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ARCHIVE
- Pump House Theatre – The Great Piratical Rumbustification - Jul
- Matariki – Kite Making - Jun
- Aroha Book Week - Jun
- CONGRATULATIONS TUMANAKO SACRAMENTAL CHILDREN 2017 - Jun
- Giorvanni Leupolu- Auckland Samoan Speech Champion - Jun
- Girls Rugby- Papatoetoe Champions - Jun
- Allan Brewster Centre Visit - Jun
- Winter Sports Days 2017 - Jun
- Our Treasure Hunt - Jun
- The Treasure Maps - Jun
- BOOK WEEK – The Hidden Treasure (A tale from Sri Lanka) - Jun
- Matariki at the Papatoetoe Library - Jun
- Whānau Day Term 2 – Te Houtaewa - Jun
- Whānau Wānanga – Nau mai, haere mai. - Jun
- Vietnamese Summer Rolls - Jun
- The Papatoetoe Museum - Jun
- HOLY CROSS PARISH PAPATOETOE CONFIRMATION 2017 - Jun
- Māori whānau hui - Jun
- Whānau Day – Term 1, 2017 - Jun
- Te Reo Māori Classes for all our Holy Cross Whānau. - Jun
- Room 4a Celebrate Samoan Language Week - Jun
- He kura māhita hou – A new teacher - May
- Mrs Bucheler Makes Chop Suey! - May
- Our trip to New World & the Playground - May
- Hine’s Dance Award - May
- Road Safety Walk to the Papatoetoe Train Station - May
- My Healthy Lunch - May
- Mother’s Day Card – Kisses to You! - May
- Room 4a Clothes Like Jesus Wore - May
- Aroha Seasons! - May
- FIRST RECONCILIATION SERVICE 2017 - May
- Environmental Sustainability (ES) - May
- Gymnastics lessons by Ruma Tekau ma Wha - May
- FR BILL’S VISIT TO TUMANAKO SYNDICATE - May
- Room 11 transformed into the trenches! - May
- “Follow Me,” said Jesus, “Follow Me!” - May
- Road Safety Walk to the Playground - May
- The Resurrection of Christ - May
- Mathematics – Groupings with 5 - Apr
- Palm Sunday Activity - Apr
ARCHIVE
- Pump House Theatre – The Great Piratical Rumbustification - Jul
- Matariki – Kite Making - Jun
- Allan Brewster Centre Visit - Jun
- Our Treasure Hunt - Jun
- The Treasure Maps - Jun
- BOOK WEEK – The Hidden Treasure (A tale from Sri Lanka) - Jun
- Matariki at the Papatoetoe Library - Jun
- Vietnamese Summer Rolls - Jun
- The Papatoetoe Museum - Jun
- Mrs Bucheler Makes Chop Suey! - May
- Our trip to New World & the Playground - May
- Hine’s Dance Award - May
- Road Safety Walk to the Papatoetoe Train Station - May
- My Healthy Lunch - May
- Mother’s Day Card – Kisses to You! - May
- “Follow Me,” said Jesus, “Follow Me!” - May
- Road Safety Walk to the Playground - May
- The Resurrection of Christ - May
- Mathematics – Groupings with 5 - Apr
- Palm Sunday Activity - Apr
- Our Visit to Mrs de Koning’s House - Apr
- Food Mary May Have Prepared For Jesus - Apr
- T.J. Buddy Reading - Apr
- Kaiden Reading to his friends - Apr
- Felix Reading - Mar
- This is our School – A Song - Mar
- Our Mary Song - Mar
- Shopping in New World - Mar
- Our Woven Fish - Mar
- Writing in our books - Mar
- Whiteboard Writing - Mar
- Allenby Park Visit - Mar
- Our Woodwork Table - Mar
- Making Popcorn - Mar
- Ash Wednesday Liturgy - Mar
- Making Butter – Like Mary & Jesus Did - Mar
- A Visit to Papatoetoe Library - Mar
- Construction - Feb
- God Gives Life! – Creator God - Feb
- Phonemic Awareness – Compound Words - Feb

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Welcome to the Holy Cross School News page where we share the latest school highlights and events.

