School News | Holy Cross School Papatoetoe

Stepping Out with Constable Marina

6 November 2019 · by Miss Skipper

Constable Marina Phillips is our local community constable. She came to visit us today and to teach us about how to keep safe around the streets of Papatoetoe.

We walked around our neighbourhood after we watched Moe Explores Road Safety .

We learnt about sneaky driveways, leaning to check if it’s safe and walking on the house side of the footpath. Afterwards we explore Constable Marina’s police vehicle.

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Inspiring People

6 November 2019 · by Miss Skipper

During our studies on the Communion of Saints, Room 2 has been talking about, reading about, learning about and thinking about inspiring people. Some of our parents helped us to recognise some of the ordinary people around us who help inspire and guide us. You can have a look on :19T4 Role Models

Who inspires you? Why are they inspiring ? What do they do which inspires us to be more wonderful? Are you inspiring?

TEAM TUMANAKO TIDINGS

24 October 2019 · by Miss Helsham

TERM 4 NEWSLETTER 2019

Greetings Grandparents, Parents and Caregivers,

Welcome back to school and the final term of 2019. Thank you to you all for your continual support of our children. This term is another exciting term for us. We have a trip to the Stardome and we also have a special morning for some very special people in our lives.

Topics this term:

RELIGION:

COMMUNION OF SAINTS- LIFE, DEATH & CHRISTIAN HOPE
ADVENT
CHRISTMAS

WRITTEN LANGUAGE:

POETRY/NARRATIVE
EXPLANATIONS
INFORMATION REPORTS
PROCEDURAL WRITING

HANDWRITING:

Children continue to work using the format for Years 3 and 4.

SPELLING

Children continue to work from their current YOU CAN SPELL book level.
Children will have a Schonell spelling test to determine their Spelling age.

READING

Children continue to read at their ability level.
We would encourage children to read daily at home to increase their reading mileage.
To use reading theory for comprehension.

MATHEMATICS

NUMBER: ADD/ SUBTRACT, MULTIPLICATION/ DIVISION, FRACTIONS
ALGEBRA
Encourage children to continue using IXL at home.

SOCIAL SCIENCE:

Special people in our lives: GRANDPARENTS

HEALTH

Community Health: LOOKING AFTER ME

SCIENCE

Physical world: LIGHT AND COLOUR

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Athletics
Basketball
Large Ball skills
Fitness run every morning except Fridays.

ARTS

Simple 3D crafts for Christmas gifts using a variety of media

SPECIAL EVENTS

Friday 18^th October Full School Mass

Monday 21^st October GLOSS testing begins

Tuesday 22^nd October Music Soiree

Tuesday 29^th October PAT Testing begins for Year 4 children

Wednesday 30^th October PAT for Year 4 children /STAR Testing

Thursday 31^st October E Asttle Reading and Maths testing

Friday 1^st November Full School Mass – All Saints

Tuesday 5^th November Trip to Stardome

Thursday 7^th November Cultural Festival

Friday 15^th November Syndicate Mass

Saturday 16^th November School Fair

Tuesday 3^rd December Grandparents morning

Friday 6^th December Full School Mass: Gifting Mass

Tuesday 10^th December Year 4 Prize giving 11am

Thursday 12^th December Year 6 and 8 Graduation

Friday 13^th December Reports sent home

Wednesday 18^th December Full School End of Year Mass/ Last day of school

HOMEWORK:

This is an extension of the school day and all children will be expected to complete reading, spelling, basic facts, sunshine online and IXL activities daily. Occasionally they will get extra work to finish at home.

UNIFORM:

Please ensure your child is wearing the correct uniform and has their P.E. uniform at school every day. Children need plain black shorts (no stripes or monograms). The boys should not be using their school shorts to do their PE activities in. Hair should be tied up in the school colours.

Please check to see that all clothing and footwear is clearly named as this enables us to return any articles of clothing that may be misplaced.

All children must bring a note if they are not wearing the correct uniform.

The correct summer uniform should be worn after Labour Day. ALL children are expected to have school hats to wear.

