New Brighton Catholic School Water Safety (Mary Immaculate) Yesterday it was life jackets www.newbrightoncatholic.school.nz in the deep pool! Why are Newsletter/Pānui 29 the children looking up? Ask your child. Term 3, Week 10: 26 September 2019 Dear Parents, Caregivers, Whānau and Friends Important Dates Mon-Fri 16-27 Sept Swimming at QE11 – all classes Fri 27 Sept 2.45pm Term 3 ends Sun 13 Oct Baptism Sunday Pyjamas (not onesies) and Togs Mon 14 Oct Term 4 starts – music plays 8.43am Tomorrow children will learn about keeping safe in Tues 15 Oct 5.30-6.30pm Parents Meeting the water by experiencing swimming in clothes and Wed 16 Oct 9-3pm Sailing at Lake Rua – Yr 7/8 how we can manage and de-robe to stay afloat Mon 28 Oct Labour Day longer. Tues 29 Oct 9.30-2.30pm Athletics Day – Yr 4-8 Children need to bring togs and pyjamas (but NOT 5.30pm BOT onesies) for this lesson. (They will wear their togs Thurs 31 Oct 11.30am All Saints Mass – whole school under their pjs in the pool.) Bernard Adams Tues 5 Nov School photos ______Wed 6 Nov 1.30pm Virtues Assembly (instead of Monday 4 Nov) Tues 12 Nov Zone Athletics - qualifiers Enrolment 2020 Wed 13 Nov CSO’s Big Bang concert at the Town Hall – whole school We are looking at next year’s classroom planning. Thurs 14 Nov Staff-only Day Have you pre-enrolled your pre-schoolers? If you’re not sure, Fri 15 Nov Show Day please check with the Office. Wed 27 Nov Celebration evening If you have friends/family thinking about NBC, please ask them to Fri 29 Nov Athletics Day – Yr 1-3 ring the Office. Tues 3 Dec 5.30pm BOT Wed 4 Dec Canterbury Athletics - qualifiers Moving? Please let us know. Fri 6 Dec Mary Immaculate Feast Day celebration ______12noon Swimming – whole school (PTFA) Parents Meeting - Tuesday 15 October Wed 11 Dec Yr 8 Leavers’ Dinner This is a must if your child is in Yr 3 in 2019 because in 2020, as a Tues 17 Dec Junior Celebration - at Grace Vineyard – Yr 1-3 Yr 4, they will begin to use 1:1 Chromebooks. But all parents who Wed 18 Dec 5pm EOY School Mass – whole school ______wish to understand the pedagogy (the method and practice of No Assembly tomorrow because of swimming. teaching) around Learn Create Share and the work we have been ______doing with Manaiakalani should attend the meeting on Tuesday Spiritual Reading: Bishop Paul has challenged all of us in the 15 October (the first Tuesday of Term 4) from 5.30-6.30pm. diocese to do some spiritual reading. Private prayer is like straw scattered To gauge numbers so we know which space to use, please let the here and there: If you set it on fire it makes a lot of little flames. But gather these Office know if you are interested. Nick Gray straws into a bundle and light them, and you get a mighty fire, rising like a column ______into the sky; public prayer is like that. --Saint John Vianney Summer Uniform – Terms 1 & 4 Bishop SM, 10th Bishop of , was born in Hastings It’s summer uniform time in Term 4. You will find the uniform and studied theology and arts at Victoria University.. At the time of his listed in the Information Booklet, and available at The Warehouse. appointment, Bishop Paul was General Bursar for the Society of Mary in https://www.thewarehouse.co.nz/c/schools/new-brighton-catholic- Rome. On 5 December 2017 he was appointed, by , Bishop of school-%28chch%29 the Christchurch Diocese and ordained on 3 March 2018 by Cardinal , Archbishop of Wellington, Bishop Emeritus of Christchurch , and Bishop of Palmerston North. The navy Aussie-style sunhats are also available at ______the Office ($18 - cash only). Children need to be End of Term Prayer present to try on sizes. We thank you, God, for this term. For the challenges, the successes, and the mistakes from which we have learnt. Be with us as we spend time with Please ensure your child is wearing the correct summer uniform, family and friends. Give us strength and courage to do what is right to be and don’t forget School Photos on 6 November. witnesses of our faith. Help us to be a practical Christian these holidays, to ______appreciate what others do for us, to give time and effort to help others, to Congratulations be peacemakers in our family. Keep us safe in our activities; give us good rest and good fun. Bring us back Aquinas House won the most footsteps for Term 3! We won this refreshed and ready for a new term. We thank you for our classmates, because we were using manners, being kind and showing the teachers, parents, and a community that cares for us. virtues of NBC in all we do. If you are in Aquinas please wear only May we always be conscious of You in our lives. Amen yellow colours tomorrow to show our great achievements. ______Franky Tohiariki & Elijah Reynolds (House Captains) At New Brighton Catholic we care ______for others. One of the ways that we Change of end of term 4 plans can do that is by remembering Our end of year full school mass will be at 5pm on Wednesday people less fortunate than us and donating what we can. Each 18 December. week we are going to have a Giving Tuesday where we encourage Children are welcome to attend school on 19 December until the students to bring what money they can to donate. If you find lunchtime (12.30pm). Teachers will be spending the afternoon any spare coins around the house or children would like to donate shifting furniture due to the rearrangement of classrooms in some pocket money, they can put the coins in their class’s piggy preparation for the demolition of Rooms 5 & 6 over the Christmas bank and we will collect and put them into our big school jar, and holidays. send them away when our jar is full. Small change can make a big difference. Thank you. Megan Stewart DRS We are aiming for 3:1 ratio of positive Room 5’s My Sense Poems praise to correctional feedback. The rationale is that to learn, humans I see houses and trees when I’m going to QE2. require regular and frequent feedback on their actions. Humans I hear people splashing at the pool. experience frequent feedback from others, from self, and from the I smell chlorine, it smells yucky! I taste water, it tastes wet and warm. James Bignell-Pritchard (Yr2) environment - this can be planned and unplanned, desirable and undesirable. Without formal feedback to encourage desired I see a hydro slide. behaviour, other forms of feedback shape undesired behaviours. I hear the waves coming to me. For more information go to: http://pb4l.tki.org.nz/ and I feel the waves and water splashing. http://www.education.govt.nz/school/student-support/special- I taste the chlorine. Farrah Hancox (Yr 1) education/pb4l/ ______I see the big purple bus that takes Room 5 and 6 to QE2. Children’s Piano Lessons I hear people splashing in the water. I feel the water on my tummy. Beginner piano lessons will start next term at $18 for 20mins. This I taste the chlorine, it tastes YUCK. includes learning basic music theory. If you are interested, please I smell the chlorine in the pool and it is on myself. call Mike on 027 2566130. Noah Godinet-Church (Yr 1) ______I smell the chlorine as water comes out of the pool. Daylight saving starts 2am Sunday morning with the clocks I taste the chlorine in the pool as I swim. springing forward an hour. Hopefully the holidays will be filled I feel the waves splashing on my face, it’s cold but I like it. with sunshine. Have safe and relaxing break. I hear people talking, they are loud. I see people swimming and diving in the water. God Bless/Atua Whakapai/Fa’amanuia le Atua Aleigha Stevens (Yr 2)