Pump House Theatre – The Great Piratical Rumbustification

4 July 2017 · by Mrs de Koning

On Monday 3rd July we were lucky enough to go to a special theatre show at the Pump House in Takapuna. Mrs de Koning had applied for free tickets for us, and we were lucky enough to get chosen. We travelled on a lovely bus, with soft seats and big windows!

It was a very rainy day as we left. The windscreen wipers were going and the windows soon misted up. It was a smooth and comfortable trip along the motorway and over the Harbour Bridge.

When we arrived we sat under cover and ate our lunch.

After lunch we had a little time ot fill in. We sang some action songs, played some phonemic awareness games, played “I Spy” and when the sun started to shine, we went for a short walk along the path and up the hill above the Theatre and Lake Pupuke.

Our show was due to start at 1pm. The theatre took a picture of us for their sponsors and then we went into the theatre. We had great seats with a very good view of the stage. We were not allowed to take photos or videos during the show, but Mrs de Koning took some shots of us before it started.

After the show we walked up the path to the roadside and met our bus. We had a great time.

We want to say a bog thank you to the parents who came with us …. we think they had a wonderful time too. Some of us were very tired and fell asleep as soon as the journey started. We had a very quiet trip back to school and arrived just at home time!! It was a very enjoyable day.

Matariki – Kite Making

29 June 2017 · by Mrs de Koning

For two days this week (Wednesday and Thursday Mrs de Koning has been working with the Harinui students as they make kites. We have been learning about Matariki. it is a special time of year – Maori New Year. It is a time of remembering the past, especially people who we have loved and that are no longer with us. it is also a time of planning for the future and new beginnings.

Family/Whanau and Friends get together to spend quality time together. They choose some or all of these activities

cooking and feasting on fresh seasonal foods (perhaps pumpkin or kumera.)
playing games together (sick games, string games, flying kites)
singing and dancing (waiata and kapa haka)
talking about family and friends who have died (korero)
having a bonfire or party
planning for new vegetable plants to grow for the new season.

So we decided to make some simple kites. Here is a video on YouTube we looked at to help us learn the steps.

Then each day Mrs de Koning took half of the students with her to decorate their card and make their kite.

The next step was to fold the paper in half, matching the short sides together. Then we made the two marks onto the fold of the paper. We used the ruler to make sure the marks were the right distance apart.

Later we folded up the two corners and stapled them at the mark. We dis not fold the wings but rolled them, so they could catch the wind.

After we had stapled the wings we put a small piece of sellotape over the second mark on the fold. This was to make the kit stronger. We used a hole punch to make a small round hole.

Mrs de koning helped us to tie a piece of string through the hole we made.

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As we finished making our kite we got our books and started to write a story about it! We were independent writers. Then we read our story to two friends and saw if we had remembered to put the full stops in the right place!!

Last of all, when everyone had finished making their kites we went outside to fly our kites. Unfortunately there was very little wind. We did have fun running around trying to make them go up into the air.

We were happy to take them home. Maybe there will be a windy day on the weekend and we can show all our family how to fly a kite during Matariki.

Aroha Book Week

25 June 2017 · by Mrs Roberts

Over the last two weeks we have been listening to stories and reading lots of books from different cultures and countries. We have been on a journey all around the world and it has been fantastic! We would like to share some photos of some of our favourite books as well as art work and other activities we have experienced.

We all loved the story Hungry Tiger and Clever Rabbit from Korea. We found Korea on a world map, found out about Korean culture and also learnt lots about tigers too!

We read a story from East Africa called The Strongest Mouse and read lots about elephants.

