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ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE KILBIRNIE, WELLINGTON NEWSLETTER 4/2012 Issue date: 29 June 2012 From the Principal..................... Bay and over to Seatoun. I look forward to meeting many of them again at our Orientation Evening on Tuesday, rd Tena Koutou Katoa 23 October when they become officially part of our St Catherine’s family in 2013. Talofa lava Warm greetings to you all We encourage all girls who have been accepted into our Here we are at the end of Term Two! What an action Year 9 intake for 2013 to register to sit the St Maria’s packed term! It has been rewarding for me, to follow the Scholarship test on Tuesday, 7th August, 9-11.30am. This girls and their many successes throughout the term and I scholarship covers the Catholic Schools’ Board fees for am still looking forward, with immense anticipation, to the one year. ST CATHERINE’S VARIETY ARTS EVENING 2012. We are in partnership together, as parents, students and On Friday 22nd June, the Wellington City Council came to teachers to support your daughters to be the best that cut down three gum trees on the Kilbirnie side of the school. they possibly can be. It is vitally important that your This has made the College more visible to the local community daughter is at school every day dressed correctly in the and visitors and will be followed with signage that lets the right uniform, ready to give her very best to everything community know that St Catherine’s is here! that she does. In week two of Term Three, the College will welcome an My door is always open Education Review Team (ERO) to the school. The ERO team God Bless will independently review and report on the quality of education within the school. The focus of ERO’s review, in Mary Curran the College, is student learning and achievement, with the purpose of contributing to improved student achievement. Principal We look forward to their presence in the “Biggest little school in Wellington”. I am at present exploring the possibility of a St Catherine’s College BUS run From the Deputy Principal from Brooklyn to Owhiro Bay (Curriculum) ……………………......... including Vogeltown, Mornington and Kingston. En-route to St Catherine’s Student Attendance Rates for Terms 1 & 2 College the bus company would then service the Island Bay, Southgate, Houghton Bay area. Their route to the school On the 13th June Assembly certificates were presented to would then be determined by whether there was a need for students with outstanding attendance at school so far this further pickups at Berhampore and Newtown or Lyall Bay year. These students have had no days off and only one and Melrose. The cost would be calculated on a par with the or two “Lates” to school: current costs to the students travelling on the public transport system. Angela Bailey SJ3 Tabatha Billington SJ2 Daniella Emer SJ2 If your family is interested in exploring this option, please Sian Gregan ST2 get in contact with me through the following email Gabrielle Hamilton SJ3 address: [email protected] (with the Tayler Kern SB1 words: “ SCC BUS 2013” in the subject line Alexandra Langley SJ1 Rebecca Moriarty SB2 or phone, 9398988 by Friday 17th August. Kate Ostapowicz ST3 Elisha Prasad SJ2 Tyler Raemaki ST1 A large part of Term Two for me, has been taken up with Aman Deep Ramela SB1 visits to our contributing schools to talk about what St Narda Shemon ST2 Lauren Simpson SA2 Catherine’s can offer students and then interviewing Lauren Small SJ2 prospective Year 9 students for 2013. It has been a Tzuzumi Takayama ST2 privilege to meet so many fine young girls and their Juri TanibataSB1 parents, from as far away as Lower Hutt through to Island Melina Tofete SA3 Caira Uy ST2 We will again be awarding House Points in Terms 3 and 4. From the Deputy Principal Please assist your daughter in getting to school and being on time. One student so far has 39 Lates to school! (Pastoral) ……………………......... 1. LIBRARY OPEN FOR SUPERVISED STUDY IN UNIFORM THE SECOND WEEK OF THE HOLIDAYS When your daughter is enrolled at St Catherine’s College, The library will be open for supervised study from she signs our enrolment form which states that she will 9am - 3pm in the second week of the school holidays: follow the school rules: 9th - 13th July. Students must adhere to the school rules of no I undertake to attend regularly, wear the uniform eating and drinking in the library and respecting correctly and obey the rules and regulations of St others who wish to work quietly. Our senior school Catherine’s College. assessments will take place from 9th - 14th August. It is, therefore, of concern that a number of students are 