Te Kura o Ngākau Tapu ki Pito-One

DATES TO NOTE Number 12 Wednesday 14 August 2019

Thurs 15 Aug

Assumption Mass 9.30am

Wed 21 Aug

Kea Liturgy Fri 23 Aug

Assembly 2pm Sat 24 Aug

Netball finishes Yr 3/ 4 and Yr 7/ 8

Mon 26 Aug

Netball finishes Yr 5/6 Wed 28 Aug

Tūī Ruru Liturgy

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Early Risers 4 2pm Fri 30 Aug

SWZ Swimming Sat 31 Aug

Netball Prizegiving 2 – 6 Sept

Tongan Language Week

Wed 4 Sept

Pūkeko Liturgy

Early Risers 5 2pm Thurs 5 Sept

First Communion Parent Meeting 7pm

Fri 6 Sept

Assembly 2pm

Interzone Swimming 9 – 12 Sept

Social Justice Week

Maori Language Week Wed 11 Sept

Kākāpō Liturgy Thurs 12 Sept

Noho Marae Yr 7 & 8 Fri 13 Sept

First Communion Retreat Day

Mon 16 Sept

Artsplash 7.30pm Thurs 19 Sept

Grandparent’s Mass 9.30am

First Communion Practice 6.30pm

Tena koutou Nga whanau We are nearly half way through the term and the children are well settled back into class programmes. I have just returned from our Catholic Principal’s Conference in the Wairarapa. It was a great time to be together with my colleagues from all over the Archdiocese. Please keep our Sacramental Programme children and their families in your prayers as preparation will soon be starting for the Sacrament of First Eucharist. We will be having a Book Week at school form the 26th-30th August. A separate notice is coming home this week. Congratulations to all our children who took part in the Cycle Ready programme last week. You all did really well and the instructors were very pleased with you. Our next class Liturgy will be hosted by Kea Class on Wednesday 21st August followed by Tui & Ruru classes on Wednesday 28th August. You are all welcome to come and join your children for these Liturgies. We offer our prayers and sympathy to the Sacred Heart College Community on the recent death of their staff member Laura Spencer. We had also been working with Laura as she was an across school lead teacher in our Kahui Ako. We also offer our prayers and sympathy to her family. We still have some outstanding chocolate and /or money which needs to be returned as soon as possible please. This Thursday 15th August we will be joining the Sacred Heart Church community to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption, at 9.30am Mass. This is the patronal feast of New Zealand and is a Holy Day of Obligation. You are welcome to join us for this Mass. Our Leadership Team is beginning to look at Class Placements for next year. Please speak to Jacqui, Julius or myself if you have any queries about your child’s placement. Please ensure that if you have a New Entrant starting you have enrolled them by Monday 2nd September and if your child will not be returning to Sacred Heart next year (except Year 8) please let us know as soon as possible. Calendar Art Fundraiser: Classes are preparing the art for the calendar fundraiser. Order forms will come home with the newsletter on September

Ernie Sonneman

Violet Fa’asoa

Zephannia Passi Ricardo Pereira-Logovae

Marisah Perez

Mila Duncan

Jacinta Ioane

Benjamin Fretton

At Sacred Heart School

we live our values

every day in very way

Respect

Integrity

Sense of Community

Excellence

Brayden for completing his morning timetable for the week Tess for being so lovely with our Juniors! Nice reading to them in the library. Tehoa for helping tidy up after Badminton without being asked Lochlan for helping tidy up after Badminton without being asked Isabella for helping Mrs T tidy up

Please keep saving your

large takeaway

coffee cups for the great FOSH

TOMATO PLANT sale. Keep a spot in your

gardens ready to grow your summer tomatos!

11th. The art will be on display from Monday 16th September. Orders will close on Friday 27th September (last day of Term 3) and there will be no late orders. We are also trialling a new product this year called Smencils which will make great Christmas gifts. A separate order form will come home for these at the same time. Samples of all the products will be available with the artwork.

As the netball season comes to a close in the next couple of weeks I would like to thank all our coaches and managers who have willingly supported our teams this year. Without your help our girls would not have been able to play.

Thought for the Week “The way of Jesus, which leads to peace, passes through forgiveness, for one evil never corrects another evil and no resentment is ever good for the heart.” (Pope Francis @pontifex)

Ma Atua e manaaki God bless Liz

SCHOOL NOTICES We have once again had an extremely close near miss outside the hall

with parents and children crossing the road NOT on the crossing. This is both dangerous for you and your child and unfair for the oncoming traffic!

PLEASE use our pedestrian crossing and remind any grandparents or family members who may be picking up your children too. Please could you let us know if your child is not returning to

Sacred Heart in 2020 (except Y8 students). The sooner we know numbers the better for 2020 planning. Thank you.

3 weeks until 2020 enrolment applications close!! Late

applications will be placed on the waiting list.

A reminder that students are expected to wear their school jersey with their PE uniforms, not other sports club jackets!

Thank you to those parents who have paid their child/rens Activity

Contribution for Term 3. Reminder statements have been sent home

showing any compulsory payments due.

Parents are still welcome to pay the Voluntary Parent Donation ($100 1st child, $75 2nd child, $50 3rd child) and the RE Resource Donation ($6 per child) to help school finances not covered by MOE funding.