Room 9 and 10 sketched and shaded some fantastic elephants and other animals inspired by the stories:

Room 4a also read another story from Africa called Handa’s Surprise. Then they drew around the outlines of photos of the fruit in the story and used pastels to shade and smudge them:

We were also lucky enough to have some storytellers and authors visit our classrooms: the Rangimarie students! They came to share the stories they had written as part of Book Week:

We all feel inspired now to read more stories from around the world and maybe become authors ourselves one day!

CONGRATULATIONS TUMANAKO SACRAMENTAL CHILDREN 2017

22 June 2017 · by Miss Helsham

Congratulations to all the Year 4 children who made their First Holy Communion last Sunday. You all did very well and I’m glad that the service was exactly what we had planned. Thank you to the parents who read Paul and Karen Osborne and Ruby Mataia. Thank you Kay and Ian for being a part of the Offertory procession. Thank you to Manu Joseph for being the Tumanako syndicate photographer. The photos are awesome.

Our service was all about family and when we talked as a group, we decided we wanted our parents and family to be very much a part of the service. Thank you to the children who led, read, sang and danced. Together as a team we made our service both special and memorable.

May God continue to bless us all

Giorvanni Leupolu- Auckland Samoan Speech Champion

21 June 2017 · by Mr Ginders

Well done to Giorvanni Leupolu who won the Auckland Fagasa Speech Competition. We are very proud of his achievement. He will now attempt to defend his NZ Championship.

Here is a transcript of his speech:

Oute faatalofa atu I le Paia ma le Mamalu o Samoa ua potopoto, aemaise susuga o

faamasino. Viia le Atua aua ua tau lau o le faamoemoe. Magalo ia so’u leo faatauvaa,

faagafua so’u tulaga ae se’I ou taumafai e faasoa atu I le autu o le faamoemoe “

MA’AU I LOU OFAGA- MAUA’A LOU FAASINOMAGA x2.

O lo’u igoa o Giorvanni Leupolu, oute a’oga I le aoga Katoliko Koluse Paia I Papatoetoe.

Ma’au lou Ofaga; e faasino I nofoaga sa e ola ma e soifua mai ai, lou aiga, ekalesia, lou a’oga, lou alalafaga lou atunu’u.

Oute talitonu la, a lelei lou ofaga, ua mautu foi lau fa’asinomaga. O TAUA O LE TEINE MA LE TAMA SAMOA MONI LAVA!. O le ta tofi lea mai le Atua. Ae fa’afefea ona maua’a le ta

faasinomaga lea?? E maua’a le ta Faasinomaga e ala I measina nei e lua:

Muamua o le ta GAGANA: O le ta gagana o le poutu toa lea o le faamoemoe. O le ta

matupalapala lea mai le Atua. E amata a’oa’oina le ta gagana mai I totonu o aiga, I le tama ma le tina, aua o le ta faleaoga ma faiaoga muamua lea. O fanau o mea pu’eata, o le gagana, upu ma tala ete tautala ai I le fale, o le gagana foi lena e tautatala ai le fanau. Ave aoga amata Samoa, aoga faifeau, ave I lotu Samoa e faalogo ai I upu folafola a le Atua i le tatou lava gagana. A alu I le aoga ua iai aoga ua a’oa’o ina ai le gagana Samoa. O nisi ia o si’osi’omaga e mausali ai le a’o’aoina o le ta gagana. Ae manatua e Amata mai totonu o lou aiga, I le tama ma le tina.

Lua LAU AGANUU: O le gagana e lae’I ai le aganu’u. E taua lou aganu’u pe a mautu lou

gagana, aua a leai se gagana ua leai se aganuu. O le aganuu o le Samoa o le FAAALOALO. O le faaaloalo o le tamaititi I le tagata matua, o le tulou pe a savali I luma o tagata, o le tautala I le fa’afetai ma le fa’amolemole. Lau apa fafano mo tama ma tina pe a laulelei. O ivitu ma le poutu ia e faufau ma tapena mai I totonu o aiga. Ave I mea fai a autalavou, aiga ma nu’u e faalogologo ai le tama ma le teine a’e pese le tauleale’a I le folafolaina o le sua, ao le

tama’ita’i i le sulatoga ma le paluina o le ava. O le muagagana faasamoa, E mama’e le tava’e Iona fulu. E faapena foi Samoa I lana aganu’u.

