3. School Notices - Week 6, Term 4 2015

Altar Servers
Saturday 21st November - Elizabeth, Samuel & Nicolas Plieger, Matthew Gough and Isabella McNaught
Sunday 22nd November - Ellie Jorgensen, Stephanie & Sylvia Lavrijsen and Joel Kunnethedan

Birthday Greetings to:
Cody Marshall, Luse Asi and Matthew Gough

Christmas Float
St Patrick's Parish are entering a float in this years Christmas Parade held on Saturday 28th

November at 9.30 am.  Any student wishing to be involved in the parish float are asked to dress up as angels, shepherds, soldiers etc.  Please let the school office know if you are interested by tomorrow Friday 20th November. A notice has been attached to the email.

Home and School
Thanks everyone for your contributions with both helping and making the goodies for the cake stall. It was a great day despite it being a bit cold and everyone looked beautiful.  We raised $789.10 less expenses.  Thanks again for your help.

Library Books
We would like all library books to be returned to the box outside the office for our annual stocktaking purposes by Friday 27th November.  There will be no more library books issued for this term.

Lost
Aria O'Connell has lost her named school jacket from her classroom.  Can you please check your child's jacket to see if it is theirs.

Noel Leemings Christmas Offer
An offer is available from Noel Leemings to the friends and family of New Zealand Catholic Schools from Monday 30th November to Sunday 6th December where you get cost + 10% store wide excluding IT accessories, PC software, AV accessories and PC consumables.  Present the flyer which is attached to the email or present it on your smartphone or device in store.

Pastoral Care

During the year, some of our school families experience times of compassionate need; like the death of a close family member, severe illness/injury or hardship. About twice a year, all classrooms will have one month of the school year to contribute to the Parish Welfare Freezer.  The month of November has been assigned to Junior Hub 1 and families are asked to donate cooked food or non perishable items.  The items can be tinned, baking or a main meal e.g. casserole, lasagna, muffins or biscuits.  Please bring any food donations to the school office on Friday mornings.  Thank you.

Summer Sports
Cricket - Saturday 21st November
4th Grade - St Joseph's v Valley Blue at St Kevin's College 1
5th Grade - St Joseph's v Eastern Eagles at St Kevin's College Artificial 2

Touch Rugby - Tuesday 24th November
The draw was unavailable at the time the news blog went to print.  Please check the notice board or the North Otago Touch Rugby Facebook page for the draw.

Swimming Dates for 2016
Here are our school swimming lessons for 2016.  Our school swimming sports for the senior school will be held on Tuesday 9th March from 9.00 to 12.00 pm.

Friday 5th February - 1.00 to 2.30 pm
Tuesday 9th February - 1.00 to 2.30 pm
Wednesday 10th February - 1.00 to 2.30 pm
Thursday 11th February - 1.00 to 2.30 pm
Friday 12 February - 1.00 to 2.30 pm
Monday 15th February - 1.00 to 2.30 pm
Wednesday 17th February - 1.00 to 2.30 pm

Website Changes
We are looking at updating our website where all the information is available in one place.  If you have any suggestions of what you would like to see on there, please email the office at office@stjoseph.school.nz  Thank you.

Community Notices

• The OSCAR Management Committee needs energetic and experienced people to commit to 1 to 2 hours per month to support the great work that the OSCAR programme is doing for the children in our community.  We would appreciate if if you would consider giving up some of your time.  Please email Jenny Gawn (Chair) at jgawn@fenwick.school.nz
• Oamaru Multisport Club - attached to the email is a list of Fun Runs/Duathlons, Cycling and Swimming dates that the club is running.  See the list for further information.