Our Living and Learning Focus continues as
CARE ATAWHAI KUMANU
Our School Values are
Tina Justice, Pono Truth, Aroha Compassion, Manaakitanga Hospitality and Tapu Respect for the Environment
Lived out in our Motto
Courtesy Care Co-operation Courage
The Learning Model for our school is: “To Know To Do To Use”
Learning to Learn at St Joseph’s #L2L
Congratulations to our wonderful Rippa Team who were the winners in the North Harbour Rugby National Rippa Qualifying Tournament, enabling them to compete in a national tournament in Wellington from 21-23 August!
“Wow what a result!! We’re still on a high marvelling at the huge feat the team overcame on Tuesday – the competition was fierce!”
St Joseph’s Rippa Rugby Team
The Year 6 Rippa Rugby team is going to Wellington, after their successful game yesterday. The team returned exhausted but victorious, after winning all 7 of the games they played. Sylvie Taylor, one of the few girls on the team, said “The last game was really hard, but we scored the first goal so we won it.”
The team was a mixture of boys and girls. The players in the team were; Sylvie T, Maia L, Olivia W, Sophia Z, Jorja S, Benjamin McC, Quintin K R, Noah J, Charlie M and Keegan K. The coach of the team was there with the team the whole day, organising and giving advice to the players. The team said “We couldn’t have done it without each other.”
After coming top of their league they are going to Wellington to compete with the other teams that are also top of their leagues. The team is confident they will do well at the tournament. Good Luck!
By Aoife M & Janine O, Kakariki Team School Reporters
A huge and sincere thanks to Justin (and Michelle) for brilliant coaching and all your efforts with the team – a stoic effort.
Thanks to Paula, our Sports Co-ordinator- for your efforts in organising our team’s participation in the event.
Thank you to all the parents involved for transport and support.
Bring on Wellington!
From North Harbour Rugby
The qualifying tournament for the National Rippa Competition was held yesterday at Windsor Park in very wet and trying conditions. 26 schools from North Harbour selected their top 10 Rippa players (5 girls and 5 boy)s to represent the school. The prize is big so the competition is fierce. Schools must first win their pool round to go through to the quarters and then onto the semi-finals. In the quarters and semis the first try is counted in the event of a draw, so there is no room for error. The hard luck story of the day would have to go to Dairy Flat Primary who never lost a game but didn’t make it through to the finals due to a draw with St Josephs in the semis. Red Beach and St Joseph’s fought it out try for try in the final with once again St Joseph’s coming out 1 try ahead at full time. There were tears, there were hugs, there were fist pumps, this day had it all! The team at Harbour Rugby who attend the tournament are never failed to be impressed by the skill set, focus and determination of these young players, it is incredible what these kids can do!
St Josephs will now head off to Wellington to Represent our region in the Air NZ National Rippa tournament on 21-23 August, the lucky players and two chaperones will have their airfares, accommodation, meals and uniforms all paid for as well as attending some very cool NZ Rugby activities.
North Harbour Rugby wishes St Josephs the very best and congratulations them on a fantastic win. We would also like to thank and congratulate all the schools that attended, we really were impressed with the standard of Rippa in all of the competing teams.
Schools to Represent North Harbour at the National Rippa Tournament
2012 – Browns Bay Primary
2013 – Marina View Primary
2014 – Whangaparaoa Primary
2015 – Willow Park Primary
2016 – St Joseph’s Catholic School Takapuna
Jacqui Scheib
NORTH HARBOUR RUGBY UNION
Basketball News!
Five out of six miniball teams playing this semester have made it into the finals and will be playing on Tuesday night next week.
Congratulations to the teams, their coaches and managers!
Good luck!
WIG WEDNESDAY WAS VERY POPULAR!
A NUMBER OF CHILDREN WERE INTERVIEWED BY A REPORTER FROM THE HERALD
Check it out!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/national/news/video.cfm?c_id=1503075&gal_cid=1503075&gallery_id=162126
There was a great variety of colours, styles and sizes of wigs.
$556.00 WAS RAISED TO HELP PROVIDE SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WHO HAVE CANCER.
Thank you for your generosity!
Market Day Mania!
Come one, come all! To the Year 5 & 6 Market Day! The Year 5 & 6’s are selling everything from jelly, to raffle tickets. So run, don’t walk, to the Year 5 & 6 Market Day! Takes place in Week 10, on Wednesday 6 July, at lunchtime.
Aoife M School Reporter
Religious Education Learning
An Extract from the Family/Whanau Book
“Learning Strand – CHURCH – Community of Disciples – TE WHANAU A TE KARAITI
Learning Focus: Belonging
We belong to and participate and celebrate in communities such as our family-whanau, our school and our parish. The Church is a community of Christ’s followers or disciples called together by the Holy Spirit to carry on Christ’s mission in life today
Talk about – how proud you are of your children – how belonging to your family-whanau is important because you care for – manaaki and show aroha for each other – what are the good things about belonging to a family, the school and parish you belong to – how the people in the Church today carry on the ways Jesus lived, e.g. caring for the sick, helping others, spending time with people
Plan to – take your children to Mass on Sunday – invite your parish priest around for coffee or a meal so you can get to know him – attend a parish function as a family – draw children’s attention to other people who belong to your parish – do something for someone who is sick, include your children and explain why you are doing this – put your name on the parish roster to take part in a parish activity and include your children.”
