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Cardinal McKeefry School Newsletter

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Kia ora te whānau, Catholic Character How can we celebrate Lent in our busy lives? I recently came across a quote from a 6 year old who stated that “Lent is for making your heart bigger for Jesus”. Each year Caritas releases a keep it simple for Lent action plan. The plan for this week is shared here. Caritas challenges YOU this Lent to make a difference in others’ lives by making small changes to your daily actions. Grow in compassion and empathy for the poor and vulnerable in other countries around the world.

Opportunity to learn about Brain Development from Nathan Wallis The Cardinal McKeefry staff have greatly benefited from hearing Nathan Wallis speak about brain development over the past few years. You may have heard Nathan on RNZ speaking with Catherine Ryan about the first 1000 days in a child’s life and the developing brain. We are pleased to inform you that the opportunity for parents to attend a night with Nathan Wallis is being hosted by Raroa Intermediate. On the 30th of May he will be discussing the teenage brain and there are plans to add a workshop on the 31st of May about the Developing Brain. Tickets can be purchased from Eventfinda.

Academic Competitions The University of Canterbury is offering your child the opportunity to participate in the Great KIWI English, Mathematics and Science competitions. These competitions take place annually and are designed by New Zealand teachers for New Zealand students based on the New Zealand Curriculum. For further information, please consult the CEM website www.cem.canterbury.ac.nz The competitions

are open to all Year 5-10 students in English, Mathematics and Science. Students can enter in one or more subjects. The competition provides teachers, parents and students with an independent, comprehensive record of a student’s performance in key school subjects. All participating students will receive a certificate and prizes will be awarded to top students. Please see attached notice.

Soccer Uniforms Thank you to everyone who contributed to a wonderful soccer season. Please return your soccer uniform to the office. We will send out forms for the 2019/2020 season early term 3. There are some outstanding soccer fees that still require payment. Please check your records and contact the office if you have not paid your fees.

Ngā Rerenga Kōrero- Māori Phrase of the Week

kākano: seed

Kai ai ngā manu i ngā kākano o tēnei rākau hua. The birds eat the seeds of this fruit tree.

Ra whanau kia koe to Devyn who celebrates his birthday on Tuesday

Upcoming Dates Term 1

Week 7 29/3 School Assembly (R4 hosting) Week 9 2/4 2.15pm Go Piano Student Performance

Week 10 8/4 Whole School Trip to Te Papa 12/4 Last day of Term 1 2.15pm School Assembly 13/4-28/4 School Holidays 29/4 First day of Term 2

Ngā mihi nui, Tania Savage

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Room 1 Writing– Terracotta Warriors

R4 & R5 Trip to see

Wolgang’s Magical Musical Circus

Crash thud I creep around the corner and see the whole terracotta warriors collapsing right in front of me. Broken, smashed into pieces I fall onto my knees trying to put pieces together. In front of my eyes I see the whole building collapsing. I pick up a piece of the terracotta warrior and made a run for it. The piece was hard, grey, a hat of a warriors. I take one more glance at the building and run for my life many others were also fleeing the building. I see a kid crying right in front of my eyes. I grab his hand and the piece, I hop onto the nearest emergency van as we drive off to see many others fleeing Te Papa grabbing their kids. I'm so glad I am now safe. By Darcey

“These things are so creepy!” Haley whispered. “I know right!” Haley’s best friend Lillian replied. They were at the Te Papa Terracotta Warrior exhibit for a class trip. Haley and Lillian were practically the only ones in the entire school who had been before, and so they were bored out of their minds. Haley's feet were getting sore from walk-ing around so much so she sat down on a bench to rest. “Girls up you get.” It was their teacher, Miss Harriet who could be very mean sometimes so they decided it was best to get up. As they were walking along looking at all the different warriors Haley heard a ‘crack’ and then a ‘thud, thud.’ “Did you hear that?” she asked. “Yeah, I wonder what it was.” Lillian replied. All of a sudden the room was filled with the same ‘crack, thud, thud.’ every single one of the Terracotta Warriors had fallen to the ground and cracked open. Inside each and every one of them was thousands and thousands of golden coins. Each one worth hundreds of dollars. “Haley! Haley wake up!” it had all been a dream. She wasn't going to be rich. The warriors were still standing and her class was lining up to get ready to go.

By Maddy

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Summer Soccer Cardinal Crocodiles Summer Soccer Final Sadly the Crocodiles lost 2-0 but they played an amazing game - they ran until they couldn't run anymore, and Quinny was amazing at goal keep and saved lots of goals. They were pretty impressed with their medals for second place in Grade 12, which some Wellington Phoenix players presented to them.

