Term 2, Week 6 Notices

 Weekly Notices, Term 2, Week 6






 Kamusta and Welcome to Week 6.

We are already halfway through Term 2 and feeling many of the effects of Winter, namely dark mornings, cold gloomy days and viruses. There are a number of cold viruses going around at the moment. Please remember that if your child is feeling sick we ask you to keep them at home to recover.

Over the next couple of weeks, all Middle School children will be tested in Reading, Writing and Maths in preparation for Mid-Year reports. 



What's Happening this Week

Wednesday - Gymnastics in Hall - 12:45pm, lunchtime

Wednesday - Library Room 17, Kapa Haka

Friday - Pasifika, 11am    Choir - 12pm


On Friday we have a school Mass celebrating the feast of the Sacred Heart. All parents and caregivers are invited to attend.

Our Matariki Dinner is scheduled for Thursday, June 24th in our school hall at 5.30pm. Parents and caregivers are cordially invited to come and share food from their country of origin, if you wish, otherwise just bring a plate of food. 

It is Support Staff Week this week and at St Mary's we will be acknowledging and thanking our support staff who do a magnificent job for teachers and our children. 

It is our Kaumatua Rangi’s 85th birthday and we will be acknowledging this by putting on a morning tea for him this Thursday. 

We wish all the best to our students involved in Showquest who are performing this Wednesday in Mt Maunganui. Thanks to Mrs Trask and Mrs Hall for all the work they have put into preparing the children. A number of parents have been helping too.

A Ripper Rugby team, coached by Mrs Dinniss, is also competing in the schools’ competition on Wednesday. The postponement day is Friday.



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)

Have a stupendous week

Lorette Tiedt and Team Kahikatea

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