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confident, resilient, culturally connected learners
and enhance partnerships—whanaungatanga.
SCHOOL/PARISH FUNDRAISER
As you can see our driveway is looking rather tired
and worn out! Great that it is getting such high use
to our school and parish of course! We are going
to be part of a fundraiser to get some $$$ towards
this. Spread the word and come along for a fun
night with a delicious dinner. Set aside Saturday 6th
October at the Dalmation Hall. We have an
auction so appreciate any new items that you can
donate to this cause.
COLOUR RUN IN TERM 4
We are excited to take part in the “Colour Run” in
Kaitaia next term and invite our whanau to enjoy
us. What a fantastic way to take part in something
that is positively healthy, participating with our kids
and great fun! If you would like to take part,
please let us know.
SOCIAL JUSTICE WEEK
Our theme this year is “Diversity”. The students are
learning that God created us to be unique and to
appreciate our diversity. Like our body needing all
parts, we need each other too. The homily from
Father Carlo last weekend talked a lot about
kindness. If in doubt, be kind. What a wonderful
philosophy for us to take when interacting with
others.
TE REO MAORI
We had lots of fun with TeReo Maori throughout
the school. Mihi’s are now confidently being
shared, and our students had fun with new words
and greetings. Ask you child, or share a new one
with us too! Matua Wiremu is working with our
kapa haka group and they sound amazing! Watch
this space for sharing.
Have a wonderful and safe weekend. Many
blessings.
Kathryn Carey (Principal)
Greetings, Kia Ora, Talofa, Bula Vinaka, Konnichi wa, Dobrodošli, Sawa dee, Failte
The final newsletter for term 3! What a wonderful
term it has been for our students and their learning,
even though we have been battling illness from all
angles. Thank you for supporting us through such a
challenging term regarding this.
MANAIAKALANI
We are currently preparing for our “roll out” to
our three senior classes for the opportunity to
purchase your own chrome book. The paperwork
begins in term 4. Remember, if you have any
queries please speak to your child’s teacher or pop
in and see me. It is such an exciting opportunity
for you our whanau to have affordable device
purchasing options.
Our pilot classrooms now have a new facilitator
Venessa Davan. This week the focus was on
animations. Check out the classroom blogs to see
some wonderful links to our science focus using
animations!
STRATEGIC PLANNING
As a school we are thinking ahead to 2019 and our
strategic planning. If you have any ideas or
considerations that you would like to put forward,
please do not hesitate to flick me an email, a
telephone call or pop in. We will be continuing
with our key areas:
Enhance leaders of learning—grow student centred
learning where topics are authentic and enthusiasm
is led by the students to enhance engagement and
learning outcomes through the NZ curriculum.
Grow leadership—grow great leaders based on
student outcomes
Special points of interest:
Conservation Week 17-21 Sept
Mercy Week 24-28 Sept
Fundraiser Saturday 6th Oct
21 September 2018 Week 9 Term 3
“There but for the grace of God, go I”
You may or may not have heard this saying before. My uncle
was fond of saying it particularly when hearing of other’s
misfortunes. He always meant it as a form of empathy for
those in times of trouble and of thanks to God that he himself
was blessed to not have experienced the same difficulties.
The saying itself is attributed to an English evangelical
preacher and martyr from the 16th century, John Bradford,
who was, at the time of it’s utterance, said to have been
watching criminals being led to the scaffolds to be executed
for various crimes against the state. Interestingly enough, he
himself was martyred in 1555 for the crime of being of a
different sect of Christianity from England’s Queen at that
time, Mary Tudor.
For me, however, that saying suggests we are passive in our
relationship with God. That somehow, we are subjects to
whimsy or fate as the ancient Greeks would’ve described it.
My view of how we should approach God is more along with
St Paul’s ideals as he lays them out in his letter to the
Romans;
“For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.”
Romans 8:14,
When I reflect back on the major decisions that I have had to
make in my life, I clearly see the influence that God has had
on those times and the positions that I’ve found myself in.
Each new opportunity or direction in which I have chosen to
move in my life has been in response to an invitation from
the Spirit, whether I recognised or not at the time.
Jesus constantly invites us to respond the call of his Spirit.
To look for and to recognise the choices that God would
have us make. Those choices are not always easy either, in
last Sunday’s Gospel Peter is rebuked by Jesus for the very
human response of not wanting Jesus to die.
John Bradford is said to have chosen to accept his death
sentence willingly, asked for forgiveness from all he
wronged, and forgave all who had wronged him.
I am by no means suggesting we look for martyrdom as a
way to serve God, but instead that we might look to find ways
in which we might see the Holy Spirit at work in our lives.
