Newsletter Week 6 Term 1 2016

Our Term’s Living and Learning Focus is

CARE ATAWHAI

Our School Values are

Tika Justice, Pono Truth, Aroha Compassion, Manaakitanga Hospitality and Tapu Respect for the Environment

Lived out in our Motto

Courtesy Care Co-operation Courage

Learning to Learn at St Joseph’s #L2L

The Learning Model for our school is:

“To Know To Do To Use”

WELCOME

To our latest New Entrants and their families!

Leo Chung, Andres Zepeda Abrego and Sara Woods

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The Strategic Goals as outlined in the School Charter

These are refined annually by the Board of Trustees.

From each goal, action plans are developed each year, to ensure we keep the goals alive and that, as a school, we have a cycle of continual improvement.

GOAL 1 – Special Character To ensure that the Catholic faith is integral to everything the school community does; to inspire children to love God and to love learning; to celebrate and keep alive the spirit of mercy through the values of Tika Justice Pono Truth Aroha Compassion Manaakitanga Hospitality Tapu Respect for the Environment and the links with the Sisters of Mercy; to know and celebrate our history; to honour St Joseph, our patron, and to follow his example through living our motto, Courtesy, Care, Co-operation and Courage

GOAL 2 – Curriculum To provide quality learning programmes which are based on the school’s commitment to the Catholic Faith, future oriented learning/ teaching, diversity, coherence and connectedness, digital technologies, Inquiry, and the goals of the NZ Curriculum. Progress and achievement in Literacy & Numeracy will be measured in relation to the National Standards. Students will have ownership of their learning and understand what they need to do in order to achieve, aspiring to be the best they can be

GOAL 3 – Documentation and Review To continue to develop effective means of evaluating the school’s programmes and activities; to ensure appropriate planning and reporting processes

GOAL 4 – Personnel To provide a school climate which attracts and supports the best available staff, promotes and expects high levels of staff performance to support the school’s spirit, vision, values, aims, objectives, policies and plans

GOAL 5 – Finance To allocate and control income and expenditure in ways that effectively support the teaching and learning programmes

GOAL 6 – Property To have buildings and site facilities that are appropriate to the programme needs of the school, are conducive to flexible, modern teaching and learning and which comply with all relevant health and safety requirements

GOAL 7- Health and Safety To provide and nurture a school climate which promotes and safeguards the physical tinana, spiritual wairua, social family/whanau and mental & emotional well-being hinengaro, of all students and staff

GOAL 8 – Community To encourage high levels of community involvement in the school’s activities

GOAL 9- Cultural Diversity To develop and maintain programmes and an ethos that reflects New Zealand’s cultural diversity and in particular the unique position of Maori as the tangata whenua

GOAL 10 – Legislation To fully comply with all regulatory and legislative requirements as they relate to the school’s operations and to Board of Trustee activities

Kiwi Team Picnic

Thank you to all the families who came along and supported the evening.

Lent in Schools

The theme for Lent 2016 is

Hear the cry of the earth and the poor

Whakarongo ki te tangi o Papatūānuku me te hunga pōhara

taken from Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’.

In our Lenten learning this year, with the help of Caritas, we are focusing on: life and challenges for indigenous Cambodians, themes that include valuing culture, adapting to climate change, food security, human rights and land rights.

Congratulations to Teuila and Amalia who recently put Lent into Action by taking part in the 40 Hour Famine (Amalia did 20 of those) and between them raised over $180.00!

They know they would not like to have to live with hunger every day of their lives!

Key Messages and Values

The good things of the earth belong to everyone.

Everyone has the right to grow the food they need to live and have access to clean water.

But the rich use up the world’s resources at a rate that robs the poor nations of what they need to survive.

NZ Bishops’ Conference

The richest 20% use 80% of the world’s resources.

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN FINDING OUT MORE ABOUT BECOMING A SCHOOL TRUSTEE?

BOT Elections

Every three years elections are held and Proprietor’s appointees are nominated. Nominations will be called for this term with a closing date of Friday 6 May. Elections will be held between 25 May and 3 June. The new Board takes office by Friday 10 June. There will be a meeting held for interested people at 7.30 p.m. on Tuesday 22 March as an opportunity to meet BOT members and find out more.

Becoming a School Trustee Click on this link you can find out more.

http://resources.nzsta.org.nz/videos/PD/Becoming%20a%20Trustee/html5video.html