Newsletter Week 6 Term 4 2016

Our Living and Learning Focus for Term 4 is

H2O Friend or Foe

Our School Values, which we are all aiming to live by, are

Tika Justice, Pono Truth, Aroha Compassion, Manaakitanga Hospitality and Tapu Respect for the Environment

Lived out in our Motto

Courtesy Care Co-operation Courage

The Learning Model for our school is:

Learning to Learn #L2L

“To Know To Do To Use”

Our new Principal for 2017 visited on Thursday and Friday this week. He is looking forward to joining our school community next year.

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR FILIPINO DANCERS

Who represented us at the Onepoto Cultural Festival on Friday?

Thank you to Mrs Bon for co-ordinating and to all the wonderful parents and students who took part in the practices and supported the students.

SUBLI dance: Mrs Vargas, Mrs Lauro, Mrs Aquino and Mrs Maiquez made all of the girl’s costumes.

MAG LA LA TIK : the senior boys dance choreograph and making of the costumes were Mrs Pascoe, Mrs Castro and Mrs Decena.

Ginger Vargas deserves a mention for assisting to choreograph Subli and training the girls in her own time.

BEACH EDUCATION

Home Group 9 and 10 had their Beach Ed day at school due to the Tsunami threat.

When we arrived at school we were disappointed because we weren’t going to the beach. We did not know that the teachers had a big surprise for us. We had the BEST day. Four lifeguards from Mairangi Bay came to teach us about beach safety, sun-smart and how to avoid rips. They told us lots about what lifeguards do to keep people safe. After morning tea we played games and at lunchtime we pretended we were at the beach having a picnic. We practised slip, slop, slap and wrap before we sat on our towels for our picnic. Ms Jenny put up her beach umbrella. Then came the surprise. We were told to put our togs on. We wondered why? We went outside with our water bottles and suddenly we were wet. The teachers sprayed us with the hose. It was such a lot of fun. Everyone was squealing and shouting and enjoying their Beach Ed day at St Joseph’s School.

Home Group 9 children