Impact Gymsports Success

The final Gymsport competition for the year for primary schools brought further success for our St Mary’s team.  Our club level girls dominated the podium with outstanding performances in both gymnastics and tumbling. In the respective disciplines, Sophie Summerville finished 1st= and 3rd,Tayliyah Carter 1st= and 2nd, India Jarden 3rd and 1st, and Jasmine Watene 4th in both.   Arli Robertson secured gold in the boys’ division, while Isla Wills won gold in the junior division. Dorim Kim took 4th place in the girls’ novice.  Other team members Selena Dobbs, Cullan Fuller, Sean Curragh and Sylvester Green performed very well on the day to contribute to overall team points.

Well done, once again, to our wonderful coach Mrs Charly Watene. Your guidance and instruction of our gym team is appreciated greatly.  Thank you so much for your valuable time.

WBoP Miniball World Cup 

At the end of term 2 some students participated in the WBoP Miniball World Cup. Well done to all who played with some great results, and excellent sportsmanship.  It was a fun day and the players did really well both on and off the court.

Our year 5/6 team finished 11th, after three wins and two losses.  Our year 3/4 team finished 3rd, winning all their games except their semi final.

Along with their bronze medals, this team also won a prize (a basketball each)  for their team uniform, created by creative genius Mrs Gilbert.  Go Russia!!

A big thanks to Mr Schuler, Mrs Fausett, Mrs Bell and Mrs Mackay who helped the teams.  A special mention to Jake Bell who made the tournament team for year 3/4.

Another wonderful St Mary’s day out!

Kellie Low
Sports Coordinator

Around the World - Art Week 21-25 September 2015

At St Mary’s we have cultures from around the world and this term classes will be focusing on art based projects around the theme of Culture Diversity.  In Week 10 of this term we will have a celebration of Art and Culture, with visiting artists, workshops and art gallery visits.  The highlight of the week will be the student art exhibition, which all students with contribute to.

For this to happen we need your help!

• Do you know a local artist who might be interested in visiting our school?
• Do you know someone who could take small workshops to create ethnic craft?  For example origami, flax flowers
• Can you assist classroom teachers with cutting and mounting of artwork?
• Are you able to help with setting up of the exhibition on Monday 21st September?

If you can help with any of these, please email Laura Grace with your contact details.  

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Special Character - 27 July 2015

Our term began last Monday with a Liturgy to celebrate the Feast Day of Blessed Anne Marie Javouhey which occurred on July 15th in the school holidays. As a school we are enormously grateful for the charism given to us by our Cluny Sisters through their foundress Blessed Anne Marie Javouhey. We pray and hope that this charism always remains alive and strong in our school. Father Mark came and led the Liturgy and we were delighted to have Sister Alison and Sister Teresia present.

During the Liturgy we launched our very own St Mary’s School Prayer which has been endorsed by our Board of Trustees. This prayer has been the result of Professional Development  which the staff have undertaken with Father Mark.  From discussion and ascertaining what is fundamental to our core beliefs as Catholics and based on our charism Father Mark has composed our beautiful St Mary’s School Prayer. We encourage you to pray this prayer with your children and talk about its meaning with them.

Our St Mary’s Catholic School Prayer

God of Love, 

with prayerful hearts we turn to you –

may we live in your truth always,

showing mercy to those in need,

sharing our faith with others,

and growing in the wisdom of your Holy Spirit.

Inspired by Blessed Anne-Marie,

and with willing hands,

may we do a little good this day – 

all for the glory of you, our Creator.

We make this prayer 

through the intercession of Mary, our Mother,

St Joseph,

and, as always,

through Christ Jesus, your Son, our Lord.

AMEN.

Grandparent Liturgy
On Sunday the Church celebrated the Feast Day of Joachim and Anne, the Grandparents of Jesus.

We are looking forward to our Grandparent Liturgy this Tuesday where we will thank God for the gift of our Grandparents, for their love for us and our love for them and the very special and important part they play in the lives of their grandchildren.

New students and new families Liturgy

This will be held next Tuesday  4 August at 10am in the Blessed Anne Marie Javouhey Centre. All members of our community are very welcome to come to this and stay for morning tea following the Liturgy.

With kind regards and God bless

Sally Washer
DRS

Student Led Conference

Student Led Conferences will be held on Wednesday 12 August and will be 45 minutes long.

Times available will include:

1.00 - 1.45 pm

1.45 - 2.30 pm

3.00 - 3.45 pm

3.45 - 4.30 pm

5.15 - 6.00 pm

Room 16J will have 10 minute Parent Teacher Interview times.

Please note that as in previous years, school will finish at 12.00 pm on this day and students will need to be collected from this time.  Should students require supervision until 3.00pm this will be provided in the Blessed Anne Marie Javouhey Centre from 1.30 pm.  Students who have Student Led Conferences at either 1.00 pm or 1.45 pm will need to be collected 15 minutes prior to their conference time.

To book your conference time please go to;

www.schoolinterviews.co.nz

Event code:  U5CDD 

Event code:  KSVCX (Room 16J only)

Renee Carey.... super fast

Congratulations to Renee Carey who is the Year 4 Western Bay Cross Country Champion.  Renee ran an excellent race around the Waipuna Park course last week to qualify for the BoP Champs in Opotiki.  

On Tuesday Renee brought home the silver medal from this event - this is an excellent result from a very fast girl. 

Read more: Renee Carey.... super fast

Kim Artus....Exceptional

Our very own Jump Jam Coach extraordinaire and exceptional artist has won another Supreme Art Award.
An award-winning painting created in 25 hours has taken out the Supreme Art Award at this year's Tauranga Society of Artists Art Expo.

It is the third year in a row that Kim Artus has won the award ... Read more from the Bay of Plenty Times

Happy Holidays!

In closing I would like to wish all members of our community a blessed and safe holiday in what ever shape or form this may take.  I look forward to welcoming back our students in mid July and hopefully spring in the not too distant future.