for lunchtime tomorrow! We will need all of the luck we can get! Ma te Atua koe e manaaki me to whanau, God's blessings on you and your family.
Kind regards Trish McKendry Our school website: https://www.sporty.co.nz/stpatskaiapoi  |
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Congratulations to … the following students who received Principal's Awards during the last two weeks of term three: These will be updated tomorrow - sorry Mrs McK left her notebook at school and she had to finish the newsletter at home!
Congratulations to … the following staff and students who had a birthday over the last two weeks…. Odin Stakenburg, Lucy Hilton, Paige Godinet-Howard, Amaya Jenkin, Neiva Joslen, George McLean & Anna Orr. |
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Parish & Special Character News….. Next Tuesday 15th August is …. The Assumption of Mary. Assumption day commemorates the belief that when Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, died, her body was ‘assumed’ into heaven to be reunited with her soul, instead of going through the natural process of death. As a school we will be attending Mass in our St Patrick's Church @ midday. Families are welcome to join us. Please note: the school will not be attending the Parish Mass on Friday 18th August @ 9.30am. Please keep Father John (Bishop - Elect) in your prayers as he recovers from his heart surgery. Your healing prayers are helping him immensely after his surgery. We are planning another Baptism class this term. Please email jculling@stpatkai.school.nz if your child is keen to be Baptised. The Baptism preparation classes are held here at school. Our Parish Mass is every Sunday @ 9am in our beautiful Church. All very welcome ….
Please pray for…. …… those people in our school community who have ongoing health issues and need constant care, medication and support. Eternal rest grant to those people who have died recently, may perpetual light shine upon them, may they rest in peace. 🙏💕🙏💕🙏💕🙏💕🙏💕 Please pray for all of those people who are unwell in our Parish and School Community, and those families who have recently lost a family member. May they Rest in Peace. Parents and whanau are most welcome to join us for our weekly School Mass, each Friday @ 9.30am. You are also welcome to come and join us for morning tea in our staffroom, after Mass. Please click here for the Waimakariri Parish Website |
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PTA News Whittaker’s Chocolate Thankyou to everyone’s involvement with this! It was great to see so much enthusiasm in selling these chocolate bars! We had multiple families selling more than one box. Thankyou for your support. Please if you have not paid, please get in touch if you have not heard from us. Picnic Tables The PTA have purchased seven new picnic tables. We were able to use most of the Whittaker’s Chocolate Profit for this, so thankyou to everyone!!! We would also like to thank Eddie Sherbourne’s Grandad for paying for the delivery of the tables. We are selling the old tables in return for a donation. If you are interested in any of the old picnic tables please contact Rebecca 021361475. Sausage Sizzle We are holding a sausage sizzle fundraiser at Bunnings Shirley on Saturday 19th August. We need helpers. Slots are still available and you can sign up on sheet at office or check out our PTA Facebook Page Naked Baker We are again running this very yummy fundraiser! Check your child’s bag for the order forms. Orders due back by August 24th and delivery will be Thursday 7th September. Extra order forms are available from the office. Scooter/Bike Track Do you have experience in construction or landscaping? We would love to hear from you if you or someone you know can help with designing our scooter and bike track. We also welcome any ideas and suggestions from our school community. Contact pta@stpatkai.school.nz or Rebecca 021361475 Uniforms The PTA is handing over the New Uniform orders to the School Office from September 14th. The 14th September will be the next order. There will be new Uniform Order forms available from this week. Thankyou to Janine and St Patrick’s School for taking this on. Family Donation Just a reminder that we offer the 2 types of Family donation each term.
If you would like to apply for either of the above, please see Trish McKendry and ask for an application. This is handled very discreetly with only Trish knowing the recipients so please don’t be afraid to apply. You have until the end of each term to apply. It takes a village, and we are very happy that we can offer this to our school community. Upcoming events
Thankyou for your continued support. Have a wonderful week.
