Newsletter week 7 Term 1
St Joseph's Catholic School Morrinsville 16 March 2021
PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE
Kia ora Koutou,
A special thank you to our PFC for a fantastic School Picnic held on Friday afternoon. We appreciate all that could make it. We were also fortunate to have our School Mass on Sunday. Thank you to all those that were able to attend.
We have a very exciting week ahead of us. Today we are very proud to have Bishop Steve Lowe, visiting our school. Bishop Steve has been visiting our Catholic Schools to talk about the achievements and challenges that arise in education today. Welcome Bishop Steve!
Tomorrow we will celebrate St Patrick's Day. The children and staff are dressing up in green for the day. Please wear your green garments to school. It is a great way to celebrate, especially for the Irish! On Friday 19 March is the Feast of St Joseph. We are proud to have St Joseph as our Patron Saint of our school and parish. St Joseph was a carpenter, a hard worker, and of course the earth father of Jesus. We are going to celebrate the feast of St Joseph by hosting some of our other namesake schools here on our school grounds. We welcome St Joseph's Waihi, St Joseph's Matamata and St Joseph's Paeroa. We are going to be decorating crosses, playing games, eating lunch together and will also attend a liturgy in the church at 1.30 pm. All welcome to attend.
Have a fantastic week. God bless you all.
Arohanui
Andrea Colebourn
Principal
Swimming
Junior Swimming Cup Champions
Junior Girls. Awarded to Alicia Watkins
Intermediate Swimming Cup Champions
Intermediate Girls. Awarded to Emma Butler
Senior Swimming Cup Champions
Senior Girls. Awarded to Brooke Devaney
Brooke also won the 3 stroke medley and 100 m freestyle events
Morrinsville Districts Swimming Event
Commissioning Mass
Acorn Season
Desks for Sale
Certificate Winners
Manaaki Core Value Certificates
Class Certificate Recipients
Colouring Competition Winners
Online Safety Evening
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Hot Cross Buns
PFC Family Picnic held last Friday
Reminders for this week
Upcoming Events
- St Patrick's Day - 17 March
- CIS Swimming - 18 March- Hamilton
- St Joseph's Day - 19 March
- Yr 8 Immunisations - 22 March
- Palm Sunday - 28 March
- Easter Week beginning 29 March
- Good Friday - 02 April public holiday
- Easter Monday - 05 April public holiday
- Easter Tuesday -06 April school holiday
- Onesie Wednesday - 7 April
- End of Term 1 - 16 April
Reflection Feast of St Joseph
Everything we know about the husband of Mary and the foster father of Jesus comes from Scripture and that has seemed too little for those who made up legends about him. We know Joseph was a compassionate, caring man. Joseph is the patron saint of the dying because, assuming he died before Jesus' public life, he died with Jesus and Mary close to him, the way we all would like to leave this earth.
Joseph is also patron saint of the Universal Church, families, fathers, expectant mothers (pregnant women), travelers, immigrants, house sellers and buyers, craftsmen, engineers, and working people in general.
We celebrate two feast days for Joseph: March 19 for Joseph the Husband of Mary and May 1 for Joseph the Worker. March 19 has been the most commonly celebrated feast day for Joseph, and it wasn't until 1955 that Pope Pius XII established the Feast of "St. Joseph the Worker" to be celebrated on May 1. This is also May Day (International Workers' Day) and believed to reflect Joseph's status as the patron of workers.
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Email: admin@stjoes.school.nz
Website: https://www.stjoes.school.nz/
Location: St Joseph's Catholic School - Morrinsville 11 Linden Street, Morrinsville, New Zealand
Phone: +64 7 8895306
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