Newsletter - Week 4, Term 3 (17th August 2016)

Our Lady

of the Rosary

School

Wainui Road, Waiwhetu, Lower Hutt, 5010

Phone: (04) 566 3258

Fax: (04) 566 3159

Email: admin@olr.school.nz

Web: www.olr.school.nz

Talitali fiefia, Bienvenido, Selamat Datang, welcome, It was really nice to start our week on Monday with Mass with our parishioners for the Assumption of Mary into Heaven. Our school virtues, Faith, Hope, Love and Charity are reflective of Our Lady, Mary the Mother of Jesus.

National Standard Reporting Learning Conversations—Thank you for the excellent family responses to our recent National Standard reporting and learning sessions last week. We had an 82% attendance on the evening. We appreciate your response and feedback to the survey regarding the sessions.

Immunisation information - Earlier this week families were emailed information regarding immunisation. It is great to see a steady stream of forms coming in for us to update our student health records. If you have not sent the forms in, could you please do so as soon as possible. Thank you.

We have a number of events happening over the remainder of the term during school time and after school. Please keep an eye on our calendar as some events have been changed due to other events cropping up. Please note the following SCHOOLWIDE events coming up:

READING TOGETHER PROGRAMME– Due to the power cut last week our Reading Programme begins tonight at 7pm in the Staffroom for any parents of children who are in years 0 to 3 at OLRS. If you would like to come and have not filled in the reply form, just come along.

Thursday 8th September: Paid Union Meeting - Teachers, Support Staff and Principals have a regional paid union meeting on Thursday 8th September in the afternoon during school hours. We would really appreciate you collecting your children at 1pm from school on this date. I will stay on site to ensure our remaining students are supervised until 2.50pm. Please be aware we will have minimal staff at school from 1pm onwards. Our After School Care programme will remain open for our regular after school care students. Please fill out the reply slip below and return it to school for us to know the number of students remaining at school from 1pm on this date.

DATES SCHOOLWIDE EVENTS

Monday 22nd - Friday 26th August CULTURAL WEEK - Thursday : Cultural Dress-up, cultural FOOD and Cultural Concert Are your children performing at the concert? (please see form inside)

Wednesday 24th - Wed 31st August BOOK FAIR - Books will be available for sale over the week in the library. A % of the sales comes back to our school to purchase books for our library.

Monday 29th - Friday 2nd Sept BOOK WEEK—Character Dress-Up on Wednesday (Please note the change of day)

The BOARD would like to remind parents/caregivers that children need to wear the correct school uniform. If thermals are to be worn then long sleeve school regulation tops are to be worn and are available in the uniform shop. They should not be visible. The correct school shoes also need to be worn, this does not include gumboots. If there is a problem with acquiring school shoes, please let the school know as we have access to school shoes that can be provided. Uniform standards will be enforced for all year levels. Thank you Natasha Watson (Board Chairperson)

ALL FAMILIES TO COMPLETE THIS FORM - Thursday 8th September - Return Slip Yes / No (please circle) Student Name(s) Room(s) _____will be collected from school on Thursday 8th September at 1pm.

After School Care Families ONLY (please fill out the section below) Yes / No (please circle) Name(s) Room(s) _____will be attending the After School Programme on Thursday 8th September from 2.50pm.

Please return the slip by Friday 26th August.

17 Aug Reading Together Programme, Yrs 0-3, 7pm 19 Aug 1st Communion student session 9-10am 22 Aug CULTURAL WEEK 24 Aug Scholastic book club orders due 24-31 Aug Book Fair 24 Aug Reading Together Programme, Yrs 0-3, 7pm 25 Aug Cultural Day – Dress up and concert 26 Aug Daffodil Day 26 Aug 1st Communion - student session 9-10am 29 Aug BOOK WEEK 30 Aug Artsplash Performance, MFC Wgtn, 7.45pm 31 Aug Collins Cup, Yrs 7/8 31 Aug Book Character Dress-up Day (date change) 1 Sep Sth Zone Basketball tournament Year 3-6 2 Sep 1st Communion - student session 9-10am 5-9 Sep Tongan Language Week 8 Sep NZEI Union Meeting for staff 8 Sep PTA Movie Night, Richie McCaw, 6.30pm 7 Sep 1st Communion practise, 6-7pm, OLR Church

(date change) 11 Sep 1st Communion Mass, 10am, OLR Church 12 Sep Caritas Social Justice Week 12 Sep Clean-up Week 13 Sep Paddy Market (date change) 14 Sep BOT Meeting, 7.30pm 19 Sep Yr 8 Girls Immunisation 19-23Sep Year 5-8 cycle training sessions 21 Sep Reading Together Programme, Yrs 0-3, 7pm 22 Sep Science Road Show Year 5-8 23 Sep End of Term 3 10 Oct Beginning of Term 4

A very warm Welcome to Lucas who joined Room 10 last week.

