Term 1 Week 11
Principal's Message
Learning Conferences
Tonight we will be holding the first of our Learning Conferences. This is an opportunity for your children to share their reading, writing and mathematics goals with you.
Each conferences will last for 10 minutes.
The library will be available for siblings to wait while you spend time with your child.
Please stick to your time so that we can keep on schedule.
Non-Uniform Day
This Friday we will have a non-uniform day to raise funds for Caritas. Children may wear anything they like. They are asked to bring a gold coin donation.
SPECTACLES for Cambodia
All types of unscratched spectacles including sunglasses, reading glasses, especially your old prescription glasses, kids' glasses, work safe glasses are needed for poor people in a village in Cambodia. Cleaning cloths and cases also welcome and necessary.
I have been involved with a medical clinic in a poor village in Cambodia for 10 years. They are requesting that I please bring spectacles for the people, especially the elderly. I have taken glasses before and done eye clinics which are always very popular. Many cannot afford an eye test or glasses and the great joy on their faces when we match them with a pair of prescription glasses and they can see, is priceless.
Please give to Katrina at the office before May 1 (start of Term 2).
Lisa Small
Principal
Faith News
That's What Following Jesus is All About
Last Sunday I heard a sermon from one of our parish priests that really made me think so I thought I would share it with you all.
Hours before the death of Jesus, Judas ate too.
Jesus fed Judas too.
Jesus prayed for Judas too.
Jesus washed Judas' feet too.
I struggle to fathom what kind of love this is...
A love that would feed the mouth that decieved you.
A love that would wash the feet of the traitor.
A love that would forgive even the vilest of betrayals.
And then, suddenly, I realise... that I am Judas too!
And in that moment I'm so grateful and altogether overwhelmed that, Judas ate too.
The true test of Christianity is not about loving Jesus but loving Judas.
Showing love to someone like Jesus is so easy,
But to love a sinner like Judas is difficult.
That is what following Jesus is all about.
Wednesday Mass
Please come and join Room 4, along with members of the parish, for Mass this Wednesday morning at 9am,
in Room 3.
Parish Newsletter
This week’s Parish newsletter is available here
Absences
If your child is sick or unable to attend school for all or part of the day, please either send a notification via the school app (skool loop), email the school office on office@stbernards.school.nz or phone 3899377 by 9.00 a.m. so that your child's absence can be accounted for.
Children who are late need to report to the office in case they have been marked absent by the teacher who takes the roll first thing in the morning.
If an absence is planned for a special reason, a note or telephone call to the school in advance is appreciated. In cases of prolonged absence, e.g. a family trip, a written note is required.
Room 1 Learning
Great excitement in Room 1 with the hatching of our sea monkeys!! We are getting pretty good at using a magnifying glass to see them.
Our self portraits are finished and hanging up on the wall as our" Portrait Gallery "
We finished off the term's drama by creating a tableau of a zoo, and an underwater world. ( Can you see the mermaids on the beach?)
Room 2 Learning
Room 2 have started some beautiful artwork. First we chose a sea creature and cut out a picture of it. We then used our cutouts to trace a silhouette of our sea creatures on black paper. Afterwards, we added some details on our silhouettes using only white crayon. In the pictures below we are holding our original cutouts in the centre of our paper, while drawing some beautiful ocean colours. We’re looking forward to showing off our completed masterpieces!
Room 4 Learning
This term Room 4 researched a variety of marine animals - including the Japanese spider crab, the blobfish, pufferfish, blue whales, and an orca. The children found lots of interesting information about their marine animals, such as life cycles, habitats, diets, their place in food chains and food webs.
Here are facts about some of the animals they researched:
Alna:
Pufferfish look very obese when they puff up but they are not that big. When they are not puffed up, they are very tiny. They are long, tapered and shaped like a football. Pufferfish are spiky with a rounded head. I think pufferfish are sooo cute!
Clara:
Blobfish lay 100,000 eggs in each nest. The committed parent will stay and protect the eggs until they hatch. Next they turn into small invertebrates. After a while the small invertebrates grow into bigger invertebrates and then turn into a blobfish. Blobfish can live up to 130 years old. Blobfish are on the endangered list because they get swept up by weighted fishing nets and deep sea fishing.
