then presented to the community. A wonderful chance
for their leadership to blossom.
MOVIE MAKING
You may have noticed our senior students videoing the
event this year. They are really enjoying the learning
through our movie making specialist Harley who is
working alongside our senior classes for 6 sessions.
Check out their video they put together. All of the small
details that they have been learning such as how they
begin the movie, how characters are centred (the rule of
thirds) and the shots. It involves lots of practice and
tweaking and they are still mastering these skills. See our
QR code later in the newsletter to watch it!
It is exciting that we have secured some funding to get a
school drone. Our goal is to be able to share our
learning and activities with you via these wonderful
technology tools.
Our senior students are working towards creating their
own movie as part of our Manaiakalani journey. Two
will be chosen from our school to present at the Te Ahu
Centre later on in the year. We will be sure to advertise
to you and give our school community a chance to view
too!
CULTURAL AND ART EXTRAVAGANZA
A reminder again about our cultural and art
extravaganza being held on Thursday 26th September.
Put in your diaries the date to join us in an art auction
and sampling delicious dishes from around the world!
We are needing some support with food and clean up
for the event. Please come in and see us if you are
available. It is all for the good of our kids! Spread the
word and invite your whanau, family and friends!
DAFFODIL DAY
It was lovely to support Daffodil Day as a school and
community. We enjoyed wearing yellow for the day
and raised an amazing
$207.90
We know these funds will stay locally which is very
helpful. So many of us have been affected by cancer in
some way, so our prayers remain with our community.
Have a wonderful and safe weekend with whanau and
friends.
God bless, Kathryn Carey (Principal)
Greetings, Kia Ora, Talofa, Bula Vinaka, Konnichi wa,
Dobrodošli, Sawa dee, Failte,
Vitejte
Hard to believe that we only have 3 weeks left of the
term. The weeks just fly by with so many great things
going on at PCS. Our students have shone in cross
country, the talent quest, leadership, tuakana teina roles
and student voice with their learning. I have had the
privilege of carrying out formal observations throughout
the school this term as part of teacher appraisal. It is so
exciting to see the level of critical thinking that is
happening in each class. The students are able to talk
about their learning and what helps them. The exciting
part was to hear how much they enjoy learning and are
proud of their achievements. I am so grateful to our
teachers who spend time planning learning that
promotes these great thinking skills to help nurture
student achievement.
Each teacher is working on their own teacher inquiry
goals to help build on student achievement in their
classrooms. They all undertake professional
development to keep building up their own kete,
alongside our staff meetings, Manaiakalani meetings and
Kahui Ako. It is all part of the building blocks to
support teachers and learners. We certainly have a
fabulous team here at PCS!
SOCIAL JUSTICE
Next week it is really exciting to focus on “Social
Justice”. The theme set by Caritas this year is “Fair,you
say?” The students work through some really special
resources provided by Caritas, and it is another chance
for them to look in to the world and help make it a
better place using our values and teachings of Christ.
TALENT QUEST
We had great fun last week celebrating our talented
students at PCS. The students that took part in the
talent quest were sharing their gifts with us. I was so
impressed with the range of talent we have in our
school! I am also really proud of the Special Character
Team who worked hard behind the scenes to plan,
advertise, create auditions, music, judging sheets and
Special points of interest: • Tuesday 10th September Hiwi the
Kiwi • Wednesday 18th September Whangarei X-Country • Thursday 19th
September—Duffy Leader Year 8 transition chat • Sunday 22nd
September PCS Mass
6 September 2019 Week 7 Term 3
Humility and cats—Abridged from Fr Carlo’s Sermon
Jesus in today’s Gospel reminds us about humility. Speaking of
humility, Cats are not known for this trait. In fact thousands of
years ago cats were worshiped as gods. Apparently they have not
forgotten this. The life of a cat revolves around what the cat
wants to do: to eat, to stretch, to be petted, to sleep. Cats seem
to be able to exult themselves and get away with it. They are
perhaps the only animals to which the words of Jesus in today’s
Gospel (Luke 14: 1, 7-14) do not apply.
For what Jesus tells His disciples is only by humbling
our-selves that we can be exulted.
Now what is humility? And why is it that Jesus thinks it is so
important?
Humility is the willingness to acknowledge our own limitations.
Humility tells us that it is a benefit for us to own our
weakness-es.
We actually take a step forward when we are able to say: I am
not as patient as I need to be with my family; I am not as
crea-tive as someone else might be; I find it difficult to say I am
sorry; I hold prejudices against certain people; I am not a good
listener.
Through all these honest acknowledgements of our limita-tions,
we can move towards the truth without devaluing our-selves.
Because honest humility allows us to acknowledge our weak-nesses
and at the same time realize that we remain people of goodness and
dignity.
We might not be perfect, but we have value. We might not be able
to do everything, but we have something to contribute. Humility
allows us to claim the truth about ourselves.
But humility does not only influence the understanding of
our-selves. It changes our view of others. For humility allows us
to see the goodness of others and to treat them with reverence.
The theologian Martin Buber was once asked a very common
question: “Where is God?” Buber replied “God is found be-tween
people.” God is found in the relationships that bind us to one
another.
The proud person does not see how crucially we need one another.
The person of humility does in fact recognize the need for
relationships and therefore finds God “between us.”
Cats believe they are self-sufficient, that they can do it on
their own. Christians know that they are not. They understand that
God is to be found when we acknowledge our limitations and
recognize our radical need for one another.
This fundamental insight is what makes love the highest of all
Christian virtues. For love tells us that it is in our relationship
to each other that we find God.
Love is, indeed, the only way to God.
If love is the only road to God, it is only the humble who will
walk upon it.
God Bless, Phil
Congratulations to our students of the week. They are
chosen by the classroom teacher based on standing out in
the past two weeks around our focus RISE—respect, in-
spire, service and excellence. Part of this award is a book
that the school sponsors. We are always very proud of
our students of the week! Ka pai!!
Kiwi/
Pukeko
Kea
Tui
Kakapo
Te Kahu
Kevin George, Lukah Dromgool,
Rohan Gunn and Gianni Hobman-
Williams
Kelisha Wilson and Kevin Vinod
Max Tye and Brooke Haines
Riley Jackson and Fynn Dalzell
Andrew Kim and Kazuya Newman
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