Term 3, Week 8

Room 4 Newsletter:  Term 3, Week 8

Sunday 10^th September, 2017

Important Dates coming up:

*Social Justice Week and Māori Language Week 10^th – 14^th September.

*Mon-Wed 11-13^th September: Welcome to the Special Character Review Team who will be in our School on these days.

*Monday Whole School Prayer, 9 am in the Church, led by our Special Character leaders.

*Confirmation: 12^th September – 6 pm in the Church. All welcome, and welcome Bishop Colin.

*Wednesday Mass, 9 am in the Church, led by Room 3.

*Friday 15^th September: Room 4 Gymnastics 11.40 am – 12.25 pm.

*Friday 22^nd September – The Gathering: A Professional Development Day for teachers in Catholic Schools. Our school will remain open on this day.

*WOW Night: 5-7 pm Wednesday 27^th September. Celebrating our whole school’s Learning.

*Thursday 28^th September, 1.45 pm in the Church: Māori Cultural Performance.

*Eisteddfod Assembly: Friday 1.30 pm, 29^th September.

Social Justice Week:

This week you will hear all about Social Justice Week. At the heart of the message are these scriptures:

‘Love one another just as I have loved you’ (John Ch.15 v 12) and

‘Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law’ (Romans 13v8).

The theme of this year’s Social Justice Week is ‘Weaving the bonds of Belonging’ and Knowing our Neighbours. The children will have in their homework clear files a Connection Card activity to support them to do some specific things to build relationships in their home, family and at community level.

On a wider level, we can pray for those suffering natural disasters at the moment, especially people in

Florida, who are being hit with devastating winds, heavy rain and huge waves from Hurricane Irma.

Nearly seven million people have been ordered to leave their homes in the largest evacuation in United States history.

Speech Eisteddfods:

Eisteddfod time will quickly be upon us again and we are underway with preparing our speeches. Children may choose whatever topic they like to do a speech on, but they are also welcome to use the information they are learning from their Inquiry to write their speech. We are also adding ‘Did you know?’ statements to our Inquiry wall in the corridor this week with some fascinating facts we are learning about the ocean and its creatures.

Have a great week everyone.

Markelle Ward J