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What’s in the Newsletter this week? Water Pollution

Mana Ake – Stronger for Tomorrow

Sheppard & Hillary Team Mass

School Closed - Wednesday 29th May

Cross Country

Catholic Winters sports day Y5 & 6 photos

Parent Help Required

Great Kiwi Competition Entry Forms Due in 18th May

Pink Shirt Day

School Production

Absentees

Winter Uniform

Board of Trustee Elections

Welcome to New Students

Principal’s Award

PTA News

Calendar

Church Notices

Community Notices

This week we share with you some thoughts of Jean Vanier’s in recognition of all the work that he did with adults with learning disabilities. Jean died on 7th May 2019. “Jean Vanier, who has died of cancer aged 90, was the founder of L’Arche communities for adults with learning disabilities, living alongside those without them. He once said: “I had no plan, I just met people and people with disabilities awoke my heart.”

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/may/07/jean-vanier-obituary

Newsletter – 16th May 2019

Dear Parents and Caregivers

Haere Mai, Talofa Lava, Maligayang pagdating, Malo e leilei, Hwan Yeong hamnida,

Bienvenido, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Bienvenue and Welcome.

Our Journey Home

“Going home”

is a journey to the heart

of who we are,

a place where we can be

ourselves and

welcome the reality of

our beauty and our pain.

From this acceptance of

ourselves, we can

accept others as they are

and we can see our

common humanity.

Jean Vanier

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Water Pollution Maeve and Gabrielle from the Hillary Hub have made this poster as part of their inquiry into Water Pollution. One of their actions was to go down to the river and pick up rubbish.

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Mana Ake – Stronger for Tomorrow This term our school has, through the Catholic Community of Learning, come on board with Mana Ake – Stronger for Tomorrow. Mana Ake promotes wellbeing and positive mental health for children in school years 1-8 across Canterbury. Teachers are able to refer individuals and groups to Mana Ake and we always gain parent permission before doing so. We have 3 people attached to our school. We have Eve Penny a youth worker, Matt Brown a counsellor and Ingrid Ewing-Daff a counsellor working with us. Eve, Matt and Ingrid visited us for the first time last week and were introduced to our students and staff. We look forward to getting to know them better and working alongside them in our school. For further information about Mana Ake please click here.

Sheppard & Hillary Team Mass

The Sheppard and Hillary Teams will be celebrating Mass on Sunday 26th May at 10:30am at Halswell Church. All families are warmly invited to attend. The children can wear mufti to this Mass.

School Closed - Wednesday 29th May The Board of Trustees has made the decision to close our school on Wednesday 29th May due to Health and Safety reasons while our teaching staff are on strike. The means that there will be no staff on site and all the buildings will be closed. We understand that this may create some difficulties for you and thank you for your understanding.

Cross Country Thanks to Manuela Schmidt, Amanda Campbell and all the staff, parents and children who worked to make our Cross Country day an amazing day. We were so proud of all our children and how they participated and supported each other! A special thank you to our PALS (Physical Activity Leaders) for leadership and support on the day. Congratulations and good luck to those students who will be going on to Zones.

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Year 8

Boys 1st Oliver Hudson Joshua Mitchell Joshua Ollie Cameron Taylor

Boys 2nd Logan Malachy Luciano Blake Liam Luke Saul Noah

Boys 3rd Connor Nicholas Ashton Preston Charlie Harrison Will Aaron

Girls 1st Caroline Xanthe Grace Hayley Amelia Greta Brynne Mya

Girls 2nd Isla Carys Freya Tandia Pera Maggie Meg Abby

Girls 3rd Harper Elena Louisa Jessica Xanthe Maddison Izzy Alacoque

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Catholic Winters sports day Y5 & 6 photos Our Year 5 and 6 students had a great day last Thursday playing Rippa Rugby, Hockey, Netball and Soccer against other Christchurch Catholic Schools. Many thanks to those parents who managed teams and refereed games – without your generous support we could not have gone!

Parent Help Required We still require parents to assist with managing sports teams, in particular a soccer team. If you can help please email our sports co-ordinator on manuela.schmid@ola.school.nz

Great Kiwi Competition Entry Forms Due in 18th May

A reminder that completed entry forms (together with the entry fee) need to be handed in to the office by 9a.m. Monday 20th May 2019. Please click here for a copy of the entry form or you can pick up a hardcopy from the office.

Pink Shirt Day On Friday the Young Vinnie’s Group will be holding a Pink Shirt Anti Bullying Day. The children can wear a pink shirt with black track pants or green sports shorts. Please do not buy a pink shirt, you can borrow one or just wear the normal school sports shirt.

School Production We will be holding a school production this year in September. An exact date has not been finalised but we will let you know once it is confirmed. The production involves all of our students and is a wonderful opportunity for each child to experience being “on stage”.

