% of children AT/ABOVE the National Standard

2014 Reading Maths Writing

New Zealand 78% 75% 71%

Wellington Region

81% 77% 72%

St. Patrick’s School

93% 82% 80%

This does not of course give the whole picture of a child’s educational progress as not all children progress at the same speed or rate. There are also many other curriculum areas

that are of significant value, including the importance of their social and spiritual development.

A reminder to all families that we encourage you to set up an Automatic Payment (AP) to pay for school costs across the year. If you would like to do this or have any questions speak to the ladies in the office and they will be able to help. So far we have about 40 families with an AP and it would be great to increase this number. Ngā mihi o Te Atua, Steve Wheeler, Principal

Kia ora Whanau ma,

This week at school we will are celebrating ‘Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori or Māori language week’. This special week provides an opportunity to celebrate and learn te reo Māori, helping to secure its future as a living, dynamic, and rich language. On the page opposite there are further details on what will be happening at school this week. The photographs below show the children listening to a range of Māori myths and legend. Each day of this week the children can choose to go to a different classroom straight after break to listen to a new story.

Last night we held our first ‘Whanau Hui’ for members of our school community to come together to discuss our Te Reo Maori and Tikanga programmes. A big thank you to all the parents and staff that came together and shared their thoughts and ideas. Our aim is that this will be the first of many Hui’s. We plan to hold another gathering later in the term where we hope more families will be able to join us.

Tomorrow we welcome a team from the Catholic Education Office who will be undertaking a Catholic Character review of our school. The team of Hellen Johnston, ex-St. Patrick’s Principal, and Jennifer Muth, Principal of St. Teresa’s will be here for three days until Friday. Everyone is welcome to join us for the welcome, tomorrow at 9.00am followed by school singing.

The latest information regarding 2014 National Standards statistics for New Zealand primary schools has now been released. The standards are what we as teachers are asked to

use to measure student progress in reading, writing, and mathematics in children’s first eight years at school. The table below illustrates how children here at St. Patrick’s in 2014 compared to the national and Wellington average. If you wish to find more information to do with educational statistics and research in New Zealand, the website www.educationcounts.govt.nz has been developed by the Ministry of Education for this purpose.

Continued …

Pope Francis has some very practical advice as to what we can do to care for one another and the world we live in: “Business is a noble vocation.” Create jobs that allow for

personal growth, stability, living out one’s values Listen to, protects lands of and involve indigenous

peoples. The disappearance of cultures is even more serious than losing a species

Upcoming Events 29-31 Jul Catholic Character Review

30th Jul Chanel College Open Evening 6-8pm

31st Jul Pizza Day

5th Aug PTA Meeting – 7pm School Library

5th Aug NE Parent Information evening 5.30-6pm

10th Aug Radio Show

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

July 28, 2015 Term 3, Week 2

Room 2 are hosting this week’s assembly at 9am on Friday. All welcome

Catholic Character

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

Netball – Saturday 31st July

St Pats Diamonds vs Lakeview Emeralds – 9am Ct9

St Pats Hearts vs St Pats Apaches – 10am Ct10 St Pats Avengers vs Hadlow Hot Shots – 11am Ct9

St Pats Leprachauns vs MPS Cyclones – 10am Ct8

St Pats Paddys netball is at 3.30pm at the courts

Hockey – Saturday 31st July St Pats Shamrocks vs Gladstone Giants – 9.15am ST1 St Pats Paddys vs MPS Navy Sticks – 8.30am ST2

Soccer The weekly draw is uploaded during the week to the Capital Football website. Click this link to go straight to the draw

Hot Chocolate 50c a cup. This Thursday 1pm in the hall.

Bookclubs are due back by the 29th July

Pizza Lunch – Friday 31st July If you would like your child to have a pizza for lunch on Friday please fill in the order form that has come home and return it to the school office

by 9am on Thursday with $5. For every pizza sold the school receives $1. There are gluten free bases

available if required – these are an extra $2.

