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Saying of the Century
Today you are You, that is truerthan true. There is no one
alive
who is Youer than You.Dr Suess
Gospel Values forTerm Four:
Trust and Hope
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I S S U E
Birthday Wishes
Sally Xie 23rd October
Prayer of the WeekLord, open our eyesthat we may see you in our
brothers
and sisters.Lord, open our ears
that we may hear the cries of thehungry,the cold, the
frightened, the oppressed.Lord, open our heartsthat we may love
each other as youlove us.
Renew in us your spirit.Lord, free us and make us one.
Amen
Mother Teresa
Quote of the WeekYour present circumstances don'tdetermine where
you can go; they
merely determine where you start.
Nido Qubein
Thanks to those families that have returned their form with
offers to help on the day ofthe school fair. There have also been
some ideas submitted that sound like they could begreat fun and
raise some funds in the process. If you have not returned your form
pleasedo so on Monday so we know how many stalls we are able to
have, this is dependent on
how many helpers we can get.Donations for white elephant stall,
baking, plants and raffles would also be appreciatedand can be left
at school. Don't forget that we have stall sites available for hire
for $20so if you know of anyone that would be interested please get
them to contact us.Fair committee meeting in Rm5 at 3pm on Tuesday,
come along and have some inputinto the Fair and share your
ideas.
School Fair From Toni Oudemans
Students, teachers and parent helpersenjoying their day at
Centennial School fora Fundamental Sports day. This was toshowcase
all the skills they have learnt lastterm with their SportStart
Canterbury
teacher Raewyn Williams. Raewyn does agreat job with the
students. We look
forward to her input this term.
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Bushtown
On Monday ( 21st) our wholeschool is off to Bushtown forour
annual visit to plant trees.We do this as service toPapatuanuku
(Mother Earth),as with a little effort we are notonly planting a
tree which willhelp clean our environmentand provide shelter, we
arealso playing a part insomething really important forour
community and for our
history.We will be leaving school andwalking down to
Bushtownimmediately after school startsat 9:00.The whole school
will walkdown together. Mrs Shea willtake the junior kidsschoolbags
with their lunchand drinks in them and shewill also take any
shovels thatwe are able to muster up on
Monday morning. Studentswill need to make sure thatthey have a
drink and a reallygood lunch. If parents are ableto send along a
shovel or spadefor their child to use, thatwould be really handy as
welland we will endeavour to makesure they are returned in thesame
condition.We should be back at school
by 12:30-ish
Waimate 50
We are getting closer toWaimates biggest motorracing event for
the year with
chool News
ubway Tuesday 22nd
ctober. Forms are
vailable from the school
ffice and the
assrooms
cholastic Book Club
ue back at school by
he 8th November 2013.
un Hats Please
emember to send your
hild along to school
with a named sun hat.
his must be a wide
rimmed hats,referably navy blue, no
aps allowed.
eed Fundraiser
hank you to all those
amilies who helped sell
eeds. This was very
uccessful with around
800 raised
Waimate 50 We are
oing to be doing a BBQ
t the Waimate 50 to
elp raise funds for
chool Camp. With most
tudents attending the
amp this year this is a
ood opportunity to lend
hand to keep costs
own. We are looking for
olunteers on the day to
elp between 10am to
pm (you will not be
eeded to be there for
he whole time). If you
an help out please let
ess know at the office
y Wednesday nextweek so a roster can be
one.
PrincipalsCommentary:
the Waimate 50 taking placeover next weekend. Last yearwe were
fortunate enough tohave a visit by some of thecars at our school
and thestudents really enjoyed theopportunity to clamber in andover
some of these. Theorganisers have kindly
arranged for this to happenagain, so on Monday afternoonat about
2:20 half a dozen ofthe competing cars will arrivein the playground
for a
photoshoot opportunity andstudents will be allowed tocheck them
out and talk to thedrivers.For all you petrol-head
parents, feel free to come ondown and have a look, inhalethe
fumes and relive your mis-spent youth.
