Weekly Notices, Week 6, Term 4, 2017

Room 16, Weekly Notices, Term 4, Week 6 (20th - 24th November 2017)

Swimming we have swimming this week-please bring your togs.

To St Mary’s parents, caregivers and community,

Last year our church community supported ‘Angel Tree’ which is a branch of the ‘Prison Fellowship of New Zealand’ (PFNZ), a Christian charitable organisation that was founded over 40 years ago.  For  18 years PFNZ and angel tree have been making a difference at Christmas for children with a parent or grandparent in prison.  Last year nearly 4000 children benefitted nationwide, and our church community supported 42 of those children.  This year through our school community we are hoping to support 50 local Rotorua children.

This is how it works and how you can help.  By the end of this week a Christmas tree will be in the office foyer with 50 gift tags on it. On each tag is written a child’s name, age and a present suggestion from their caregivers.  Gifts are $25 each, please support angel tree by taking a tag and buying a present.  When you have bought the present bring it back to school UNWRAPPED and with the tag attached by Friday 8th December.

If you can’t get to the school office to pick up a tag, please text or phone me and a tag will be sent home in an envelope with your child. Angel tree would prefer that children didn’t select the tags to take them home.

Your support helps local Rotorua children receive a gift from their loved one at Christmas.

For any questions or to organise a tag to be sent home please phone Rachel Schuster on 0274461351

Thank you for your help and support,

The Rotorua Angel tree team

AHUREI FRIDAY
All the best to all of our Tamariki involved with this. They have been practising for a while now and they sound awesome. Thanks to Sylvia who has been coordinating the group.

Best of Luck to all our performers for Friday Night.

Ahurei Practices this week

Mon 9-10

Tues 9-10

Fri  - Meet in Room 3 at 12.30 pm with shoes on and lunchboxes.

We will travel by bus for our rehearsal at 12.50 pm and return to school by 2.15 pm.

Assembly will be at 9 am to accommodate those children from Rm 14 who are in both Assembly items and Ahurei.

Tickets for the Ahurei will be issued in named envelopes to classrooms on Wednesday.

We are certain all your practice will pay off and you will all shine!

Athletics Inter-School is Tuesday-Good Luck to Tilde and Zach for this!!

Also to all the St Mary’s team who go to represent our school.

Again we know you will do well-we will be thinking of you all.

We really loved the Pasifika Assembly on Friday. Thanks Mrs Wallbank. The children performed beautifully and I was very proud of them.

The building of our Middle School Block for next year starts this week. Our Kaumatua and Father Eamon blessed the building site on Friday. It went very smoothly. Thanks to Mrs Dunkley, our Ahurei group and the RE Leaders who were part of the group and sang beautifully. The builders are arriving this week and basically the area from the Ranolf St Entrance, back of offices between Rooms 8 & 9, back of Rooms 9 & 10, and in front of Room 8 & 9 will be fenced off. This will be the building site. Children in Room 9 will need to access their classroom through Room 10. There will be an access space for that to happen. The builders are planning on getting the foundation down for the space in front of Rooms 8 & 9 and behind Room 9. People who access the Ranolf Entrance will still be able to do this. They will be able to walk between the mesh fence that borders the astro turf and the Ranolf St fence. There is a gate half way along the fence line that leads onto the astrograss and people will be able to walk across the astro turf to the rest of the school.

Reminder:Our annual thank you to our coaches.

Our coaches thank you is Thursday night at school. Again a huge thank you for all the support and help you do for our teams during the year.

Children will be invited to write to Santa Claus again this year and for those children they will get a reply from him. Santa’s letterboxes will be scattered around the school again.

The Young Vinnies are also coordinating a ‘can drive’ and the cans will be given to the Vinnies food bank. It would be great if you could advertise this too.