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What’s in the Newsletter this week? Welcome Ceremony

Catholic Leadership Day

Choir at Jubilate 2019

Enviroschools Canterbury

Young Vinnies Clothing Collection

Digital Reports

Parent Interviews

Early School Finish Times

Mufti Day

Enrolment for 2020

Lost Property

Bishop’s Proposed Plan

New Police Phone Number – 105

Lunch on the Principal

Principal’s Award

PTA News

Calendar

Church Notices

Community Notices

Welcome Ceremony Tomorrow we are formally welcoming families who are new to the Our lady of the Assumption School family. You are all very welcome to come to this ceremony, which will be at 9:30a.m. in the school hall.

Newsletter – 27th June 2019

Dear Parents and Caregivers

Haere Mai, Talofa Lava, Maligayang pagdating, Malo e leilei, Hwan Yeong hamnida, Bienvenido, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Bienvenue and Welcome.

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Catholic Leadership Day Catholic Leadership Day was a superb day for the Hillary Hub, Catholic Cathedral College and all other schools that participated in this wonderful event. We got to play games, socialise, meet new people and win chocolate. The focus for the day was to build communities at school, at home and in our world. Catholic Cathedral did very well in demonstrating that and we (as schools) started to build communities within ourselves. The Hillary Hub students enjoyed this day very much.

Neela (Hillary Hub)

Choir at Jubilate 2019

On Monday 24th June our school choir went to St Mary's School for Jubilate. The Jubilate this year was a celebration of the feast of St John the Baptist. All the Catholic schools in Christchurch participated. We had fifteen songs to sing, including ’I am The Light’ and ‘Ka Waiata’. Bishop Paul attended the ceremony and was greatly impressed. Mrs Cummings came and she was also very impressed. We really enjoyed this ceremony and we thought that everyone sounded amazing! We are looking forward to the Jubilate next year!

Eva and Hazel (Hillary Hub)

Enviroschools Canterbury Please click here for a link to the latest Enviroschools Canterbury newsletter, which features pictures of staff and students from OLA who have recently been studying about eels.

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Young Vinnies Clothing Collection A big thank you to everyone who donated towards the Young Vinnies Winter Woollies collection. St Vincent de Paul were very grateful for the donations, which will be used to stock their second hand stores.

Digital Reports A reminder that your child’s/children’s digital reports will be online late this afternoon. Yesterday you will have received an email with your login and password information. You will need to login in order to access the digital reports. Yesterday Amanda Campbell presented two parent meetings giving information on how to read and navigate around the digital reports. Click here for a copy of the information booklet handed out. If you have any problems logging in please contact the school office on Friday as we would really like you to have the opportunity to read the report before you attend the Parent Teacher interviews on Monday or Tuesday next week.

Parent Interviews

If you have not already booked a time for your parent interview, please do so before Monday at 9 a.m. when bookings will close. Information on how to book your interview was sent out on Friday 14th June via email. Click here for the link to book your interview time.

Early School Finish Times School will finish at 2 p.m. on both Monday 1st July and Tuesday 2nd July. If you are unable to pick up your child at 2 p.m. there will be playground supervision until 3 p.m.

Mufti Day There will be a mufti day on Friday 5th July (last day of the term). Your gold coin donation will go towards Caritas, the Catholic Agency for justice, peace and development.

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Enrolment for 2020 If you have a child wishing to start school next year, please ensure you have completed an enrolment form and lodged it with the school office. If you are unsure if you have already completed an enrolment form. please contact the school office and we can check for you.

Lost Property We have a lost property bin located in the back of the library. Please check to see if any of your missing school uniform items are there. Any named items are returned directly to the student’s classroom, however we do have a number of un-named items and these are put in the lost property bin.

Bishop’s Proposed Plan Recently Bishop Paul presented a pastoral letter to the whole of the diocese with his vision for the diocese and proposed plan for the future structure of parishes. Feedback for the Bishop’s proposed plan has now opened. There is 2½ months for feedback to be submitted. For ease of collation feedback online is encouraged and will take approximately 10 minutes though if you want to give fuller responses extra time may be required. The feedback questionnaire comprises specific questions as well as space for people to give general feedback. Hard copies of the evaluation form will soon be available from the school office. Information on the Bishop’s proposed plan can be found on the website www.ourfaith.chchcatholic.nz A meeting with Bishop Paul in each of the Christchurch regions will be held in July and dates will be available shortly on the website (www.chchcatholic.nz)

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New Police Phone Number – 105 NZ Police recently launched a new non-emergency number, 105. They have done this to make it easier to get hold of them in the event of non-urgent situations or ‘Things which have Already Happened’, which don’t require Police assistance immediately. You can call them on 105 for all non-emergencies, or you can go online at 105.police.govt.nz to report things like:

- Lost property - Theft for a public place or car - Intentional property damage - Or to get an update or add info to a previous report

In the event of an emergency, always call 111.

