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St Patrick’s Primary School
Together in Faith & Learning
Week 3 Term 1 2021
From Pope Francis about Lent
'Dear brothers and sisters, every moment of our lives is a time for believing, hoping and loving.
The call to experience Lent as a journey of conversion, prayer and sharing of our goods, helps us
– as communities and as individuals – to revive the faith that comes from the living Christ, the
hope inspired by the breath of the Holy Spirit and the love flowing from the merciful heart of the
Father.'
Lent
Yesterday we began Lent, Ash Wednesday. Lent is an opportunity for us all to revisit our relationship with God.
It’s a time where we do something that is a little bit hard, to help us remember to focus on getting closer to God.
I think that there is no point giving up coffee, for example, if it is going to make you grumpy. There is no joy in
that for anyone, including God. Once I said that each time that I hear a ‘tui’ I would say a particular prayer of
hope.
Below is a link that will take you to some activities/prayers that you can do at home with your family
https://caritas.org.nz/lent-0
Camp
Please pray for our Senior students who started their camp on Wednesday. We go to Palm Grove near
Paraparaumu, every two years. It is an exciting time that also can challenge students along with strengthening
their friendships and leadership qualities. A huge thank you to Helen who organises this each time. More
information and photos will be presented after we come back.
Covid-19
The recent lockdown of Auckland, is a reminder that it can happen to any city in NZ at very short notice.
The only way for us to contact you is through the information that you have given us. If it has changed since last
lockdown, please let us know. E.g. address for laptops to be delivered, phone numbers for text alerts etc .
Either email or phone Leanne admin@spps.school.nz or when you are in the school next, check the list with your
information on to see that it is all correct and up to date.
Parent evenings
Thanks so much for coming along and sharing food and information last week. Please keep in touch with your
child’s class teacher if there is anything changing at home, e.g. a sick grandparent, change of jobs etc. These all
have an impact on the child and it is very helpful to know about them, so that we can support your child more
effectively.
Sports’ teams
Netball
Will be upon us soon. You will be asked if you want your child to play. Terms 2 and 3. Please set aside about $50
for the fees and referee expenses.
If some of you wish to run a BBQ at Bunnings and the money raised goes to the Netball costs, please let me know.
I’m happy for the profits from the BBQ to pay for the child of the parents who help.
Basketball
Basketball is expensive. At least $50 per player if there are 10 players per team. If people are interested in entering
a team again, we will need the money in advance. A BBQ at Bunnings can make up to $500 which would pay for
a team completely. Once again, let me know if you are interested.
SCHOOL CALENDAR
St Patrick’s Primary Staff 2020
Tony Kelly-Smith Principal Please check our online school calendar and
events information at
www.spps.school.nz
you can click to subscribe and all updated
Room 1 Helen Barber Deputy information will be emailed directly to you.
Principal
Room 2 Fay Woodall Director of Weekly
Religious Thursdays Senior School swimming
Studies 1.40pm-3.15pm
(weekly).
Room 4 Claudia Patrao Teacher
Fridays Junior School Swimming
Room 6 Elsa Dimock & SENCO (Special 1.40pm-3.15pm NO SWIMMING 20 MARCH
(weekly).
Rob Ngan-Woo education
needs co- Important dates for your diary.
ordinator)
17—19th Senior camp
Reading Elsa Dimock February
Recovery
Support Staff Tuesday 16th March Hearing and Vison check
Office Manager Leanne Saunders
Learning Paula Mulvey, Wendy Parker &
Support Georgia Suckling Wednesday 17th St Patricks Day
Teacher Aides March
Our gospel value is
Rm 6 learning how ingredients can be put
together to make bread for Unity
Happy Birthday to You!
This fortnight we pray for the following children who have celebrated or will celebrate their
birthdays in January and February this year.
St Patricks Welcomes
Hail Dahya and his family into the room 1 class.
We also welcome George Puzikov and Hana Leota-Johnson both into the new entrant
class. & their families
We had Joel Jopson visiting today, Joel will start next week.
Our Mercy
Values
Encourage your child to think about our
Mercy values and write a prayer for our prayer wall.
We are a Positive Behaviour for Learning School.
We encourage our children to be Go getters, this means that they are
ready to learn, respectful of people and property and take responsi-
bility for their actions.
Ask your children about our new traffic light system that encourages our
students to take on leadership and make good choices.
This is how our Traffic light system works:
• Every class uses the Traffic Light system to monitor DAILY student behaviour.
• Every student starts on the green zone each day.
• When a student makes positive choices, in particular the ones that you are
focusing on that week, THEY get to move their name up to pink – great choices!
If throughout the day a student continues to make
positive choices, ( we link these choices to our PB4L
values, the 3RS of being ready to learn, responsible
for actions , respectful of people and property) then
the student moves up to the yellow light and is a Go
getter for the day.
Those on Go Getters 2 or more times a week get
to take home a special certificate that
acknowledges their efforts.
Go Getter certificates are presented in assembly
and acknowledged in the newsletter.
So keep an eye out for certificates coming home
so we can all celebrate your child/ren’s success.
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