Week 5 Term 2

Hello

The weather is getter colder and from next week the winter uniform must be worn!!
We do have skating coming up and on these days children wear warm clothing and need:

• Gloves
• Water proof pants
• Helmets 
• Jackets

Please save any lids of containers or bottles and send along to school for our "Loose Bits" container.

Just letting you know that this term's Eisteddfod is poetry and we will be listening to poems in Week 9 or 10.

Have a great week

Julie

Week 4

Hi everyone,

We hope you all had a great weekend. Thank you for supporting Pink Shirt Day on Thursday - the kids all looked amazing!

Room 2 and 7 are assisting Father Vaughan with Mass on Wednesday at 9.00am.  You are welcome to attend either of these if you are free.

Assembly is this Friday at 2.10pm Room 5 are leading this.

Have a great week


Julie

Week 3

Hi

Tomorrow is the Mothers Day Cafe!!
It is really important that each child has one person to attend. This could be mother, grandmother, friend. If your child has no one coming please let me know ASAP so I can sort someone.
Please come to the office area at 10.30am.

Monday is Caritas Day. Caritas Aotearoa NZ is an agency that works towards making a real
difference in the lives of people living with poverty or injustice. The Caritas Challenge is an annual event that builds solidarity with the poor. In support of this we are having a ‘Rice Day’ at school.  Children are allowed to have morning tea and will only have rice for lunch.  So no pie warmers tomorrow. Please provide your child with a named bowl and spoon.  If your child is unable to eat rice, please let me know. Sponsorship forms were also sent home and these can be returned to school by May 25th.


Wednesday we have a school house netball tournament. Children wear house colours that are appropriate for playing netball. We will be walking up to the courts after an early lunch. You are welcome to come and watch. This will start at 1pm.

Thursday is pink shirt day information about this is on blog.



Have a great week


Julie

Pink Shirt Day

     Pink Shirt Day

    

On Thursday 17th of May The Sticks n Stones Ambassadors here at St Gerard’s
Primary will be having a Pink Shirt Day, this coincides with NZ Bully Free Week.
Pink Shirt Day is to show our support and stand up to bullying .
It would be awesome if you could dress up in pink to show your support.
There will be Best Dressed prizes for each class and an Overall Winner.
If you would like you can bring a gold coin donation.
The money will be donated to the Mental Health Foundation and Sticks n Stones
to help run programmes here at school.

There will also be a baking competition - we would like this to be student prepared
(as much as possible). The three different categories will be for the pinkest, best
tasting and best presentation.

ROOM 2 and 7 Cafe for Mothers

Children will bring home an invitation today for our Mother's Day Cafe.

This is on Monday at 10.30am in Room 2.

Your child will serve you!!

If you are unable to make it, each child can bring a special lady!! eg a grandma, aunty or friend.

If your child has no one that can attend please let us know ASAP and we will find them someone special. 

week 2 term 2

Hi

This week we have Netball on Monday and Wednesday and children can wear sports uniform.
This term on Tuesdays in Room 2 we have Grandma reading which is from 2pm-3pm and when a group of Grandmas come and hear the children read and read to them and play games.
On Wednesday I will be away in Dunedin with the junior team looking at schools who are using play is the way.
Wednesday is a school mass at 9am all welcome.
Friday is Assembly in the hall at 2.10pm all welcome.
Well done to all our hockey players!! Thanks heaps for amazing parent support it was great today!! Thank you all!

Friday hockey practice after school 3.30-4pm and games this weekend in Cromwell at 1pm- please be ready to go at 12.50pm.

We are learning about sequencing time in Maths and have been working on what we do in a day and in what order. This week we will be looking at time and what happens at different times in the day.
You could talk to your child about this and get them to start thinking about the time it takes to do things!!! To brush teeth??? etc


NZ ski passes

NZSKI are offering Local School Passes this year for the same low price as last year.  $100 for primary aged children (5 years and under are just $20) $165 for secondary school aged children. Passes will be available from the Queenstown Snow Centre from 8^th May, and  there is no deadline for purchase. 

^{(Please let Chrissy know if you wish to purchase this as she has to forward your name to the snow centre to verify you are at a Central Otago school. She will need these names before the 8th May.)}

Have a great week


Julie