THANK YOU

Sometimes we forget to say this but thank you so much to all our Parent Helpers and supporters this year. Without your assistance we could not have done any of our outside school activities. As it says in St Paul’s letter to the Philippians 1: 3 “We thank our God each time we remember you, and when we pray for you all we pray with joy.”

We appreciate everything you do for our Team Tumanako.

May God continue to bless us and our families.

From the team

Maureen Gass, George Latu, Pat. Helsham

Room 14 does Community Service at the Papatoetoe Library

20 September 2019 · by Miss Helsham

Yesterday Room 14 walked down to the Papatoetoe Library to do some work at the Library. We had a lovely walk there and were excited to see the people from the Papatoetoe Museum. They had organised for us to be at the library.

Today we went to the Papatoetoe Library. First we left the school through the gate and started to walk. When we got there we sat down and coloured in. I had to do a word and the word was CLUES. The colours were black, grey, orange and green. After that I went to stick it up on the board. I went to the books and sat on the mat. Afterwards we started to go back to school so we can write about the fun things that we just did. LUCIUS

Today Room 14 went to the Papatoetoe Library to do some community service. When we arrived we met some people who were from the Papatoetoe Museum. When we were settled we were colouring any photo with bright and dark colours for an hour. After that when we finished colouring we had to pin them onto a top secret board. We went to read any book so when our time was over we all sang 4 songs before coming back to school. DESTINY

Today Room 14 and I went on a walk to the Papatoetoe Library. When Miss Helsham came back from the office we headed outside in two lines and I was in one line and my buddy was in the other line. While we were walking I was imaging what it would look like, but when we got there it looked completely different. When we went inside, we went to a table and sat down and waited. There was colouring paper on the table and there was also some colouring pencils of course. We started colouring and what I was colouring were two jigsaw puzzles because the theme in the library was TOP SECRET!!! TALLYN

This Thursday, in the morning, after we ate, Room Fourteen was very excited to visit the Papatoetoe Library. We were also happy to meet the Community Library service. Ailey and Caydence’s mums were Parent Helpers and Micaela accompanied us too. Once everyone finished eating, we lined up with our buddies and we were finally ready to go! There were a few pedestrians but we depended on the adults.

Once we finally reached the Library, everyone sat down on chairs, and we saw pictures that were like a secret mission. The community service’s people told us a bit about them. They said that we could colour the pictures that we saw in the beginning, that’s when everyone got excited. There were so many colours I didn’t know where to start! Everyone did some hard work. After I finished I got some pins and pinned my artwork on a board. While we waited for the other students, we got to read some books. We had a group photo and sang a few songs. We were so sad to leave the Library, but we had a safe journey back to school. JAYDE DE GUZMAN

Today me and my class went to the Papatoetoe Library. When we got there people were telling us to follow them and then they told us to sit on the chairs. There were papers on the tables and my paper said key the word. The Library people told us to colour in the pages. My friend Michael was colouring in a key. I was using the colours red, yellow, orange and green. When I was done colouring in I was told to cut out my key. I did and when I was done with the word key, one of the ladies said that I could do another one and it was some feet. I coloured them in blue. After I was done colouring my feet on the paper I cut them out too and I put them on the board. We took photos of us and then we sang ‘This is the day’ and ‘Aroha is love.’ LORENZO

Today we went to the Papatoetoe Library and we got to colour a picture. Mine said secret. We were colouring for about two hours. We sang Aroha is loving if you give it away and we also sang this is the day. When we were going back to school it looked like it was going to rain. It was so much fun and we got to take a photo and while we were colouring we were also taking our time. We took too long for colouring the top secret papers and people were looking at us while we were doing our top secret work. SHAUN

HOLY CROSS FEAST DAY BUDDY AFTERNOON WITH ROOM 19

17 September 2019 · by Miss Helsham

Ohea Wins Papatoetoe Speech Final

16 September 2019 · by Mr. 'Ofamo'oni

Ohea Huni has won the Papatoetoe Principals’ Speech Cup after an outstanding performance at the zone finals on Wednesday. He and Samantha Ellis represented Holy Cross there at the final with Ohea walking away with first place and the cup for his speech entitled ‘Life’. A wonderful achievement!