Deb Daines I see people doing swimming lessons. Principal I smell the chlorine in the water and on myself. I hear splashing. ****************************************************************************** I taste chlorine in the water when I open my mouth. I feel the water and it feels wet! Braxon Williams-Kirk (Yr 2)

Parish I see the water moving when I smack it. Fr Bryan Parish (383 4722) I hear the children splashing, Sunday Mass at St Mary’s at 10.30am and Saturday vigil at I taste the chlorine and it tastes yucky. St James at 5pm. nd I smell the chlorine and it smells really bad. 12.30pm Samoan Mass every 2 month (Fr Paulo) St James I feel the bus wobbling. Isa Mann (Yr 1)

(next Mass Sunday 10 November) 9am Samoan Mass every 4th Sunday (Fr Bryan) St James I see the children on the bus. I hear the children on the bus. Tonight: Baptismal Programme starts - Three Thursday meetings I smell the pool on peoples’ bodies. 7-8pm on 26 September, 3 and 10 October. Welcome Sunday I taste the water. 29 September and Baptism Sunday 13 October. All meetings are I feel uncomfortable on the bus, I am squashed! compulsory. Please contact Margaret Bell 382 0464 or Fr Bryan Makua Gulliver (Yr 1) 383 4722 for more information. I see adults in the water, they are doing exercise, Attendance Dues for Term 3 should now be paid. You committed I smell chlorine, it’s disgusting. to paying Attendance Dues when you enrolled your child in a I hear splashing from the children, it went on me! Catholic school. Please avoid the embarrassment of being asked. I feel water splashing on me! If you are not sure, please check with the School office. I taste the chlorine, it is a disgusting taste! Gemma Graham (Yr 2)

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I see the bus driver driving the bus. Community I can smell the motor as it rumbles. The Community Dental Service offers treatment and relief of pain I hear the children yelling at each other inside the bus. by appointment only during the school holidays. If your child has I feel the long bumpy bus when it goes over the bumps. dental pain as a result of an accident, please contact your dentist. I taste the fresh air when he opens the bus doors. Woolston Clinic, Hillmorton Clinic,and Hornby Clinic will be open Nixon Drury (Yr 2) during the holidays for appointments between 8.45am and 3.00pm ______for school-age and preschool children requiring treatment. To book an appointment call 0800 846 983 or email School Community [email protected] Congratulations

Tots to Teens September - November issue digital magazine is Matias Romero Xandri and his family became New Zealand citizens available http://issue1909c.totstoteens.co.nz/ this week. ______On the Library Noticeboard: • Knit world holiday workshops for children www.knitworld.co.nz PTFA • Stoked surf skate lessons www.stokedsurfschool.co.nz Lunch first Thursday in Term 4: Sausage sizzle $2 • Basketball: Breakers v Phoenix Friday 20 Dec and Friday 14 Feb Orders & correct money must be in the blue tin in the Library by ______8.45am Wednesday. ______