Sophies birthday sausages

Today is Sophie's birthday so she went to cook the sausages with Viv and Rosa. Well done girls.

Building the bridge

After the tragic bridge collapse in America last week we decided that it might be a good idea for us ot design and build a better one.

We used MindLabkids as inspiration for Max and Robert to build a draw bridge. There was some great teamwork between these two students.

Max adding some finishing touches. 

Week 7 Term 1

Only one more week until camp. Please help your child get their things ready, there is a gear list on the Camp site. If you have not yet paid please make arrangements with Margo Mason, our accounts administrator. You can email her: admin@stmarysrotorua.school.nz

We are swimming this week. 

Monday
Swimming

Tuesday
Swimming

Wednesday
Singing practice
Swimming

Thursday
Stations of the Cross Liturgy 9:30am in the Church
Swimming

Friday
St Joseph's Mass in the Church at 9am
Sausage sizzle
Swimming

Some camp reminders:

Students should be able to carry their own bag.
No fizzy, lollies, phones - normal school rules apply.

From Mrs Wallbank

Rotorua Pasifika Flava 2018 Event at the Lake Front this coming Saturday 24th March.  Starts at 10am and finishes 2pm.  There will be schools performing Pacific dance and songs including our very own St Mary's Pasifika group.  Please come and support.  There will be food stalls available and all proceeds raised on the day will go to those affected by cyclone Gita in Tonga.

Sausage sizzle

Today Jett and Ella helped cook the sausages, well done!

Using place value to multiply

This is a note for parents:

We have been learning to multiply 2 and 3 digit numbers by using place value (Hundreds, Tens, Units).

Below are two photos of us breaking up the numbers to make them easier to multiply.



So now you know parents, easy right. Just different to the way we learned a few years ago. This is easier to do in our heads than algorithms which are generally a pen and paper strategy. 

Working hard

We are working hard in Room 4. Here are a few shots of us in action from the last few days.

School kit

Today we started our Let's get writing project from School kit. We put together this poster and then we started the "All about us" poster.

Week 6 Term 1

Keep an eye on our blog, the school Facebook page, Twitter feed  and the school app on Tuesday morning to check on the status of the swimming sports. Pray for a fine day.

We will be sorting Camp groups this week, all students will be able to choose at least one friend to have in their groups.  Check out the link above to access the camp information.

MONDAY 12TH MARCH.

TUESDAY 13TH MARCH.

Swimming Sports: Kahikatea and Totara (See information below)

WEDNESDAY 14TH MARCH.

8.45 am School Singing

THURSDAY 15TH MARCH.

FRIDAY 16TH MARCH.

2.05 pm Assembly. R11

Sausage sizzle

Wheels for Goldentime - We couldn't use our wheels last week for Goldentime as there just too many
bikes and scooters at school. This week R4 students can bring any type of wheels and we'll have
some fun.

This Tuesday (13 March) our Swimming Sports will be held at the Rotorua Aquatic Centre on
Tarewa Road in Rotorua.

Here is some information:

• The swimming sports is for our middle and senior school students - Years 3, 4, 5 & 6.
• The swimming sports will be held at the Rotorua Aquatic Centre on Tarewa Road in Rotorua.
• Years 3 – 6 students need to be dropped off at the Aquatic Centre on the day to meet their teacher
• by 8:45am.
• Swimming sports will finish at approximately 2:30pm. Children need to be collected from the
• Aquatic Centre by 3:00pm at the latest.
• Children may come to swimming sports in their house colours. They may wear their swimming
• togs under their clothes.
• Children will need – togs & towels, sunhat, sunblock, warm clothes, lunch & a drink.There will
• be NO sausage sizzle at the swimming sports this year. Children need to bring their lunch and a
• drink.
• Should the event need to be cancelled, this information will be put on our website by 7:30am on
• the day, and a notification sent via Facebook, Twitter and the school phone app.

At this point in time we are very short of helpers: If you are able to help on the day please email
Lorna Dobson: lornad@stmarysrotorua.school.nz

FROM HARRISON’S MUM:

Harrison Roberts-Brake is lucky enough to have the role of Michael in Mary Poppins the Musical :)
Kids are not allowed to perform every night in big productions like these, so if anyone from the school is
planning on buying tickets to see the show then please note Harrison will be performing on the following
nights:

Sunday 11th March 7.30pm

Wednesday 14th March 7.30pm

Saturday 17th March 2pm

Sunday 18th March 2pm

Friday 23rd March 7.30pm

Saturday 24th March 7.30pm

Have a great week,

Mr J.

Fonterra milk in schools competition

Here's our entry for the competition. Come on Richie.

Cooking the bbq

Today Jett and Byron cooked our school bbq. Well done boys.

That's a lot of sausages.

Using Minecraft to show how we belong to a community

We are building our own community in Minecraft. Together we are building houses and have talked about building shared spaces such as hospitals, SPCA, parks and farms.

We are using our experiences on Minecraft as inspiration for writing. Below is Krisha's reflection after a Minecraft building session.

Working hard

In Room 4 we know that if we work hard we will learn better. Today during our reading lesson we were all working hard.

Swimming sports

St Mary’s Catholic Primary School

 Swimming Sports 2018-Tuesday 13th March   

Information to Parents & Caregivers

Points to note:

• Years 3, 4, 5 & 6 only.
• The swimming sports will be held at the Rotorua Aquatic Centre on Tarewa Road in Rotorua.
• Years 3 – 6 students need to be dropped off at the Aquatic Centre on the day to meet their teacher by 8:45am.
• Swimming sports will finish at approximately 2:30pm. Children need to be collected from the Aquatic Centre by 3:00pm at the latest.
• Children may come to swimming sports in their house colours, they may wear their bathing costumes under their clothes.
• Children will need – togs & towels, sunhat, sunblock, warm clothes, lunch & a drink.
• There will be no sausage sizzle at the swimming sports this year. Children need to bring their lunch and a drink.
• Should the event need to be cancelled this information will put on our website by 7:30am and a notification sent via Facebook, Twitter and the school phone app.

Week 5 Term 1

Thanks for all of your support at the Gala. It was a fun and very successful event for our community.

• No Swimming this week. 
• Camp meeting for parents Tuesday evening at 5pm.
• Check your child has returned their Camp medical form. 

Monday

Tuesday 
Camp meeting for parents.

Wednesday
Singing practice

Thursday

Friday
Bike to school day, lets all bike to school.
Leaders Assembly at 2:05pm
Sausage sizzle

Please vote for our school here. 

Goldentime

This week for Goldentime we tested out our strength and flexibility.

Learning about Timor Leste

We have been learning about Timor Leste during our RE lessons. This is part of our Caritas learning.

Comparing life in NZ to Timor Leste