PE Tops Due to supplier changes beyond our control, we have a few

slightly different PE tops in circulation. All PE tops with a Sacred Heart

emblem are acceptable school uniform.

SCHOOL PHOTOS will be on Tuesday 24th September. Information

and order forms will be sent out later in the term for class, individual and

sibling photos.

Religious Education

The Assumption Day is a special Holy Day to celebrate with our school

and parish community to pray to Mary to help us live in peace and

harmony. The Catholic bishops of New Zealand chose Mary to be the

special patron of our tangata whenua.

You are all invited to join us at the Assumption Mass tomorrow, Thursday

15th

August at 9.30am.

CONGRATULATIONS

to our past students Christian Stenhouse and Xavier Bell who made the Wellington

Rugby U16A rep team.

Is this your scooter?

It has been left at school for some time

now!

Community Notices Beginner Piano Lessons Dynamite Music are offering beginner piano lessons on Thursday

afternoons in the Petone Community House. Lessons $15/week, and discounts are offered

for siblings & families with a community services card. For more information and to sign up

for a free trial lesson: https://enrolmy.com/dynamitemusic/book-now/47-Piano-Lessons-in-Petone

CELEBRATING OUR STUDENTS Some scenes from our sharing and learning during Cook Island Language Week. Avah demonstrating traditional Cook Island dance, and Te Mauri wearing a traditional Cook Island costume.

Pasifika Proud students learning a Pasifika dance

with Bernie Time-Scrimshaw. Pūkeko Food Science For our inquiry we were studying food science.

We wanted to find out how much sugar was in fizzy drinks. For our experiment we had to boil

fizzy drinks. While they were boiling we had to stir them as well. When we saw that it started to

bubble, we used a teaspoon to spoon the gloopy

consistency into ziplock bags. Coke and Fanta had 20 grams of sugar which was

5 teaspoons of sugar! Each teaspoon is the same as 4grams. Foxton Fizz had 10 grams, 2.5

teaspoons. La Croix has 0 grams and 0 teaspoons of sugar.

We made a poster and a slideshow.

By Kiri and Caitlin

Uniform Shop Mondays 2.45 – 3.15 pm Tuesdays 8.45 – 9.15am

Uniform must be paid

for at the time of purchase, or within 2

days if making an online payment.

Contact Us

Tel 568 6711 Text 0225115419

admin@sacredheartpetone.school.nz

www.sacredheartpetone.school.nz

School Bank Account 12 3142 0121485 00

Please note the child’s name and what the payment is for

when making an online payment. Thank you.

There are a lot of Yummy Stickers on fruit

at Pak n Save at the moment, and 2kg bags of apples with Yummy labels on them. Please collect them at home

for us. The more stickers the more FREE sports gear

we receive!

Heads Up!

- SCHOOL PHOTOS

will be on Tuesday 24th September - Loud Shirt Day

Friday 27th September.

Fundraising for deaf children with

cochlear implants or hearing aids. Gold

coin donation.

FOSH Fundraiser for Parents and Friends

Tickets available from the school office or before or after school from FOSH.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES It was fantastic to see a great turnout of members at our Board meeting on 31 July, where we also welcomed all the proprietor appointees to the Board. The role of the proprietor appointees is to ensure the Catholic Charter of the school is preserved and maintained – they are each appointed by the school and the Catholic Church. The school’s Board is now made up of five parent representatives (Anita McKegg, Anna Redfearn, Kate Wright, Henio Koloi and Mark Fairfield), four proprietor representatives (Genevieve Hanify, Helen Kneebone, Tane Wilson and Vaka Lemisio), a staff representative (Onieka Tristram) and Liz, as school Principal. Helen Kneebone was elected Chair of the Board at the previous Board meeting.

During the 31 July meeting, the Board: Discussed upcoming training for Board members through the NZ School

Trustees Association, which many members are taking up – as well as looking into some in-house training and discussion around the Treaty of Waitangi to ensure we are exercising honourable governance in a way that values and reflects NZ’s heritage

Discussed recent grant applications for new technology for the school Worked through the mid-year Numicon, Reading and Writing data for all

year levels. This data is positive and the Board is confident with how students are progressing – thank you to the students and the teaching staff for their great work

Accepted the July 1 school roll Worked through the finance report which is showing the school is on

track to meet budget. Discussed upcoming subcommittee meeting dates. Board members will

sit on either a policy subcommittee, or a property/finace subcommittee – both of which meet once a term.

The Board’s next meeting is on Tuesday 20 August at 7pm. Kate Wright

TERM DATES

2020 Term 1 Mon 3 February – Thurs 9 April Public Holidays: - Waitangi Day Thurs 6 February

Term 2 Tues 28 April – Fri 3 July Public Holiday: - Anzac Day observed Mon 27

April - Queen’s Birthday Mon 1 June

Term 3 Mon 20 July – Fri 25 September

Term 4 Mon 12 October – Tues 15 December Public Holiday: - Labour Day Mon 26 October

LOST PROPERTY – we have jackets, vests and jerseys (NOT NAMED!)

in the lost property. Please check to see if they belong to you.