Newsletter - Week 6, Term 3 (26th August 2020)

Our Lady

of the Rosary

School

Wainui Road, Waiwhetu, Lower Hutt,

5010

Phone: (04) 566 3258

Fax: (04) 566 3159

Email: admin@olr.school.nz

Web: www.olr.school.nz

OUR SCHOOL VIRTUES: Faith - Whakapono, Hope - Tūmanako, Love - Aroha, Charity - Manaakitanga

Enrolments for 2021 CLOSE on Monday 31st August 2020. Spaces are limited for 2021, so If your child is

turning 5 in 2021 and you are intending to enrol your child at OLRS, please collect an enrolment form from the office. OR, if you know of other family members or friends who have children who are turning 5 in 2021 and are interested, please get them to contact the school office to book an appointment regarding their child’s enrolment.

Kia ora, malo e lelei, talofa lava, kia orana, namaste, ni hao, welcome,

As announced on Monday afternoon, we will remain in Alert Level 2 until at least Sunday 6th September. Here

is a link to our school Level 2 Safety Plan. Thank you for your ongoing support.

Welcome back to our campers! The children arrived back safe and sound from their week at Tea Pot Valley Camp in Nelson having had many fantastic experiences and team building fun! A huge thank you to Abi Jordan and Emily Wilson for organising camp for all our tamariki, we so appreciate all the effort you put in to make it happen!

A huge thank you also goes to our wonderful Camp Helpers. We thank you for taking time off work and away from your families: Liz Pereira, Michelle Marsden, Kerry Noaro, Michael van der Gulik, Helen Greaney, Kathleen Samuelu, Kobus de Beer, David Hoffman and Eti Moananu.

To the parents of our Intermediate students, we thank you for supporting us in the roller coaster of a year to get your children to camp. The very generous grants we applied for enabled our camp costs to be considerably cheaper than previous years. Resulting in $180 per student for 6 days in the South Island. Grants

Pub Charity: of $10,000 towards the cost of accommodation and food. Pelorus Trust of $1,973 towards the cost of the bus transport. Four Winds of $2,000 towards the cost of the ferry transport. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you to these Charities for supporting us.

Yesterday our middle syndicate (rooms 0, 1, and 9) went on a trip into Wellington to the Carter Observatory and Wellington Museum. They had a great day exploring… Thank you to our adult helpers. A few pics of the day

This FRIDAY, 28th August. To support the Cancer Society Daffodil Day we will have a YELLOW Mufti Day on Friday - please bring a gold

coin donation

Here is a link to the photos of camp 2020!

Friday 4th September—Onesie Day - Wellington Free Ambulance

Fundraiser. To help raise funds for our WFA we will have a ‘wear your

onesie, or PJs, to school’ and bring a gold coin donation.

Music is alive and well at OLRS!

OLRS School-wide Wednesday Music Programme: Our Wednesday music programme continues in Level 2. The young musicians are rotating their lessons in blocks of two or three Wednesdays in a row, in order to accommodate everyone wanting to learn ukulele or jam on their guitars. Favourite songs of our beginner players are ‘Siva, Siva’, ‘How much is that Doggy in the Window’ and other such classics like 'On Top of Spaghetti', 'Cups' and 'Stand By Me'.

Players who have been learning for a year or two or three or four with Lucy are learning to read 'tab' music, lead in songs and find their strumming rhythms. Some of these children recently played at their very first school Mass. For our most senior group, they have begun learning how to compose their own songs.

Nga Waiata Manu, (our choir made up of year 3-8 children) is supported greatly by Helen Willberg and Barb Egan. During level 2, the choir is split into two and coming on a fortnightly rota. We are working on a beautiful gospel song and a couple of uplifting pieces from the Trolls and Brave movies.

Junior singing is taking place in a 'tour' fashion where I pop into each class and sing favourite songs with them. Lots of fun. A similar system was started with the rest of the school for their syndicate singing - this is just a level 2 adaptation of whole syndicate singing.

We hope that you're hearing some ukulele or guitar playing at home from our students and maybe a choir song being hummed or sung at random moments! We also hope to be able to share our learning this year with you all at some point in some fashion.

Thank you for encouraging your music learner. The benefits of learning music are incredibly far reaching.

Lucy Ryan

A BIG THANK YOU to you Archie for your letter to remind us all how important it is that we support the Wellington Free Ambulance to keep all our special tamariki like you safe. We will all be wearing our Onesie or PJ’s on Friday. You are an inspiration to us all. Thank you. Mrs Surynt-Tapiki

27 Aug ICAS English at 11.45am 28 Aug Daffodil Day - Mufti Day - Yellow clothing and

gold coin donation 28 Aug POSTPONED - Buddy Mass, OLR Church, Rms 2

and 9, 9am 28 Aug Book club - Issues 5 - orders close, 2.30pm 31 Aug ICAS Mathematics 31 Aug-3 Sep - Swimming programme (CANCELLED) 31 Aug Enrolments for 2021 CLOSE 1 Sep POSTPONED - Visual Branding meeting 4 Sep Interzone Swimming (CANCELLED) 4 Sep Onesie/PJs Day - Free ambulance fundraiser -

gold coin donation 7 Sep Tongan Language Week 7 Sep G J Gardner CLEAN UP Week 14-18 Sep Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 14-18 Sep Social Justice Week 14-18 Sep Election Week 15 Sep Extra Avalon Tech day for Yr 7/8 16 Sep Buddy Mass, OLR Church, Rms 6 and 7, 9am 18 Sep Buddy Mass, OLR Church, Rms 3 and 8, 9am 21 Sep BOT Meeting, 7pm 25 Sep Buddy Mass, OLR Church, Rms 11 and 12, 9am 25 Sep End of Term 3 12 Oct Term 4 begins 14 Oct Feast Day Mass 19 Oct Niue Language Week 26-30 Oct Tokelauan Language Week 26 Oct School closed - Labour Day 27 Oct School closed - Teacher Only Day 3 Nov Visual Branding meeting, 6pm, OLRS staffroom 27 Nov School closed - Teacher Only Day

http://olr.school.nz/ is our school website.

Congratulations to the children who were awarded the school virtue certificate of

Tūmanako - Hope Rm 10 - Dylan Broughton Rm 11 - Luca McKinnon Rm 12 - Alyssa-Grace Bell Rm 8 - Harper Tufuga Rm 9 - Charlie-Rose Ayrton Rm 0 - Janet Raju Rm 1 - Hiroki Hoffman Rm 2 - Harold Howard Rm 3 - Malakai Savage and Tamaiva Macdonald-Pupuke Rm 6 - Juno Holden Rm 7 - Jessica Greaney

Congratulations to Renee and Jason and to Blake Saunders (Room 12) on the birth of their wee baby girl, Brooklyn, last week. Enjoy this special family time.

Juniors Syndicate - Learn through Play

God Bless, Whakapaingia te Atua Karolina Surynt-Tapiki Principal