4. Sports Draw - Week 9, Term 2 2017

Netball - Saturday 1^st July

-  Goalathon will be held on Saturday 29^th July and it is a dress up day so teams can choose their own themes but ensure your hair is tied up and no jewellery is worn.  Cards will be given to you by your coaches.

-  Netball Holiday Camp – won’t be happening this year

-  Registrations – teams must pull up players from a lower grade and there is no limit how many times you pull a player up.

-  Fixtures

The Intermediate teams will play each team once then a semi and a final.

Yr 5 Grade – teams will play a double header so points will not be counted.  After each team has played each other, there will be a straight final (no semi).

Yr 3/4 – there is no points for any games

Intermediate Prem

9.00 am - St Joseph's Gold v OIS Ferns - Pearsons

Intermediate Sec 2

11.00 am - St Joseph's Rebels v Twizel Lightning – Sport & Outdoors

Year 5 Small Hoops

11.00 am - St Joseph's Ferns v Fenwick Darts – Fitness 24

Year 3/4

11.00 am – St Joseph’s Maroon v Athletic Mini Steel – LJ Hooker

Yr 1/2

Games and Skills start at 10.00 am

Umpires

9.00 am – Indya Cunningham

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Rugby - Saturday 1^st July – note some of these times differ to the original draw

5 yrs 

10.00 am – Athletic v St Joseph’s – 10A

6 yrs

10.30 am St Joseph’s v Maheno – SKC 1

7/8 yrs

10.00 am – Excelsior Rams v St Joseph’s – WCS 7

9/10 yrs

10.00 am – St Joseph’s v Union – SKC 2

11/12 yrs

11.00 am – St Joseph’s v Union/Kurow – SKC 1

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Football - Saturday 1^st July

Primary

9.30 am - St Joseph’s All Whites v Riverside Kiwis – Kurow School

Intermediate

10.30 am - St Joseph's Beanotown United v Riverside Phoenix – Showgrounds I2

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Hockey – Tuesday 4^th July

·         The turf is numbered from the pavilion end.  T1 Pavillion end.  T4 Scoreboard end.

Kwicksticks – Yr 7/8

5.30 pm - Turbo Sticks (St Joseph’s combined team) v OIS Red

Hockey – Wednesday 5^th July

MiniSticks  - Yr 3/4

4.30 pm – T1 – Magic Sticks (St Joseph’s combined team) v Waimate Warriors

KiwiSticks – Yr 5/6

6.00 pm – T1 - Speedy Sticks (St Joseph’s combined team) v Five Forks Fire

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Miniball - Tuesday 4^th July

St Joseph’s Thunder is on late duty on the front court.

3.45 pm – St Joseph’s Rebels v North Steel – front court

4.45 pm – St Joseph’s Thunder v Waitroon – front court

5.15 pm - St Joseph’s Breakers v North Mixed – back court

Referee and Score bench

4.15 pm – St Joseph’s Rebels– referee – front court

5.15 pm – St Joseph’s Thunder– referee and score bench– front court

5.45 pm – St Joseph’s Breakers – referee – back court

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Basketball - Wednesday 5^th July

4.00 pm – St Joseph’s Bolts v OIS Stingers – front court

4.50 pm – St Joseph’s Cavaliers v Weston Wolves – back court

5.40 pm – St Joseph’s Raptors v OIS Penguins – front court

Referee and Score bench

4.50 pm – St Joseph’s Bolts – referee and score bench – front court
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5. Diary Dates - Week 9, Term 2 2017

JUNE

Friday 30                    -  Practice for Confirmation

                                    -  All library books due back today

                                    -  School reports go home

JULY

Sunday 2                     -  CONFIRMATION DAY TODAY at 9.30 am mass

Monday 3                    -  Enrolment meetings

                                    -  Yr 6 Class Rock Discovery Day *

Wednesday 5               -  Bring your named pie and 50c for milo

                                    -  Mid Year Parent Teacher Interviews from 3.15 pm

                                    -  North Otago Music Festival starting at 7.00 pm

Thursday 6                  -  School Mass at 9.15 am

                                    -  Mid Year Parent Teacher Interviews from 3.15 pm

Friday 7                       -  Caritas Mufti Mania Day

                                    -  Intermediate Reward day
                                    -  Assembly at 11.00 am today *

