Kia ora whanau

We had a very special school Mass for our school’s Feast Day yesterday. We celebrated St Joseph the Worker and Miss Sophie Fleming, teacher of Home Group 10, who received the Sacraments of Confirmation and First Holy Communion. It is not often that children see a staff member of the school receiving these Sacraments. We congratulate Sophie receiving these Sacraments and our prayers are with her as she continues her faith journey.

Each week a Principal Message is published on the school website. This is the main form of communication to our parent community. It contains information on what has been happening at school over the last week and information on what events are coming up in the next couple of weeks. All parents receive an email each Friday at 6 pm informing them that the Principal Message has been posted on the website, along with the actual Principal Message for that week.

The second form of communication are eTap emails. These are sent out to specific parent groups from the child’s home group teacher, team or from the school for individual events. 

The school website contains the school calendar. This has all the school events and is updated at the beginning of each term.

We take great care not to overload parents with emails from our school. It is generally one email a week, on a Friday.

Please could parents take the time to open their emails from the school and read them. This will support your children and keep yourself informed as to what is happening for your child at school. Please can you also check the school calendar on the school website on a regular basis.

Our Year 6 children are heading off to camp next week. They will be heading to Carey Park Camp on Monday and are returning on Wednesday. It is a great opportunity for the children and teachers to participate in an amazing range of activities and to experience a few days of ‘camp life’ with their classmates. We look forward to their return and hearing all their stories.

The weather forecast is looking great for the weekend and for camp. Enjoy!

Take care

Ka manaakitia e te Atua

Alister Bridgman

Tumuaki

The Principal’s Message will cover the following topics:

• Welcome 
• Rippa Rugby
• Yummy Sticker Promotion for Sports Equipment
• Parish News
• Community Notices

We would like to extend a very warm welcome to the new students who have joined our St Josephs family in Week 1 of Term 2:

Chloe, Clara, Evlyn, Jacob, Jaxon, Joshua, Mia, Revano and Sky

This is an optional tournament for Year 5 and Year 6 children who have an interest in rugby and want to attend.

Entries must be received no later than 9am 16th May so that the teams can be registered in time.

All information and registration details can be found here.

Collect the Yummy cut-out labels from bags (each cut-out label is worth 10 stickers) and individual Yummy apple stickers for our school’s share of the $200,000 free Sport sports gear prize pool. Yummy apples are available from New World, PAK’nSAVE and participating Four Square stores. The more we collect, the more sports gear we receive. So get going and start collecting your Yummy cut-out labels and stickers now!

You can download your Yummy sheets from the website:

Yummy Sticker Collection Sheet

New Variety Bonus Collection Sheet

Cut-Out Label Collection Sheet

Latest News from St Joseph’s Church Takapuna

Please check out the latest community notices  which you can find on our school website.