Newsletter - Week 9, Term 1 (28th March 2018)

Our Lady

of the Rosary

School

Wainui Road, Waiwhetu, Lower Hutt, 5010

Phone: (04) 566 3258

Fax: (04) 566 3159

Email: admin@olr.school.nz

Web: www.olr.school.nz

OUR SCHOOL VIRTUES: Faith – Whakapono Hope – Tūmanako Love – Aroha Charity – Manaakitanga

Welcome, huānyíng, kumusta, kia orana, buenas tardes

This week, being Holy Week is a time when we reflect on the suffering and death of our Lord Jesus, and give thanks for the sacrifice he made for us. Please join us tomorrow at 9.15am as our students lead us through the Stations of the Cross. I would like to wish you all, our students and their families, a very Holy and Happy Easter.

Today the whole school has been into Wellington to the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra concert in Wellington. This was a wonderful opportunity for our children to see how they can develop and share their musical talents. Learning with Lucy and Val in action!

2018 EASTER RAFFLE: Tomorrow at 2pm we will draw our 40 plus Easter raffles. Thank you to everyone for your generosity in donating Easter goodies and purchasing of the raffles. If you have not purchased a raffle ticket there is still time before 1pm tomorrow. You have 1 in 40 plus chances of winning one of our fabulous prizes! A big thank you to our FOS committee for making up the colourful Easter prize bundles.

STUDENT LEARNING CONVERSATIONS RETURN FORMS - Each child in years 3 to 8 will come home today with a Learning Conversations ‘Information for Families’ form (attached is a copy). Please fill these in and return to the classroom teacher in the envelope provided by Wednesday 4th April at the latest. More forms are available from the office if required. The Learning Conversations are for Year 3 to 8 students (Rooms, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7). The two available days are the 9th or the 12th April. Monday 9th April is from 2pm—6.50pm and Thursday 12th April is from 2.30 - 3.40pm. Allocated times are 10 minutes per student. The sessions will include parents/caregivers, your child/ren and teachers. Make your bookings ONLINE at www.schoolinterviews.co.nz or through the school office. The

CODE needed is: bpydv

WHANAU HUI - Please join us on Wednesday 2nd May at 5:30pm here at OLRS. (The first week back in Term 2). Please bring kai to share and as always we will have the famous pizzas. We welcome all families and encourage new families to come along. Our hui agenda items are regarding events that take place in term 2: 1. Planning and preparing for our school hangi/umu 2. Planning for Polyfest A call out to anyone who has a contact for firewood or anything else we will need for our hangi/umu. Please contact Sarah Rangiwhetu in Room 11 or email sarahr@olr.school.nz.

If you have registered your child for the ICAS exams, please ensure you pay for the exam BEFORE the 4 April 2018, otherwise the tests will not be ordered.

Thank you for supporting the Hot Cross Bun FOS fundraiser which made $164. Thank you to Monique Macdonald for organising this. The buns were delicious!

School Uniform - Over the Easter break please ensure your child/ren have the correct school uniform, including school shoes and wear their uniform with pride. We ask that families assist the school in ensuring their child/ren wear their correct uniform every day, to and from school. See the example within this newsletter.

29 Mar Holy Thursday 29 Mar Easter Raffle Drawn 29 Mar Last day to register for Netball 30 Mar Good Friday (school closed) 1 Apr Easter Sunday 1 Apr Day Light Saving Ends 2 Apr Easter Monday (school closed) 3 Apr Easter Tuesday (school closed) 4 Apr Last day to register for ICAS (3pm cut-off) 4 Apr Rippa Rugby Inter Zone Year 3/4 team 4-6Apr Yr 3-6 EOTC 4 Apr Yr 7/8 Football tournament 5 Apr Yr 3-6 Trip to Kaitoke Regional Park 5 Apr CAMP MEETING 6pm for all yr 7-8 families 7 Apr Ceilidh - Dancing (Camp Fundraiser) 6.30pm 9 Apr Baptism Mass, OLR Church, 9.30am 9&12 Apr Learning Conversations Yrs 3-8 9-12 Apr Yr 7/8 EOTC week 11 Apr Yr 7/8 Trip to Home of Compassion, IslandBay

