Sacramental Programme Continues Children will meet on Wednesday 2.30pm in the school library. This week we will be at the church for a practice for reconciliation. Baptisms: These are to take place over the next 3 weeks. Reconciliation: Friday 6th November – 6pm – St Patrick’s Church. First Communion: Sunday 22nd November – 10am – St Patrick’s Church We can arrange baptisms for your child at any time.

Family Mass This Sunday (8th Nov) we are celebrating the final family mass of the year at 10am at St. Patrick’s Church. It would be fantastic to see you all join us for this. The music will be led by the Chanel College Cultural group and Mrs Gannaway and Mrs Cayless will be leading a children’s liturgy.

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Upcoming Events 2nd-6th Nov Conservation Week

4th Nov Jack Flash Show - $3 if not already paid

5th Nov Whole school & class photos

6th Nov Reconciliation Liturgy 6pm

9th-10th Nov Recording of School Music CD

14th Dec Leavers celebration – 6.30pm

15th Dec End of term 4

Preparing for the future in a Catholic environment Hei whakatakatū mo te wā ka heke mai nei I roto I tea o Katorika

November 3rd, 2015 Term 4, Week 4

Catholic Character

Kia ora whanau ma,

It was certainly a busy start to week 4 of the term. It was a fantastic effort by the children, with the majority wearing black clothing in support of the All Black victory on the weekend. We hosted the Wairarapa Times Age and today we feature not only on the front page but also on page 5.

Next on the agenda was the Term 4 school radio show in conjunction with Arrow FM. For this the final show of the year, Mr Day took a group of senior children down to the station itself for the recording. By all accounts they did a fantastic job and you can listen to their show on Thursday morning at 10am or on Saturday afternoon at 4pm. This can be done at www.arrowfm.co.nz or at 92.7FM.

We have recently reviewed some of our school finance procedures and it is clear that we need to keep families better informed of their school account balances. To help do this we have decided that once a month we will send to all families their child’s accounts. These will show items they have been billed for, payments they have made and an overall balance. For families that we have an email address for we will email these out to you and for those that we don’t we will send a paper copy home. This procedure will start from today. A reminder to everyone that you are always able to follow what is happening at school through the range of school blogs that can be found on the school website – www.stpatsmstn.school.nz/classroom-blogs/2015-blogs/ . The blogs include:

Principal’s blog – weekly updates on school events

Sports blog – photos, match reports and information

Class blogs – updates on class activities

On Thursday we will be holding school photographs which this year will include individual, family, class and whole school photographs. The planned timetable is:

8.15 Family photos

9.00 Individual and class photos

10.30 Whole school and staff photo

11.30 Individual and class photos

It was wonderful to again be part of our school baptisms last Wednesday at St. Patrick's Church. It was a very special occasion as we welcomed Coby Brown, Moeawa Haney, Lily Tulloch and Finleah & Olive McCall into the churches family. Continued over …

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Tomorrow morning at 9am children have the opportunity to watch the show ‘Jack Flash & the Jumping Beanstalk.’ To attend children must have either already paid $6 to watch this show and the Sean Choolbura show last week or pay $3 to the school office by 9am tomorrow morning for the Jack Flash show. As we move towards the end of the school year we would like to encourage any parents who are planning to enrol their child at St. Patrick’s to do so as soon as possible. This is especially important for children who are turning five next year. It helps us greatly to be informed as early as possible of enrolments. Enrolment packs can be collected from the school office. We would also like to know if your child will be leaving St. Patrick’s at the end of this year as we want to ensure that we farewell them in the appropriate manner.

Steve Wheeler, Principal

Tee Ball – Saturday 7th Nov – 9am

St Pats White Sox vs Fernridge Fire Eaters – St Pats St Pats Red Sox vs DPS Charms – DPS

Mod Softball - Saturday 7th Nov – 9am

St Pats Green Sox vs MPS Giants – St Pats

Softball - Friday 6th Nov – South Park

St Pats Black Sox vs MIS Diamonds – 4.30pm - grass

Touch – Thursday 5th November

All games are played at Marist Grounds

St Pats Red vs Gladstone Y3&4 – 3.45 – Fd2 St Pats Blue - BYE

St Pats White vs DPS Harkness – 4.15 – Fd 8 St Pats Green vs DPS Williams – 4.15 – Fd2

St Pats Yellow vs LVW Chiefs – 3.45 – Fd6 St Pats Orange vs Gladstone Y5&6 – 4.15 – Fd5

Twilight Hockey - Wednesday 4th Nov

St Pats Whirlwinds vs Hadlow White Tigers – 4.00 TH1 St Pats Blaze vs MPS Navy Sticks – 4.40 ST1

This week we welcome the following children to St

Patrick’s School. In room 3 – Liberty Jones

Help needed with Maori Language Resources The school has been kindly donated a large number of reading resources written in Te Reo Maori which are a great resource for exposing children to the Maori language. As these are written completely in Maori we would like to place a translation at the back of each book, for the children to use to help learn what the books are about. To enable this to happen we would like to ask for help with the translating. If you are able to help with this please can you speak with either Steve Wheeler or Chris Connor.

Envirospot: This week is Conservation Week and the theme is Healthy Nature Healthy People. As a school our Envirogroup Leaders will clean up our little bit of stream at the Front Gate and classes have continued to mulch our native bush area. Yesterday it was Room 4 and 6s turn. Families are very welcome to come and go through the bush area. So this week consider getting the family outside to a nature area-sea, stream, river, bush or backyard!

Wednesday Walking Bus – This week we are walking from the corner of Essex & Pownall Streets – we walk down Renall St.

