St Francis Xavier Catholic School To Love, To Learn and To Serve

Kia Aroha, Kia Akona, Kia Aro Atu No.13 Thursday 30th August, 2018

Address: 1 Percy Street, Whangarei 0112 Phone: 09-4371039 Cellphone: 027 2784303 Email Office Manager: office@sfx.school.nz Website: sfx.school.nz Email Absences: absent@sfx.school.nz

Tena koutou katoa.Dear Parents, Caregivers and Friends of the school,

When%Mrs%Whitehead%told%me%the%newsletter%was%going%to%be%eleven%pages%long%this%week6%I%was%amazed!%So%much%is%going%on%in%our%busy%school.Well%done%to%all%those%who%put%their%best%effort%into%the%cross%country6%even%if%you%did%not%win%a%medal,%giving%your%best%makes%you%a%winner.The%seniors%are%looking%forward%to%presenting%their%show%“Robin%and%His%Sherwood%Hoodies”%in%week%10,%and%the%middle%school%have%just%about%got%rid%of%all%the%mud%from%their%knees%after%the%Rippa%day%last%week!Don't%forget%to%take%time%out%to%pray6%even%if%your%prayer%is%just%"Thank%you."%As%Mary%MacKillop%said,%"We%have%much%for%which%to%be%thankful."

Glenys JakicevichDeputy Principal

Desperately seeking a clever parent to film our Year 5 and 6 show!!! Are you clever with recording movies?Mrs J is seeking someone to film our show so it can be burned onto DVDs and

purchased by families. If you can help- or know someone who can help, please contact Mrs J.

!!

Advertising in our Senior Production ProgrammeIn week 10 of this term, our year 5 and 6 classes will proudly present

“Robin and His Sherwood Hoodies" at the Riverbank theatre.

Would you like your business to be advertised in the programme?

Over 300 people will see the show and we would love the support of our school community. A business card-sized advertisement will cost $150.00.

Larger advertisements will cost $300.If you are interested, please contact Mrs J glenys@sfx.school.nz

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FAMILY WORKER(12 month Fixed Term Contract)

Applications are invited for a Family Worker position, 15 hours per week, providing support to families and children through interaction with the school community, Catholic Parish, greater community and external agencies.

This is a new and exciting initiative that Pompallier Catholic College and St Francis Xavier Catholic School Boards of Trustees are very keen to implement.

The preferred applicant will have:• A relevant tertiary qualification, or be working towards attaining a qualification in social work, health, education, or a related

discipline.• Knowledge and skills in assessment and planning with whānau/families.• Experience in delivering programmes to whānau/families.• Experience in a health, education or social services setting.• Knowledge and skills in utilising a strengths-based approach to whānau/family intervention.• A working knowledge of issues relating to child protection, abuse and health/education issues.• A willingness to support and promote the Catholic Character of our school.

To apply for this position, please complete an Application Form, available from the Pompallier Catholic College website: www.pompalliercollege.school.nz (Refer to About Us/Vacancies). Applications must also include a CV and covering letter, and can be returned either by mail to: Pompallier Catholic College, PO Box 10-042, Te Mai, Whangarei 0143; or electronically to: admin@pompallier.school.nz.

Please contact the Principal or Office Manager at Pompallier Catholic College for further details. Phone 09 438 3950.Applications close at 3:00pm, Friday 31 August, 2018.

Seasons For GrowthHave you experienced the death of a loved one, separation, loss of a job, a change in your living situation or health? Change, loss and grief are part of a normal and valuable life. Exploring the Seasons for Growth is a small group programme designed to provide in-depth understanding of the impact of loss and grief on an individual's well-being. The next course will take place on Saturday 8th September and Sunday 9th September from 9:30-4:00pm in the side room of St Francis Xavier Parish Hall. Registrations are essential. For registrations and for more information contact Liz Beazley 0274714120 or email Liz at mikebeazley@xtra.co.nz. Registrations close on 2nd September.

Welcome to our new students Himiona Korewha,

Blue Mahani Kore and Alexio Muzembe who started

in our school recently

We have coffee and tea available for parents in the

St Josephs’ Room (Room 5 & 6) on Wednesday

afternoons from 2pm. All welcome.

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RELIGIOUS EDUCATIONThis Sunday’s Readings:

Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-8; James 1:17-18, 21-22, 27: Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23Thought For The Day:

“You should never let adversity get you down, except on your knees” James 5:13 “Are any of you suffering? They should pray”.

*Father’s Day LiturgyOur Father’s Day Liturgy is tomorrow, Friday, 31st August at 1:30 pm in the church. Dads, come along and celebrate with us.

