Week 6 Term 2 2105

We hope that everyone had a super weekend. Will it snow that is the question?????
This week we staff have Maths PD on Wednesday so we will be out of the classroom for an hour or so.
PMP is on Wednesday afternoons and children especially girls are welcome to wear their wear track pants to school on Wednesdays. As PMP involves some movements on the floor.
On Friday Room 1 and 2 will lead the Mass at 12pm at the Church. Please come and join us if you are able.
Funsticks hockey was cancelled today(Sunday). Very sorry if you did not get the message it was up on the St Gerard's Facebook page. Please visit this page to get up to date information.
Have a great week and keep warm
Julie and Sue

Week 5

Whoops we are a little late with the blog this week!! Very sorry
PMP was super today thanks to all the parents who have popped their names down to help.
Swimming for 6 year olds on Thursday. Could parents please pay the $13 for the bus to the office ASAP.
This Sunday is Funsticks year 1 and 2 in Alexandra. This is just a few games at the Alexandra turf. Please be there at 12.50pm.
Next Friday school Mass will be lead by Room 1 and 2.
The newsletter is on website and the link on the Facebook.
Have a great week and a super weekend
Julie and Sue

Pmp action

HOCKEY WEDNESDAY

On Wednesday we have our school hockey tournament as part of our small sticks in schools.
We will be leaving for the park at 12.45pm and having our lunch down there. You are welcome to join us for lunch and walk down with us or meet us there.
The hockey will start at 1.15pm. We will return to school at 2.55pm.
Children are to wear sports gear with house colour tee shirt please.
If children have mouth guards please bring these. Shin pads can be worn and if your child does not have any please pack some newspaper in there bags as this makes perfect shin pads.
If the weather is no good and we have to postpone it will be on Facebook.
Thanks

Week 4 Term 2

Hi there
Hope everyone had a lovely relaxing Mothers Day and a big thank you to all of you who attended our Mother's Day school Mass.  We hope you all enjoyed the Mother's Day surprises that the children made for you at Discovery Time on Friday.

Remember tomorrow is our Mother's Day Cafe at 10.30am. The children are looking forward to baking and serving you in the cafe.  If your child has an apron at home they are welcome to bring it to school tomorrow.

This Wednesday 13th is our school hockey tournament at Pioneer Park.  We will walk down at 12.45 and the children will take their lunch with them. (No lunch orders or pie warmers on Wednesday).  It would be great to have some parents to walk there and back with us. (There will be no PMP this Wednesday afternoon).  Children to wear house colours to school.  Please make sure your child has a drink bottle, suitable shoes for playing hockey, and a warm jacket.

Swimming again this Thursday for the 6 year olds.  Children swimming can wear trackpants on Thursday as tights and kilts are very tricky to get on again afterwards.

Michael Mangan is performing at our school this Friday 15th.  The children sing many of his songs so we are very lucky to have him visiting us.

Also the school has recently purchased Sunshine Online (reading activities) for junior classes.  Children are able to access this programme at home.  They read along to a book at their reading level and then complete activities based on the book.  Unfortunately at this point the programme does not work on iPads or tablets, but the company say they are developing this and it should be up and going by next term.  The username is stgerards2014 and mercy2014 is the password.

Have a good week

Sue and Julie

Week 3 Term 2

We hope that everyone had a super weekend.

This week Room 1 have science on Tuesday morning. 

Swimming for 6 year olds is on Thursday.

School Mass this Sunday. All children are expected to attend in school uniform and sit with their class. 

If your child is unable to be there, please send a note to school.
Next Monday 11 May, we are having our Mother's Day Room 1 and 2 cafe. This is when all children bring one person. This can be a Mum or a Grandma or a friend. This is at 10.30am on Monday 11th May. The children will make your morning tea and serve you in our very own cafe!!! Writing tomorrow will be making invitations. 

Our Friday discovery time is very exciting and the children are enjoying their learning experiences.  

This week for Discovery we are going to be having a guest speaker talking about their experiences during the war.
Please remember to put your name down on the list on the Room 1 door if you are able to help with PMP on a Wednesday afternoon.  This is a very important programme that develops children's motor skills but we will be unable to run it if we don't have enough parents to help.  We need three parents for each session and you will be shown what to do.  

On Friday the children have hockey so they are to wear tracksuit pants, please.

Fun sticks hockey is on this Sunday. Please let Julie know by Tuesday, (the day for entering teams), if your child can or cannot play.  A text or email is fine. Last time some children who were down to play never turned up.

Have a great week

Julie and Sue

ENVIRO

St Gerard's School

Organic Garden Foraging List

The enviro group dug four garden plots last week. We are meeting again this Wednesday 6^th May to begin developing the soil. We are needing lots of goodies to add to the soil, if anyone can provide any of the following please bring them along to school at 1245pm on Wednesday or please contact Mr Yeoman (ollieyeoman@stgerards.school.nz)

Always think or ask – is this foraging item straight from nature???  GOOD for our garden

OR

Has it been treated with a chemical or had medicine added??? NOT SUITABLE

          For the Garden                                                

          Ash from fire (make sure it is no longer hot or even warm!!)                

          Horse Poo (but can't have been wormed recently)

          Chicken Poo

          Seaweed

          Lupin leaves

          Yarrow leaves

          Comfrey leaves

          Mulch

          Peastraw

          Lleaves (slightly rotted so they won't blow away)

          For the Compost Bins

⁃                      old carpet to cover the top of the bins

⁃                      old bricks to keep the above on

⁃                      old paint tins at least 5L, to make compost teas (cleaned up of paint)

⁃                      crushed shells

⁃                      sawdust (but not with oil in it from chainsaw)

⁃                      vegetable scraps

⁃                      nettle (no seeds and use gloves to pick as it will give you a nasty rash – grows wild)

⁃                      dandelion leaves

⁃                      clover

⁃                      Chickweed

⁃                      plantain

          Extras

⁃                      Big plastic bags (to collect leaves and other things, also to rot things down faster)

⁃                      Any gardening tools no longer wanted at home