St Joseph's Cultural Festival
This year we plan to hold the cultural festival near the end of Term 4. Our Concept for Learning in Term 4 is Future and our inquiry is going to be around what New Zealand [...]
Celebrating the Olympics
Cate Dunne and our Sports Leaders organised and ran a very successful celebration of the Olympics on Friday 3 August. We started with an opening ceremony in the Hall followed by four fun activities. We were in [...]
Room 8 Maths using IWB
In Room 8 we have enjoyed using the interactive whiteboard at Maths time to help us in explaining our multiplication problems. We have tried recording our own stories using the sound recorder, and then using [...]
The Catholic Schools Convention Wellington 8-10 August 2012
"This gathering brings together Catholic educators, Bishops, priests, school trustees and a range of others associated with our national Catholic education system. Our 239 schools and 30 or so Early Childhood Services, along with the [...]
Word Clouds in Room 6
In Room 6 we have been using word clouds to summarize our holiday into key words. A word cloud is an online tool that organizes text visually into a word cloud. You can [...]
To Be The Best We Can Be
CORE ISSUES ____________________ "Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility. " [...]
Embracing a Cyber World
Yesterday afternoon, I went to Westlake Girls High School to listen to the highly specialized Brett Lee of Internet Education & Safety Services. Some of you may have taken the opportunity to attend last night's meeting [...]
Maori Language Week
Next week is Maori Language week. Te Wiki o te Reo Maori When pronouncing Maori just remember the vowel sounds are a as in Are, e as in there, i as in three, o as [...]
Term Three 2012
Welcome back to everyone! There are plenty of exciting happenings this term. A calendar for Terms 3 & 4 will be coming home soon. Also, be sure and read each Friday's email, through school links, [...]
JRock Jubilation
JRock Jubilation! It was a long build up of 14 weeks which climaxed on June 27th at 6:50pm, when 65 of St Joseph’s students, smiled their widest smiles, spread their biggest stage hands and rocked [...]