                                    -  Last day of term 2

Monday 24                  -  Term 3 starts

Thursday 27                -  School Mass at 9.15 am

                                    -  Yr 7 ECBs and Young Vinnies

Sunday 30                   -  Welcoming Mass at 9.30 am – note change of date

Monday 31                  -  First Holy Communion Parent Meeting at 7.00 pm

AUGUST

Tuesday 1                    -  ICAS Exam – English

                                    -  Parent meeting for Yr 4 & 5 at 6.00 pm

                                    -  Keeping Ourselves Safe parent meeting at 6.30 pm

Thursday 3                  -  School Mass at 9.15 am

Tuesday 8                    -  School Cross Country

Thursday 10                -  School Mass at 9.15 am

                                    -  Yr ECB & Young Vinnies

Monday 14                  -  First Holy Communion Meeting at 7.00 pm

Tuesday 15                  -  ICAS Exam – Maths

                                    -  School Cross Country postponement date

Thursday 17                -  School Mass at 9.15 am

Sunday 20                   -  First Communion

Monday 21                  -  Multi-cultural meeting at 6.00 pm

                                    -  North Otago Cross Country

SEPTEMBER

Friday 1                      -  Technology for Yr 7 & 8

Friday 8                      -  Technology for Yr 7 & 8

Friday 22                    -  Teacher Only Day

OCTOBER

Friday 20                    -  Technology for Yr 7 & 8

Sunday 29                  -  Home & School Food Fair

Monday 30                 -  Yr 7 Camp to be confirmed

NOVEMBER

Monday 6                   -  Yr 8 Camp

Tuesday 7                   -  Yr 8 Camp

Wednesday 8              -  Yr 8 Camp

Thursday 9                 -  Yr 8 Camp

Friday 10                    -  Yr 8 Camp

Tuesday 14                 -  Multi-cultural Day

1. Principal's News Week 8, Term 2, 2017

Resilience
Resilience is one of our four 'R' values.  It means the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties.  I have had huge support from parents as we have worked to increase respect in children.  I love to hear visitors to the school tell me how children greet them respectfully, escort them to the office, stand back so they can walk through doorways etc.  A visiting local principal was very impressed with some of our older boys yesterday in the way they greeted and welcomed her.

Resilience is our next big challenge I think.   Children do have to deal with difficult things.  Sometimes their learning is difficult.  I have always said to children that I think a big test of character is not what has gone wrong, or what you did wrong but what you do after it.  Taking responsibility for one's own actions, being supportive of others when they go wrong and learning from mistakes are all signs of resilience and good relationship in action.  Genuine learning is never a relaxing breeze.  Friendships can be difficult and sometimes our little people fall out with each other and say or do things they don't mean.

Someone I trust asked me today what was on top.  My reply was what I want most is, for all the children in the school to become closer and closer to what God intends them to be, to their own full glory, and to enjoy the journey of getting there.  I want them to know that sometimes other people have difficulties and sometimes don't act like their best selves but nevertheless to support each other and truly believe they can grow together.  To believe that if one person is struggling we are all struggling and we pull the weakest up with us and for them to be loyal to the school and feel proud to be here.  I think the majority of our children feel like this.

Some of our classes have been working on "positive tracking."  This is actively looking for the good in any situation.  So I've shared these thoughts with you in the hope that you will support us to build the value of resilience by always helping your children to look for the positives in situations and to believe they can find solutions.

Reports
Our mid year reports are due to come out at the end of next week.  The teachers have put a huge effort into making judgements about children's progress and working together to make sure they are making valid judgements.  Some of the children will not have achieved as highly as they did at the end of last year.  I believe we are going from strength to strength but we are getting three teachers to look at every change in judgement and I think we are getting it right and will continue to get it right moving forwards.  Remember the mid year judgements are only a projection on where we think they will be at the end of the year based on current progress.   Term three is the real engine room of learning and a lot of growth happens in term three.

I don't like our present reports.  Parents who have been around for a while will remember giving feedback into our reports over several years.  We developed reports which showed the whole child and reported on their overall picture - a lot more than National Standards.  As we had a change of student management system (digital) in 2015 our system lost the capacity to produce the previous reports.

We need to report to you in plain language in writing twice a year.  I would like us to start developing a more descriptive e-portfolio system where children can demonstrate their learning and show how it meets benchmarks.  It would show you exactly where your child is and where they are going but in a more interesting way.  This will take some time to develop and get right.  I hope for it to start operating next year.  In the meantime I don't want to waste our time and money on trying to re-develop more holistic reports using the present system.  I would rather wait and do it right.  So in the meantime, we are going to stick with the reports we have.

Please take the opportunity to book in to parent interviews in week 10.  This gives your child's teacher a chance to connect with you to talk more about your child's learning and what they are doing to help.  The details are in the news section of the blog.

Teacher Only Day
Please also note that we have a teacher only day and school will be closed on 22nd September so staff can attend the Dunedin Diocese teachers' Gathering.  The length of the school year has been determined so no school days are lost from this closure.

God bless and Aroha,
Lorraine Frances-Rees

2. Special Character Week 8

Confirmation Group.
A reminder please if you haven't already to fill out form and return to school as soon as possible with Sponsor's name and Saint chosen along with $5.
The students will undertake Reconciliation after Mass. They will also have a practice with Father Wayne next Wednesday morning for Confirmation.

Confirmation Mass is on Sunday July 1 @ 9.30 am
Please would each family bring a plate to share for the gathering after the Confirmation Mass in the Dean O'Reilly lounge.

FAITH FACT FOR WEEK 8

So many things to celebrate this week. The feast of Corpus Christ or The Body and Blood of Christ. This is the Holy Day to remember the Sacrament of the Eucharist or Holy Communion. Many Parishes will have children making their first communion on this day.  

Also, it is the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. 

This image of Jesus was first imagined in early as the 13^th century and maintained deviation through to the 16^th and 19^th century even to today. 

This image of Christ depicts Jesus’ humanness 

and Jesus love for humanity.

St John the Baptist - John the Baptist was a contemporary of Christ who was known for evangelization and his baptising of Jesus Christ.

John the Baptist was born through the intercession of God to Zachariah and Elizabeth.  John began public ministry around 30 AD, and was known for attracting large crowds across the province of Judaea and around the Jordan River. Pope Francis invites all of us to evangelize by our word and deeds, witnessing to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  John the Baptist's feast day is June 24^th.  Did you know that our diocesan patron saint is St John the Baptist!

God Bless
Nicola Winders