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,

This term has been packed with learning opportunities for our students. As well as the core components of Reading, Writing and Maths, there has been lots of other learning happening. Our big school-wide theme for the year is turangawaewae with the children developing an understanding of their local community. Pōhutukawa Pod started the term with a local ‘Food Walk’, exploring all the places they can find food within an hour's walk from school. Pihinga Pod have learnt about the importance of bees in our community and the interdependence of their ecosystem. Kākano learnt about the importance of protecting the ocean from plastic. They spent an hour cleaning up a section of the beach on Tuesday. It is always interesting to see where these initial learning activities lead the children with further investigation and action. Next term will be focussed on our school production. Watch this space!!  

A huge congratulations to Payge Garner and Lewis Barwick who will be getting married in Surrey, England in the school holidays. We all wish you both a lifetime of love, joy and happiness together. We look forward to seeing lots of wedding photos when you return. 

All curriculum reporting for Reading, Writing, Maths and Key Competency will be on Seesaw by the end of the term. Take some time to read these and be proud of your child's learning achievements. 

Kia nui to hararei - Have a great holiday.  Keep warm and stay safe.

Deborah Norris - Acting Principal

It's all about showing your SPARK and these children sure know how to do it!

Room 2's Report
The Kākano Pod went to Plimmerton Beach on Tuesday afternoon to clean up rubbish. The children were exceptional at finding little pieces of plastic in the sand. We learnt that plastic in water is not okay and we all need to help to keep it out. MAHI PAI KāKANO POD! You are all kaitiaki.

Room 10's Report by Tessa and Amelie
This term in Room 10, we have been making iStopMotion iMovies about Bible stories such as: Daniel and the Lion's Den, Moses in the Bullrushes, David and Goliath, Jonah and the Whale and Moses and the Red Sea. When we did this we worked in pairs and we were very creative.
We also did a lot of art like pastel taniwha faces and Samoan frangipani flowers with oil pastels. We put these in our hair for the Sasa competition in Week 7, which we did with our buddy classes.  We also made some spotted pumpkin drawings inspired by Yayoi Kusama.
This term we have done a lot of work about degrees and measurement with our compasses. We also learnt about the different shapes like scalene triangles, trapezoids and parallelograms.
In Week 6, we went to Holy Family School. We sang songs and made paper stars using glue, sticky notes and colouring pencils.  Two weeks later, we went to Bishop Viard College. There we made donuts in Food Science, we studied rocks in Science, read books in the Library and played sports in the gym.  
Then at the end of term, we practised our basic facts and did a test on the maths that we’ve learnt throughout the term.
We have had so much fun this term in Room 10 and we hope you have a  great holiday this winter!

This week, Victoria Perez started her school life in Room 1.  On belhalf of all our school families, we warmly welcome her and her parents, Ryan and Eleanor and wish them many happy years as part of our St. T's community.

Our congratulations to the Erno family on the birth of their daughter Ele, a sister for Gre in Room 3.  We wish you many blessings and send lots of love to the whole family.

On behalf of our whole school community, we congratulate Zoey van Rensburg on her Baptism which took place last Saturday.  We pray for many blessings on her and her parents, Stefan and Kirsten.  May there always be a light to guide her along the right path.

Just a heads up - statements have been send home in hard copy form.  You can also check out your account details online through the HERO App.

JULY
Monday, 14th July - Start of Term 3
Thursday, 24th July - Parent/Teacher Interviews 3p.m. - 6.45p.m.
Sunday, 27th July - Grandparents Mass - 9.30a.m.
Tuesday 29th July - Parent/Teacher Interviews 3p.m. - 6.45p.m.
Wednesday, 30th July - Board of Trustees Meeting - 6p.m.

