Hello, Kia ora, Talofa lava, Hola, Namaste, Mabuhay, Ciao, Kia Orana, Ahalan,  Konnichiwa, Ni hao, Selam,  Xin chao,  Bonjour,  Bula, Dzien/Dobry, Shalom,  Dia duit, Mauri, Halo, Bom dia, Gidday, Guten Tag, Hej   

Mai i te Kopae ki te Urupa, tatou ako tonu ai - From the cradle to the grave, we are forever learning.

Kia ora koutou e te whānau,

What an amazing day our March Madness Fair was on Saturday.  The weather played its part and the crowds turned up.  Thank you to everyone who gave their time and energy to make this such a wonderful community event.  The annual fair is such a multi-layered event and while it brings in much needed fundraising it also brings the community together sharing food, games, entertainment and lots of laughs.  The happy buzz, laughter and chat in the air on the day helps make all the hard work planning and preparing worthwhile. Special thanks to Mike Smith who led his hardworking team of co-ordinators to pull together a hugely successful day.  The financial team are still working away finialisng the income/outgoings and we will have a total for you asap but we can say we raised approximately $24,000 on the day.

This Sunday is our first Parish/School Mass for the year.  All children are expected to attend in full school uniform.  Please join us for morning tea (please bring a plate to share) and a sausage sizzle after Mass.   

We will hold our Easter liturgy on Friday, 11th April at 10a.m. in the school grounds.  All of the children are involved in retelling the Easter Story and more details of what is required will come from your child's teacher.  We will have our traditional Hot Cross Bun Morning Tea after the Liturgy and you are all very welcome to stay and have a cuppa and a bun with us. 

Kia pai tō rā whakatā - Have a great weekend.

We love what you're doing, SPARKs! 
Keep that up and show us all how it's done.

A very warm welcome to Leo Tansey, brother of Mia in Rom 4 and son of Kieran and Moé. Leo is joining the students in Room 1 and we wish him many happy years as part of our St. T's community.

Due to the taking of our school photos, there will be NO Assembly tomorrow, Friday 28th March.

We offer our love and support to Indie Prinz and Mya and Maddie Phillipps who were baptised last week.  Please keep them and their families in your prayers as they continue on their faith journey.

Photographs are taken of ALL STUDENTS, regardless of whether parents decide to order them or not and there is no obligation to do so. A notice regarding having a family/sibling photograph taken on the day will have been sent home with your child.  If you would like to have a sibling photograph taken but you haven't completed the form, please go directly to the Hall and speak to the photographers.

MARCH
Thursday, 27th March - Board of Trustees Meeting - 6p.m.
Friday, 28th March - School Photographs
Sunday, 30th March - Whole School/Parish Mass 9.30a.m.

APRIL
Friday, 4th April - 2p.m. Uniform Fittings
Friday, 11th April - End of Term 1

All pool keys need to be returned to the Office by no later than Monday, 31st March, please.  It would be much appreciated if this deadline is adhered to.

For all absences, lateness or medical appointments:

You MUST email the Office, leave a message on the answerphone or use the HERO app. 

If the absence is longer than 3 days, this includes holidays during the school term, notification MUST be in writing to the Office as well as to Donna and your child's classroom teacher.

For Term 1:  There will be a total of 7 Fridays that pizza will be available for you to order for - that is for every Friday of the term until we break up.

To order pizza and/or ice blocks for your child, please follow ONE of the two processes below:
1. ORDERS FOR THE TERM: Pizza will be available for 7 WEEKS this term. So if ordering for the term, just multiply by 7. If you decide part way through the term, then calculate how many Fridays are left. Send an email to the team, outlining the following information for each child you are ordering for BUT in one email is fine.

Child’s Name:
Room No.:
Number of pizza slices - please specify if gluten free
Number of ice blocks
Cost: $1.50 per pizza slice and $1 per ice block
Multiply the order total by the number of Fridays.

2. WEEKLY ORDERS: These need to be sent to the same email address, with the same order details as in Option 1 and also paid into the same bank account number.
VERY IMPORTANT: The deadline for weekly orders is at 3p.m. on a Thursday. Unfortunately, no late orders can be accepted.

If you would like to pay in advance for a set number of weeks but not all the weeks in this particular term, please feel free to email these details to the team.
If your child is new to our school and only starts part way through the term, simply adjust the number of weeks for the remainder of the term.
kaiorders@stp.school.nz
Payment by internet banking only to 12 3254 0109325 00 using the reference PIZZA. The team would appreciate a screenshot of your payment, sent to their email address.

Check out our fabulous personalised school hats!  Order form attached.

We're still collecting Yummy stickers which earn us points for sports equipment.  A chart is attached for you to use and copies are also available from the Office.

Community Connections

School Calendar

NEWSLETTER APP
Here is the link to download the Schoolzine App.  At the end of set up, you are asked for a passcode and this is 3025. 

An important update for SZapp has been released to accomodate for iPhones which have been intermittently receiving push notifications.

SZapp is available from the App Store now.

Users with automatic updates enabled on their device will recieve this update automatically.