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St Patrick’s Primary School
Together in Faith & Learning
Week 8 Term 1 2021
What will I be convicted of this Easter?
Easter is drawing near. At school we are retelling the Easter story, our story of salvation, to your tamariki. It is not a nice
story. It is a story of love, of acts of kindness to others and of bullies, of violence and death. Death in a cruel and sadistic
way. We know the ending thankfully, Jesus rises from the dead. If that didn’t happen, we certainly wouldn’t want our
children to watch or read about what went on immediately before the resurrection. Yet it is an important part of what Jesus
did for us. He died in a horrible disgusting way. What is more, he knew what would happen to him if the religious leaders
handed him over to the Romans. Every little town had a crucified person or two at the main gates, to help the people remem-
ber who is ruling them. Yet, Jesus still chose to stand up for what he believed in, knowing the type of death he would experi-
ence. That is the part that I am most in awe of Jesus. A true bro-mance!!
If standing up for an ideal or for someone else was a crime, punishable by death, would there be enough evidence today to
convict me? What about during the last week? What would I be found guilty of? Maybe guilty of ‘wanting to do something,
but not actually doing it’. Maybe we could be found guilty of talking about doing something, but not actually doing it?
Jesus calls us to love unconditionally all people, starting with ourselves. Let’s go out and be guilty of supporting others,
treating people respectfully, not judging others and loving ourselves. The Easter story isn’t just about Jesus. It is living out in
a body called you, today.
Blessings
Tony
Uniforms
Thanks so much for the effort that all of you are going to. It looks so good seeing all of our tamariki in the correct uniform.
Please send a note, if your child has to wear something else for the day.
Hats
Next term and term 3, hats aren’t compulsory. Your child can still wear them if they wish to. Term 4 hats are compulsory
again.
Terms 2 & 3
PE clothes on Friday. (Or normal school uniform if you haven’t got the correct PE uniform)
The school has a new PE top (last year). Some students still fit their old blue cotton PE top. As long as it fits, we are happy
for them to wear it. Black, red, patterned shirts aren’t appropriate. The school PE top lasts a long time. They are easy to wash
and wear well. You can try one on at the school office and then buy one online or from the NZ Uniform shop in Thorndon
Quay.
We go to the ASB centre on Fridays in terms 2 and 3. It makes sense to wear the PE uniform to school on that day.
Homework
Please check with your child’s teacher about this.
Safety Reminder:
Please do not drop your child/ren off in the car by our top gate, this is a safety issue as small
children cannot be seen as you back out. This is also
a very busy foot traffic area.
Please be vigilant about this. The safest place to drop
your children off is in the Church car park, we are
lucky to have this park so close to school.
Also a timely reminder to pick your child/ren up
from the school playground don’t wait in the parish
car park for the children to come to you. This is a
safety issue for the children walking behind cars.
These children received an award in assembly in the last
fortnight: SCHOOL CALENDAR
Please check our online school calendar and
events information at
Maths Whizzers: www.spps.school.nz
you can click to subscribe and all updated
Emmanuel, Biserat, Tensae & Elbron. information will be emailed directly to you.
Steps Web: Ryan Johnson. Weekly
Read theory: Mary-Lia Leota –Johnson.
Resilience : Silone Foliaki. Thursdays Senior School swimming
Go Getters: Benjamin, Aaron GV, Mariana, 1.40pm-3.15pm
(weekly).
Selam, Silone, Adrian & Darius.
Writers Award: Beanel for Snoop Dog Rap. Fridays Junior School Swimming
(see the next page for the rap) 1.40pm-3.15pm
(weekly).
Our gospel value is Important dates for your diary.
30th March Immunisations year 7 & 8
1st April Holy Thursday Liturgy
1.30pm In the school hall
Easter holiday break 2nd April—6th April
School is back on the 7th
Futsal tournament
Tuesday 13th April Years 1-4 ASB centre
9am—3pm More info to follow
Futsal tournament Years 5—8 ASB centre
Aroha is a Māori word meaning "love", cognate with the Tuesday 14th April More info to follow
Hawaiian term aloha.
9am—3pm
16th April End of term 1
Our Mercy Values
Sunday 25th April SPPS Vinnies morning tea at
St Patrick’s Church 9.30am
Encourage your child to
think about our Term 2 Dates
Mercy values and write a
Monday 3rd May Term 2 starts
prayer for our prayer
wall. Sunday 9th May Mother’s Day
Monday 10th May Parent teacher conferences
From 2pm
WEDDING BELLS 19th May Year 7 & 8 meet with St
Patrick's College Principal
ARE RINGING
25 May Year 7 & 8 meet with St
Catherine's College
We are so happy to Principal
announce, Claudia and 31 May—2 June Catholic Character Review
Matt are getting married on 10th April.
We all wish them love and happiness Thursday 8 July End of term 2
WRITING EXAMPLES FROM SOME OF OUR CHILDREN:
Snoop dog raps about our Pollution
Hi, my name is Snoop, and I will be rapping about the pollution we make.
“Pollution affects over a million persons, with every piece of trash, the situation
worsens.
We’ve got to rethink make a plan, we’ve got to reuse the things we can.
Also, we’ve got to face it, we could never replace it, our future is looking dim un-
less we erase it.
Stop filing our air with pollution, why is there such confusion?
There’s already a solution, Is this a new type of human evolution?”
That is wat I call a Rap Snoop
By Beanel
WALT: Identify different introductions to a story
Here are some examples:
On a dark misty night, Catherine McAuley heard a scream then a cry of a child being put
into the world of poverty, oh great she thought sarcastically I am going to use my fortune to
save the kids from poverty no matter how much people judge me.
Natnael Keleab
In Ireland there was a big City called Dublin. Where there were poor people and people
suffering from starvation. People dying from extremely horrible diseases this is sad story
will truly touch your heart.
Hearmeala Yigezu
Have you ever done something nice even if everyone thinks its stupid? This is Catherine
McAuley's, founder of the sisters of mercy, born in September 29 1278 in Dublin Ireland,
and this is her story
Javier RomeroHappy Birthday to You!
This fortnight we pray for the following children who have celebrated or will celebrate their
birthdays this year.
We are a Positive Behaviour for Learning School.
We encourage our children to be Go getters, this means that they are ready to learn, respectful of
people and property and take responsibility for their actions.
Ask your children about our new traffic light system that encourages our students to take on
leadership and make good choices.
This is how our Traffic light system works:
• Every class uses the Traffic Light system to monitor DAILY student behaviour.
• Every student starts on the green zone each day.
• When a student makes positive choices, in particular the ones that you are focusing on that week,
THEY get to move their name up to pink – great choices!
If throughout the day a student continues to make positive choices, ( we link these choices to our PB4L
values, the 3RS of being ready to learn, responsible for actions , respectful of people and property) then
the student moves up to the yellow light and is a Go getter for the day.
Those on Go Getters 2 or more times a week get to take home a special certificate that
acknowledges their efforts.
Go Getter certificates are presented in assembly and acknowledged in the newsletter.
So keep an eye out for certificates coming home so we can all celebrate your child/ren’s success.You can also read
