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After School Care: asc@stteresas.ac.nz
Report Absences: absences@stteresas.ac.nz
School Uniform Shop: uniforms@stteresas.ac.nz
Phone : 04 939 1725 Fax: 04 939 1724
School Email: office@stteresas.ac.nz
Website: www.stteresas.ac.nz
Principal : principal@stteresas.ac.nz
On Friday we celebrated Diwali.
Lily from Kahikatea is the person of the week
this week! Lily showed great leadership last
Friday during Diwali, operating the henna
station like a seasoned pro. Lily in general is a
reliable and trustworthy student and always
looks out for the younger students in the
playground. Keep it up Lily!
Kia ora koutou
This morning we celebrated our school Feast Day (which fell on a Sunday this year), with a school Mass.
Thank you to Mrs Jacobs and her team for preparing our Mass. Thank you also to Otari Catholic
Women’s League, who made a donation of Rosary Beads for each child, and led us all in a decade of the
Rosary at Mass. Your child has been asked to take good care of these beads, as a Taonga—a treasure.
Diwali & Government House
Last Friday, we celebrated the Indian festival of Diwali with fun activities for the children to choose from.
Thank you to Mrs Sohani for organising this, to our parent helpers for supporting this event, and to
Vikashni for supplying our staff with some lovely Diwali goodies to eat this week!
Yesterday a selection of 12 children represented our school at the official welcome for the President of
Ireland, at Government House. They were briefly caught on the TVNZ News being greeted by the
President, in response to their Gaelic greeting to him. The children said, “Dia dhuit” (may God be with
you), and the Irish President responded, “Dia’s Mhuire dhuit” (may God and Mary be with you)—thank
you Miss Purcell, for teaching them this greeting. Thank you also for the parents who supported this
event.
Staff for 2018
We are really happy to have confirmed our fulltime teaching staff for 2018. We welcome back many of
our staff, and we will say a fond farewell to some. Our fulltime classroom teachers for 2018 will be Pip
Cook, Ingrid Jacobs, Jen Denham, Joanne Purcell, Pallavi Sohani and Michael Coles. Later this year, we
will be bidding a sad farewell to Josh McDonald, who has decided to ‘spread his wings and fly the coop’
in 2018. We wish Josh well in the next, exciting step in his career.
We are still working on confirming our part time teachers, and support staff, and sorting out which
teachers will be teaching at which levels. When this is confirmed, you will be kept informed.
Good Companions Club
Throughout this year, the Year 7&8 students have kindly helped out with the regular events organised
by this group of Senior citizens—by setting up and clearing away the furniture in the hall. Thank you to
Mr McDonald, and the student for offering this service.
Graffiti
Unfortunately we arrived back to school after the long weekend to face a good deal of graffiti on our
walls and doors! However, we were most impressed with the Wellington City Council’s response to our
call for help. Within a few hours, they had removed all of the graffiti. Unfortunately, this required
painting over our school rules mural, so we will get onto a new mural when we are able to.
Athletics on the go!
You may recall that our school athletics day had to be cancelled due to the weather, twice, in Term 1.
Because of this, we have needed to trial all of the children in Year 4-8 who were interested in being part
of the Western Zone event. In order to be part of this event, we prefer that the participants are
competitive and able in at least 2-3 events — so as not to be sitting around for the whole day. Thank
you to Miss Cook and the teachers for spending extra time to sort our team out.
Whakatau and Assembly
Every term we hold a semi-formal whakatau to welcome our new students and their families. Our
Assembly tomorrow afternoon, from 2.30pm, will include this term’s whakatau. You are very welcome
to join us in the hall.
BIG DAY OUT: Friday 27 October (postponement 3 November)
A reminder that this Friday we have our Big Day Out. We only have a small number of helpers at this
stage. If you are able to come and help, please contact the school or complete this form https://goo.gl/
forms/nbJVDIWitfOcGnlB3 Thank you. The children are to:
Apply sunscreen liberally before school
Arrive at school at the normal time
Wear PE uniform, and school hat
Bring a big lunch, water and a jacket, in their bag
End of Year Liturgy: Change of Date and Time
A reminder that our End of Year Liturgy will be at 11.00am on Friday 16th December.
Dia’s Mhuire dhuit—May God and Mary bless you!
Mary-Angela Tombs
The Uniform shop will be
open from 2:45 – 3:15
on the following
Mondays:
October 30 November
13 November 27
Brenda -Lee and Sharon
Team: Uniform Shop !!
Raffle Tickets - ALL raffle books (sold and unsold) should now be returned. If you still
have any raffle books please ensure these are returned to school immediately to the
FOST box. Our raffle is drawn next week so we need to get all these in.
We are having one last push to sell the remaining tickets - this Sunday 29th at the Karori
Mall. Please if you can spare an hour to help out get in touch with Kate at :
scottandkatesingle@gmail.com
Our Term 4 FOST meeting is on tomorrow (Thursday) evening. All are welcome to attend
- if you are considering joining FOST or just want to know what its all about come along.
Our meeting is 7.30pm at One Fat Bird.
This morning we celebrated St Teresa’s Day Mass.
We took the opportunity to thank those members
of the Catholic Women’s League who have been
coming to school to teach the children the prayers
of the rosary.
There will be NO Subway lunches on :
This Friday 27th October — as we will all be on the Big Day
Out !
Friday November 3rd— Subway are unable to do our lunches
as they have an in store promotion that Friday
The Irish President has
arrived in Wellington on
a state visit. President
Higgins was welcomed
to New Zealand
yesterday at
Government House.
Children from Wharangi
& Rata went along to
join in the welcome !
COMMUNITY NOTICES
Murder, mystery, intrigue…and wine - sound like your kind of night? On Friday 10th November, Karori Kindergarten is
holding ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ movie night, to raise funds for new outdoor safety matting. Tickets cost $25 which
includes a glass of wine & goodie bag. Arrive at 7pm for a 7:30 screening at the Penthouse Cinema in Brooklyn. Contact Liz
for more details (0211341476 or liz.pullen@gmail.com)
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