God Bless, Phil
Kiwi
Pukeko
Kea
Tui
Kakapo
Te Kahu
Keita Smith and Khloe Hokai
Kadence Kopae and
Louise Richards
Kaycee TeWake and Ricardo Spence-
Flood
Alex Mulholland and Will Wright
Poppy Ujdur and Marshall Molina
Andrew Kim and MacKenzie Knight
These are our star students for the two weeks between
assembly celebrations. They have been “stars” of the
classroom and stood out for Resilience, Excellence,
Achievement, Co-operation and Holistic qualities. They
may have shown some of these characteristics or all of
them. Congratulations!!! They take home a Duffy book as
part of this award. If you would like to be our Duffy
Sponsor, please let us know.
PLEASE NOTE!! Can all drivers enter and leave our carpark from Dominion Road, so that our walkers are safe down the hill on to Eden Terrace and in the carpark. We are aiming to keep our pedestrians safe.
Whanau, let us always remember to show whanaungatanga at Pompallier. Help us to promote our values of
atawhai (mercy), aroha (love), pono (truth), and tika (integrity). Encourage our children to use these in all of their
actions with others. Share a smile, a helping hand. Be kind. Together we can create a school community which
is positive, helpful, caring, joyous and strong.
This calendar gives you an idea of what is coming up during the term. Put the dates somewhere important to remember them. Dates can change at times, so please check this calendar each newsletter. If there are last minute changes we will notify you by text, and add comments onto our school Facebook page. Make
sure you contact Helen in the office to ensure you are part of our “phone tree” and get the “Skool Loop” App for your phone with updates too!
A reminder, for safety of our children,
please drive slowly in the carpark. No child
is to leave the gate area unsupervised.
Please do not park in the yellow lines.
Sep/Oct 2018
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
Wk
10 24
MERCY WEEK
25
26
Yr 5-8 Mini Hock-
ey Taipa
27
28
Assembly
Last day of term
29
30
Wk1 15
First day of term 4
16 17
Kiwi Sport
18
NZ Shake Out Drill
19
Newsletter
20 21
Wk2 22
LABOUR DAY
BREAK
23 24 25
Duffy Show
26
Assembly 2pm
Colour Run
27 28
Wk3 29 30 31
Kiwi Sport
1 2
Newsletter
Zone Athletics
3 4
Wk4 5 6
7 8
Maths Lead
Teacher
9
Assembly 2pm
10 11
Wk5 12 13 14
Kiwi Sport
15 16
Newsletter
Far North Athlet-
ics
17 18
Wk6 19 20
Yr 3-6 Rippa
21 22 23
Assembly 2pm
Yr 7/8 Touch
24 25
DUFFY FUN!
We had great fun on Friday as we welcomed Riqi Harawira and his partner Flossie Drake as our Duffy Role
Model. Riqi shared his musical career and Maori instruments with us. He spoke about reading linking with
achievement to our students. Some wonderful questions were asked by our students and then we shared a
waiata with them both. Lots of fabulous fun as always. Each student took home their chosen Duffy book.
It was also a chance for us to thank Mrs Scutt for managing our Duffy books so well. We sponsor this
programme as a school as we think books are so important. If you would like to pick up this sponsorship, we
would absolutely love the support.
Cross Country Champions!
Congratulations to the Far North Cross Country
top 10 champions! These students were hugely
successful gaining a positon in this competition
held at Peria. We are really proud of you!
Placings as follows:
Lily Wells: 5th place (8 yr girls)
Arli Hokai—6th place (8 yr boys)
Calista Shanks: 3rd ( 9 yr girls absent from photo)
Therese Birch—7th (9 yr girls)
Ashton Hodgson Kimber—10th (12yr old girls)
Nathan Murray—9th (12 yr old boys)
A huge thank you for the parent/whanau support
this day, and of course to Emma Best who was
Whaea Emma for the day!
Mahi Tahi i Te Karaiti. To nurture and inspire
leaders of learning and excellence. Check out
our up and coming student leaders. Jaymee
created her own t-shirt bag for Mrs Carey and
these boys Corban, Caleb and Max, are part of
the Enviro Team who are planting and cultivat-
ing with Mrs Nicholls. We love the leaders in
our school who are aspiring to be kaitiaki for
creation. Ka pai to mahi!!!
We would love to take this
opportunity to extend a warm welcome to our new
students and their whanau! This term we welcome to PCS
Kiwi: Tyler Jecentho
Te Kahu: Liam Mulholland
It is always wonderful to see our school grow with such enthusiastic and
confident students! We know they will love being at PCS!
We have preference spaces available so
spread the word.
We are doing a stock take of our junior readers and books in the
school. Can you please check your bedrooms, bookshelves and spaces
for our school books. We need the sets of books for our groups and it
is very expensive to replace reading books. Please hand them back to
the classroom teacher as soon as possible to enable our stock take for
term 3 to take place. Thank you!
End of Day Safety
Please do not leave the carpark via the Eden
Terrace Hill. We are finding that it is
becoming very dangerous for our children if
the bus enters the driveway and the children need to walk across
the carpark (different bus drivers do different pick up points). Enter
and exit from Dominion Road ONLY! If the
teachers are supervising the children at exit
points, please stay parked until 3pm for safety
of all. Thank you.