Did you ever go inside a fire truck,

Horns ringing,

Basket rising,

Jacks holding up the truck,

Boot’s muddy

Chainsaws breaking,

Ladder extending,

Give it a go!

Mary HG 10

School Server

Last week the school’s computer technicians reformatted the school server. It had been hacked with a ransomware virus, despite the various safety programmes in place. Student devices will not have been affected as they are unable to connect with the school server. As an initial safety precaution students were not able to use their devices last week.

Safety of Student Devices

Please ensure that your child’s device has the necessary virus protection and that it is current.

Interschool Cricket

On the 26th of February, the girls and boys in year 3, 4, 5 and 6’s went to a cricket tournament in Takapuna.

The girls in the year 5 & 6 team did extremely well in their games. They won 3 of them. The teams they played were all very friendly, showed good sportsmanship, and were great to play against. They also got into the semi finals and won. This put them into 3rd place overall. Great job!

The boys in the year 6 team were amazing as well, winning most of their games. We interviewed Hunter, and he told us that Murrays Bay and Sunnybrae were great teams to play against. Max told us that it was fun because they got to play lots of games. They came fourth.

The rest of the teams were very successful as well.

It was a very exciting and interesting tournament.

Stella and Beth.

Chocolate Fundraiser

Last week we got underway with a PTFA led chocolate fundraiser – boxes were sent home on Wednesday afternoon with the eldest child in each family.

Once you have sold your chocolates, please direct debit the funds into the PTA bank account:

12-3026-0316672-00 including: Particulars: [Your child’s name]; Code: [Your child’s home group]; Reference: [CHOC].

Alternatively, you can return the money to the PTA, who will be outside the school office on the following dates: Thursday 28th Feb & 7th Mar and Friday 1st 8th & 15th Mar between 8.15-8.45am.  Please also return any unsold chocolate bars to the PTA on collection days should you need to (preferably by March 8, so that other families can try and sell any extra bars).

There will be prizes awarded for the most boxes sold. Extra boxes can be requested by emailing pta@sj.school.nz by Wednesday 6th March. Additional boxes can be collected on the above dates (excluding March 15, when all money must be returned) or will be dropped off to your child’s classroom.

As an added incentive, every child who sells a box and returns their money by Friday March 8, (either via direct debit or to the PTA on collection days) will also receive a small stationery prize.

Thank you to all our families for your support of this initiative.

Calling all helpers! 

Here at St Joseph’s we have a Waterwise programme that we run for Year 5 and 6 students to build on the Beach Education they attend in years 1 – 4. However this programme can only run if we have qualified and non-qualified helpers.