Staffing at St Patricks
I can confirm, contrary torumour, speculation andgeneral
conversation, that Iwill be returning in 2014 asPrincipal of St
PatricksSchool. The Board of Trusteesadvertised the Principals
position during term 3, as theyare required and obliged to tryto
recruit a Catholic Principalto the role. Despite advertisingwidely,
they received nosuitable applicants.Accordingly the Board haveasked
me to stay on asPrincipal for a further year.This will give the
Board timeto reconsider their recruitmentneeds and methods.
Unfortunately for us, Miss Pwill be leaving us at the end ofthe
year. She has secured a jobat St Josephs Papanui, whichis testament
to her
professionalism and ability asa teacher, even at the end ofher
first year as a teacher. MissP has been an absolutetreasure, to
work with and tohave in the school and we have
been truly fortunate to have
had her company during 2013.Please lets make Miss Ps lastterm
with us a memorable one(for all the
right reasons).We have commencedadvertising for her replacement,
and we will havean appointment made for 2014
by mid November. As soon aswe know, we will let youknow.
MissionOn Thursday the 17th theschool was lucky enough to
bevisited by the ICPE missionteam based at St Gerardsmonastery in
wellington. Theytravel all over Godzonespreading the good
wordthrough song, prayer, laughterand liturgy. They are acommunity
of lay people and
priests committed to the goalof world evangelisation
anddedicated to the formation andtraining of Catholics that theymay
become more effectiveevangelisers. The ICPEmission is an
InternationalAssociation of Christs faithfulwith Pontifical
Right.The team of sevenmissionaries hailed fromKorea, India and
Indonesia and
worked with each class,danced, sang and prayed andengaged our
students in awonderful hour or so wherethey and the students
focusedon the loving messages ofJesus Christ.
Politics
Arent the media having funabout Mr Browns extra-maritalaffairs.
These arent mayoralor employment issues. Theyare
over-sensationalised mediaissues. If the electorate in
question was Waimate,Oamaru, Te Puia Springs orWestport, I dont
think thatanybody apart
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Community Notices
Athletics Club
Starting Tuesday 8th
October at the Waimate
High School field from
5.30pm. For more
information contact
Peter Trainor 022 391
4020.
Weston School
Fireworks Great day
out for the family
happening on the 1st
November 2013 at the
Weston Sports Domainwith gates opening at
7.00pm. Lots of fun
activities and special
guests. For more
information check out
their facebook page.
Waimate Amateur
Swim Club, Learn and
Develop to Swim
Registration days will be
30th and 31st of October
from 3.30 4.30pm at
the Waimate Town Pool.
Bring along togs if new
registration is required.
Swimming commences
on 4th November. For
more information
contact Janet Meyer
[email protected].
Waimate Museum
Currently display Well
Played Waimate which
celebrates some of
Waimates sporting
champions in manysports clubs. Open Tues
to Fri 12-3pm and Sun
1-3pm.
rom (obviously) his wife andamily would give two hootsbout it.
It certainly wouldnt bealvanising the nation. It wouldrobably be
talked about downt the local and at home behindlosed doors, but it
wouldnt belastered all over the media forhe sadisticnd voyeuristic
pleasure of theall poppy, busy-body brigade.
Dont get me wrong: I am notondoning his actions in any
way. I am not saying anythinglse other than what he does in
his personal life as (and with) aonsenting adult really has
noelevance to the rest of New
Zealand and it isnt his actionshat are incompatible with the
Auckland City Councils codef conduct, its the mediaslagrant
muckraking and trashyensationalism of it that mayause Len Brown to
lose his
democratically elected position.
And as they continued to askhim, he stood up and said tohem,Let
him who is without sinmong you be the first to throw
stone at her.John 8:7
Of course if it transpires that hehas spent ratepayers money
tound aspects of his affair, then
he has in fact broken the lawnd should be treatedccordingly. And
what a mediaeast that would be.
When the mud starts to bubble,heck out why someone lit theire
beneath it.
