issue 15 - 27th september

7/29/2019 Issue 15 - 27th September

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Holidays

Be safe and happy over theholidays. Have plenty of rest andrelaxation. There is a big termahead even though its only a shortone.Some advice for the break

Gospel Values for Term Three:

Honesty and Pride

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School News

Subway – Tuesday 22nd

October. Forms are

vailable from the school

office and the

lassrooms

Summer Uniform –

Next term the students

will be required to wearheir summer school

uniform. If you have any

uestions regarding this

please ask at the school

office.

School Holidays – We

hope you all have a

reat 2 week holidaynd we look forward to

eeing you all looking

nd feeling refreshed in

he new term.

Birthday Wishes

Bethany Oudemans –

10th October

Jacob Suddaby – 17th

October

Sally Xie – 23rd October

Prayer of the WeekJesusYou do not fail those who love you.You do not change nor vary.Teach us Your own constancy in love.Your humility, selflessness and generosity.

Look in pity on our small and tarnishedloving, protect, foster and strengthen it, thatit may be less unworthy to be offered to

You and to Your children.O Light of the world, teach us how to love.Amen.

Quote of the WeekDear LordPlease put your arm around metoday,......and your hand over my mouth!Amen

The Board of Trustees have spent time looking at the survey reply’s from the parentsregarding the continuation of developing the swimming pool. After a meeting was heldwith parents the consensus was, the school and students would benefit more fromdeveloping the school in other areas. It could take another 10 years to raise enoughmoney to have the pool in use. The decision was made at the recent Board of Trusteesmeeting to stop all fundraising towards the pool and to approach the Diocese to have theexistin buildin removed.

Message from the Board Chairperson - Gareth Oudemans

Students and parents helping out at theworking bee held last Sunday. A bigthank you to all those who turned up.

Mitchell with his Mary Toasthe made during a ReligiousEducation lesson



Sunhats in term 4

St Patrick’s School is aSunsmart school, and as suchduring the summer terms ALLstudents are required to wear wide brimmed hats whilstoutside. It really is this simple:no hat- then students will haveto stay in the shade.We always get older students

pushing the envelope on thisone. They “lose” their hats,they bring caps, they “forget”

etc. I am fairlyuncompromising on this.- The responsibility is

yours as parents to makesure that your child has a(preferable navy blue)wide brimmed hat at the

beginning of next term. Name it on the inside.

- The students areresponsible for wearingthe hats

- The teachers areresponsible for ensuringthat all students follow theBoard’s policies and

procedures, including theSunsmart policy.

In answer to the question that Iget asked each year (more thanonce): NO, caps are notacceptable.

No, I do not subscribe to theconcept that a cap is better

than nothing.It’s wide-brimmed hats or stayin the shade. The novelty of staying in the shade wears off real quick!

Principal’sCommentary:

Team New Zealand

I am so glad that all of thatyacht racing is over. I don’teven really mind that we didn’twin the cup. I am just relievedthat I don’t have to put up withthe increase in stress levelseach race day morning.And as for “Lean with Dean,”

I also won’t have to listen tothat advert for much longer.The racing though: what aspectacle. I personally foundthe racing to be amazing. Ithink I would pay money to goand see that stuff in person,and I am notoriously tightwhen it comes to payingmoney to see things that Icould watch on Freeview.Those boats and those that sailon them are superb. Say whatyou like about it being a richman’s sport, or whatever, but Ican bet you that most of NewZealand would have beenoverjoyed if we had won.With a personal fortune of $41billion US dollars (That’snearly $50 billion NZD) LarryEllison spared no expense inretaining the cup in an exciting

regatta that entertainedmillions of people across theglobe.His company is worth

NZD$216 Billion. That’s moremoney than many smallcountries make in a year.To even get to race for theAmericas cup is an honour initself, as the Louis VittonSeries, where the winner establishes their right to

challenge by winning againstall the other teams, is in itself aformidable regatta, wheremoney oozes from the hulls of the contenders. New Zealand’s

budget for the whole event:Louis Vitton Series and theAmerica’s Cup Regatta wasaround NZD$100 million.At the start of the Americascup races, the corporate pocketwas presumably nearly empty.

Team Oracle on the other hand, simply dialled up

a few more million andrevamped their second boat(the first wasn’t fast enough)and imported some moretechnology and talent.For a team from our smallcountry to be competitive inthat environment is even moreamazing than the success that

our rugby teams enjoy, or our netball teams, baseball teams,hockey, etc, etc. These guysare world class athletes andthey are sought after byyachting syndicates globally.Our boat builders anddesigners are exported,

poached, enticed and reveredacross the globe. No wonder that 4 of the 11 crew on boardTeam Oracle were Kiwis.Surprising that there were onlyfour, but then again the 2.5Australians are probablyalmost as good as at least onemore Kiwi (stop it Mr Kemp).What would be a real shamenow would be if New Zealanddoes its usual and turns its

back on the team that camesecond. Sadly, our competitivewee nation has a habit of

arrogantly assuming we willwin, and then if we don’t, theknives come out andeverybody is an expert andknows “exactly why we lost.”“We should never havehad……..!” “That b@#$*!yDean Barker……! Seriously, is there one sane

person in this country thatdoesn’t understand that theynever went out there with the

intention of losing. You canrest assured, that the team, itssponsors, Grant Dalton, DeanBarker and everyone elseinvolved did everything intheir power to win that race.They never left anything

behind (apart from the cup) onthe water. For the rest of the4.6 million highly qualifiedyachting experts among you,(as my wife told me after

about race 12) I am sure thatEmirates and Toyota will becalling you up after themourning period is over. Stay

by your phone. No! Don’t call

Farewell to the Suddaby

Family

With the end of term 3

we are all sad to say

farewell to the Suddaby

Family. Mitchell and

acob started with us in

2011. Colleen has been

a teacher at the school

since 2010 and has been

an important part of the

eam here at St Pats.