2. BREAKOUT DATABASE FOR SCHOLARSHIPS not following our uniform code and are not showing the expected pride in neat presentation as agreed. In & GRANTS particular: At school we have access to a website called Breakout which is a database of a large range of 1. Students should wear black, leather lace-up shoes and scholarships and grants. We urge all our senior black tights. students to search through the site, especially if they 2. The only permitted piercings are two small studs, one in know the career/study direction they may want to each ear. We do not allow any other facial studs and ask take. Visit www.fis.org.nz girls to remove any we see. 3. Jackets must be black: no other colours are permitted. 3. NZQA DATES 4. Scarves worn to and from school must be plain black. 20th July - Financial Assistance application forms to 5. Hair colour should be a natural colour and there should the school office. These were included in the last be no extremes of style. This includes shaved areas and mailout. More copies can be picked up from the dreads. school office. 16th August NZQA fees must be paid to the school We ask for your support on these matters. Please ensure office - or a late fee of $50 may be added. your daughter has the correct uniform items, that she wears them on every school day and that she presents 4. NZQA EXAM TIMETABLE ATTACHED herself neatly, observing the standards prescribed. A copy of the 2012 NZQA exam timetable is enclosed with this newsletter. LATES and ABSENCES A number of our students are regularly arriving at school late. Unexplained late arrivals are being recorded as TRUANT and, as their parents, you are required to provide SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE a written explanation. Too many students are putting themselves at a disadvantage because they are missing We have been allocated a booking on the Spirit of part or all of their first lessons. They are also Adventure this year: disrespecting their teachers and the other students in their class. Please make sure that your daughter arrives at Date: 28/12/2012 - 6/1/2013 school on time, ready to learn and ready to help her peers (over the New Year Period) learn, too. Route: From Port of Auckland to Bay of Islands MULTICULTURAL CLUB Please contact Ms Page if you are interested in going on This student-led club has had a very active term: this voyage. You will then be sent information about • They ran a fundraising concert on 25th May to raise costs, travel, subsidies etc. The student must be between funds for new costumes. 15-18 yrs of age. More information is available on the • Spirit of Adventure Trust website: They performed at Open Day. www.spiritofadventure.org.nz • They performed at the 50th Anniversary of VSA (Volunteer Service Abroad), a function attended by the Governor General and Members of Parliament. Mandy Page This is part of the thank you letter: Dep Principal (Curriculum) Thank you to the members of the St Catherine's Prasad learned a huge amount and developed great College Multicultural Club for their performance at confidence, despite losing all four debates. The girls were our VSA 50th anniversary celebration evening on a great group to spend a day with! Thursday 14th June. The students performed with such confidence and enthusiasm, and added a very Kathy Ryan special element to the general mood of celebration. They bought to life the culture and spirit of our Geography Dept News.............. neighbours in the Pacific, where VSA volunteers work with communities and partner organisations to bring Year 13 Geography trip to south Wairarapa about lasting change. The year 13 girls and our one SPC student went to Greytown, Martinborough, Carterton and Featherston to [A u-tube clip on this event is on the College website: study tourism. We had lots of opportunities to interview www.stcatherinescollege.school.nz] people and visit different types of accommodation from budget to very upmarket. We looked at providers, As well as this, the girls are preparing for Tu Tangata attractions, infrastructure and regulations governing the which is a very prestigious schools’ Pacific Island Festival industry. Although the weather was atrocious we were held at the Opera House on 27 September. This year lucky to be travelling in our warm bus and staying in there are 9 schools competing. Although this is not a Nazareth at Cross Creek where they had two wood competition, there is much discussion in the schools and burners. We spent 3 busy days and are now all producing the community about who was the best. Of course, St a report on the effects of tourism on people and places in Catherine’s College is always amongst those mentioned! the Wairarapa.