*Daffodil Day-Mufti DayThe Cancer Society’s Daffodil Day is tomorrow, Friday, 31st August. The children can wear mufti to school. Your gold coin donation will be donated to the Cancer Society.

*Coin Trail for India flood victimsDue to severe flooding in India’s Southwestern State of Kerala, over 300 people have died and hundreds of thousands of people are taking shelter in relief camps. Many of these people are relatives of families in our school and parish community. We will be holding a coin trail on Tuesday 11th September. Your donation will be sent to Caritas, who are running a Caritas India Solidarity Fund.

*At the moment our focus in Religious Education is on the God StrandY1 focus is on God is Creator - God is the Creator of all that is ‘seen and unseen.’ Each person is God’s unique creation made in love for love. We are part of what God made and ‘saw that it was good.’ We are called to respect our dignity-tapu as persons made in God’s image, the dignity of others and value all parts of creation. We are scared and Holy because we share in the Tapu of God. We are also called to respond with praise and worship of God.

Y2 focus is Our Gracious God - God is gracious – a great giver of gifts. The greatest of these gifts of love is Jesus who revealed that God is Abba- his loving Father- Matua, who is also our Father. Our response to God’s gift of grace is to truly appreciate them and to live lives of gratitude.

Y3&4 focus is God is Love - The Holy Trinity, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit is a loving community of three persons who are one God. One of God’s great gifts or taonga is the natural world of creation, which we should respect because it is tapu. Another of God’s gifts of love is the Ten Commandments.

Y5&6 focus is Who is God? - The names and images for God in the Old Testament tell us something about what God is like. Christians come to know God through Jesus and respond in faith through worship and action. Catholic beliefs about God have been summarised in the Creeds.

*Family massOur next Family Mass is on Sunday, 23rd September at 10:00am Kowhai Whanau (Rooms 9, 10, 11 and 12 will be participating). The invitation is for as many families as possible, to come and celebrate with Kowhai Whanau at Mass. Even if your children do not belong to the whanau that is helping with the Mass please come along and support our whanau. We are all part of one family.

*sacramental programme 2018/2019Reconciliation, Confirmation & First Holy Communion. For baptised children who will be 8 years of age, or older by Easter 2019 (21 April 2019). Enrolment forms are available from the Parish Office. The first session is on Sunday 16 September at 4pm in our Parish Hall for parents and children. Enquiries to the Parish Office.

Yours in Christ Maria WilsonDRS – Director of Religious Studies

School PhotosSchool Photo days are

Thursday the 13th and Friday the 14th of September. Our photographer this year is PhotoLife. A notice has already been sent home this week

explaining the order process which is the same as last year:

1. Class photos and individual portrait photos will be taken during the photo sitting on photo day.

2. PhotoLife will issue families with an online unique shoot key once individual photos are ready for viewing. Class photos are not made available for viewing.

3. Purchases can be made online with PhotoLife or you can pay by cheque to PhotoLife by completing an order envelope available at the school office after photo day.

NO CASH PAYMENTS.

4. Class and individual photos are expected to be taken on Thursday the 13th of September. Family/Siblings portraits are expected to be taken on Friday the 14th of September but this will be confirmed closer to the date. Please complete a sibling portrait booking form at the school office BEFORE photo day.

Children’s Safety

It is important that we are able to contact you or the other emergency contacts listed for your child. There

may be a medical emergency or we may need to contact

you to clarify pick up details. We ask that you please

update your contact details when you change

house or have a new phone number.

You need to contact the school office, if someone is

coming to pick up your child who is not on the contact list.

As you know, an early exit pass must be collected from

the office before you collect a student from class. This is for the safety of all our children, the classroom teachers will

not release your child without one of these passes.

PTFA NEWSGood afternoon families,It was lovely to see such great support at our Netsafe evening last week. It was a very interesting and informative presentation. Thank you to those who attended and to our committee for the delicious supper.A new order of re-useable rubbish bags has just arrived. These are an amazing product which have been very popular. $22.50 for a pack of 5 bags. These will be available to purchase this Friday from 2:30pm under the shade area. Alternatively you can email me at mattandserena@hotmail.com and I will deliver them to your child’s class. We are now selling stainless steel drinking straws as well. $12 for a pack of 2, including a cleaning brush. Our next PTFA meeting is on Wednesday 24th October at 7:30pm. This will be preceded by a Gala meeting at 7pm. We are keen to welcome new members onto our Gala committee.

God Bless,

Serena RossChairperson

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Photos from Baptism DayThere are photos available to view and order at the school office of the children, and their families, who were baptised last term.

There are 2 sizes available, 4x6 are $2 each. 5x7 are $4.50. Cash only please.