PMP There is no PMP tomorrow morning (Wednesday) due to the Powhiri we are holding to welcome the Catholic Character

Review team. Normal service will resume on Thursday morning.

Chanel College Information Chanel College would like to invite all parents, guardians, caregivers and students to attend an

‘Open Evening’ this Thursday from 6-8pm. This

is an opportunity to explore the college and meet the staff. At 6.15pm in the College hall the Chanel Cultural Group will

be giving a performance followed by a welcome by Mr Grant Miles, Principal, who will introduce you to the College.

Many thanks to Guiseppe Cugliari for helping to add a little

bit of extra track to the bush over the holidays. Check out the planter box outside the staffroom door. The

Liquid Gold is certainly working for the plants getting it!

Available at the office and proceeds to the PTA. Easy to use and not smelly!

Wednesday Walking Bus - Corner Hogg Cres and Worksop Road. Very cold but not wet last week and one

brave walker turned up when we were debating the weather. Well done Daniel Greville! Looking forward to

seeing our regular walkers and for anyone else remember

the old saying. " There'e no such thing as bad weather-just the wrong clothes!" . From 8.20am on there is supervision

and at 8.30am sharp we walk.

SPORTS NOTICES

School Uniform As you were informed last term, we have now officially changed school uniform suppliers to NZ uniforms. During this third term uniform can only be purchased online on their website http://stpatricksmasterton.nzuniforms.com but in Term 4 the company will be opening a shop here in Masterton. The Warehouse have also asked me to let you know that over the next couple of weeks they are selling off their stock of St. Patrick’s Uniform at half price. If you have any further questions about uniform issues please speak with Kim Burrows or Michelle Beaver.

New Entrant Information Evening Wednesday 5th August

5.30 – 6.00pm We would like to invite all parents/caregivers of

New Entrant children to join the Brigidine Syndicate teachers for an information meeting. The meeting will be

held in Room 3 and will give everyone an overview of

school expectations and how the Brigidine syndicate works. The content will the same as the meeting that was held at

the very start of the year.

Te Wiki o te Reo Māori – Maori Language Week

School activities this week will include: • school singing will focus on Maori sings we sing

here at school • each day after morning tea children go to a

classroom of their choice and listen to a

teacher read a Maori story/ legend.

• other class based Maori language/ art themed

activities

• Maori themed school assembly

PTA Meeting 5th August at 7.00pm in the school library

– everyone welcome

Over the past week we have welcomed

sonme new faces and some old faces to St Patrick’s:

In room 2 we welcome back Kaige Groenewald, in room 5 Evie Hawkins, in

room 7 we have Daesharn Rimene-

Goodyer, in room 8 Hunter Hawkins, and returning we Amanda Nauer and

Oliver Groenewald. In room 11 we welcome back Natalia Rimene-Nauer

and Tyler Groenewald and in room 12 we welcome Logan Rimene-Goodyer.

Isabella Groenewald has also returned

and is in room7

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Nominate ‘Sport Good sort’ AA Insurance are currently running a competition to recognise and thank the good sorts of local sport in New Zealand. It might be a ref, a coach, the guy who washes the team uniforms or even the lady who drives the team bus. At St. Patrick’s we have many people who help out with sport so we think it would be a great idea if we nominated some of them for this award. Follow this link to place a nomination.

This is an excellent opportunity for our school community.

In the Entertainment Book there are thousands of up to 50% off and 2-for-1 offers in it.

There are more than 90 offers on contemporary dining, 160+offers on casual dining, 170+ offers on takeaways and attractions and over 1600 offers on retail and travel! These offers are available throughout the Wairarapa, Manawatu, Wellington, Kapiti Coast and some are for attractions and accommodation around the country – definitely value for money.

This year they are offering either The Entertainment Book or The Entertainment Digital Membership. The cost is $60 and out of that the school gets $12 per sale. There is over $20,000 worth of value for your $60.

If you would like to purchase a book please see the ladies in the office or fill in the form below and return it to school or if you would like to sign up for the Digital Membership you can do that online. Don’t forget to tell your friends and family about this offer!!