Matua e, a’oa’o le fanau I le tatou gagana ma aganuu, o le lua matafaioi tausi lea. AUA A LEAI SE GAGANA, UA LEAI SE AGANUU, A LEAI SE GAGANA MA SE AGANUU ONA PO AI LEA O LE NU’U, A PO LE NUU, UA TAGI MAI ALA MATOU LE FANAU TUPULAGA AUA UA SOLOA E LE AU FUEFUE MEASINA A LE ATUNUU.

Tama ma teine Samoa, tula’i maia toe sasa’a le fafao, toe timata le upega, aua se Samoa

manuia mo a taeao. Ia toe fa’aolaola lau Gagana ma lau Aganu’u ia fa’amaua’aina ai le ta

fa’asinomaga; o ta’ua o tama ma teine Samoa MONI lava.

Ni lape o le tautalaga ia natia i a’a. Ao ni lelei ia fai lea ma sei e sasala i lenei mafutaga. A

tatala le filialii ma fou taliu le uto i vai. Iesu Mamana i lo tatou va. Soifua ma ia Manuia!

The photos below show Giorvanni with his trophy and his proud friends.

Girls Rugby- Papatoetoe Champions

21 June 2017 · by Mr Ginders

Girls Rugby- Papatoetoe Champions

By: Gracie Campbell (Rm22) and Rimu Frandi (Rm21)

The girls team hopped in the van and drove off to Puhinui School, full of excitement and nerves. When we got to Puhinui we set up our gazebo and sat down quietly eating our morning tea. Our nerves were growing as we all watched the Over 50 kg team play their first game against Papatoetoe South. Mr Ginders called us together and gave messages from our coach Mr ‘Ofamo’oni, who was away sick. When the boys finished we walked on to the field nervously and waited for Kingsford girls to arrive.

Game 1 v Kingsford:

The horn blew and Kingsford kicked the ball off.. The game was hard and there were some good and fast girls playing against us. It was a close game but we won 2-0. We were really nervous before our first game, because for lots of the girls it was their first time playing rugby. The Girls ran to the gazebo and almost fell asleep cause they were tired but we had to continue.

Game 2 v Puhinui

Our next game was against Puhinui and Rimu was excited because she wanted smash her cousin. When they kicked the ball Grace caught it and ran as hard as she could until she finally got tackled. The game was a tough game, with a few high tackles from both teams, but the game was fun and we won 6-0.

Game 3 v Papatoetoe South

After our rest we played Papatoetoe South. Nearly all the girls scored a try in this game and it was fun. The score was a 12-0 win., which was our highest score of the day.

Game 4 v Holy Cross B

Our next game was the game we had the most fun in. We got to play our own school, as we had two teams. Everyone enjoyed playing their friends and classmates and we came away win another win 10 -0.

Final v Kingsford

We had a long rest before our rugby final, which was against Kingsford. Everyone was terrified that we were going to lose, but Mr Ginders calmed our nerves and gave some more messages from Mr ‘Ofamo’oni. The game started well and we scored some quick tries to put the pressure on Kingsford. We had the goal to keep Kingsford to a doughnut, meaning keeping them to no tries, as we hadn’t conceded a try all day. Despite our nerves we ended up playing our best game winning 8-0. We kept Kingsford to a “doughnut.”

All of the girls were tired and a little bit sore from a hard day of rugby. As we were leaving to go back to school we got rewarded with a ball. Mr Ginders was happy that we won and stopped at the diary and bought us all Ice-Blocks.

We now go to Auckland Champions in Term 3.

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