Welcome to our third week of Term 1

We hope that everything is going well for you all - we keep all those being affected by this weather in our thoughts and prayers. We pray for people in Turkey and Syria as well.

CONGRATULATIONS to our Year 6 Whanau Leaders. We are really proud of the wonderful start they have made to their servant leadership roles.

POMPELLIER - Charlotte-Jane and Flynn
ONGLEY - Skyla and Stalone
McAULEY - J'ahde and Jeffrey
BERNADETTE - Emily M and Hunter

VINCENT - Leiana and Evalia

FRANCIS - Martina and Andrick

OUR FEAST DAY

It was so lovely to see so many of you at the Our Lady of Lourdes Feast day mass. Thank you to Fr Joe, Whaea Donna and Mr Hammond for supporting us. We look forward to our next family mass.

SOME EXCITING NEWS

Mrs O'Callaghan, and her husband Michael welcomed their baby daughter into the world on February 7th. Mum, baby Lucy and family are doing well.

SCHOOL EVENTS TO MARK IN YOUR CALENDAR

• THURSDAY 16th FEBRUARY - GOAL SETTING EVENING: 3.15-7.15pm

It is wonderful to see how many people have already made a time to meet with your child's teacher. A reminder that bookings close on 13th February at 4pm.

• Friday March 10 - Running and Swimming Duathlon - all children will participate in this

• MAJOR FUNDRAISING EFFORT FOR TERM ONE - COOKIE TIME is underway. We truly appreciate all your support with this.

PARKING/ROAD SAFETY

A reminder that the school carpark/courts are not to be used for before school drop off or after school pick up. Please park on the street and walk your child into school through the pedestrian gate. Thank you for helping to keep our children safe before and after school.

We also ask that you do not park on yellow lines outside the school area - we cannot see oncoming cars when helping children to cross the road. You will be asked to move your cars to keep our children safe at these busy times. We appreciate your support with this.

Abundant blessings to you all for the term ahead. It's going to be a fabulous one.

The OLOL Team

• Primary school aged children, meet on Monday nights from 6pm - 7:30pm
• Intermediate aged children meet on Wednesday nights from 6pm - 7:30pm
• Cost is $85 p/term with the first four weeks free as a trial period
• The events are held at the Te Awe Awe Scout Hall (on google maps) located behind Girls High School on Huia Street.
• Activities consist of: At the start of the night we play some fun games, sometimes things like seaweed or other times puzzle solving games. We then do some adventure things like build a fort or tower, or build our own raft and paddle it on the lagoon. We do activities which are sometimes scary for us individually, but once we have done them, we feel like we are a stronger version of ourselves. We learn leadership skills through running our own activities for the other youth. We earn badges as rewards for accomplishing challenges and tasks which we proudly display on our Scout shirts. We enjoy camping, cooking food and singing around a campfire.

TERM 1 DATES 2023 - Tuesday January 31st - Thursday 6 April (Easter)

Wednesday 15 February - First meeting for those wishing to start the sacrament journey

Thursday 16 February - HERO Goal Setting afternoon from 3.15-7.40pm

Wednesday February 22 - Ash Wednesday - the school will join the parish

Thursday 23rd February - Year 1 & 2 Tabloids hosted by St Josephs Feilding. Year 1 & 2 children to be at school by 8.55am. The bus will leave at 9am - return 1pm. Please feel free to meet us in Feilding for a morning of activities from 9.30-12.30pm. Please make sure your child has their sunhat, a named drink bottle full of water and their lunchbox.

Thursday 2nd March - Year 5 & 6 Tabloids hosted by OLOL - starting at 9.30am.

Monday 6th March - Food for Thought programme begins for Room 6 and 8

Wednesday 8th March - Year 3 & 4 Tabloids hosted by St James - Children to be at school by 9am. The bus will leave just after 9.am - return 12.45pm. Please feel free to meet us at St James for a morning of activities from 9.30-12.30pm. Please make sure your child has their sunhat, a named drink bottle full of water and their lunchbox.

Monday March 20th - St John lessons for Room 6 and 8

Monday April 2nd - HOLY WEEK Activities begins

Thursday April 6th - Holy Thursday

OTHER COMBINED CATHOLIC SCHOOLS DATES

• Year 5/6 RIPPA RUGBY and NETBALL Tournament @ St Mary's Wednesday, August 16th. (postponement day - August 23rd)

SCRIPTURE READING COMPETITION

June 6th @ 6pm at St Mary’s Yr 5/6

TERM DATES 2023

Term 1 - January 31st - 6th April

Term 2 - April 24th (Teacher Only day), 25th ANZAC day - Term 2 begins-April 26th-June 30th

Term 3 - 17 July - 22 September

Term 4 - 9 October - December 14 (to be confirmed)

If you wish to register your child for this event please register under the 'OLOL School' team you will save a little on postage costs for your entry pack.

We will not be organising this as a school team rather it will be up to parents to organise transportation and supervision. We'll let you know more once children have enrolled.