Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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- Suncatcher Poppies - Apr
- Insects - Mar
- The Lost Sheep - Mar
- Arohanui Distance Learning Week 5 - Mar
- Returning to School Alert Level 2 - Feb
- Information about L3 Lockdown - Feb
- School Council 2021 Terms 1-2 - Feb
- Dancing With Mythology - Oct
- Year 7&8 Scripture Cup - Sep
- Holy Cross Week Dance Display - Sep
- Holy Cross Week Dance Display - Sep
- Room 2 Scripture Cup - Sep
- Crazy Hair Day - Sep
- 100 Days Smarter - Sep
- MOTAT’s Life Hack - Sep
- Atawhai Distance Learning T3 W6 - Aug
- Arohanui Distance Learning Week 6 : 24 – 28 August 2020 - Aug
- Te Matauranga Distance Learning - Aug
- Keeping the ball rolling with Te Matauranga - Aug
- Atawhai Distance Learning T3 W5 - Aug
- Arohanui Distance Learning Week 5 : 17 – 21 August 2020 - Aug
- School Closed Wed 12 – Friday 14 August 2020 - Aug
- Netball Draw 11/8/20 - Aug
- Netball Draw 6/8/20 - Aug
- Netball Draw 4/8/20 - Aug
- Gospel reflections - Jul
- Netball Draw 30/7/20 - Jul
- Netball Draw 28/7/20 - Jul
- 50 Book Challenge - Jul
- Two Handed Strikes - Jul
- 2020 Term 3 & Term 4 School Council - Jul
- Atawhai Reading Degree Graduation - Jul
- The Orchestra Comes to Play - Jul
- Using Pope Francis’ Five Finger Prayers - Jul
- Unplugged - Jul
- Make an estimation - Jun
- Which ogre do you like? - Jun
- Sipping soup - Jun
- Bok Bok The chicks have arrived - Jun
- Bouncy Eggs - Jun
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- Harinui Syndicate Term 2 - Jun
- Harinui Distance Learning Week 1: 15th – 17th April 2020 - Apr
- Visiting the Papatoetoe Teaching Gardens - Aug
- Garden Walk - Aug
- Our Pet Interview - Mar
- Animates Visit - Mar
- Missions Award - Mar
- Daily 5 - Mar
- Our Road Safety Walk - Mar
- Holy Cross Mercy Gardens - Mar
- Learning the Letter ‘T’ - Feb
- Swan Plants - Feb
- Our Athletic Heroes - Nov
- Athletics Day at the Papatoetoe Recreation Grounds - Nov
- Making Coleslaw - Nov
- Science Experiments: Rolling and Bouncing Balls - Nov
- Planting our Sweet Peas - Nov
- Our Visiting Artist – Taani - Oct
- Running Races - Oct
- Vegetable in the Garden – describing them - Oct
- Our Gardener – Personal Qualities - Oct
- Making Groups in Ten - Oct
- Our Little Gardens ……. developments! - Oct
- Our Gardening Tools - Oct
- Our Church Visit - Oct
- Snail Visitors - Oct
- Our Garden Community - Oct
- Crayon and Dye Fish - Sep
- Folk Dance - Sep
- Our Mural Walk - Aug
- Strand Maths – Geometry - Aug
- Sketching Fish - Aug
- Planting bulbs into the School Garden - Aug
- Watering our Mercy Gardens - Aug
- Our Visit to Animates – Group 2 - Aug
- Visiting Animate – Group 1 - Aug
- Maths Week – Fractions Mufti Day - Aug
- Maths Week ‘Fractions Mufti Day’ - Aug
- Road Safety Walk to Papatoetoe Train Station - Aug
- Planting Spring Bulbs - Aug

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

Suncatcher Poppies

15 April 2021 · by Miss Skipper

In preparation for ANZAC Day on the 25th of May, Room 2 created some suncatcher poppies.

First, we used poppy templates which were covered over with clear contact paper. Then using red, black and green tissue paper, students ripped or cut the tissue paper into small pieces and laid it over top of the clear, sticky plastic. When the poppies were completed they were displayed on the window so that the sun could shine through them.

Insects

25 March 2021 · by Miss Skipper

Insects have three parts; a head, a thorax and an abdomen and the students in Room 2 know all about that. We looked at various images and studied their shapes and sizes. We designed and sketched our own creations.

After sketching, we coloured them in with pastels and then we dyed them.

The Lost Sheep

22 March 2021 · by Miss Skipper

Today we were learning about the Scripture reading parable of The Lost Sheep.

Luke 15:3-7 The Lost Sheep Parable Then Jesus told them this story: “Suppose one of you has 100 sheep, but he loses one of them. Then he will leave the other 99 sheep alone and go out and look for the lost sheep. The man will keep on searching for the lost sheep until he finds it. And when he finds it, the man is very happy. He puts it on his shoulders and goes home. He calls to his friends and neighbours and says, ‘Be happy with me because I found my lost sheep!’ In the same way, I tell you there is much joy in heaven when one sinner changes his heart. There is more joy for that one sinner than there is for 99 good people who don’t need to change.

The children in Room 2 dramatized this parable. The lessons from these parables include: – every person is important to God – God loves every person no matter what they do – God is our loving father, Abba – Matua.

Arohanui Distance Learning Week 5

1 March 2021 · by Miss Skipper

Here we are in Week 5. This term is really flying by! WOW. So the big news of the week is that we are back in lockdown.

