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After School Care: [email protected]
Report Absences: [email protected]
School Uniform Shop: [email protected]
Phone : 04 939 1725 Fax: 04 939 1724
School email: [email protected]
Website: www.stteresas.ac.nz
Principal : [email protected]
Shout out to Rūma Matai—if you are about school have a look outside their
their classroom for their Matariki themed artwork — it’s AWESOME!
Gemma from Rūma Matai is our Person of the
Week . One of our teachers saw Gemma
making a special effort to help one of the
younger children from Kahikatea the other
morning. The little one was struggling
on her way up the driveway to school, in
awful weather. Gemma went back to help her
& made sure she got to her class safe & sound.
Good for you Gemma :)
Kia ora koutou
Vision Survey—Thank you
We had a wonderful response to our recent Vision Survey, with 110 parents,
staff, students and Trustees contributing their thoughts. Thank you to all
participants, and congratulations to Gabe Ryan for winning the prize draw –her
name was drawn by Chrissie before she took off on her OE!
Congratulations also to Soane, whose name was
drawn from the student survey. Happy movie
watching to our winners!
Over the next few weeks, I will share the results of the
survey, and how we are making use of these results.
My first report is about responses that relate to our Strengths, Challenges,
Opportunities and Threats—a ‘SCOT Analysis’...
Strengths & Challenges
Relationships and people feature highly as strengths of being a small, caring school. By far the majority
of people in our community appreciate the personal relationships, community-feel and varied
opportunities that we provide for our students, as is expressed within the following sample of parent
quotes from the survey:
“Having a small school that brings a feel of community and relationship based environment” “I love how the small role
means the kids all know each other, are able to get special attention when they need it, have opportunities they
wouldn't get at other schools, and are all able to have a turn being the best at something” “Being a small school has
the lovely opportunity for children to interact and form friendships. Also teachers and principal know all families which is a
great community feeling” “Genuine community spirit where people know and care about each other and help each
other out. Small class sizes also great for the children” “I can feel humanism in here”
However, not everyone agreed with these viewpoints:
“If things / problems / bullying / physically assaults aren’t solved wisely then most likely to have even smaller
number of students/ smaller roll”
Our Top 5 Strengths as a school (according to our adults):
1. People—Teachers, support staff, volunteers, families
2. Community Feel / Relationships (2nd equal)
2. Opportunities to take part in a variety of experiences (2nd equal)
3. Catholic Character
4. Values
Our Year 7&8 students have a slightly different perspective, which is lovely to see:
1. Sports
2. Opportunities to take part in a variety of experiences
3. Catholic Character
4. Environment / Property
Challenges identified by our parents related mostly to roll size. Ironically, the benefits of being a small
school also present us with challenges.
1. Small roll size (78% response)
2. Visbility of the school (41% response)
2. Financial (38% response)
3. Reputation (18% response)
“Having a small school is also a great opportunity as well as it's weakness” “less Catholics in community“ “as
religion declines less people want to send their kids to a religious school” “Competing against two
large well established schools”
It is exciting to be able to let you know that so far this year, our school roll has started to grow. For the
first time since the beginning of 2012, the roll is higher at this time of the year, than it was this time last
year. This is helped by the work that our teachers are doing within learning, and the good messages that
many of you are sharing about St Teresa’s—thank you!
Opportunities These strengths and challenges create a lot of opportunities for us as a school. My goal is
for us to use our strengths to overcome our challenges, as suggested by these parents, and I will be
working to lead the redevelopment of a vision that supports this:
“Take advantage of the growing, positive reputation that St T's has built over the last few years to build the roll” “so much of the community's knowledge comes from word of mouth / social media” “St Teresas needs to
communicate its academic success more as kids who have left do well.”
You can help, by spreading the messages you have shared through this survey:
A great environment to grow great kids into great adults :-)” “Inclusive and caring School” “strong values
and supportive staff” “St Teresas is a great little school where every child contributes and has
the opportunity to shine. Smaller classes means children receive individual attention. Children
are exposed to loads of activites and are able to participate more”
Two of our wonderful parents have been helping with opportunities to lift visiblity, by developing new
visuals for us to use in signage, etc for our road entrances (thank you Kirsty and Gwen). We are presently
waiting for our builder to be freed up to put the necessary posts in place! If you can offer some
volunteer post installation time, your help would be very much appreciated.
Other generous parents have also been posting advertising materials around the community (thank you
Rebecca and Deborah), and we are working hard to maintain our online visibility.
Threats, such as financial—are well-managed. The school is in a safe financial position and learning is
always top priority with discretionary spending. Other threats, such as “Negative talk in the community”
“Misconceptions of the school held by parents in the Karori community due to misinformation/rumours”
“Families leaving due to unresolved issues - often telling many in the community about these” can be
dealt with through honest, timely and respectful communication. Please make sure to share any
concerns with your child’s teacher early—and allow them time to deal with problems that arise.
We need all parents’ support—to challenge community misconceptions.
St Teresa’s is a great school—this is your school, so be proud of it so that your children will be too—
and their learning will benefit!
Safety Alert: Social Media Sites
As communicated to our Year 7&8 students and their parents recently, the minimum age limit for social
media sites like Instagram, Facebook, and Musical.ly is 13 Years Old. Please take steps not to allow your
10, 11, 12 year old to have accounts on these sites. They are not mature enough to manage the
potential dangers. Please also check how many profiles they have set up. Thank you for your support.
