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From the Principal…. Kia ora e whānau, Thank you to our amazing tamariki and kaiako who produced three amazing shows this week of our Junior Christmas Musical: This Way to Bethlehem! We were treated to the most amazing stage show filled with sensational singing, delightful dancing and awesome acting! Thank you to our amazing families who supported all of our star performers and our awesome staff team for helping to make this Christmas magic happen! There are photos on our facebook page and we do have a Video of the Show available for those families who would like to view it again. Please note this video does not have permission for sharing on any Social Media Platforms. Your children will spend the morning in their 2025 Classroom with their 2025 Teacher, on Thursday 12th December between 9.30-12.30pm. We will also be welcoming our new students from Year 2-7 who are joining St Patrick's in Term 1, 2025. All children are able to wear Christmas themed non-uniform on this day - either Christmas clothes or accessories. Their 2025 class will also be in their 2024 End of Year Progress Report, on HERO which you will be able to access on Friday 13th December, after 3pm. We look forward to celebrating the end of the year with our PTA Fun Day at Spencer Park, next Friday 13th December. Children will be transported by bus at 9.15am and returning by 3pm, we welcome everyone to come and join us for a fun day! Please ensure your child is wearing their St Patrick's sports uniform, has sunscreen, water, lunchbox, togs/towel, and sunhat. We will be providing a sausage sizzle lunch- supported by Abbott Insurance Rangiora, ice cream sundaes and a few extra treats! Thank you to grandparents Carole Morgan and Anthony Page for sponsoring this event. Please can you email your child's teacher (if you have more than one child, please write one email and copy each teacher, into the one email) with permission for your child to travel by bus to and from Spencer Park, and to attend the PTA Fun Day at Spencer Park, on Friday 13th December. All of our staff will be attending this event but we will require extra parents to help with supervision. Can you please indicate if you are available to be a parent helper for part of the day or all of the day, on the permission email. Thank you so much! A friendly reminder to all Year 8 Parents to please purchase your tickets for our Year 8 Dinner on myKindo. This year our Year 8 Dinner will be held at the Kaiapoi Golf Club, on Monday 16th December @ 6pm -8pm. (Approx) We start the evening with prayer and speeches followed by a buffet dinner. The cost of the dinner is $32 per head - the school pays for our Year 8 Graduating Students. The dress is formal for our Year 8's - they like to dress up! Please purchase your tickets on myKindo by Friday 13th December. 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! Please note that all children are expected to attend our annual St Patrick's School Prizegiving on Tuesday 17th December @ 6pm in our St Patrick's Church & Hall. They wear their full school uniform and sit with their class. Parents and family members are welcome to attend and the Prizegiving will be finished by 7.30pm. 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: Paige, Eilish, Reuben T, Elijah H, Alex x2, Mae x2, Roland, Francine, Bryn x2, Ryder x2, Amaya, Zoya, Spencer M, Ezra, Phelim, Violet, Jasper, Lilah, Eddie, Indi x2, Aurora, Charli x2, Sophie B, Elijah A, Paulo, Kidlat, Cullen, Livvy, Skyla, Sophie, George, Pavy, Zoè, Ruby K, Oakleigh, Oscar, Charlotte, Inez, Harper x2, Tom, Indi, Solomon, Oli, Grayson, Kaide, Harper, Juliana, Mikayla, Beau M, George Venis, George Vink, Maclan, Ella, Divine x2, Finn B, Ethan B, Luke, Cojay, Eli, Jamie, Beau L, Zoey, Laken Happy Birthday to …. Emilio Adcock-White, Ciara Dean, Oscar Pacey, Addy Richards, Charlie Hickland, Isabel McKewan, James Wallace, Maclan Collie, Ezra James, Xavier James, |
Parish & Special Character News….. The Jesse Tree The tradition comes from Isaiah 11:1
Adam and Eve Advent Talks by Cameron Surrey:in the Chervier Centre, Rangiora:
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…. … our school community, as we finish the end of our school year, that all children finish their 2024 school year positively, and have a safe & happy holiday. We also pray that our Year 8 class of 2024, leave St Patrick's looking forward to their High School journey, and enjoy the opportunities and learning ahead of them. …… 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. Raffle will be drawn on Wednesday 18th December at our Year 8 Final School Assembly. We have over 10 prizes! Ice Block Friday’s! Ice Block Friday’s are back! Every Friday, $1 for a lemonade ice block 3pm outside Nikau. Last one tomorrow! PTA AGM Our AGM will be held on Wednesday 11th December 6pm, at The Platform. Please RSVP to pta@stpatkai.school.nz All are welcome to come along and help make a positive difference to our school. PTA FUN DAY We look forward to celebrating the end of the year with our Fun Day at Spencer Park on Friday 13th December. Children will be transported by bus at 9.15am and returning by 3pm, we welcome all to come and join us for a fun day! Please ensure your child is wearing their St Patrick's sports uniform, has sunscreen, water, lunchbox, togs/towel, and sunhat. We will be providing a sausage sizzle lunch- supported by Abbott Insurance Rangiora, ice cream sundaes and a few extra treats! Thank you to grandparents Carole Morgan and Anthony Page for sponsoring this event! Kaiapoi Christmas Carnival Unfortunately we had to make the decision to not participate in the Santa Parade for 2024. We would like to thank those families who did put in the permission slips and offer of help. We hope to have more support in this event next year. We would like to thank Nana Pam once again for her amazing sewing skills in refreshing those amazing costumes! 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 8-10 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 Week Nine: 9th December - School Assembly 2.15pm 10th December - last day for Lunches Online 10th December - last day for afternoon school bus service 11th December - last day for morning school bus service 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 on HERO by 3pm 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. 10th December - last day for Lunches Online |
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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Creative Writing written by Divine Venzon (a fictional Story from the perspective of Lorien) On Thursdays, I had the house to myself. Dad went out with the boys while Mum did whatever she did. I was relieved. I sat on the couch, my legs tucked to my body as I stared out the window, the glass covered in small dots of rain. In a world where everything had changed, my family hadn’t. Still cold. Empty. Meaningless. It was exhausting. After being in the calm silence for too long, I stood up from the couch with a small sigh. “Tap, tap, tap.” The stairs creaked as I walked up the stairs, before entering the room, my light flickering. I stared around, my brows furrowing in confusion. I took a small step forward, my desk filled with… paper? Newspaper to be exact. I skimmed through the paper, concern visible on my face as I reached the last page, a picture of a lost staff on the page. How’d this get here? Why was it here? I let out a shaky breath, blinking slowly. A small piece of paper dropped from the newspaper.
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Thank you so much to our Year 0-3 students & their teachers for their 3 amazing Performances of ‘This Way To Bethlehem,' this week! |