Unfortunately the POOL PARTY is CANCELLED due to us not reaching the required numbers we needed to cover the pool costs. We are sorry to disappoint those who did purchase tickets. Refunds will be giv-en out in the next couple of days. A big cheer of thanks to our PTA organisers for their time and effort!

School uniform overs In the winter months we encourage students to bring extra clothes to school when playing on the field. This will ensure uniforms remain clean.

2016 Artsplash Concert - Tuesday 30 August at the 7.45pm session - Tickets to this year’s Artsplash concert can be purchased from the office here at school for $5 or there will also be door sales in the Renouf Foyer before the concert.

Conor's Dad Barry, came in to tell our class about the Olympics that he worked at in Sydney. He had a security badge. He had a lot of photos to show us! Barry told us about horse racing and swimming. It was fun to look at pictures and hear about his help with the opening ceremony 16 years ago. Barry showed us photos of fireworks - they were pretty. In the food hall there was McDonald's, KFC, pizza and fruit. Thank you Barry and Conor for sharing this with us. By Aryana and Grayson, Rm 11

Lukah's Dad Jason, came in and talked to us about the oil rig and about his work on it. He showed us some photos on a slideshow. Jason's photos had dolphins, whales and even a seal that he sees from the oil rig. Everything on the oil rig is very big and heavy, the chain was ginormous. Jason brought in some beautiful shells and rocks to share with us and we passed them around. Thank you Jason, we really enjoyed your talk.

By Michaela and Foxley, Rm 11

OLRS Peer Mentors

Richie McCaw: Chasing Great Movie—Ticket Order Form Tickets will be sent home with your eldest child at OLRS

Thursday 8th September 2016, Light House Petone, 6pm for a 6.30pm viewing. $20 per ticket

No. of tickets required: $20.00 per ticket

Students name to return tickets to: Room no.

Payment enclosed $ _______ Your name:

Contact phone number: ___________

The Movie Night is a fundraiser for the School organised by the School PTA - Thank you for your support

Cultural Day—Return Slip

1. Yes / No (please circle) will share an item at the Cultural Concert on Thursday 25th August, starting at 12.45pm and finishing at approximately 2.30pm

2. We ask all students to provide a plate of food from their culture for the shared lunch.

Please return the slip by Friday 19th August.

BOOK FAIR – We have a Book Fair coming up

during our BOOK WEEK. It is a great opportunity to view and purchase books for your children for Birthdays, Christmas and any reading excuse! A percentage of sales comes back to the school for us to purchase library materials for our school. Keep an eye out for more information.

Our garden is flourishing! Thank you to our Enviroschool Team!

God Bless, Ngā mihi nui Karolina Surynt-Tapiki Principal

RELGIOUS EDUCATION FAMILY/ WHANAU SURVEY Thank you to all the families who completed the Religious Education survey. We have had a very positive response. The link will remain open until 9am Friday 19th August LINK: https://goo.gl/forms/aLPphMP1UiNJEgS43 This link will also be emailed to you. Thank you, Jane Carter (DRS)

Academic Excellence Certificates were awarded to these

students throughout last week. Congratulations to you all!

Catholic Character in action The Cardinal recently conducted an initiative for the year of Mercy to build a mountain of shoes for children in the Wellington Archdiocese. There was a fantastic response from all the parishioners and as a result there is now an office at the Petone Street St Vincent de Paul’s Shop over-flowing with shoes. Feel free to drop into the shop and say that you go to our school and could you look at the shoes, if your child requires shoes.

Our Lady of the Rosary Church has an active St Vincent de Paul’s group that wants to help people in our school community. If you need any assistance, including uniform requirements or a pantry top up, then please leave your details at the school office and a St Vincent’s de Paul member will be in touch with you.

Christopher Ellis from Room 11 wrote about the NED show for the

junior syndicate last week:

Dear OLRS

I wanted to tell you all about the NED show. The lady was funny. Her name was Jessica. She told us to be champions. She used yo-yos and told us what happened to Ned that morning. Aliens came to Ned's house and aimed a rock to Mars with Ned inside!!! She is selling yo-yo's in the office. I loved it so much!

I am Mr Speedy because

I am very fast!

By Joe Greaney I am Mr Strong because

I have strong muscles.

I can lift two cars!

ROOM 8 WRITING

I am Mrs Sunshine because I am

happy all the time. I shine all the

time just like the sun!

By Elizabeth van der Gulik

I am Mrs Lovely and I never ever

let go of my friends!

By Niamh Sio