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From the Principal…. Kia ora e whānau, Tomorrow we have a Non- Uniform Day for our PTA Christmas raffle. We ask each child to please bring a luxury or Christmas themed raffle item to add to our Christmas Hampers, for raffling. Thank you for your ongoing support of this last 2024 PTA Fundraiser! Our PTA are constantly raising money to buy much needed resources and playground equipment, for our school and your children. A reminder that our Year 6/7 students have a Leadership Workshop tomorrow with Mr Elliott and Mrs McKendry - Morning Tea is provided. There is also a highly contested Staff verses Students Football game at lunchtime tomorrow - let the best team win! Our St Patrick's tamariki have continued to be successful in many different aspects of school life and learning, over the last couple of weeks! Congratulations to… the following St Patrick’s Students who participated in the Rotary Speech Competitions on Tuesday evening, supported by their families, Mrs Kreft and Mr Harrison. They all achieved outstanding success with Archie Eustace awarded 3rd Place in the Year 4/5 Competition, Jed Cameron was awarded 2nd Place in the Year 4/5 Competition, Xavier James was awarded 2nd Place in the Year 6 Competition and Isabel McEwan was awarded 1st Place in the Year 8 Competition. These are outstanding results - we are all so proud and happy for you! (see photo below) Last week we had a group of 29 Students representing St Patrick's in the Pegasus Zones Athletic Sports after qualifying for these in our School Athletic Sports. A special Congratulations to Oceana Dalzell for qualifying for the Canterbury Athletic Sports next week, in High Jump & Long Jump and Jaks Joslen in Sprints! Thank you to Mr Elliott and the group of parents who provided transport and support to our Athletes! We are currently preparing for important end of year events and for 2025! We are pleased to announce our Staffing for 2025 - one class at each year level, which has been our goal and we have been staffed in 2025, for our Maximum roll of 208: Junior Whare: Year 0-3 Year 0: Mrs Cath Shaw Year 1: Mrs Jacque Culling Year 2: Miss Kaila Abdelaal Year 3: Mrs Aidan Mulligan Middle Whare: Year 4-6 Year 4: Miss Amy Begg Year 5: Ms Becky Holland Year 6: Mrs Erin Kreft Senior Whare: Year 7-8 Year 7: Mr Tom Elliott Year 8: Mr David Harrison Release Teachers: Miss Rachel Cook, Mrs Lisa Morton-Jones, Mrs Victoria Miles Structured Literacy / Mathematics Support: Mrs Janice Beckett, Mrs Sooz Brinkman-White Teacher Aides: Hope Gordon, Tessa O'Dowd, Brooke Overend Your children will spend the morning in their 2025 Classroom with their 2025 Teacher, on Thursday 12th December. Their 2025 class will also be in their 2024 End of Year Progress Report, on HERO. Please note that from now on all payments to our school including uniform payments (deadline for the next uniform order is next Friday 13th December) are to be made through myKindo. You can now order your child's uniform directly on myKindo - no paper order form is required! Lunch online will still be ordered and paid for through the Lunch online app, until the end of the term and may change over to myKindo at the start of next year. To register for myKindo:
Simply enter in the same email address your school has on file. All of your payments to our school now need to be done via mykindo, thank you so much to the families who have already registered! There is more information about myKindo and how easy it is to register and use, attached to this newsletter. If you would like to read our St Patrick's School policies you can access them on our school docs website. Please click on the link and enter: Username: stpatkai password: green 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: Xavier, Stevie x2, Reuben R, Eddie, Dylan, Ethan, Alex M x3, Tom x2, Nathaniel, Lilah x2, Zak, Zac x2, Laken, Alexis, Ezra x2, Ruby, Amelia A, Finn, Xander x2, Norah, Huxley, Archie T, Jed, Abel, Mia, Inez, Zoe M, Elijah A, Cameron, Jessica, Cullen, Lydia, Zoey, Ethan B, Indi S, Harper M, Kaide, Sophia, Solomon, Yula, Leah x2, Emmy, Neiva, Charli x2, Ruby M, Sebastian, Amelia A, Cojay, Billy x2, Gemma x3, Divine x2, Beau M, George V, Lucy H, Ryker, Bryn M, Anna O, Kryvie, Lachlan M Happy Birthday to …. Ezra James, Mrs Morton-Jones, |
