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Netball
No netball Thursday 22 August (at Auckland Netball) for Y4, 5 & 6 due to weather conditions.
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Netball 22/8/19
All netball games for the 22/8/19 for Years 4-6 have been CANCELED.
TERM 3 2019 in the TUMANAKO- RAINBOW OF HOPE SYNDICATE
Greetings to you all and welcome back to Term 3,
Hope you managed to have a good holiday with your children and are ready for the term ahead.
First of all I’d like to take time to offer our condolences to KADIAN POLAMALU-TOALIMA & RODEL WONGTUNG-KOMITI and their families on the loss of their beautiful mothers. We can’t fathom what you are both going through right now but please be assured of our love and continual support for you both. We will keep you and your family in our prayers. We also pray for the soul of Peter who was always there to help us in the afternoon with our rubbish. Eternal rest grant to them oh Lord and may perpetual light shine upon them. May the souls of these three beautiful people:
DELILAH KOMITI, ANAMARIA POLAMALU-TOALIMA & PETER WILLCOCKS, Rest in peace and love.
Our units this term:
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION:
PRAYER/ SACRAMENTS STRAND/ CHURCH STRAND
INQUIRY UNITS:
Health: COPING WITH CHANGE- Experiencing loss in our lives.
Science: CHEMICAL CHANGES TO FOOD; Milk and Milk Products.
Social Science: COMMUNITY PROJECTS… in our local Papatoetoe Community.
LITERACY:
Writing: Information Reports/ Recounts/ Procedural writing.
Reading: Children read at their ability levels and are encouraged to use comprehension skills.
Spelling: YOU CAN SPELL books. Children work at their ability level.
Handwriting: We follow the Holy Cross Education plan for Years 3 and 4.
MATHS:
Multiplication/ Division/ Fractions/ Measurement.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION:
Swimming every Monday starting in Week 2.
Cross Country
ART:
Exploration of an artist/ WHO STOLE THE RAINBOW?
MUSIC:
With Mrs Anitelea every Monday.
SPECIAL EVENTS DURING TERM 3
Week 1 Full School Beginning of Term Mass New school and house leaders chosen
Week 2 Monday: Swimming starts: Monday 29th July. Your child will come to school in their school uniform and change into their School fitness t-shirt and black shorts. Children can change into their swimming togs at Morning teatime. They will need to bring a towel, spare underwear and goggles (optional), all items to be in a carry bag please so that your child does’t drop or lose anything. No child will be allowed to go to swimming in their school uniform. Boys need to have shorts to swim in and a different pair to wear back to school when they take their wet ones off.
Thursday: WORLD OF MATHS EXPO. Cost $2.00
Week 3 MATHS WEEK Vodafone Events Centre- WHETU & NICK play- 10 am, (no charge) all classes from year 3-8 will attend this
Week 4 Confirmation- Tuesday 13 August- 6pm in church, for all Year 4 children who have made their First Holy Communion.
AMBURY TRIP- Friday 16 August 9.15- 2pm Cost of trip $8 (for lesson and bus). We will need 3-4 Parent Helpers please?
Week 5 Class and Team Photos
Week 6 School Production
Week 7 BOOK WEEK (Exploration of an artist) Tongan Language Week Office Foyer display- Room 14 Tumanako Syndicate Mass (Friday)
Week 8 HOLY CROSS WEEK, Scripture Cup
Week 9 PAPATOETOE COMMUNITY SERVICE. We need 2- 3 Parent Helpers to walk with us.
Week 10 Gymnastics competition
St Anne’s Shield.
As you can see in the special events column, we have upcoming trips to;
- Vodafone Events centre for Whetu and Nick at no cost to you.
- Ambury Farm. Yes we will need Parent Helpers, 3- 4 per class, if you are available for the day, Friday 16th August please let your child’s teacher know. Cost $8.00
- We are also walking down to the Papatoetoe Community centres to do some community work and we need 2 Parent Helpers to walk down there with us. Cost $2.00
Tuesday 17th September- GYM CITY 11.30am- Room 16
Wednesday 18th September- PAPATOETOE COMMUNITY GARDENS 10am- Room 15
Thursday 19th September- PAPATOETOE WAR MEMORIAL LIBRARY 10.30am- Room 14
The cost of our 3 trips this term is $12. A permission slip for these two events will be sent out next week.
Wow what a busy term…
Stay blessed and have a great day
May God bless us all
From the terrific Tumanako team
MAUREEN GASS/ GEORGE LATU/ PAT HELSHAM
Auckland Girls Rugby Champion of Champions 2019
Congratulations to our Intermediate girls team who played in the Girls Interzone Tournament last Wednesday. It was awesome to see so many keen young girls playing and I congratulate our team for coming first.
vs Pt England 20-0
vs Kelston 10-0
vs St Anne’s 31-0
vs Ferguson 34-0
vs Viscount 29-0
vs Royal Oak 41-0
HUGE thank you to Grammar TEC who let us use their wonderful fields and facilities.
Please find below standings for the day;
Open Grade
- Holy Cross
- Viscount
- Kelston
- Ferguson
- Royal Oak
- St Anne’s
- Point England
The 2019 Manaakitanga Reading Degree Ceremony
The Manaakitanga Syndicate celebrated their achievements through Literacy at our Reading Degree Ceremony in the final week of Term 2. We were very fortunate to have Dr Tumanako Fa’aui who is a former Holy Cross student as our Special Guest Speaker. He shared how vital Reading is and how it has helped him get to where he is today.
Through the students hard work and perseverance we had 87% of our Manaakitanga students receive their degrees. An outstanding 23% of our students successfully gained their PhD.
Thank you to all parents for your continuous support throughout the term during your child’s Reading Degree journey.
50 Book Challenge
Room 2 has been working really hard to up our reading mileage. In order to get better at reading you have to read – that’s the only way! So Room 2 has been reading and reading and reading some more. Reading to someone else is invaluable. We can listen to someone else, we can help them when they get stuck, we can look at the pictures together, we can make meaning from what is heard and what is said. Reading together is great!
These 10 Arohanui students have read FIFTY books this term!!! WOW !!! Way to go !
