Tena Koutou Katoa We have almost finished week 4 of Term 3. Life Education has added a little excitement to our learning this week and the students have enjoyed meeting Harold and having the Health and PE curriculum come to life in a new way. Ask your children about what they learnt and what their favourite part of the caravan learning was. Thank you for the patience and support due to the delay of its arrival.
Duffy
Duffy books in homes turned 30 this week on Wednesday. Allan Duff wanted books in low decile schools so that students would have equal access to the pleasure of reading. Our School St Pius X has been a longtime member of Duffy books and we celebrated this milestone on Wednesday with Mufti or Duffy dress-up.
Edwin, Kaleb, Ezekiel, Xavier, Lucas, Shantelle, Luna, Chele, Elana
Mass celebrating the Feast of St Pius X
Sunday 18th August will be our school Parish Mass to celebrate the Feast of St Pius X, whose Feast day is the 21st August. Mass will start at 9am Sunday morning. All are welcome. Mass will be followed by a shared morning tea in the foyer. Please talk to your children as they may have a job for the Mass such as the Readings of the day or a prayer of the Faithful. The following week on the 21st the school will mark the Feast day with an inter-house game.
Pizza Tuesday
Pizza Tuesday will be each Tuesday this term.
Ham, Cheese and Pepperoni -$2 for a slice. Please bring your money in a named envelope and hand it in to your class teacher Tuesday morning.
All funds raised will be used towards camps across the school in term 4.
Your support is greatly appreciated.
Reminder Please look over the important dates later in the newsletter to keep informed on what is coming up over term 3.
Ngā mihi nui Erin Clayton (Principal)
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The Mass of the Assumption of Mary Thursday 15th of May is the Feast of the Assumption of Mary. As a school we celebrated this feast with Mass at the Parish. The Assumption celebrates Mary going to Heaven Body and Soul. Mary is the Mother of our Church and first role model of how to follow Jesus. She lived an amazing life where she followed God's plan in every way even when things were hard and didn't seem to make sense.
How do you live your life following Jesus as Mary did?
Weekly Sports News for St Pius X
Glenview Soccer Player of the Day - Patrick
This week we played the Home School tigers team and we came out winners 5-4. Was a really tough game that was very even, so we were lucky with the win. Players of the day> Mary & Leah.
Players of the Day - Meryl & Marlee-John
MEET OUR PEOPLE..........
My name is Fr. Joy Thottamkara C.Ss.R. I am a religious priest. The name of my religious congregation is, Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, popularly known as the Redemptorists. I am parish priest at Parish of St. Pius X, Melville and, also Chaplain to the Syro-Malabar Catholic Community in Hamilton Catholic Diocese. Fr. Shojin Joseph C.Ss.R is the assistant priest. warm regards, Fr. Joy.
Friends of the School
From the Office
We have a lot of lost property at the school office. Jackets, polo fleeces, socks. Please come in and see if anything belongs to your child. If not claimed by the end of next week, we will keep them as spare uniforms at the school. Other items will be donated to a local charity.
Birthday Corner
From everyone at St Pius X a very happy birthday to:
August 17th - Patrick - Kea 20th - Alexander - Ruru B & Andrea - Tui 21st - Asher - Ruru B
LouLou’s Corner
I'll move if we have visitors!!!
Important Dates
School Parish Mass to Celebrate St Pius X Feast Day
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St Pius Feast Day-House games
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Cultural Festival
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Our School will preform August 30th - at 10:20-10:35. The cultural Festival is held at St Johns
Communi-tea
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Creative Day
All Day
Duffy Father's Day Assembly
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Junior School mass
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Brett Fairweather working with JumpJam teams
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Senior School Mass
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Middle School Mass
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End of Term 3
All Day
End of Term School Mass
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Community Notices
Friday lunch orders menu.
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My name is Liahona and I am the director and head teacher of ConnectEd Dance Company for children age 2-13. We are located out of Melville hall. Last term we were granted Sport New Zealand's Tu Manawa funding to offer need based scholarships for local tamariki (aged 5+ specifically) to participate in dance. Rather than lowering our regular fees for all as many of our whanau can afford the services we offer, we have sought to target funding at those who need it. However, sometimes those tamariki are harder to find as they may love to dance but their family might not know it is a possibility.
If you have students who would benefit from opportunities to dance we'd love to get them moving.
Attached is a letter with more info. We seek to remove barriers to participation in high quality dance that includes play, skill development, creative dance making, and performance opportunities. Scholarships available would see your students through Term 3 & 4 2024.
There are a couple of ways students could access the scholarship and get involved. If you feel comfortable you are welcome to share the attached letter with your school whanau. They could contact me themselves and apply for a scholarship at around 40% off.
Or, you could have teachers select students who are in need and who are keen to dance, this would make it easier to offer more funding, in other words if the school is aware of those who could really benefit from dance and could support the need based application then more funding could be offered based on referral system.
Do let me know if you would like more information. I'd be happy to pop in to chat about how we can serve your students. :)
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