If it is cold and wet we will not be walking. From 8.20am on there is supervision and at 8.30am sharp we walk. Great turnout at last weeks Walking Bus with 21 children. One Mum was overheard saying "This is your only opportunity to walk to school." For a lot of children that's very true.

SPORTS NOTICES

Room 12 are hosting this week’s assembly at 9am on Friday. All welcome

Our 2015 school pet day is going to be held on Friday 20th November. In the morning children will be taking part in a range of craft based activities in their classes and syndicates which will have an Advent and Christmas theme as we near these periods of the year. They will need to bring some materials to school for this and a letter will come home later this week explaining what they will need.

All families will have the opportunity to enter the design an ‘Advent Wreath’ competition. This is something that is to be made at home as a family and then brought to school on pet day. The wreaths will be judged during lunch (1-2pm) based on attractiveness and the way the family name is included on the wreath.

From 2pm animals will be judged and will take part in the grand parade. The categories include caged animals, farm animals, cats and dogs. On the day we ask that parents join us from 1pm so that they can view the work the children have completed in the morning, as well as entering the family advent wreath competition. The school PTA will also be running a sausage sizzle for both children and adults to purchase lunch. There will be no school assembly on this day.

Pet Day Timetable 9.00-11.00 Class based activities for display in the hall 11.30-1.00 Class/ syndicate activities 11.30-12.30 Judging of children’s work

1.00-2.00 Viewing of children’s work in the hall, Advent wreath judging & PTA sausage sizzle 2.00-3.00 Judging of animals and the grand parade

PMP No PMP tomorrow (Wednesday) due to the show Jack Flash in the school hall

from 9am

Term 3 Show DVD

The School Show DVD is available to purchase from the school office for $15 a

copy.

School Uniform Update We are able to confirm that after speaking with our uniform suppliers, NZ Uniforms, they will be opening their Masterton shop in the first week of December. If you need to purchase uniform before then all items are currently available online through their website http://stpatricksmasterton.nzuniforms.com or at school we do stock a wide range of second hand uniforms. Please speak to Michelle or Kim regarding any queries.

Useful websites for

parents The two websites below give

families useful

information about schools and the

schooling system here in New

Zealand.

http://parents.education.govt.nz

www.educationcounts.govt.nz

Term 4 – things to budget for School show - children have the opportunity to watch the fun and humorous ‘Jack Flash & the Jumping Beanstalk’ on the 4th November. The cost for the show is $3 due to the support of the school PTA. Payment is only needed if you have not already paid $6 for this show and the Sean Choolbura show.

If you have a School AP the show cost will be added to your account. PTA Calendars – this term the PTA will be again organising their annual calendar art fundraiser. School music CD – please see the attached notice in this newsletter School photographs – individual, class, family and whole school photographs will be taking place on the 5th November

We have popcorn for sale in the school

office for 70cents a packet

Video and music links

St Patrick’s School & New Zealand Police ‘Safer Kids Together’ - https://youtu.be/dlXmO2uRsSk

Room 8’s competition entry ‘The Rugby Disease’ - http://youtu.be/GHpAxJictvw

Term 3 school radio show http://www.arrowfm.co.nz/podcasts/Live-Wires/

Art Splash video clips & photos - http://principalsblog2014stpatsmasterton.blogspot.co.nz/

GENERAL SCHOOL NOTICES & INFORMATION

Choir & School Music CD Over the years St Patricks School Choir have recorded 3 CD’s. It’s time for number 4. The CD will be recorded half way through term 4. This time around we have decided to record 2 tracks with the whole school. The previous CDs were published in lots of 500 which all sold out fairly rapidly. They make wonderful mementos for children and families and also make great Christmas gifts. They will be available for sale near the end of Term 4 for $20 each. The sound engineer is Neil Madden from Sounds Unlimited in Wellington. He has been responsible for many recording projects over the years with artists such as The Warratahs, Solo Mio & Dancing with the Stars. You can pre-order any number of CDs by sending a written note and the appropriate amount of money to the school office. If you wish to hear a couple of tracks from previous CDs keep a look out on the Principals Blog

PTA Calendars Children’s artwork can still be viewed every day in the school quad on the table by the toilet block. All orders need to be placed with payment by this Friday, 6th November. You are able to order calendars, dairies, mouse mats and cards

all of which make fantastic personalised Christmas or birthday gifts:

Calendars - $10

Cards - $15

Diaries - $15

Mouse mats - $12

Upcoming Term 4 Events

- Sacramental Programmes - Pet Day - Radio show - Class & whole school photos - Wairarapa Cricket Competition (Yr6) - Masterton & Wellington Athletics - School swimming sports - Jack Flash Show

Library Books Please look around at home

to see if you have any school

library books and return

them to school as the library

will be closing soon for

stocktake.

‘BreakThrough’ Marriage Workshop

All couples go through periods where their relationship is strained. Stress, sleep-deprivation, demands from family and work can starve your marriage of the positive energy it needs and deserves. Soon, you find yourselves arguing more often, making up with less enthusiasm and becoming someone even you yourself don’t like. If this sounds like you, or someone you love, it’s time to do something about it!

The BreakThrough Workshop is a practical, solution-focused event for all stages of marriage. This workshop will arm you with skills and insights to transform your relationship into the thriving, joy-filled encounter that it is meant to be.

Please Note: There is no couple or group work in this workshop – all activities are individually based and your privacy and confidentiality is strictly respected. You can come with your spouse or on your own.

Venue: Catholic Centre. Date: 11 November. Time: 6pm-9pm

To enroll: Sue Devereux 04 496-1744 s.devereux@wn.catholic.org.nz