First, please continue using the original pack you would have collected during this year’s first lockdown. There’s more than enough material in there to tide you over. If you did not collect your at home pack you can still do that through the office at school. Second, please find a link below to an online distance learning resource. These two resources plus IXL Maths and English and Sunshine Online are more than enough work for your children during this time.

The main thing to focus on at this time would be reading. Reading in Year 2 is all about mileage. Please help engage your learner in Reading during this time utilising all the reading materials you have at hand, be that on or offline,

Here is the link for our Google Slide : https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17BSHweHgatqJLO2dMlkMNedFlD5HjTZCrZa0yWOFPYQ/edit#slide=id.g35f391192_00

I have embedded audio clips on most pages to clarify expectations. Please share with us what your learner gets up to. We are keen to hear how everyone gets on.

Take care of yourselves and hopefully we are back to school shortly,

Goretti Meredith, Ann OGrady and Kelly Skipper

Returning to School Alert Level 2

17 February 2021 · by Mr Ginders

Welcome back to school on Thursday 18th For everyone’s health and well-being, the following procedures will be implemented from Thursday 18th

ENTERING SCHOOL

To make it easier for contact tracing we are asking parents to drop children off at the three school gates – Carruth Rd, Fairview Rd or St George St entrances.Children can enter between 8.00am–8.45am. We would appreciate that no parents/caregivers/whanau come on to the school grounds. There will be Staff on duty at these entry points.Any adults accompanying Year 0/2 students will be allowed to accompany them to their classroom and they must come through the school gates and have details recorded on the school’s contact tracing register. Adults cannot go into the classrooms.

VISITORS

All visitors must come to the main office and fill in the contact tracing register or scan the COVID QR code. The gates will be locked and there will be no entry to the school grounds during the school day.

WELLBEING

Staff and students who are sick must stay home. Heading into autumn, we need to be extra vigilant in this matter. Anyone who is unwell should stay at home until two days after symptoms have gone away.Individuals must be tested if they have the COVID 19 symptoms cough, runny nose, fever, loss of smell or difficulty breathing. Please do not be offended but we are instituting a strict policy of isolating sick children immediately and sending them home. This is for the safety of everyone in our school whanau.

PHYSICAL DISTANCING

Physical distancing in schools remains important particularly when people are interacting. We are following the Ministry guidelines for schools in this matter.The risks are relatively lower at Alert Level 2.

BREAKS AND PLAYGROUND

To help with physical distancing we will have two break times, Juniors Year 0-4 and Seniors Years 5-8, which will limit the number of students in the playground.Syndicate teams will have set areas for eating and playing.

HYGIENE AND CLEANING

When entering and leaving the classrooms and before and after breaks children will all have to use the hand sanitiser provided in each room. Children will have their own pens, pencils and assigned devices for Years 3-8. Soap and hand towels will, as usual, be available in all bathrooms. Cleaners will complete daily cleans in line with MOH guidelines.

DEVICES

Please return all school chrome books to school on Thursday18th as they will be needed for in-school learning.

ONLINE LEARNING

There will be no online learning or resources provided from Thursday 18th. All children are due back at school from this day.We appreciate your support in this matter.We have endeavoured to make sure that all children, parents, staff are safe when returning to school and we are following the Ministry of Health guidelines to ensure this happens.

Yours in Christ

B.A.Young

Information about L3 Lockdown

15 February 2021 · by Miss Sharma

Covid 19 in Auckland

Dear Parents

As you would have read or heard in the news last night, there have been three confirmed cases of Covid-19 in South Auckland. As a result of this the Government announced that the whole of Auckland will be moved to Alert Level 3 for the next 72 hours from Sunday. That means that where possible you should keep your children home from school for this period. Holy Cross Catholic School is open for those who have no other option but to send their children to school. We will have safety precautions in place to look after them. If you need to send your children to school, times will be from 8.00am to 3.15pm each day.

Although the present lockdown is until midnight on Wednesday 17th February, we are activating our distance learning plan from Tuesday 16th February.

For this to be successful we have outlined our plan below. Covid 19 continues to be a factor that we need to consider and I assure you that we have a robust plan in place to protect your children, family and wider whanau. If the situation changes over the next few days, you may contact us over the next 3 days or your child’s teacher through Seesaw if you have any questions or concerns.

Distance Learning from Home

Years 0,1 & 2 Children (R1A, R2, R3, R4, R5, R4A, R9 & R10)
On Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th February you may pick up a workbook pack from the School Office between 8am – 3pm. The workbook pack will include readers, pencil and activities that the children can do over the next few days. There is enough work to last until Friday 26th February.
Years 0,1 & 2 Children (R1A, R2, R3, R4, R5, R4A, R9 & R10)
On Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th February you may pick up a workbook pack from the School Office between 8am – 3pm. The workbook pack will include readers, pencil and activities that the children can do over the next few days. There is enough work to last until Friday 26th February.
Years 0,1 & 2 Children (R1A, R2, R3, R4, R5, R4A, R9 & R10)
On Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th February you may pick up a workbook pack from the School Office between 8am – 3pm. The workbook pack will include readers, pencil and activities that the children can do over the next few days. There is enough work to last until Friday 26th February.

On Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th February you may pick up a workbook pack and/or Chromebook from the School Office between 8am – 3pm. We thank you for your support. Your child’s teacher will be in constant contact with you.

Learning online
We will expect all children to be working online or working in their books from 9am – 12pm each day. In the afternoon we encourage children to participate in some exercise or relax with their families.

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