Welcome to the Holy Cross School News page where we share the latest school highlights and events.
Holy Cross Week this year included a biblical character dress up day. The Rangimarie participated with a number of different character ideas. The senior girls were angels, Israelites, Gentiles, Jews, wise men, Hebrews, Mary, Elizabeth and more.
Whaea Bronwyn Hetaraka has been teaching the senior girls Te Reo Maori and Te Reo Rotarota or NZ Sign Language. 11 September was the beginning of Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori and Whaea Bronwyn helped by the Year 8 girls led this week’s assembly. 
Constable Dimitrious Laurenson returned to Holy Cross School Papatoetoe to train the year 7 girls in the safety requirements needed for a successful School Traffic Safety Team.
In accordance with the NZ Transport Agency, the senior students learnt about the dos and don’ts of working on road patrol. The Year 7 girls are looking forward to stepping up in Week 9 when our Year 8 students head to ski camp.
What a great event we had last Thursday when both the Tumanako and Te Matauranga syndicates went to the church for the Years 3 and 4 scripture cup finals. The 12 children who were finalists did very well despite being nervous. Mrs Siluuga and Mr Ryan were the judges. They had the hard task of choosing a winner.
First place was OHEA HUNI, second place was MAYNARD SAGAOINIT and third place was FAGASEGIAMAULI LELAULU.
Congratulations to all our finalists who read well and represented their classes respectfully.
On Wednesday morning all the year ones gathered in the library for our Scripture cup. Mr Young was the judge. Ten children in total competed from Harnui and the Aroha Syndicate. All our classes have been focusing on scripture readings as part of our reading programme this week. Everyone read well and we were all proud of the effort and achievement of those who chose to participate in the Scripture cup.
The St Anne’s Shield which was scheduled to be played tomorrow (14th September) has been cancelled due to the wet grounds at Bruce Pulman Park.
