St Patrick’s Primary School Together in Faith & Learning

Greetings to you all

Ethnic Food Festival How amazing was the Ethnic Food Festival ? for all that you did to make it such a

glorious success.

Production

As you will be aware, next Thursday, 30 November, is the Production. The classes have been

working hard on their performances and their costumes in preparation. Tickets can be

purchased from the school office and will be sent home with the children on Thursday, strictly

no door sales for health and safety reasons. Come along for a great night of entertainment.

Parking in the Playground Of late we have had some very close calls, with children walking in the parking area unsupervised by their parents or caregivers.

I would like to remind you that children are not permitted to walk in the parking area unless they are supervised. You need to park

your car, pick them up and walk them back to the car safely.

Also remember that the church driveway is not a safe entrance or exit for your children, they need to walk to the stairs outside room 1.

NO WALKING DOWN HERE YES WALK DOWN HERE

Show that you are a letter from Christ… written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

11 Corinthians 3:3

Term 4 Week 6 2017

This is the first year our juniors have played netball in the Motu Kairangi competition. The year 1 & 2 children play in the morning and the year 3 & 4 children play in the afternoon. They have a half an hour skill session and a 20 minute game each week, practicing the skills they have been learning. All the children play their best each week, have lots of fun and represent our school to a very high standard.

Room 2 Week 3 200 nights Reading-Rohan Panneerselvam. Studyladder-Rachel D’Souza. Stepsweb-Rohan Panneerselvam. Week 4 Studyladder-Tomas Johnson. Stepsweb-Jatin Sharma Week 5 200 nights Reading – Adriana Avila-Castro, Christiana Waitaiki-Gratsounas Maths Whizz Awards 10/11/2017 Fasil Kebede, Aryan Prasad, Johan Aljo, Rohan Roy, Rehan Raj & Olivia Lyons. 17/11/2017 Fasil Kebede, Daniel Robinson, Temesgen Abera, Delma Korea, Joelle Saili & Rohith Roy.

Our Gospel Value Certificates Our gospel Value is Steward Leadership

Week 5: Lesieli Foliaki – You used your initiative to be responsible for Room 6 when their teacher was testing when the bell rang for the students to return to class. Enesi Tuilaepa – You are awesome at offering to help when you see something you can help me with. Kim Rave– You showed maturity when you refused the voucher offered to you for picking up rubbish. Week 6: Volunteering in the Recycling Centre at the Ethnic Food Fair: Lesieli Foliaki, Jatin Sharma, Nick Tuilaepa, Tomas Johnson, Rave Kim, Ignacio Avila-Castro, Ulric Canete, Sacha Marchenko, Eleyamo Adam, Vansh Kumar, Angelei Canete, Beatrice Ryan Noriega, Joseph Donnelly, Bonita Dence, Adriana Avila-Castro, Jacob Guidera, Frank Yonan, Christiana Waitaiki-Gratsounas, Siddhika Saravanan, Surafil Keleab, Rosana Simeona, Josiah Saili, Ryan Oo. Sunday’s Gospel Reading Champion Week 5: Jatin Sharma Week 6: Bonita Dence Hoopla Jars – Zac Stewart, Frank Yonan, Breanne Gray, Christiaan Yalda, Christina Yalda, Beatrice Ryan Noriega, Vansh Kumar, Rave Kim, Adriana Avila-Castro, Ryan Oo, Sacha Marchenko, Siddhika Saranvan, Eleyamo Adam, Milan Asok, Manvi Nath, Surafil Keleab

These children received an award in assembly in the last fortnight:

SCHOOL CALENDAR

Important events occurring each week:

Wednesdays Thursdays

Junior swimming 2-3pm Senior swimming 2-3pm

Important events occurring this term:

27th November Beach clean up

30th November School Production

1 December Project Jonah—Teaching about Ocean clean up.

5th December Leavers Dinner

15 December End of Year

School Finishes for the year. at midday

Term Dates

2018

Term 1 31th January 13th April Easter Break: 30th March—3rd April

Term 2 30th April - 6th July

Term 3 23rd July - 28th September

Term 4 15th October - 14th December

Thank you so much!

Wow, wow, wow!

Once again, I am absolutely blown away by the generosity and love. Thank you all

so much for what you did to make the ethnic fair such a huge success.

Every year you just do better and better.

A BIG THANK YOU to our coordinators who attended meetings, spoke to

people and worked tirelessly to encourage everyone to get involved.

Thank you to all who contributed, supporting the tombola and

grocery hampers, bidding on the auctions, donating food, cooking, helping

on stalls, cleaning, attending the fair and encouraging friends and family to

attend or by handing out flyers!

A special thanks to Sophie Gray who was so generous in more ways than I

can remember; from attending the coordinator meetings, making and

putting up signs, sourcing donations of ingredients, organising and

purchasing all the containers and cutlery, sorting the tombola, bringing in

equipment for the fair, donating a prize for the raffle. Thank you, thank

you, thank you.

The night was a huge success and apart from the impressive profit it was

so heart-warming to see everyone working together, enjoying themselves

and feeling they are a valued part of our school.

We raised over $8,400.00 which will mostly go towards the final cost of the Whisper

Glide and new matting for the playground as well as covering the cost of the

St Patrick mural and hopefully there will even be some left to buy some more IT gear.

Fiona D'Souza

Athletics Day

Tuesday 21 November at Newtown Park, St Patrick’s sent some of our student

represent the school: Solo, Josiah Erin, Enesi & Muse.

Enesi & Muse have qualified to represent Wellington in Masterton at the next event.

They all enjoyed the day.

They also showed pride in our school with great behaviour!

Well Done St Pat’s!

ETHNIC FOOD FAIR