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    • Animates Visit - Mar
    • Missions Award - Mar
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    • Our Road Safety Walk - Mar
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    • Our Gardener – Personal Qualities - Oct
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    • YEARS 3 & 4 SCRIPTURE CUP 2017 - Sep
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    • 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
    • School Road Patrols - Aug
    • Talking about Gardening in the Mercy Gardens - Aug
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Welcome to the Holy Cross School News page where we share the latest school highlights and events.

*** STOP PRESS*** LOCK DOWN PRACTICE

21 March 2018 · by hcspoffice

Please click on the newsletter (menu) to see information about our lock down PRACTICE.

Our Pet Interview

1 March 2018 · by Mrs de Koning

On Wednesday we went to interview two of our senior girls about their pets. we had a list of questions we had thought of. Mrs de Koning wrote them down for us.

Two more senior students helped us read out our questions. We listened carefully to the answers. Thank you for helping us learn all about your pets and how you take care of them!

The next day we shared with the rest of the Harinui Syndicate the things we had learned from you.

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Animates Visit

1 March 2018 · by Mrs de Koning

This Tuesday 27th Harinui Syndicate went for a visit to the Animates Pet Store at the Supa Centre in Manukau.

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We walked one way and got a ride in the van the other way. It was quite a long walk, but everyone did very well. Once there we walked through the store looking at all the animals and displays.

We liked seeing the Dog Wash Area.

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Cute cats
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We enjoyed looking at the playful cats in their cages. We saw that they were well looked after. They had food, water, toys and a comfortable warm place to sleep!

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We looked at the green parrot and he looked at us from his cage. We peeped at a rabbit in his home too. There were lots of fun pet houses, kennels and cages too!

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We felt how soft the pet beds were and looked at the animal scales. There you can see how much your pet weights. We stood on the scales ot see how heavy we were! Then we walked to look at some pet toys.

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We checked out the red eared turtle trying to climb onto a rock. Then we looked at all the fish swimming in the tanks. We saw they had clean water and stones on the bottom of the tanks.

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We saw that the fish were many different colours and also there were lots of types of water weeds you could buy to decorate your fish tank. The fish like ot swim in and around the weeds and also nibble on them too.

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Next we sat near the fish tanks and sketched them. We made a fishy shape and made sure we gave it eyes, a mouth, fins and a tail, and also some scales. We had to look very closely and did our best.

Missions Award

1 March 2018 · by Mrs de Koning

For two weeks the Harinui Syndicate have achieved the Missions Award. Thanks to the students and their families who are enabling them to regularly give a donation to go in our mission tin. The school sends the money raised to special projects. At the moment the money is expected to go to Catholic Schools in Tonga and Samoa who have been effected by the recent cyclones.

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Thank you to Keefe for going to the front of the hall to collect the award from Mr Young on behalf of Harinui Syndicate!

Daily 5

1 March 2018 · by Mrs de Koning

At school we are learning about Daily 5 Reading.

One of our activities is Read to Self. Another is Read to Other. When we read to our buddy we sit side by side, EEKK (elbow ot elbow and knee to knee.

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We love to read to each other, sharing our books and helping our friends.

We are learning to enjoy reading and be independent readers. We are building our reading stamina so we can read for longer. It is good to read at school and at home too.

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Our Road Safety Walk

1 March 2018 · by Mrs de Koning

On Tuesday 20th February the students of Harinui Syndicate went for a walk around the block to practise safe walking and safe crossing of roads.

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We walked along the footpath in a straight line with our buddy. We did not walk too slowly or too fast. We walked ‘smartly.’

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ICrossing the road
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We went across the road on the ‘zebra crossings’ and at the traffic lights too. We watched the little man change from red to green and listened for the buzzer.

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We watched the cars going by and saw the workmen fixing the road too. We talked about the safety gear they were wearing and the cones and signs to warn the drivers that work was under way.

Thank you to the parent helpers who came with us!

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