How do I report a child under the age of 13 on Instagram?: https://help.instagram.com/517920941588885
How to report my child under the age of 13 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/157793540954833
Information for parents about Musical.ly: https://www.webwise.ie/parents/explained-musical-ly
After School at Karori Library
Please be aware that the Karori Library is not a suitable child-minding service. We have found in
previous years that children who are allowed to be in the library after school sometimes get up to
mishief—including inapproriate use of social media. This is NOT SAFE. We provide an excellent, and safe
after school care option on our school site. Even Year 7&8 children need adequate adult care and
supervision. The more Year 7&8 children that use our After School Care service, the more inviting it will
be for them. Please make full use of the service provided. Thank you.
NZEI Paid Union Meeting
You may be aware of the nationwide crisis in recruiting and retaining teachers. While there are many
more children coming into the school system, there are not enough new teachers being trained. Urgent
and significant changes are needed to ensure that the teaching profession can attract the people it
needs and to ensure class sizes do not start to increase. Our teachers will attend attend union meetings
to discuss this issue as a group. We plan to split the teachers between two available meeting times:
2.00pm on Tuesday 19 June / Wednesday 27 June, to decrease the disruption for our families.
If you are able to collect your child at 1.00pm on one of these days, please let your child’s teacher
know, or complete this form: https://goo.gl/forms/YSXrfuT1BrPU2JFn1
Ngā mihi nui. E te Atua Kia Kora.
Mary-Angela Tombs, Principal
I sleep to Western Zone Cross Country Thursday 14th June
Good Luck to all our runners representing St Tereas’s tomorrow
2 sleeps to FIFA Soccer World Cup in Russia Friday 15th June
Good Luck to Iceland ! & to everyone in the staff sweepstake !
15 Sleeps to our Sausage Sizzle for Term 2 Thursday 28th June
101 Sleeps to our Spring Fair for 2018 Saturday 22nd Sept
Sat 9th June
A great, close game for the St Teresa’s Sparklers (PoD: Jessica Ramsey - CMK).
St Teresa's Saints 8 v Te Aro Dragons 1
The Opposition 14 v Wadestown Ice 6
Artsplash is coming around again
Our Artsplash choir will be singing along with a number of other schools at the Michael Fowler Centre on Wednesday
19 September. This year the concert will be at 5pm.
The choir is open to children from Year 3 upwards. If your child likes to sing, do encourage them to come along to the
practices. Every year the children who attend the concert really enjoy the experience.
Practices will be held sometimes in lesson time and sometimes at lunchtime. The children still have time to play outside after
a lunchtime practice. A note goes around to classes to let the children know the practice is happening.
Children are welcome to come along for a few practices to see if they want to be in the choir. Once they decide they are going
to be in the choir they will need to commit to attending all the practices in order to participate in the performance.
You are welcome to contact me with any questions: [email protected] Thank you
Inspire family portraits – please register your interest
Have you been meaning to get a family portrait done? You’re in luck! Take the opportunity to get high quality but inexpensive family and individual portraits through our FOST fundraiser. Inspire Photography are experienced professional photographers. Sittings take 15 minutes and cost $15. Photo prices start at $25 for a 7” x 5”.
Portrait day is Saturday 25 August Please register your interest today by emailing Gabrielle Ryan on [email protected].
It’s been a busy term for FOST fundraising with the walkathon
raising about $2500 for the school. A big congratulations to all
the kids who took part and a special mention to Miro for raising
the most money of all the classes with a collective $485 and
they were followed closely by Kahikatea who raised $466. As a
thank you Miro enjoyed a pizza lunch today from FOST.
We also had the quiz last week and big congratulations to
Brenda and her family for being the winners – well done!
Thanks also to Karori Numberworks’nWords, Countdown, One
Fat Bird and Karori Rec Centre for donating prizes for the silent
auction. We raised around $1500 which is a great effort.
Community Newsboard
Little Dog Barking Children's Theatre presents "Duck Death and the Tulip" and "Black
Dog" - 10 - 12st July at Circa Theatre, 1 Taranaki Street, Wellington. Suitable for
ages 2 - 99 years old. For ticketing and further information visit Circa.co.nz or box
office 04 801 7992.
KELLY SPORTS HOLIDAY PROGRAMME! – Wellington Indoor Sports Centre, Newtown - 9th
July – 13 July 2018
Let the kids come and try some of their favourite sports; Rugby, Netball, Football, Hockey
and much more!! Learn new skills, gain self-confidence and make new friends!
Have fun at Junglerama or Jumparama – Jump, Play, Enjoy! or try Ten Pin Bowling, plus
there is a trip day!
To book http://www.kellysports.co.nz/events/3245-Wellington-Indoor-Sports
FOOTBALL HOLIDAY PROGRAMME (Yrs 1–8) Green Room, Wests Rugby Club Rooms,
Wilton (all weather indoor surface).
NETBALL HOLIDAY PROGRAMME (Yrs 1-8) – Onslow College Gym, Johnsonville
For full details and to enrol into our programmes visit www.kellysports.co.nz email
[email protected] or call 04 972 7201
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