Collaboration starts from an early age!
An observation from Mrs Lambert:
Here is a photo of Sarah and Eva in action each teaching a friend how to use “Show Me”!
It was great listening to their conversations and ways of problem solving.
I always enjoy working with the wonderful children in Team Kiwi.
Congratulations and good luck to Alec Y who will be in the USA, representing NZ,
competing in three golf tournaments in July!
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Caitlyn’s Coins
By Janine O Kakariki Team
Last weekend, Caitlyn D’l (aged 9) and her family baked some delicious brownies which they sold to her dad’s hockey team. They were very kind to help her to do this. She did this as part of her Home Learning Challenge and raised $39 in total.
Caitlyn was generous to donate the whole amount of money to our school missions which went to a young Mothers at Risk group that East Coast Bays Parish was running.
I’m sure they had some fun, doing this activity together as a family on a peaceful Saturday. I bet Caitlyn feels proud to be able to run a small business in her community and raise $39. This is was a special act of kindness – and we are all proud of her.
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Thank you Mrs Thomson for the work you do in our Library!
Have you had a look at our school library site? It’s awesome!
http://www.accessitsoftware.com:2008/STJ10/#!dashboard
Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century
Here is some additional information for all who are interested in why education needs to develop and change. I have again inserted some reading into our newsletter.
The extract below is taken from Core Education Thought Leadership
Ten Trend categories
PROCESS
Change Leadership
“As the local and global rates of change continue to increase, organisations are finding themselves required not only to keep pace with these changes but also to anticipate them in order to prepare learners for the future. Change seems to be gathering pace everywhere: changes in the environment, population, demographics and migration; increasing diverse communities, the availability and distribution of resources, increasingly powerful technology which seems to be impacting on just about every aspect of our lives. Education faces a challenge to keep pace with all of these changes, particularly given that many of our traditional leadership practices were designed for a slow-moving world with a small group of people (or even one person) making most of the decisions. The traditional ‘pyramid-style’ hierarchy that existed in most 20th century organisations still holds considerable influence over organisations in the 21st century, however newer and more agile arrangements are required if we are to successfully navigate the future.
Implications and impact
The traditional notion of the clever single leader at the top of an organisation required that person to have at their fingertips all of the information required in order to make decisions. This information might be to do with finances, staffing, market (community) needs, best practice and law and policy. For the most part, workers engaged in the business of running an organisation didn’t need all this information, they just needed to be told what to do next. In a fast-moving world (such as the one we are currently in) no one person is super-human enough to be able to analyse all the available information and make the huge number of decisions needed.
A better approach is to create networked, empowered teams who pool information then make decisions together. The presence of empowered teams within organisations is often given as an indicator of that organisation’s ‘adaptive capacity’. Adaptive capacity is often defined as an ability “to adapt if the environment within which you operate changes.” In times of considerable change (the wider educational environment is changing all the time), schools, centres and kura need to have high adaptive capacity in order to cope with the changing in technology, society, learner needs, community expectations and evaluation regimes.
Organisations with high adaptive capacity generally have these features (Heifetz, Grashow, & Linsky (2009):
- Elephants in the room are named. ‘Undiscussables’ are missed opportunities for learning, and potential areas where culture might be damaged because everyone is thinking the same thing but no one is brave enough to confront the issue.
- Responsibility for the organisation’s future is shared. Vision is owned, lived and breathed throughout the organisation and everyone sees their works are contributing to the achievement of that aspirational vision.
- Independent judgment is expected. Everybody, from the newest employee to the longest-serving is expected to contribute fully and use their initiative
- Leadership capacity is developed. Smart risk-taking is encouraged and leaders see their role as being to grow other leaders around them. Distributed and strengths-based leadership are common in every part of the organisation, and there is a culture of actively engaging with conceptions of leadership.
- Reflection and continuous learning are institutionalised. Self-review is pervasive and people always seek evidence of their own effectiveness, looking to improve practices and systems to better meet the needs of stakeholders.”
St Joseph’s Catholic School Board of Trustees
The first meeting on Thursday 23 June, focused on Governance; on aspects such as the role of the Chair; policy; roles and responsibilities and so on. Congratulations to Shane Coleman who was re-elected as Chair. The main emphasis for the BOT is first of all, training for all members and the appointment of a Principal for 2017.
Remember!
Alphonsus (Yellow) and Pompallier (Blue) House Family Mass is at 10.00 a.m. on Sunday 26 June
The Board Members will receive a blessing at this Mass.
All families are welcome!
Remember also the High Tea, which starts at 11.00 a.m. on the same day!
Have a lovely weekend!
Ka kite ano!
Phil