ASB SCHOOL BANKING PROGRAMME

If you wish to join the ASB School Banking Programme please collect an application form from the school office. New and existing ASB

customers are welcome. Forms must be completed by the legal parent/guardian of the

applicant.

School AccountsThank you to those who have paid children's school attendance dues and donations. Attendance dues are compulsory and a condition of enrolment at our school. Although these are paid to the school the money is forwarded to the Diocese for the payment of property maintenance, capital works etc.If the attendance dues are not paid we are required to send the details to the Catholic Diocese and they will follow-up amounts outstanding through a debt agency called Debtworks. To avoid this I have been making contact with families to avoid this situation. If you need to make a financial arrangement, please come and see me but the year is progressing steadily and an arrangement may be too late. Alternatively, financial assistance is available through the Catholic Diocese of Auckland Website : www.aucklandcatholic.org.nz/Attendance Dues and Special Character Contributions.

Deborah RudolphOffice Manager

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Cross Country

A big, big thank you to Mr Brent Markwick, Shaun, our caretaker and all our wonderful parent helpers who made the day run so smoothly.We really appreciate the work Evar Davis puts in to making our beautiful medals.

Congratulations to our place-getters from our school cross country. It was a great day and there were some fabulous races!

Children competed at Barge Park yesterday. The results were fabulous. More details in next week’s newsletter. St Francis Xavier race results are as follows:

Junior Boys (4 on 1st Jan) 1st - Lincoln Telfer2nd - Hughie Ponifasio3rd - Taylin Williams4th - Robin Martin5th - William Bates6th - Austin Osborne7th - Adam Sobran8th - Lachlan Whyte9th - Ethan Taonga Kandori

5 year-old girls 1st - Matilda Butler 2nd - Taya Beuker 3rd - Milla Lovell 4th - Casey Brooke-Smith 5th - Jordan Kamlade-Smith 6th - Aurelia Carlier 7th - Waira Samuels 8th - Obiaku Hewitt 9th - Ella-Jayde Cafatsakis10th - Lottie Dickson

5 year-old boys (5 on 1st Jan) 1st - Ifeoluwa Falope 2nd - Tyler Reo 3rd - Henri Ardouin 4th - Noah Jones 5th - Aidan Thorburn 6th - West Anihana-Dunn 7th - Noah Robinson 8th - Adam Frazerhurst 9th - Teddy Anderson10th - Ollie Runciman

Junior Girls (4 on 1st Jan) 1st - Mikaela Davis 2nd - Ann-Mariya Manoj 3rd - Amani-Lyn Collins 4th - Francesca Hall 5th - Leanne Anthony 6th - Ysabela Gervacio 7th - Elektra Topp 8th - Avarua Tevita 9th - Violet Wild10th - Charlee Petersen

6 year-old boys (6 on 1st Jan) 1st - Ryker van de Klundert 2nd equal - Nathan Hewitt and Noah Telfer 3rd - Lucas Walker 4th - Jamie Kalis 5th equal - Kauri Choat and Joshua Bourke 6th - Dane Pestana 7th - Matthias Hussey 8th - Layton Witehira

7 year-old girls (7 on 1st Jan) 1st - June Underwood 2nd - Keira Davis 3rd - Eve Howell 4th - Renee Boykett 5th - Rhylie Davies-Takimoana 6th - Carmela Paulino 7th - Angeline Littin 8th - Indie Fannin 9th - Chloe Mainland10th - Hanna Anderson

7 year-old boys (7 on 1st Jan) 1st - Rakena Harding 2nd - Eli Buck 3rd - Cooper Nichols 4th - James Crawford 5th - Jacob Lawson 6th - Kahn Padden 7th - Tamati Morgan 8th - William Heta 9th - Ayden Wood10th - Jay Thorburn

6 year-old girls (6 on 1st Jan) 1st - Lana Johnston-McCluskey 2nd - Anna Hewitt 3rd - Taylor Te Ao 4th - Ava Markwick 5th - Olivia Lenssen 6th - Pascale Gee 7th - Sienna MacPherson 8th - Mikayla Jane Chapman 9th - Madison Macmillan10th - Marabella Macpherson

8 year-old boys (8 on 1st Jan) 1st - Lachlan Ross 2nd - Louis Cook 3rd - Jack Robinson 4th - Hendrix Holland 5th equal- Joshua Charles and Jack Fortune 6th - Astin Hay-Knight 7th - Kees Tamboer 8th - Taylor Thomsen 9th - Asher Iyer