12 Apr World of Waste Trip 12 Apr NE Hearing and Vision testing 13 Apr End of Term 1 30 Apr Term 2 begins 1 May Board of Trustees Meeting, 7pm 2 May Whanau Hui, 5.30pm, OLRS Staffroom 6-11 May Yr 7/8 Tea Pot Valley Camp 10 May Ascension Day 16-24 May Life Education Programme

OLRS Rising Star Gold Card Award Winners

Our Lady of the Rosary School Virtues The children who showed the virtue of

LOVE - AROHA in the classroom last week:

Rm 8 - Lita Perez-Kolo Rm 10 - Isaac Fitzgerald Rm 11 - Daisy Sawn Hal Rm 12 - George Brian Rm 0 - Krystal Goffe Rm 1 - Henry Carpenter Rm 2 - Ellery Risdon Rm 3 - Grace Pitcher Rm 4 - James de Beer Rm 6 - McKenzie Coomer Rm 7 - Shakaia Katoa-Martin

OPEN Signmee Forms:

Netball Registrations for yrs 3-8 (close-off 29/3/18) ICAS for years 3 to 8 (close-off 4/4/18)

World of Waste trip (close-off 5/4/18)

EOTC Week for Middle Syndicate information

Cyber Safety Internet Agreement

NETBALL REGISTRATION information has been sent to all year 3 - 8 students today via Signmee. LAST DAY for Registering your child is THURSDAY 29th March. If you require a paper copy, please get one from the office.

Congratula-

tions to:

Kathryn,

Aidan

and

Jokaveti

We had 5 teams represent OLRS at the recent Hutt City Xrace which was awesome and the weather certainly didn’t disappoint. There was loads of fun for everyone, some of the challenges included: memory challenges, 3 legged race, team tug of war and even one that required the young ones to lead the blindfolded adults through a maze.

Due to having 5 teams enter we received one free team entry. As you may remember we ran a raffle for the free entry in the newsletter, unfortunately we didn’t receive any entries so the entry fee of $66 was then donated to the FOS committee to go towards the playground. So a huge thanks to all those that took part and we hope that you all had as much fun as these painted faces did.

Barry and Conor Arthur

Positive Behaviour for Learning (PB4L) at Our Lady of the Rosary School

Thankyou once again to all our families who contributed to the recent Bully Prevention Survey and attended the information evening the other week. Our Lady of the Rosary School has been part of the nation-wide PB4L initiative (Positive Behaviour for Learning) since 2015. The PB4L programme supports New Zealand schools to build a culture where positive behaviour and learning is a way of life. This initiative is about reflecting and changing the environment, systems and practices we have in place to support our students to make positive behaviour and learning choices for their wellbeing. At OLR we have a schoolwide classroom and playground system to support positive behaviour for learning, appropriate for the different year levels with our school virtues of Faith, Hope, Love and Charity being the driver to our PB4L Programme. We have a range of systems to affirm our students positively; Gold cards, Academic awards, weekly Virtue awards, schoolwide end of term reward day and in class reward systems. We asked a group of our Year 3-8 students about Bullying and Wellbeing to support us in planning ahead. Here are the children’s responses. What is your understanding of Bullying What our students said…….. purposely attacking harming accusing and hurting others Pushing people and physically bullying name calling hurting someone verbally, physically and mentally continuously and purposely picking on someone and winding them up just for a reaction popping personal bubble repeated harm or abuse or verbal harm to one or more people Cyberbullying Purposefully making people feel not comfortable or part of the group Disrespecting property What is your understanding of wellbeing What our students said…….. Feeling comfortable safe and confident in your school, home, public environment being kind to people Following in the footsteps of Jesus Showing the virtues Having a healthy self-esteem Making good decisions being confident respecting and listening to others opposite of bullying Positive learning and growth mindset Happiness Bullying Survey Over the course of the last 3 years our year 5-8 students have taken part in Bully surveys to identify areas we need to address and support for the wellbeing of all our students. This year we included our Year 3-4 students to take the survey. From the recent surveys we identified areas for us to address. We are currently addressing swearing and name calling with the Year 3-8 levels. We have identified with the students, that name calling comes in all forms from nicknames to unkind name calling. We encourage you as parents and caregivers to please support us with these areas at home for us to eliminate these concerns.

