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Report Absences: absences@stteresas.ac.nz

School Uniform Shop: uniforms@stteresas.ac.nz

Phone : 04 939 1725 Fax: 04 939 1724

School Email: office@stteresas.ac.nz

Website: www.stteresas.ac.nz

Principal : principal@stteresas.ac.nz

On Friday we celebrated Diwali.

Lily from Kahikatea is the person of the week

this week! Lily showed great leadership last

Friday during Diwali, operating the henna

station like a seasoned pro. Lily in general is a

reliable and trustworthy student and always

looks out for the younger students in the

playground. Keep it up Lily!

Kia ora koutou

This morning we celebrated our school Feast Day (which fell on a Sunday this year), with a school Mass.

Thank you to Mrs Jacobs and her team for preparing our Mass. Thank you also to Otari Catholic

Women’s League, who made a donation of Rosary Beads for each child, and led us all in a decade of the

Rosary at Mass. Your child has been asked to take good care of these beads, as a Taonga—a treasure.

Diwali & Government House

Last Friday, we celebrated the Indian festival of Diwali with fun activities for the children to choose from.

Thank you to Mrs Sohani for organising this, to our parent helpers for supporting this event, and to

Vikashni for supplying our staff with some lovely Diwali goodies to eat this week!

Yesterday a selection of 12 children represented our school at the official welcome for the President of

Ireland, at Government House. They were briefly caught on the TVNZ News being greeted by the

President, in response to their Gaelic greeting to him. The children said, “Dia dhuit” (may God be with

you), and the Irish President responded, “Dia’s Mhuire dhuit” (may God and Mary be with you)—thank

you Miss Purcell, for teaching them this greeting. Thank you also for the parents who supported this

event.

Staff for 2018

We are really happy to have confirmed our fulltime teaching staff for 2018. We welcome back many of

our staff, and we will say a fond farewell to some. Our fulltime classroom teachers for 2018 will be Pip

Cook, Ingrid Jacobs, Jen Denham, Joanne Purcell, Pallavi Sohani and Michael Coles. Later this year, we

will be bidding a sad farewell to Josh McDonald, who has decided to ‘spread his wings and fly the coop’

in 2018. We wish Josh well in the next, exciting step in his career.

We are still working on confirming our part time teachers, and support staff, and sorting out which

teachers will be teaching at which levels. When this is confirmed, you will be kept informed.

Good Companions Club

Throughout this year, the Year 7&8 students have kindly helped out with the regular events organised

by this group of Senior citizens—by setting up and clearing away the furniture in the hall. Thank you to

Mr McDonald, and the student for offering this service.

Graffiti

Unfortunately we arrived back to school after the long weekend to face a good deal of graffiti on our

walls and doors! However, we were most impressed with the Wellington City Council’s response to our

call for help. Within a few hours, they had removed all of the graffiti. Unfortunately, this required

painting over our school rules mural, so we will get onto a new mural when we are able to.

Athletics on the go!

You may recall that our school athletics day had to be cancelled due to the weather, twice, in Term 1.

Because of this, we have needed to trial all of the children in Year 4-8 who were interested in being part

of the Western Zone event. In order to be part of this event, we prefer that the participants are

competitive and able in at least 2-3 events — so as not to be sitting around for the whole day. Thank

you to Miss Cook and the teachers for spending extra time to sort our team out.

Whakatau and Assembly

Every term we hold a semi-formal whakatau to welcome our new students and their families. Our

Assembly tomorrow afternoon, from 2.30pm, will include this term’s whakatau. You are very welcome

to join us in the hall.

BIG DAY OUT: Friday 27 October (postponement 3 November)

A reminder that this Friday we have our Big Day Out. We only have a small number of helpers at this

stage. If you are able to come and help, please contact the school or complete this form https://goo.gl/

forms/nbJVDIWitfOcGnlB3 Thank you. The children are to:

Apply sunscreen liberally before school

Arrive at school at the normal time

Wear PE uniform, and school hat

Bring a big lunch, water and a jacket, in their bag

End of Year Liturgy: Change of Date and Time

A reminder that our End of Year Liturgy will be at 11.00am on Friday 16th December.

Dia’s Mhuire dhuit—May God and Mary bless you!

Mary-Angela Tombs

The Uniform shop will be

open from 2:45 – 3:15

on the following

Mondays:

October 30 November

13 November 27

Brenda -Lee and Sharon

Team: Uniform Shop !!

Raffle Tickets - ALL raffle books (sold and unsold) should now be returned. If you still

have any raffle books please ensure these are returned to school immediately to the

FOST box. Our raffle is drawn next week so we need to get all these in.

We are having one last push to sell the remaining tickets - this Sunday 29th at the Karori

Mall. Please if you can spare an hour to help out get in touch with Kate at :

scottandkatesingle@gmail.com

Our Term 4 FOST meeting is on tomorrow (Thursday) evening. All are welcome to attend

- if you are considering joining FOST or just want to know what its all about come along.

Our meeting is 7.30pm at One Fat Bird.

This morning we celebrated St Teresa’s Day Mass.

We took the opportunity to thank those members

of the Catholic Women’s League who have been

coming to school to teach the children the prayers

of the rosary.

There will be NO Subway lunches on :

This Friday 27th October — as we will all be on the Big Day

Out !

Friday November 3rd— Subway are unable to do our lunches

as they have an in store promotion that Friday

The Irish President has

arrived in Wellington on

a state visit. President

Higgins was welcomed

to New Zealand

yesterday at

Government House.

Children from Wharangi

& Rata went along to

join in the welcome !

COMMUNITY NOTICES

Murder, mystery, intrigue…and wine - sound like your kind of night? On Friday 10th November, Karori Kindergarten is

holding ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ movie night, to raise funds for new outdoor safety matting. Tickets cost $25 which

includes a glass of wine & goodie bag. Arrive at 7pm for a 7:30 screening at the Penthouse Cinema in Brooklyn. Contact Liz

for more details (0211341476 or liz.pullen@gmail.com)