MARY-ANGELA'S MESSAGE
Kia ora koutou
So far this year, much of our Religious Education and prayer times have been about preparing (Lent), experiencing (Holy Week), celebrating (Easter Season) and receiving (Pentecost).
With the power of the Holy Spirit behind us, the challenge of Jesus is always with us – to live the Christian life fully and to share that new life with others.
Now the Season of ‘Ordinary Time’ has begun, and classes have begun using green prayer cloths to represent this season in our Liturgical calendar.
Being a tumuaki/principal of a Catholic school is such a great vocation, and I really love being at St Francis de Sales with your tamariki. I especially love it when our littlies bring their writing to share with me, draw me pictures and say “hi” in the playground.
GOSPEL HOMILY PODCAST
I thought you may appreciate a link to this NZ podcast series - support us to reflect on the scriptures. This week we have a discussion about The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, June 12: https://foodforfaith.org.nz/podcast/homily-studio-sunday-12-june-2022/
REPORTING REVIEW
Thank you to the many families who shared their thoughts about what is important to you in your child’s report. We have a working group of teachers who are taking a look through your feedback. They will also be exploring various other ways that schools report to families, including ‘real time’ reporting. This review will take much of the year - to ensure we do a thorough job of exploring all options to provide what you have told us is the most important for you to read / hear about your child:
Their attitude to learning and willingness to participate (100% of responses)
The progress they are making in their learning (100% of responses)
Their social and emotional wellbeing (96% of responses)
TERM TWO REPORT AND LEARNING CONFERENCES
The teachers are in the midst of preparing each child’s Term Two progress snapshot report. Written reports generally take teachers approximately 6-8 weeks to prepare.
Given that we are in the middle of our reporting review, we have not made any changes to this report format just yet. You will be given another opportunity to share your specific feedback about the term 2 report format and content, once the reports are sent out near the end of this term.
We sought feedback from teachers about a suggestion to delay learning conferences until term 3, partly to ease teacher workload. Feedback was mixed. We also asked you about your preference - 86% of responses to the survey indicated that it is important to you as parents/caregivers to discuss your child’s written report with their teacher after you have received it. Therefore the learning conferences will remain in Term 2.
Earlier in the year, many of you shared feedback that you needed more time for your discussion. Therefore we will hold (slightly longer) learning conferences on the last week of this term immediately following the reports being sent out - to give you all this opportunity. School will finish at 2.00pm on these days (days to be confirmed). Provision will be made for families who are unable to collect their child/ren early at that time.
Bookings for learning conferences will be opened and shared this week in the Friday Reminders.
SICKNESS…OTHER THAN COVID!
We are now beginning to experience some of the normal ‘flu season’ sicknesses. Attached in the following PDF is a table to help you assess whether your child is well enough to be at school. I wonder how many of these illnesses you experienced as a child (I can certainly spot a few that I remember having!)
Take care and God bless
Ngā mihi nui
Mary-Angela Tombs
Principal
Kāore he mutunga o te Aroha.
The measure of love is love without measure.
This cup is awarded weekly to a St Francis de Sales student who demonstrates exemplary service to our kura and our community.
A huge congratulations to the amazing Ella W who is this week's recipient of our ‘Principal ‘s Cup’!
Ella is someone who is always using her initiative and always loves to help others!
St Patrick’s College Open Day Tours – June 2022
Tēnā koutou katoa.
It is with pleasure that I invite you to register to attend one of our Open Day Tours which are to be held on Tuesday 14 June between 10.00am to 11.30am and from 12.30pm to 2.00pm, and again on Thursday 16 June at the same times.
To make a booking please either email admin@stpats.school.nz with your request or to make a booking yourself visit the St Patrick's College website:
On the front page of our website you will see a drop down menu labelled 'Enrol' and if you click on that and scroll down you will see a tab for Open Day.
Open this section and click on the Blue button – book here.
Enter your details and make your selection regarding day/time.
A reminder email will be sent closer to your booked day.
Open Day is a chance for parents to visit our College and learn about the opportunities and experiences that we offer across Years 9 to 13.
Mike Savali
TUMUAKI |RECTOR
ST CATHERINE'S COLLEGE OPEN DAY/NIGHT
St Catherine's College has scheduled our Open Day/Night for the 8th of June. We are doing it a bit differently this year and we will have two times for families to choose from and they will need to book online for either session.
We have 2 sessions:-
2.00pm and 6.00pm
Where to book:- https://www.schoolinterviews.com.au/code/293ps
We look forward to meeting your Year 8 girls and hope that they will join us for 2023.
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