Her role here has seen

her mentor two

beginning teachers and

even helped us on our

way to 1 performing artsand 2 visual arts titles at

he Ka Toi Festival. She

has also encouraged

students to give

everything a go in the

sports on sports days

and will even join in the

fun herself. Tim has

been a member of theBoard of Trustees since

….. He has helped in

keeping the school

grounds tidy and also

been a handy man to

have on a BBQ. The

Suddaby’s are moving to

Fairlie for Colleen to take

up a position at Fairlie

Primary School where

he boys, joined by Liam

will also attend. We wish

you all the best for your

future and hope you

won’t be stranged and

call in to see us if you

are ever passing

hrough.



Community Notices

Athletics Club –

Starting Tuesday 8th

October at the Waimate

High School field from

5.30pm. For more

information contact

Peter Trainor 022 391

4020.

Waimate Touch Rugby

– Registration and

grading night on Friday

11th October with

competition starting the

following week. Thisyear we have a primary

school grade. Get your

forms from the El Paso

Dairy or the Waimate

High School office. More

information contact Jess

Bailey on 021 501 837.

Junior Golf – Junior

challenge series held in

the school holidays for

golfers under 19. Played

over 4 days at 4

different courses around

South Canterbury. Entry

fee is $10 per player for

18 holes or $5 per

player for 9 holes.

Everybody wins a prize

and supper will be

provided. More

information contact

Graham Keen 021 326

004.

Duffy Books

us: we’ll call you.There is a wonderfully writtenetter to team New Zealand athis website address that wehould all read. It is written tohe team before the last race andt really encapsulates what manyf us were thinking, doing andaying before that race, and inight of the result, is wortheading. (Thanks Gareth)

http://sandysviews.com/2013/09/24/an-open-letter-to-mirates-team-new-zealand-rom-team-new-zealand/

Come on guys let’s celebratewhat we did do and what wechieved, not what we didn’t do.

And as “Sandysview saysWelcome them home now.

Let’s give Team New Zealand’screw the heroe’s welcome theydeserve. Remember, we areTeam New Zealand and our name is on that boat.Working Bee

Thank you so much to all of those people that chipped in (no

pun intended) on last Sundayfor our working Bee. Thanks toyour kindness and service andtime, the playground is muchsafer.To Donna (and those with her),Jeremy, Anna, Mike, Penny,Gareth, Toni, Tania, Gary,Todd, Jess, Lyndon andColleen.I am sure that your kindnesseswill be rewarded somewhere

else as we all know that whatgoes around, comes around.Good on you.A special thanks to Adrianneand David for just sneaking inthe weekend before and gettingit done. Fancy trying to do agood deed like that without usknowing. It was just fortunatethat I called in and caught you.Thank you both so much.

Just my views folks. Don’t beoffended.

Naku noa naDarcy KempPrincipalSt Patricks School

Our students are among the lucky ones that attend a “Duffy School.”All students in Duffy Schools receive several free brand new books each year, provided

by a sponsor and usually presented by a celebrity. This week, we had the pleasure of Mr Gavin Hill as our Duffy Hero and he talked to the students about his role as a mentor and about why reading is so important, even for someone that wants a sporting career.Gavin was a great speaker and the kids all thought that he was awesome. Some eventook the opportunity to get his autograph. Gavin played for the Auckland Warriors,Canterbury Rugby, the Kiwis and for the Canterbury Bulldogs .

Message from the FASP Chairperson - Toni Oudemans

School Fair has now been changed to the 16th November, please note this date on youcalendar now! The level of success from this event is all dependent on the help andsupport of the school community. The more stalls and variety of stalls we have the more

profitable the event will be. If you have any ideas that you would like to run or you think

will be thriving, please let us know.We will also be hiring stalls for $20 to outside vendors, so if you know anyone thatwould be interested get them to contact the school or Toni. We are also taking donationsfor the white elephant stall, so if you have any unwanted treasures lying around theehouse please feel free to drop them off at the school next term.There will be a Fair meeting 2 weeks back at school next term, feel free to come alongand share your ideas or alternately you can email us at [email protected] with them..Have a great school holidays and see you next term.

http://sandysviews.com/2013/09/24/an-open-letter-to-emirates-team-new-zealand-from-team-new-zealand/









May the Year of Faithbe a time for allCatholics to renew their

esire and zeal for theEucharist and to availhemselves regularly of he Sacrament of

Reconciliation andPenance.

During this Year of Faith, may all Catholicspublically proclaim their ove for Christ and hisChurch.May this Year of Faithemind us of ways toerve those in our midst

who are overlooked,gnored or rejected, sohat all may experiencehe peace and healing

of Christ’s love.

May the Holy Spiritguide the Church duringhe Year of Faith so thatall Catholics mayexperience a deepenedenewal of faith, hope

and love.

May young people be

nspired by this Year of Faith to listen attentivelyand respond to God’scall to priesthood andeligious life.

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The Beatitudes

Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.Blessed are the meek; for they shall possess the land.Blessed are they that mourn; for they shall be comforted.Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice; for they shall be filled.Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy.Blessed are the clean of heart; for they shall see God.Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the children of God.Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice sake; for theirs is the

kin dom of heaven.

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