AUGUST

Friday, 1st August - Uniform Fittings 2p.m. - 3.20p.m.
Thursday, 7th August - Powhiri and Mass of Welcome  9a.m.
Friday, 8th August - School Disco
Thursday, 14th August - Scripture Reading Competition
Monday, 18th August - Leadership Awards
Tuesday, 19th August - Year 5 & 6 Interschool Swimming Competition
Thursday, 21st August - Parent Information Evening - English 6.p.m.
Thursday, 21st August - Kapiti-Mana Scripture Reading Competition
Friday, 22nd August - Uniform Fittings 2p.m. - 3.20p.m.
Thursday, 28th August - Teacher Only Day - NO SCHOOL
Sunday, 31st August - First Holy Communion 9.30a.m.

SEPTEMBER
Wednesday, 3rd September - Board of Trustees meeting 6p.m.
Sunday 7th September - Father's Day
Wednesday, 10th September - Board of Trustees Elections
Friday, 12th September - Uniform Fittings 2p.m. - 3.20p.m.
Monday, 15th September - Production Rehearsal
Tuesday, 16th September - School Production 7p.m.
Wednesday, 17th September - School Production 7p.m.
Friday, 19th September - End of Term 3

Parent/Teacher Interviews take place on Thursday, 24th July and Tuesday, 29th July from 3p.m. - 7.00p.m.  It is an expectation that all parents book an interview slot.  Please go to schoolinterviews.co.nz and use the Event Code has28 (case sensitive).

BOOK CHARACTER PARADE WINNERS 2025

St. T's Angels:  We won 7 - 4!  The team played so well and absolutely dominated the second half.  PoD: Ana Robinson with epic defence and intercepts all game.  Magic Moment: Indie Prinz with that long-range shot - nailed it!
Proud of the team They’re showing up and stepping up every week. 

St. T’s Magic had a 11 - 0 win against the Tawa Taniwhas. Some great passing to get the ball from the defensive end to the attacking end.
PoD went to Loralei Osborne who had some great intercepts and passing. She also was not afraid to have a go at shooting which resulted in the only goal in the second half.  Magic Moments went to Tessa Hasse for her intercepts and to Georgia Price who had a great game at Centre.

St. T’s Ferns played a really hard game against the Ngati Toa Netters losing 2 - 28. Our first loss of the season. We had two PoDs:  Isaac Kerr for creating space, passing,  intercepting and chasing the ball down and Sophia Docherty for having her arms up in defence and getting rebounds and never giving up. We also had two Magic Moments: Our captain, Aurora Smith, gave her Magic Moment to Myla Grimwood for sticking with her player and Chloe Rousell got the second Magic Moment for a wonderful shot in the second half. Super proud of the team.

St. Ts Stars played Greenferns this week and won 7 - 3! They had a great game, working as a team to bring the ball down court to our shooters who put up some great shots at goal. PoD went to Acacia Davey who got numerous intercepts, playing a great game on defence. MM went to Ada Millington who put up a shot at goal from far away and scored! Captain's choice MM went to Zoey Giles for an awesome game.

St. T's Saints had a tough loss, 0 - 19 to Titahi Bay. PoD was Lucy Barber for great use of space and MM went to Cooper Baldwin for a wonderful intercept of the centre pass.

A little peep into all the hard work that the children put in to making our celebration such a huge success.

The school triennial election will take place in Term 3.  Our election day is 10th September, 2025. Nominations will close on Wednesday, 6th August, 2025 at midday. Nominations and voting all takes place online.  Watch out for emails from the returning officer (returningofficer@myschoolelection.nz) to check that your contact details are correct.

https://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/adw_welcom/welcom-returns/

The WelCom, the newsletter of the Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington is now available online.  Definitely worth a read.  This edition has an abridged version (Cardinal Dew on the word that changed one cardinal's life forever) of Cardinal John Dew's reflection in the recent conlave that elected Pope Leo XIV.  

For Term 3:  There will be a total of 10 Fridays that pizza will be available for you to order. 

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 8 WEEKS this term. So if ordering for the term, just multiply by 10. 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.

Our supplier will be on site on the dates listed below.  You must book an appointment so please call or email the Office to find a time that suits you.

The time slots are 10 minutes each however, for new entrants, 2 slots are recommended.  Appointments start from 2p.m. and end at 3.20p.m.

Friday, 1st August - Friday, 22nd August - Friday, 12 September

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

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.

Community Connections

School Calendar

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.