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Term Dates 2019

Term 1: 4th February - 12th April (Holidays 13th April-28th April)

(Includes Easter and Anzac Day)

Term 2: 29th April - 5th July (Holidays 6th July- 21st July)

Term 3: 22nd July - 27 September (Holidays 28 September - 13th October)

Term 4: 14th October– 18th (or 20th December tbc)

March is well underway- Let’s Keep Movin’!

WOW passport competition There’s still one more week to fill your cards and go in the draw to win one of six $300 AVANTI vouchers. If you haven’t walked or wheeled yet – it’s not too late to start! Students can submit up to two incomplete and as many completed cards as they wish. Parent Photo Competition Greater Wellington Regional Council is giving away daily family passes to Space Place in the final week and on Friday there’ll be an adult Micro scooter up for grabs as part of Jack’s Favourite Friday Photo competition. Just snap a photo of your family’s journey to school during Movin’March, post your photo publicly on Facebook or Instagram with #movinmarch

PTA- Easter Croissant Fundraiser Reminder Please use the google form to order your croissants before 5pm Monday 1st April. You are welcome to send the google form link to friends and family who may also wish to have delicious croissants over the Easter break. https://forms.gle/s9MyBFkyrT9cFGBq6

Otari Parish News Flax Cross Making Social Night

Friday 12 April St Thomas More Lounge 6.15pm , Stations of the Cross 7pm

This Social evening is an opportunity for Parishioners from St Teresa's, St Thomas More and the Cathedral and the school communities to spend time together. Just bring along your own dinner/takeaways at approx.6.15pm. After dinner the Tongan Community will lead us in Stations of the Cross in the Church at 7pm. Then everyone will be shown how to make flax crosses from Harakeke (NZ flax). Dessert, tea and coffee will be provided. The flax crosses will be used by all church communities on Palm Sunday. The crosses will help us express the Easter story and are beautiful to keep even when they dry out. Mark this date in your diary and come along for

some prayer and fellowship.

MAGAZINES NEEDED FOR ROOM 4 R4 would love any old magazines that you may have to donate for their craft activities.

In particular magazines like Next, Woman’s Day, Home & Garden, Cuisine would be perfect!

A big thank you in advance!

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The Garden Group The weather was against the gardeners

this week with the wind blowing and the

rain coming down. The team started in

the classroom by talking about the

changes in seasons and the impact that

this has on planting and growing. When

the rain stopped half the team went

outside to work in the garden and on the

compost, and the others stayed inside to

plant seeds that will be transferred into the

garden once they start growing. The garden

is still supplying us with amazing tomatoes,

cucumber, herbs and silverbeet. It is fantastic

to see the hard work the students are putting

into the garden and the wonderful crops that

they continue to harvest.

The Kitchen Group In the kitchen the team made great use of the fresh harvest and made the most delicious pizza and salad. The smell of pizza cooking wafted down the hall and when the pizzas came out of the oven they tasted as good as they looked. The students not only made the dough they also made the pizza sauce with tomatoes from our own garden. Now that everyone knows how awesome fresh homemade pizza is there may be a lots of people making pizza this weekend.

Monday 1 April NACHOS LUNCH! GTT Fundraiser for digital kitchen scales

On Monday 1st April Room 2 is fundraising for a set of electronic scales for the kitchen (apologies for the incorrect date being written on the wristbands). We are offering the rest of the school the chance to taste an amazing lunch of vegetarian nachos, delicious fresh salad from our garden accompanied by a refreshing glass of homemade lemon cordial. The meal will cost $5 and be served in the hall at 1.10pm. The tables and chairs will be set up for students to sit down and enjoy their lovely meal. This vegetarian meal does not contain any nuts and grated cheese will be available to sprinkle on the top for those who want it. Ingredients will be nacho chips, kidney beans, onion, garlic, silver beet, oregano, oil, cumin. Grated cheese and sour cream will be optional. Please complete the google form https://forms.gle/2zN5AhzRZ1UDTPFF9 To allow us to buy the correct amount of ingredients please place your order by 3pm on Sunday 31st March.

Making the dough kneeding the dough spreading the sauce putting on the toppings

Planting

Harvesting Carrots

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sKids Cardinal McKeefry specialises in delivering quality after school care and school

holiday programmes. We strive to create a fun and safe environment that our kids just love! For more information on our action-packed holiday programme, please call Jools Da Silva on

021 0254 3249 or email jools@skids.co.nz