Term 4 Week 8
Principal's Message
Baptism
This Wednesday at 9am we will be holding a Baptism for 12 children. If you would like to join us for this special occasion you are very welcome.
Please keep the children in your prayers as they become members of the Catholic Church.
Mason, Reign, and siblings Talia and Micah, Quest, Hunter, Marco, Nicky, Amelia and sister Daisy, Niva and Hawaiki.
Nativity Play
On Wednesday Decemeber 11th at 6pm we will be holding our annual Nativty Play and end of year event. Children all have parts in the play. If your child will not be able to attend, please let us know as soon as possible. Children will be provided with the main parts of their costumes, more details of what they will need to wear on the night will come home this week.
Lisa
Faith News
Parish Newsletter
This week’s Parish newsletter is available here
Keep the Christ in Christmas
At this very busy time of year it is important that we do not forget that Christmas is about the birth of Christ. Remember to keep the Christ in Christmas.
Mobile Dental Clinic Visit
This Tursday, the schools’ dental nurse will arrive onsite in their mobile van, for the childrens annual dental check ups. They are due to leave next Monday.
If further treatment is required your child will have been given a notice to bring home. Please ask your children about their visit and check to see if they have brought any information home.
Last Day 18 December – Come Dressed in Red and Green
Children are reminded of the school tradition of coming dressed in the Christmas colours of green and red for the last day. Find those Christmas hats, reindeer antlers etc. and get them ready for the day.
Remember school finishes at 12.30pm.
Birthday Wishes
Happy Birthday to Niva who turns 7 Today! We hope you have a wonderful, fun filled birthday.
2025 Term Dates
Term 1 - Mon 3 Feb to Fri 11 April (Waitangi Day 6 Feb)
Term 2 - Mon 28 April to Fri 27 June (Kings birthday 2 June, Matariki June 20)
Term 3 - Mon 14 July to Fri 19 Sept
Term 4 - Mon 6 Oct to Wed 17 Dec (Labour Day Oct 27)
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
In Science we have been learning about capacity ( the amount something will hold). We've experimented with liquids in containers. and objects in containers. We noticed that the size of the object that we put in a container affects how quickly it will fill up. We described our observations using the words full, empty, nearly full, nearly empty, least and most.
Room 2 Learning
We finished another one of our class books last week! This term we read another novel by the New Zealand author Joy Cowley, called “Chicken Feathers”. After we wrapped up our final novel for the year we wrote our own book reviews. We looked closely at different aspects of the book, including the plot, setting, as well as the cause and effect of the story’s major conflict. The class chose a character from the book to analyse and even drew pictures to illustrate how they felt the character should look. We explored some big themes in novels, such as personality developments and plot structures. Lastly, we rated the book and explained why we chose the rating we did. Great work, Room 2!
Room 4 Learning
On Tuesdays, when the Year 5 children come to Room 4 to work with the Year 6 students, we use a creative story writing resource called Game of Awesome. This card game encourages imaginative story writing by combining various idea and theme cards from four different card packs.
This term, we have taken the activity a step further by having the Year 5 and 6 children create their own story cards and themes. This process has encouraged the children to brainstorm and develop numerous creative story writing ideas. Once the children completed and coloured their story writing cards, they were eager to play Game of Awesome. It was great to see the children use cards to craft stories based on their unique ideas.
Public Notices
Summer Holiday Computer Classes
Grand Training runs educational and fun computer classes over the holidays at our Wellington City location for ages 5 to 16.
- Minecraft from Introduction to Mods.
- Learn to Code; Scratch, Python or Java.
- Discovery Course in Computing - suitable for younger children
- Build Your own Computer
Up to 15% off during the December/January School Holidays
CAPITAL TROUT CENTRE
(Landfill Road, Owhiro Bay)
WHEN
Sunday 8th DECEMBER 2024
A fishing experience for children aged 2 to 11 years.
You must have a Capital Trout Center licence/registration
FREE licences/registration forms will be available from
23rd November 2024
At
Capital Fishing, 49 Ghuznee Street (off Cuba Mall)
Hutt Valley Hunting & Fishing, 8 Te Puni Street, Petone
Your donation is appreciated
This is manned by volunteers from the Wellington Flyfishers Club and is funded by your donations
For further information, contact Strato Cotsilinis 386 3740
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