MISSION STATEMENT

“Our School, together with family and Parish, provides a quality Catholic education where

each of us strives to know and love Jesus Christ, develop a love of learning and a respect

for ourselves and one another.

NEWSLETTER 12 McNaughton Avenue

Mangere Ph: 257 1435 Fax: 257 1436

Email: office@marymackillop.school.nz

St Mary MacKillop Catholic School

June 10th 2020 Fakalofa lahi atu, Greetings Kia Ora, Malo e lelei, Taloha ni,

Kia Orana, Talofa Lava.

Talofa lava St Mary MacKillop Community,

Woohoo !!!!!! I am sure you were as pleased as I was to hear the Prime Minister’s announcement about moving to Alert Level 1. For us, there will be no major changes to what we are doing and our school continues to be safe to attend, including any staff and children who are considered more vulnerable to COVID. We have a good cleaning routine in place, people who are sick are staying at home and we continue to encourage good hygiene practices. We are supporting contact tracing by having QR code posters at our entrances – so if you haven’t already downloaded the NZ COVID Tracer app the Ministry of Health’s NZ-COVID Tracer app page has information to help you do that. What is changing is we can now look forward to building up our community connection again through mass, assemblies, sport, and cultural events.

We continue:

Students will not be allowed to enter the school before 8:15am. 3.00 – pick up

NE, APOD, BPOD – A1 gate

C POD, DPOD – Carpark gate

Park and walk !!!!! After school !!!

Park and walk winners:

Week 1: Urijah Tuiloma

Week 2: Siosiua Taufa

Total cans: 270

Classes with the most cans: Rooms D1 and B3

Help keep the road outside our school clear and safe for your children. We are encouraging all our families who pick up children after school to park on McKinstry Ave and walk the short distance to school to help ease the congestion problem outside our school - and to get a bit of exercise while you are at it! Stop chaos at the school gate Develop your child’s road sense and let them walk the last 500 meters to school.

Only 2 paper newsletters left!!!! June 10 June 24

From then on all communications will be:

Website

Facebook

Text Email

Make sure you are ready !!!!!!!!

NETBALL: We have started meetings and we are underway with training. Intermediate: Wednesday - after school Year 5 and 6: Thursday - after school We will send out more information with dates.

Enrolments:

ENROLMENTS FOR 2020/21: Keep them coming in !!!!

Parents are invited to enrol their children at St Mary Mackillop Catholic School when they turn

three, and I strongly advise to not leave this to the last minute even if you have children already

attending our school.

Preference is given to children who are baptised Catholic.

To enrol at St Mary Mackillop Catholic School you are required to provide the following:

- A completed pre-enrolment form signed by both parents (which is available at our School Office

or on our school website)

- A Preference Certificate signed by a Catholic Priest and stamped with a parish stamp.

- Original birth certificate or passport

- Original baptism certificate

- A passport must be sighted showing the residency status of a child who is born outside of New

Zealand - Immunisation certificate. There will be an Enrolment Information morning for parents and families in Term 4, and more information will be sent out closer to the time.

Super proud:St MMK is lucky to have her!!

Queen’s Honour For services to Education and the Pacific community

Afamasaga Agnes Rasmussen has been involved with the education and community service sectors for more than 50 years.

Afamasaga Agnes has taught at primary, intermediate, and secondary levels, and is current-ly a teacher at St Mary McKillop Catholic School in

Mangere. She has been a committee member of St Therese’s Catholic Church for the past 52 years and was a founding member of the Mangere Writers’ Group in 2017. She has organised seminars and training sessions for Sunday School teachers for Samoan Catholic Schools in Auckland. She has been a member of the Post Primary Teachers Association’s Multicultural Education Advisory Committee and the Hillary Commission Women’s Task Force for Recreation and Sport. She has volunteered for PACIFICA Inc. for more than 40 years and is a Life Member of the Manukau branch. Afamasaga Agnes has volunteered to provide training and English lessons to new Samoan migrants in Auckland and was the first Pacific woman to be appointed to the Social Welfare Commission. Subway orders are now available starting: Thursday 11th June Please support our local subway business. Envelopes will be given out on Wednesday 10 June and also available on Thursday morning from the school office. Orders must be brought in before 9.30am Thursdays

TERM CALENDAR 2020 JUNE: 17 BOT meeting –Staff room at 5:30pm 19 Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Feast Day 24 St John the Baptist Feast Day JULY: 3 END OF TERM 2 20 TERM 3 STARTS—8:50am 29 Student Led Conferences - School finish early 30 Student Led Conferences - School finish early 31 School Mass Term 3 School Assembly AUGUST: 3 Cook Island Week Year 7/8 Boostrix Vac Dose 2 5 BOT meeting Staff room at 5:30pm 7 St Mary MacKillop Feast Day - Liturgy C Pod 14 School Assembly 28 Syndicate Mass B/C Pod School Assembly