Term 3 Week 1 Notices

Namaste and welcome back to the commencement of Term 3 2021 😀

I hope all children enjoyed a well-deserved break from school and are prepared for another term of important learning. 

It is a good time to remember that the world is still in the midst of a serious pandemic and that we should feel privileged to live in a country with no community transmission. We will be reminding children to still take basic health precautions like washing hands regularly, using hand sanitiser, tissues, and coughing or sneezing into the inside of elbows. We kindly ask you to reinforce this message and please keep your child home if they are sick.

Things on this week:

Life Education begins at St Mary's on Monday, featuring Katie and of course Harold the Giraffe. All Kahikatea Middle School classes will have an opportunity to visit the Life Education van for lessons. You may wish to ask your child about what they have been learning in Life Education.

Reports are due to go home this Friday the 30th of July. The 3-way conferences, between parents, teachers, and children are scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday of Week 2 (next week). Bookings will be possible soon. There will be 10-minute slots available until 6.00pm on each day. This week will be reflection week for our students. A reflection sheet for parents, where you will be able to rate your child against key competencies, will be sent home with the reports. Parents are kindly asked to send these sheets back to school on the Monday prior to the interviews.

On Thursday, at 12.15pm, we will have our first Liturgy for the term and it has a Matariki theme. All parents and caregivers are welcome. Please make sure that you are in the hall by 12.10 pm.

The children learned about Meditation Prayer last term from two Catholic sisters. Classes will be meditating each day starting this term for 10 minutes from 12:30pm. Meditative Prayer has a very calming effect on children.

Room 13 (the upstairs room in the hall) has been transformed into our Learning Support space and it does look excellent.

Friendly reminders:

Chromebooks need to come to school charged. As we are a BYOD school, many of our learning activities now require devices. Headphones are essential, please. If your child's Chromebook is not working, we recommend contacting Paul (see contact details below).

Please LABEL your children's clothing, we have quite a few issues with jerseys/fleeces ending up on the wrong body.

Please check with your child that their headphones are working. We still have some children without, it was on the stationery list for this year and very important to have at school. They can be purchased reasonably priced at Kmart, or the school ($8)

Other things to note:

PTA AGM The PTA AGM is scheduled for  7pm Wednesday 28 July - first week back Term Three - in the school staffroom. All are welcome to attend. There will be drinks and nibbles provided!!

Please come into the school via the Carnot Street gate and enter the building through the student entrance alongside the school office.

Have a wonderful Sunday evening.

Tai Waititi