Rebecca Morgan (on behalf of the St Patrick's PTA) pta@stpatkai.school.nz
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Term Three Dates: Weeks 2-6 Week 4 Term 3: 7th August - School Assembly - 2.15pm 8th August - North Canterbury Sports Tournament Years 5-8 8th August - PTA meeting 6.30pm 9th August - Kapahaka 10th August - School Newsletter published 11th August - Life Education Van 11th August - School Mass 9.30am Week 5 Term 3: 14th August - Life Education Van / Year 7 & 8 Technology 15th August - Life Education Van 15th August - Midday - Assumption Mass 16th August - Sports Coaches 17th August - Years 4-6 performing @ Ohoka Kapahaka Festival 17th August - St Joesph's School Production 17th August - Board Meeting 6pm 18th August - NO School Mass Week 6 Term 3: 21st August - School Assembly 2.15pm 23-25 August - Year 4-6 Camp @ Living Springs 23rd August - Year 8 Interviews for KHS 23rd August - Kapahaka - Year 1-8 24th August - School Newsletter published 24th August - Junior Poetry Slam 25th August -School Mass - 9.30am Week 7 Term 3: 28th August - Happy Birthday Miss Conlan! 28th August - Year 7 & 8 Technology 29th August - Lockdown Practice 30th August - Parents & Caregivers Morning Tea 30th August - School Speech Finals 31st August - Fran & Indie's Ronald McDonald Fundraiser 1st September - School Mass 9.30am 1st September - Father John's School Farewell 1st September - Day of Prayer for Creation 3rd September - Happy Father's Day Week 8 Term 3: 4th September - School Assembly 2.15pm 4th September - Kane Shield Swimming Comp 6pm 4-8th September - Social Justice Week 5th September - Structured Literacy Parents Workshop 2pm & 6pm 6th September - Happy Birthday Mr O'Dowd! 6th -8th September - Year 7 & 8 Camp to Wainui 7th September - School Newsletter 7th September - Cricket Sessions 8th September - School Mass 9.30am
Years 4-6 Camp: 23rd - 25th August @ Living Springs Years 7 & 8 Camp: 6th - 8th September @ Wainui Last day of Term 3 : Friday 22nd September Please note - these dates are being updated weekly and are subject to change. Parents are always welcome to join us for our fortnightly School Assemblies and our weekly School Masses. Staff Only Days: Thursday 16th November - attached to Show Weekend Term 4 dates: Monday 9th October - Friday 15th December @ midday
The dates for 2023 are on our Website https://www.sporty.co.nz/ The dates for 2024 are now on our website. |
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St Patrick's School have the following lunches available to purchase online via www.lunchonline.co.nz Every Tuesday - Sushi - a range of different options starts again next Tuesday 2nd May Every Friday - BBQ sausages with bread and tomato sauce (if required) GF options are available Extra lunch is also available if your child runs out of food from the Totara Kitchen, thank you to our PTA for organising this via Food Satisfy. |
Before & After School Care @ St Patrick's School Quality Child Care Provider Since 2009 OurKidz NZ OSCAR has been operational since December 2009 We offer: Before school programme from 7am to 8.30am After school programme from 2.45pm to 6pm or 3pm to 6pm for surrounding school communities. Our holiday programmes operate from 7.30am to 5.30pm daily and an option for families who require a half-day session which ends at 3pm. OurKidz NZ OSCAR is a Ministry of Social Development (MSD) approved provider and undertake accreditation reviews every two years by a member of MSD Accreditation team. With this accreditation approval we can offer parents/caregivers the opportunity of applying for the OSCAR Subsidy from Work and Income. To enrol please email ourkidz.oscar@outlook.com |
Sponsorship Opportunity……. If you would like us to promote and advertise your business on our newsletter or website please email Wendy office@stpatkai.school.nz $250. per year - Newsletter $350. per year - Website The money raised helps to buy more IT Equipment for your children. |
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Did you know we have Music Lessons @ St Patrick's School? Looking to learn an instrument?
Contact Erin Grigson at nzmsm.northcanterbury@gmail.com for more information or to sign up! |
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Aladdin’s was Amazing!! A special thank you to:
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This winter, between Monday 12 June and Saturday 30 September, participating community pharmacies in Canterbury will provide a Minor Health Conditions Service for Māori and Pacific people, children aged under 14 years, and community service card holders. The service allows pharmacists to have a clinical consultation and provide advice as well as medication if needed for a select set of minor ailments at no cost to the patient. It also includes whānau members of a child with similar symptoms. For example, if the pharmacist determines your child needs treatment for scabies and they have older brothers or sisters, or you yourself also have symptoms, they can provide advice and medication for all of you. The following health conditions are included in the Minor Health Conditions Service:
If your condition needs further support, the pharmacist can tell you the best place to go for your condition to get further help. Let’s spread the word to our friends and whānau about this new service! It’s also important to remember that you can always speak to your local pharmacist for free health advice, even if you are not eligible for this service.
Participating pharmacies can be found by going to HealthPoint and searching “Minor Ailments”. You can also find a list here www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/go-well |
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