Lunch on the Principal Congratulations to Vivienne from Room 1 who recently received Lunch on the Principal for living out our school values.

Principal’s Award

A big congratulations to our Principal’s Award winners from the past fortnight!

Millie (Hillary Hub), Liam (Rm 4), Ben (Rm 3), Sophia (Rm 9), Zoe (Rm 8), Ethan (Rm 10), Dylan (Rm 5), Finn (Rm 11), Brynne (Hillary Hub), Charlie (Rm 2), Isla (Rm 1) & Ella (Rm 12)

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PTA News

There will be a mufti day on Friday 5th July. Gold coin donation to go towards Caritas. There is no PTA meeting on Monday night due to the parent/teacher interviews. The next PTA meeting will be on 5th August, at 7p.m., in the staff room. All welcome. Thanks for the fantastic support with the Spellathon. A reminder that any outstanding sponsorship money should be returned to the school office. Congratulations to Room 5 who had all their money returned the quickest. They have won themselves a pizza lunch. We will arrange a day for lunch before the end of term. Remember to order your Entertainment Book. Order between 12am Thursday 27th June and 11:59pm Sunday 30th June 2019 and you will receive a $10 JB Hi-Fi eGift Card! Click here to order.

Chloe & Lily (Hillary Hub), Makenzie (Rm 10), Xanthe (Rm 12), Xanthe (Rm 3), Amy (Rm 5), Lola (Rm 4), Acey (Rm 8), Annie (Rm 11), Leo (Rm 1 & Eddie (Rm 2).

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Calendar

Week 9 Fri 28th June

Welcome Ceremony 9:30a.m. – Hall Assembly (Room 1) – 2:20p.m. Hall

Week 10 Mon 1st July Tuesday 2nd July Fri 5th July TERM 3 Week 1 Mon 22nd July Week 2 Wednesday 31st July Thursday 1st August Friday 2nd August

SCHOOL FINISHES AT 2P.M. Parent Interviews 2p.m. – 8p.m. SCHOOL FINISHES AT 2P.M. Parent Interviews 2p.m. – 6p.m. Mid-Winter Breakfast (7:30a.m. – 8:45a.m.) & Caritas Mufti Day Assembly (Room 12) – 2:20p.m. Hall LAST DAY OF TERM First Day of Term 3 School Photos – Class / Individual / Sibling School Photos – Finishing Sibling Photos Rutherford Team Mass

Have a safe and happy and restful holiday – see you back on the 22nd July for Term 3

God Bless

Janet and the Team at Our Lady of the Assumption School

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Church Notices

Helping our Youth Find Freedom Our youth face challenges never seen before from porn to gender issues. How can we help them? FREE seminar with John-Henry Westen. Sunday 7 July, 1:30pm to 4pm, Commodore Airport Hotel, 449 Memorial Ave, Christchurch. A must-attend event for students, parents, grandparents, educators, clergy and youth leaders. See fli.org.nz/prolifeevents or contact Pat 359 2087 with enquiries.

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Community Notices

An Invitation to Discover a Sky Playground Open Christchurch invites the public of all ages to discover central city architecture and public spaces with free, one-off access to special buildings, and a range of themed walking tours.

Comprising one event per week over winter, the programme kicks off on Sunday 30 June when The Cathedral Grammar Junior School opens its doors and its rooftop playground for all to encounter for one day only.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1177364139132613/

This open building will be of particular interest to school aged families.

Many of the school’s key spaces are outdoors. So if the weather is fine, make sure you try the slide and get a view from above. Come along and enjoy the behind-the-scenes access between 10am and 4pm, when you can encounter this special building on your own terms and at your own pace.

Our aim is to bring more people back into the central city and to experience architecture on their own terms and at their own pace.

This includes school students as our open buildings are three very different inner-city schools - all engaging examples of how design impacts students' experiences when they are at school.

Two very different inner-city school buildings open in the weeks that follow: the stunning heritage building, Christ’s College Memorial Dining Hall (Sunday 4 August); and Ao Tawhiti, Christchurch’s only vertical school (Saturday 7 September).

More information can be found here: https://teputahi.org.nz/2015-programme/open-christchurch/

Hope to see you there!

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