Parish & Special Character News….. This Sunday is Vision Sunday, a Full Parish Mass at St Patrick's Church.Mass is at 9.30am and there is a BBQ, Treats and activities afterwards! TERM 4 2024 DIOCESAN COSTS NOW DUE: Many thanks to those paying these costs to the parish, by automatic/regular payments, our preferred option. It is really appreciated and certainly helps with the cashflow. For parents who prefer not to pay in this way – payment was required by the due date on the invoice (which is now overdue). You are welcome to contact the parish office, at any time, to check the status of your account. Please be aware that these costs will increase next year – as previously notified. **************************************************** Our Parish Mass is every Sunday @ 9am in our beautiful Church. All very welcome …. Please pray for…. … all those people who are suffering or have died during the recent violence in Gaza. …… 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 Christmas Raffle Our last fundraiser for the year! Tickets are due back by Friday 13th December to the PTA box in office along with cash or please deposit into our PTA account 12-3616-0025744-00. The class with the highest average will win a hot chip lunch! More tickets are available from the office. We are also selling tickets outside Kaiapoi New World this weekend, if you can help with any of these times please email us pta@stpatkai.school.nz or 021361475. Saturday 24th November
Sunday 25th November
Outdoor movie night Thankyou for the support for our first movie night. We look forward to planning our next one for 2025! Ice Block Friday’s! Ice Block Friday’s will be back! Every Friday, $1 for a lemonade ice block 3pm outside Nikau. PTA AGM Our AGM will be held on Wednesday 11th December 6pm at The Platform. Please RSVP to pta@stpatkai.school.nz All welcome. Kaiapoi Christmas Parade The Kaiapoi Santa Parade will be help on Saturday 7th December at 2.30pm. A permission slip will come home next week if your child would like to participate. We will also need helpers to help decorate the truck. Parents will be solely responsible for their children for this Parade. PTA FUN DAY We look forward to celebrating the end of the year with our Fun Day at Spencer Park. We would love to see you there! More information to follow. Upcoming Term 4 events We have some exciting events this term, please save the dates!
Family Donation Just a reminder that we offer the 2 types of Family donation each term. 1. This consists of the $150 to one family to assist in paying for an extracurricular activity for a child or children in that family. 2. We also have the donation of 1 term of swimming lessons to one child. We feel that it is so important for our children to have confidence in the water and participate in after school activities. We also understand that these things can come with a large cost so we are hoping this can help many families. The swimming lessons will be available at both the Kaiapoi and Rangiora pools and this is valid for whole year, it does not need to be used straight away. 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. |
Parents are always welcome to join us for our fortnightly School Assemblies and our weekly School Masses. Term Four Dates: week 6-10 Week six: 22nd November - School Mass 9.30am, Coffee Van 8.30am 22nd November - Christmas Raffle Non-Uniform Day 22nd November - Year 6/7 Leadership Day 24th November - Vision Sunday Parish Mass 9.30am Week seven: 25th November - School Assembly 2.15pm 27th November - Kapahaka Year 1-8 27th November - Year 5 & 6 Classes to Blue Skies 27th November - Canterbury Athletics 28th November - Catholic Lit Quiz 28th November - Sports Coaches 29th November - School Mass 9.30am Week eight: 2nd December - Year 7 & 8 Technology 3rd December - Year 0-3 Christmas Musical 11am 4th December - Year 0-3 Christmas Musical 11am & 5pm 4th December - Year 8 Experience Day @ KHS 8.30-1.30pm 5th December - School Newsletter 5th December - School Board Meeting 6pm 6th December - Coffee Van 8.30am, School Mass 9.30am 6th December - Road Patrol Training with Constable Ken 7th December - Kaiapoi Christmas Parade 2.30pm Week Nine: 9th December - School Assembly 2.15pm 10th December - last day for Lunches Online 11th December - PTA AGM - 6pm @ Platform Restaurant 12th December - Orientation Day for new Students / Transition Morning for 2025 Classes / Sports Coaches 13th December - PTA Fun Day @ Spencer Park 13th December - Year 8 Big day Out 13th December - End of Year Reports Published 13th December - last day for Uniform Orders Week Ten 16th December - Year 8 Dinner - 6pm - Kaiapoi Golf Club 17th December - Annual Prizegiving - 6pm - for ALL children 18th December - Year 8 Final Assembly 11am 18th December - School Finishes @ Midday Our 2025 Term dates are on our School 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 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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Congratulations to our Rotary Speech Winners - Isabel, Xavier, Archie & Jed! |
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The Charge Nurse at the Children's Ward @ Christchurch Hospital loved receiving Lego and Colouring-in activities for the sick children in hospital, bought from the money we raised together as a school, last term and organised by Paige & Lauren. |
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