9 year-old girls (9 on 1st Jan) 1st - Ayla Johnson 2nd - Helena Iamafana 3rd - Charlee Martinovich 4th - Rosie Hewitt 5th - Anahera Harding 6th - Lily Rivers 7th - Claudia Cafatsakis 8th - Makenzie Hooson 9th - Charli Reo10th - Peyton Seymour

9 year-old boys (9 on 1st Jan) 1st - Taha McLean Saad 2nd - Jonno Bonetti 3rd - Daniel Campi 4th - Tom Sankey 5th - Lucas De Goey 6th - Imisioluwa Falope 7th - Matt Crowley 8th - Albie Fannin 9th - Jackson Wood10th - Lucas Pool

8 year-old girls (8 on 1st Jan) 1st - Kara Gee 2nd - London-Rose Gould 3rd - Mia Schutte 4th - Jasmin Johnston-McCluskey 5th - Katarina Henare 6th - Madeleine Stobie 7th - Yasmin Potticary 8th - Dayna de Bruin-Adcock 9th - Carly Morgan10th - Maya Maddox

A special mention goes out to Jan Dunn Riwhi who qualified to race in the 11 year-old boys at Barge Park.

Well done to all of our students for participating on the day.

10 year-old boys (10 on 1st Jan) 1st - Ben Hori-Elliott 2nd - William Gross 3rd - Judd Buck 4th - Boston Morgan 5th - Hunter Martin 6th - Rylee Lloyd-Jones 7th - Kalym Werder 8th - Luke Webber 9th - Dontae Haami-Johnstone

10 year-old girls (10 on 1st Jan) 1st - Jorja Charles 2nd - Holly Schuster 3rd - Alex Walker 4th - Zoe Ryan 5th - Briley Graham 6th - Fiona Ryan 7th - Kahneisha Woods-Eruera 8th - Katie McGregor 9th - Lucy Street10th - Felicia Therese Padilla

Wow! Last Thursday was an amazing Rippa Rugby day for our Year 3 and 4 classes, challenging Whangarei Primary on Kensington Park fields. We had a day of great sportsmanship, participation and friendship.A HUGE thank you to all of our wonderful parents who supported, set up, joined in the games and withstood the rain, mud and sunshine! Enormous thanks to our group of senior students who stepped up as referees. You were all awesome.

!AUGUST

31st! ! ! ! Mufti Day - Daffodil Day. Please bring a gold coin donation to ! ! ! ! donate to Daffodil Day31st! ! 1:30pm! Fathers Day Liturgy in the Church!

SEPTEMBER! !4th! ! ! ! Rooms 2 and 3 to visit A H Reed Memorial Park and Whangarei ! ! ! ! Falls area5th! ! ! ! Rooms 1 and 4 to visit A H Reed Memorial Park and Whangarei ! ! ! ! Falls area5th! ! 1.30pm! He Kākano Programme5th! ! 5.30pm ! Maori Whānau Meeting 7th ! ! 1:30pm! School Assembly (Karaka Whanau)11th ! ! 7pm! ! Board of Trustees Meeting11th! ! ! ! Coin Trail for India Flood Victims. Please bring a coin to donate 12th! ! 1:30pm! He Kākano Programme13th ! ! ! ! School Photos 14th! ! ! ! School Photos19th! ! 1:30pm! He Kākano Programme21st! ! ! ! Mufti Day (Bring a Can) Please bring a can of food to donate to ! ! ! ! St Vincent de Paul and Soul Food23rd ! ! 10am!! Kowhai Family/Whānau Mass25th! ! 7pm! ! Yr 5 & 6 Production Performance of “Robin & His Sherwood ! ! ! ! Hoodies”26th! ! ! ! SAUSAGE SIZZLE $2 (please place your order ! ! ! ! with the class teacher at the start of the day).26th! ! 7pm! ! Yr 5 & 6 Production Performance of “Robin & His Sherwood ! ! ! ! Hoodies”27th! ! 7pm! ! Yr 5 & 6 Production Performance of “Robin & His Sherwood ! ! ! ! Hoodies”28th ! ! 1:30pm! School Assembly (Kowhai Whānau)28th ! ! 2:50pm! Term 3 ends

All Community Notices may now be found on the school noticeboard near the office.

SCHOOL EVENTS Dates and times for events are subject to change.

Please check this fortnightly newsletter for any changes.

SCHOOL TIMETABLE! ! ! ! TERM DATES for 2018 8:45am - 10:25am Morning Session Starts Term Three:10:25am - 10:50am Morning Tea Break! ! ! 23rd July to 28th September 10:50am - 12:30pm Mid-morning Learning ! ! ! ! ! Term Four: 12:30pm - 1:20pm Lunch Break! ! ! ! 15th October to 14th December 1:20pm - 2:50pm Afternoon Learning