School Newsletter Term 2 Week 1 2018

Greetings, Kia ora, Kia orana, Talofa, Mālō e lelei,  Namaste, Ni Hao, Bula, Hola, Kumusta

Dear Families

We have had a wonderful start to Term 2 with many activities happening in Week 1 already! Firstly, we extend a warm welcome to new families commencing their schooling with us. We hope that being a member of Holy Trinity Catholic Primary School is a positive experience for you and that you feel a sense of belonging and community as together we grow in unity – learning, loving and serving as one.
Secondly, we are indebted to Sancta Maria College staff and Year 13 students who have worked tirelessly alongside us today as a “gift of service” to our school. Our windows have been cleaned and polished, our gardens weeded and planted, our resources have been made, our sports gear counted, our hall chairs named … the list of jobs we had prepared has been tackled with vim and vigour. We are truly grateful for this fantastic service and give thanks for the willingness, high energy and high standard of work that the Sancta Maria College students and staff have shared with us – THANK YOU!

Staff and BoT Workshop Monday 7th May 2018

As highlighted in the last school newsletter end of Term 1, staff and BoT personnel will be attending a Ministry of Education workshop here at school on Monday 7th May from 1:30pm – 7:30pm. The focus of the workshop is on “Understanding Behaviours and Responding Safely”. This workshop is being offered to all schools nationally. This means that there will be no afternoon classes for the children. Although school remains open from 1:30pm to 2:50pm (normal hours), children are able to be collected by parents/caregivers from 1:00pm – this will allow all school staff to attend this very important learning opportunity. Children remaining at school will be supervised in Taamaua/Hall for the afternoon period until 2:50pm.

Thank you for supporting us in our staff professional learning and development.

Catholic Special Character Survey

A note from Anna Soo Choon (Bishop’s Appointee on behalf of the Board of Trustees) …

On behalf of the Board of Trustees we would like to thank all of our parents,  grandparents and families who took the time to fill in the Catholic Special Character review survey.
It was a pleasure reading the “Survey Responses” and it has given us, as a Board some great ideas of actions and things to do that will further develop us as a Catholic school community and most especially to help you our families become more involved in our local parishes.

Thank you for responding to the survey – it is always good to hear from our families!

MOTHERS DAY LITURGY

We invite all mothers, grandmothers and those in “mothering” roles to join with us on Friday 11th May at 2:15pm in Taamaua/Hall at our MOTHERS DAY LITURGY. We love our mums and those who are like mums to us, so we want to thank God for them, to pray for them and to let them know how much we love them and all that they do for us! We look forward to seeing our precious mums there!

Winter Uniform

From Term 2, all students are expected to be in the correct school winter uniform. Long shirts/blouses and school socks can all be purchased from NZ Uniforms. Black school shoes may be purchased from any shoe outlet but they need to be a school shoe as outlined in our uniform policy.

Please clearly label all clothing items with your child’s name so all misplaced uniforms can be returned to the correct owners.

Thank you for continuing to support our school uniform guidelines by  ensuring your child/ren wear the correct school uniform with pride and care. This is a fantastic way to demonstrate our school Gospel  value of respect/manaakitia.

NZ Uniforms are the stockists of  our school uniform. Please note they are moving premises and will now be located at Unit 5 20 Lambie Drive, Manukau. email: manukau@nzuniforms.com.