Week 8

  

Our Tryathlon/ Swimming sports are on Thursday at the Aquatic centre. Here is a link to the Form for parents to complete before the day.  More information is at the bottom of this post. 

Last week a letter was sent home with students regarding the use of social media and being responsible online users. There is a return slip attached which needs to be returned to school to acknowledge that it has been discussed at home. Our school's stance (and mine) is that our students are too young to have social media accounts, most platforms state that the minimum age is 13 years of age.  I have more copies of the letter in class if it didn't make it home. 

Week 8

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday - Principal's Luncheon

Thursday- Tryathlon/ Swimming sports

Friday - ELL Christmas Celebration, Sausage sizzle, Golden Time, Assembly

Week 9 - SWIMMING WEEK

Monday -  End of Year Mass, Secret Santa, Visit your new class

Tuesday - Big Day In Year 6, 

Wednesday - Prizegiving

Thursday - Year 6 Missioning, Finish school at lunchtime

Please continue to hunt for school library books at home and return these as soon as possible.

Tryathlon/ Swimming sports THURSDAY 8th December 2022

- The swimming sports will be combined with the Triathlon and will be held at the Rotorua Aquatic Centre on Tarewa Road in Rotorua.
- Years 4 – 6 students need to be dropped off at the Aquatic Centre on the day to meet their teacher by 8:45 am.
- Swimming sports will finish at approximately 2:30 pm.
-Children may come to swimming sports in their house colours, they may wear their togs under their clothes.

-If your child is taking part in the triathlon -Run/Bike/Swim-they will need to have you transport their bike to the Aquatic Centre.

-Alternatively, your child can take part in the duathlon which is a Run/Swim

Transport:
-Children need to be collected from the Aquatic Centre by 3:00pm at the latest.
-If your child attends After School Care or they usually catch the bus home they will be picked up from the Aquatic Centre at 2:30 pm.
-If you are unable to drop off or pick up your child from the Aquatic Centre please email Lorna Dobson lornad@stmarysrotorua.school.nz

Children will need:
togs & towels, bike, sunhat, sunblock, warm clothes, morning tea, lunch & a water bottle.

Should the event need to be cancelled this information will put on our website by 7:30am and a notification sent via Facebook, Educa and the school phone app.

Whanau support will be needed on the day to help especially in the pool. Some of our children are reluctant swimmers and your help would be greatly appreciated.
Please contact Lorna Dobson lornad@stmarysrotorua.school.nz

Secret Santa

The students would like to do Secret Santa in Room 2. This will happen in the last week of term. The girls will organise a gift for a girl and the boys organise a gift for the boys. Homemade and recycled gifts are perfectly fine but If you are buying something please do not spend more than $5:00. And please, NO LOLLIES. Please wrap the gift and label it boy or girl and place it in the box provided by Monday 12 December.

We are publishing a school magazine again this year, and this will be available during the last week of this term. At this stage, there are only to be 100 magazines printed. It will be a great memento of 2021. Orders are taken now with the cost for the magazine being $10.00.