The other political scalp on theine is of course long-time
member of parliament JohnBanks. Nothing does surpriseme, but you
have to concede,hat its a pretty long fall, from
Minster of the Crown, toespondent in a court case, nothat there
hasnt been precedent.t seems that being elected to aosition of
authority is not auarantee of suitability or
rustworthiness. Hopefully allhe rest of our publicly
electedfficials are without fallibility,ault or weaknesses of
theleshier kind, if thats what itakes to retain ones office.
School Roll
In most schools a roll is kept ofsiblings birthdays and
newarrivals, pre-enrolments and anyother information that may
help
predict the long term roll of theschool.Due to the larger
geographicarea that our school canrightfully draw from, and
thespecial character preferencesystem that determines ourschool
roll, we dont have theluxury of being able to predictanything other
than what wecan establish from the parish
baptismal records.Of the last 15 enrolments, lessthan 30% were
predictable from
parish records, or any other
source.Currently on the parish rolethere are two baptised
studentseligible for enrolment now, onlytwo more for all of 2014
and 5more in 2015. We are only
predicting that we will get oneof these nine students at
ourschool. The rest have madeeducational decisions for
oldersiblings that do not includeattendance at a Catholic
school.
From a non-Catholicperspective (thats me) that isridiculous. So
you are Catholicenough to have your kids
baptised, but you dont want toeducate them as Catholic, in
aCatholic school. (To coin a droll
phrase: Youre not in this forthe religion are you?)We have
Catholic kids in thistown that attend every otherschool apart from
the Catholic
one and I have (nearly) heardevery other excuse under thesun for
why that family doesntcome here, or why that familyhad to leave.
None of thoseexcuses (and thats just whatthey are) has anything to
dowith the Catholic Faith or whythese parents are following
whatthey see as the latest trend.I must add in that, like us,
thoseother schools are all goodschools, each and every one ofthem,
but they are not Catholicschools. This is. And this is areally good
school. Ask the
parentsthat are here. Ask thekids. Come and have a look
in the middle of a really busyday. Come and see what we do.We
dont have grumpy Nuns orPriests, and apart from myself,we dont even
have grumpyteachers. We have exemplaryERO reports and we have
acurriculum to be proud of and awhole lot of fun learning.There
seem to be enough folksin Mass each Sunday, andusually with quite a
few kidsamong them, but despiteholding their heads high inchurch,
taking the kids to Massseems to be where their commitment to their
childrens(or grandchildrens)Catholicism ends.From the outside
looking in it
could appear to be more like aninsurance policy than a
belief;but then I wouldnt knowwould I?This isnt good enough folks.
Ifit continues in this way,eventually there will not beenough
practising Catholicsaround here to tend to the
pastoral needs of the parish, ifthere even is a parish then.
Theway to grow this congregation
is not by turning your back onit, its to embrace it and make
itwhat it should be and what youwant it to be.
If my comments andobservations upset someone:great! That just
might get adiscussion going, because
pretending that this stuff isnthappening is not the way todeal
with an issue.
Me rongo (In peace)Darcy KempPrincipalSt Patricks Waimate
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]
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May the Year of Faithbe a time for allCatholics to renew
their
esire and zeal for theEucharist and to availhemselves regularly
ofhe Sacrament of
Reconciliation andPenance.
During this Year ofFaith, may all Catholicspublically proclaim
theirove for Christ and hisChurch.May this Year of Faithemind us of
ways toerve those in our midst
who are overlooked,gnored or rejected, sohat all may
experiencehe peace and healing
of Christs love.
May the Holy Spiritguide the Church duringhe Year of Faith so
thatall Catholics mayexperience a deepenedenewal of faith, hope
and love.
May young people be
nspired by this Year ofFaith to listen attentivelyand respond to
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The Beatitudes
Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of
heaven.Blessed are the meek; for they shall possess the
land.Blessed are they that mourn; for they shall be
comforted.Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice;
for they shall be filled.Blessed are the merciful; for they shall
obtain mercy.Blessed are the clean of heart; for they shall see
God.Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the
children of God.Blessed are they that suffer persecution for
justice sake; for theirs is the
kin dom of heaven.
