Newsletter Week Seven Term One 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”

Years 5 & 6 Camp Carey

Thank you so much to the teachers and parents who gave so fully of their time, energy and expertise to ensure that the students had an awesome time at camp. A special thanks must go to Erika Bon for her organisation and preparation, along with the teaching teams. Erika has organised 18 Camps for St Joseph’s Students. Therein lies dedication! This really is her last camp!

CAMP 2016

YEAR 4 Students –

Some of their Learning Activities this week!

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

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.

Call to be generous!

Thank you so much to all who have responded to Fiji Appeal. If you have forgotten, there is still time to donate goods. They will be collected the morning of Tuesday 22 March.

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

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

PALM SUNDAY

Palm Sunday is the final Sunday of Lent, the beginning of Holy Week, and commemorates the triumphant arrival of Christ in Jerusalem, days before he was crucified.

Palm Sunday is known as such because the faithful will often receive palm fronds which they use to participate in the re-enactment of Christ’s arrival in Jerusalem. In the Gospels, Jesus entered Jerusalem riding a young donkey, and to the lavish praise of the townspeople who threw clothes, or possibly palms or small branches, in front of him as a sign of homage. This was a customary practice for people of great respect.

Palm branches are widely recognized symbol of peace and victory, hence their preferred use on Palm Sunday.

The use of a donkey instead of a horse is highly symbolic, it represents the humble arrival of someone in peace, as opposed to arriving on a steed in war.

A week later, Christ would rise from the dead on the first Easter.

(an extract from Catholic Online)