Within the school we have a range of systems to support students to inform adults of their concerns: Classroom suggestion/mailbox Circle time Encouraging students to inform the teachers within the class or on duty, as soon as the incident takes

place at break or directly after Reflection Journal ‘Smart Start’ - life skills for Early learners Role playing The following programmes are implemented to support our students wellbeing: Bikes in schools Scooter Training PE- Fitness, various sport initiatives eg. basketball, touch rugby etc. Enviroschool- Enabling students to be part of a sustainable future. Life Education Bus - Children are taught about their body, friendships, their identity, food and nutrition

and helpful and harmful substances. Keeping Ourselves Safe programmes, DARE, CHOICES and Puberty programmes.

Please contact us here at OLR if you require clarification of the information regarding Bully prevention and Wellbeing.

Well done to all students that participated in the Touch Rugby competition this term. We had 10 teams from Year 1-8 competing in the Friday competition. Thank you to all the coaches/managers for the organisation and time you have put into each team.

Middle Syndicate Education Outside of the Classroom (EOTC) week

We have some exciting activities planned for next week!

Wednesday 4 April - Build a Shelter Day! Students are going to be challenged to work together in a small group to build a shelter from recycled materials to experience how others are living in poverty.

Start collecting materials at home that you can use for this – cardboard, maybe a tarpaulin or blanket! Don’t forget to bring them to school the first day back to school after Easter!

Children are also asked to wear mufti on this day and to bring a gold coin to help support Caritas.

Thursday 5 April - Trip to Kaitoke! Thank you to all the parents who have said they’d like to come on our trip with us. We look forward to seeing you all at school Thursday morning! Please make sure that all students have a good lunch, a water bottle, sunblock and a SUNHAT! Students are also asked to wear their PE gear (or their school pinafore with black shorts if they haven’t got any).

Primary Girls Uniform Primary Boys Uniform Intermediate Girls Uniform Intermediate Boys Uniform

Our Lady of the Rosary School Uniform Please ensure your child/ren wear the CORRECT SCHOOL UNIFORM EVERY DAY.

Dance Party Fundraiser - There will be a ceilidh / Celtic dance party held in the school hall on Saturday 7th of April to celebrate the end of term and raise money towards the Intermediate Camp. Students, their families and friends are all very welcome! Tickets are $5 for children, $10 for adults and $20 for a family; please also bring some food for a shared supper. More details are in the attached poster.

This year we are giving the option to pay for the raffle tickets by cash or direct credit into the FOS account number: 12 3142 028 6781 00. Please include Easter Raffle and your name and number of tickets purchased. Last day for payment by internet banking is Wed 28th March 2018. Remember to FILL IN the tickets (even if paying by direct credit) otherwise you will not be in the draw! Extra tickets are available at the school office.

OLR School Easter Raffle ticket (FOS) $1

Name:

Phone number:

Student’s Name: Rm No:

Amount paid by cash: $ (date)

Paid by Direct Credit: $ (date)

OLR School Easter Raffle ticket (FOS) $1

Name:

Phone number:

Student’s Name: Rm No:

Amount paid by cash: $ (date)

Paid by Direct Credit: $ (date)

OLR School Easter Raffle ticket (FOS) $1

Name:

Phone number:

Student’s Name: Rm No:

Amount paid by cash: $ (date)

Paid by Direct Credit: $ (date)

OLR School Easter Raffle ticket (FOS) $1

Name:

Phone number:

Student’s Name: Rm No:

Amount paid by cash: $ (date)

Paid by Direct Credit: $ (date)

OLR School Easter Raffles - $1 per ticket. Drawn on Thursday 29th March

OLR School Easter Raffle ticket (FOS) $1

Name:

Phone number:

Student’s Name: Rm No:

Amount paid by cash: $ (date)

Paid by Direct Credit: $ (date)