Absentees With the winter season making its presence felt we are seeing a rise in the number of absent students. Please remember to contact the school office if your child is away from school. We need to know your child’s name, room number and reason for absence. You can notify us by using the App or by leaving a message on our answer phone.

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Winter Uniform In Term 2 and 3 we change into our winter uniform. Our full winter uniform is detailed below. All uniform items can be purchased from Mainland Uniforms. The Warehouse at Barrington also stock the uniform, except for the girls’ pinafore dress and tartan kilt. Second hand uniform is also available from the PTA. To check what items they have in stock click here.

Board of Trustee Elections Nomination forms for the Board of Trustees were posted out to all parents/caregivers last Friday. You can nominate yourself or someone else by completing and returning the form. You can also do this electronically by following the instructions below. For more detailed information please click here.

Other key dates are as follows: Friday 24th May NOMINATIONS CLOSE – 24th May at noon. An election will then be held if the number of nominations exceed vacancies. For our school the number of parent vacancies is 5 Wednesday 29th May Voting papers will be sent by post to all on the school caregiver roll. Friday 7th June Voting closes at 12 noon.

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Welcome to New Students

A very warm welcome to the following children who started at our school last week:

Brynne – Hillary Hub

Pera – Room 5

Maclane – Room 9

Principal’s Award

A big congratulations to our Principal’s Award winners from last week!

PTA News There will be no sausage sizzle for May due to the school being closed for the teachers strike. The 2019/2020 Entertainment Memberships are here, with exclusive offers for everything you love to do. It’s the best membership yet, packed with amazing offers for activities, attractions, shopping, travel and all kinds of tasty treats – from cool cafes to fabulous fine dining. To place your order copy and paste this link to your web browser https://www.entertainmentbook.co.nz/orderbooks/1341e63

Second hand uniform can be purchased from the PTA. Please check what stock they have available by checking the current stock list, which can be viewed on the school website or by clicking here. If they have an item in stock that you wish to purchase please order by emailing pta@ola.school.nz

Alacoque & Gabrielle (Hillary Hub), Magdalene (Rm 5), Lily (Rm 9), Jake (Rm 3), Hayley (Rm 10), Amelia (Rm 4), Freya (Rm 11), Isla (Rm 1), Eva (Rm 12)

& Amelia (Rm 8).

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Calendar

Week 3 Fri 17th May

Pink Shirt Day Mass (Sheppard Team) – 9:15a.m. OLA Church Assembly (Room 9) – 2:20p.m. Hall

Week 4 Fri 24th May Sunday 26th May

Assembly (Room 5) – 2:20p.m. Hall Sheppard / Hillary Team Mass 10:30a.m. at Halswell Church

Week 5 Wed 29th May Fri 31st May

SCHOOL CLOSED Zone Cross Country Mass (Batten Team) – 9:15a.m. OLA Church Assembly (Room 11) – 2:20p.m. Hall

Week 6 Mon 3rd June Thu 6th June Fri 7th June

PTA Meeting 7p.m. – School Staff Room First Reconciliation – 6:30p.m. – 8p.m. Assembly (Room 4) – 2:20p.m. Hall

Week 7 Fri 14th June

Mass (Hillary Hub) – 9:15a.m. OLA Church Assembly (Hillary Hub) – 2:20p.m. Hall

Week 8 Tue 18th June Wed 19th June Fri 21st June Sun 23rd June

BOT Meeting – 5:30p.m. Adoration Rutherford & Batten Teams 2:30p.m. OLA Church Assembly (Room 10) – 2:20p.m. Hall First Holy Communion – 1:30p.m. Halswell Church

Week 9 Fri 28th June

Welcome Ceremony 9:30a.m. – Hall Assembly (Room 1) – 2:20p.m. Hall

Week 10 Mon 1st July Tuesday 2nd July Fri 5th July

Parent Interviews 2p.m. – 8p.m. PTA Meeting 7p.m. – School Staff Room Parent Interviews 2p.m. – 6p.m. Assembly (Room 12) – 2:20p.m. Hall LAST DAY OF TERM

God Bless Janet and the Team at Our Lady of the Assumption School

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Church Notices

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Community Notices

Catholic Cathedral College Open Evening

Looking for an Intermediate or High School for 2019?

Catholic Cathedral College takes enrolments from Year 7 through to Year 13.

We are a Catholic, co-educational, family focused College and our students enjoy great academic success.

We invite you to come to our Open Evening, Thursday 23 May from 6.30pm – 8pm to have a look around.

62 Ferry Road, Christchurch central. Parking on site.

www.cathcollege.school.nz or enquiries to admin@cathcollege.school.nz

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