Danica:
Great white sharks eat sea mammals like seals, seal lions and small whales if they are young. Great white sharks also eat fish and stingrays. They can sense electrical fields in the water. Great white sharks can also smell ONE drop of blood in 100 litres of water.
Riley:
Japanese spider crabs eat dead fish, invertebrates, algae and mollusks. They catch their food by scavenging dead and decaying matter on the sea-bed. Some animals hunt the Japanese spider crab, including hungry octopi, or they get caught in trawling nets. The octopus uses venomous saliva to kill or paralyse the spider crab. A trawling net is a giant net that catches lots of fish. It is attached to a boat so it can easily catch the Japanese spider crab.
Intermediate Programme
Last week, as part of their intermediate programme, our Year 7 and 8 girls made delicious meatballs and spaghetti.
Technology Sessions
Year 7 and 8 students attend technology sessions at Mount Cook School each Tuesday afternoon. This term the Year 8s have created some stop motion movies.
Public Notices
CAPE EGMONT VIRTUAL HALF MARATHON 2024
Want to walk or run in your own time, but also be part of a fantastic event? Then we would love you to join us.
The Cape Egmont Virtual Half Marathon offers three distance options - 5 km, 10 km and 21 km. Which can be completed any time anywhere from the 1st to the 31st of July 2024. Simply record your time via Strava, Map my run, Fit Bit or screenshot and upload through our website. Every finisher receives a medal and all money raised goes to the Taranaki Cancer Society and the Taranaki Men Can Exercise Group. To help those in our province affected by cancer.
ENTER AT: www.capeegmonthalf.com ENQUIRES capeegmonthalf@gmail.com
BIG AIR GYM
If your child loves doing cartwheels, handstands, trampolining, flips, dancing, or parkour, then they will thrive at Bigair Gym! Bigair Gym classes are excellent for fun, focus and fitness! Children learn new skills and develop personal confidence and self-achievement! Strong focus is given to safety and technique, ranging from fundamentals to advanced skills. The structured classes follow a Bigair Badge Programme, which creates focused learning, and allows children to achieve and feel personal progression! Bigair classes include GYMNASTICS, TRAMPOLINING, TUMBLING, FREE RUNNING(thats parkour with flips) & CHEERLEADING! Inquire about Bigair BIRTHDAY PARTIES too!
Book online for the April Holiday Programmme and Term 2 Gym Classes at www.bigairgym.co.nz
Bigair Gym Owhiro Bay: ph. 383 8779, e. wgtn@bigairgym.co.nz at 14 Landfill Road, Owhiro Bay.
School Holidays are all about having fun, right? Well, here at Ngā Manu, we’ve got fun in spades!
Come join us on Tuesday 23rd April at 11am for a very special puppet show by the extremely talented String Bean Puppets:
“Flutter” A short tailed bat who is afraid of the dark is befriended by a sparkly glow worm who thinks she is a star. The show is for 3-10 year olds. It’s about over coming your fears and includes some of Aotearoa's unique fauna and flora and the threats they face. The threat of introduced predators to our native species and the relationship between the short tailed bat and Te Pua o te Rēinga (Dactylanthus) is part of this story. The puppet show will be followed by a short talk from our Head Ranger about Te Pua o te Rēinga (Dactylanthus). Then we’ll give you the opportunity to view this rare plant which is in flower at our reserve.
Entry to Flutter is by koha. For those wanting to see Te Pua o te Rēinga in flower, standard admission fees will apply.
On Thursday 25th April (Anzac Day) at 1pm we have a story telling session with local author Bianca Begovich.
Bianca is a children’s writer and yoga teacher. She has published six books for children about caring for the environment through CreateBooks. All will be available for sale at Nga Manu as she reads her story 'The Earth and Me' on Thursday 25th April. She is also a published poet and in 2016 was awarded second place in the Rangitawa short story competition for her story about 'Koro Jack', an old whitebait who travels his local rivers and out to sea. She lives in Kāpiti with her husband, three teenagers, one dog, eight chickens and several thousand bees.
Entry is free for this session. Standard admission fees apply for those who wish to explore the reserve before or after.
