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FOSH Christmas Raffle and Festival

Xmas Raffle

Just a reminder that we have a box in reception for Xmas Raffle donations. Any Christmas item is welcome, from decorations to food items. Candy canes, chocolates, wine, biscuits, fruit mince tarts, table or tree decorations – any Christmas item is welcome.

Xmas Festival

Thursday 8th December – 5pm – 7.30pm

Student Concert – Please have students at school by 5pm for a 5.15pm start. The concert will run for approximately twenty minutes.

Your views on the future direction of Sacred Heart Petone

Every three years the School Board is charged with setting the strategic direction for the school. In order to do that, it’s important we hear from our school community about their views. 

The Board has put together a series of eight questions to help us understand your views on what the school is doing well, and how we can further support our students and school to succeed. 

We want to ensure we can reach as many of you as possible, so we’ll be taking these questions to our school community groups, such as the Whānau Support Group, and Pasifika parents group, as well as running an online survey, and posting the questions in the school library where you will be able to write down your answers in person. The consultation runs from 17 November until 9 December. 

The Board’s policy committee will use the findings from this consultation to form our three-year strategy early next year.

The link to the online survey is here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LXCSH7N

If you have any questions about the consultation process, the questions, or have suggestions on other groups we could talk to in our school community, we would love to hear from you. Please email Kate Wright on wright.katelouise@gmail.com or speak to another member of our School Board (Maria Dalope, Helen Mollo, David Prior, Fiona Daniel, Vaka Lemisio, Helen Kneebone, Tiran O’Hagan, Genevieve Hanify, Katy Grant and Liz Heatley).

Nga mihi
Kate Wright
Presiding Member 

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Important Reminders

Cookie Time Christmas Fundraiser

All order forms and payment are due back in the office tomorrow (Wednesday 16th November.) I will not be able to accept late orders, sorry.  

Health Consultation notice

Please return your form by tomorrow.

Paid Union Meetings

School will finish early on Monday 21 November at 12.50pm for teaching staff to attend their union meeting. If your child cannot go home at lunchtime when school finishes, please return the supervision slip. Please note that if we do not have the signed supervision slip, we cannot have your child at school that afternoon.

Whanau Support Hui

Thursday 17 November in the Staffroom at 6pm. (All welcome).  Part of the hui will be spent looking at the Strategic Consultation for our school.

Wishin everyone a blessed afternoon. Enjoy the sun!

Covid19 is in our school community. Please read.

Dear Parents and Caregivers

Unfortunately Covid19 cases are back on the rise with five positive cases recorded over the weekend and today.

If you test positive for Covid19:

1.  You must self-isolate for seven days.

2.  Day 0 is the day your symptons started or when you tested positive, whichever came first.

3. STAY AT HOME. Do not go to school, work or any public places.

4. Avoid contact with people in your household if you can.

5. You can exercise outside in your neighbourhood. Avoid other people and shared areas such as gyms or swmming pools.

6. Clean and disinfect surfaces regulary. 

If you are a household contact:

1. Household Contacts do not need to isolate.

2. If you are a Household Contact, you should test daily for 5 days with a rapid antigen test (RAT) from the day the person with COVID-19 tested positive.

3. Wear a face mask if you leave your home during your 5 days of testing.

4. If you test positive for COVID-19, you must self-isolate for 7 days.

If you require furhter information, please follow the link: https://covid19.govt.nz/

If you require RAT tests or masks, please ask at the office as we have some available.

Reminder – Teacher Only day tomorrow (Friday 11 November). School will be closed. Have a safe and happy weekend!

Netball cancelled

Due to the weather Future Ferns Netball is cancelled today.

Touch

Touch Players may wear their PE uniform to school on  Friday while  Touch season is on.

Touch fees $23.00 per person are due tomorrow please.

Sausage Sizzle – Update

Good afternoon everyone,

Last term we sent  home a notice with Term 4 sausage sizzle dates. We were meant to begin sausage sizzles tomorrow on 26 October, but due to an admin error on the order form notice that I sent home last week, the Term 4 sausage sizzles will start next Wednesday 2 November instead.

If you have paid and ordered using the order form I sent home last week, your child will receive their sausages as ordered starting Wednesday 2 November. Please accept my apologies for the mix-up.

Thank you to everyone who has returned order forms and payments. If you have ordered but not yet paid, please ensure you deposit payment in to the CAMP Account 12-3142-0121485-01

Please note there is no pressure to order a sausage every week. If you would like to order on the day, please send a note and your money to the office.

PARENT HELP REQUIRED

Year 6 and Year 7 (Camp 2023) parents and caregivers – are you please able to help out with the sausage sizzles? We need adult supervisors. If you can help on Wednesdays with the sausage sizzles, please contact Whaea Katy on katy@sacredheartpetone.school.nz

Welcome back

Welcome back to Term 4! I hope you have enjoyed the holidays. Term 4 will be 9 weeks long and we are looking forward to our students having a busy term filled with new experiences. A few reminders:

Term 4 is summer uniform term and everyone must have a NAMED school bucket sunhat.

Touch and Netball fees are due by the 28th October please.

Friday 11th November is a Teacher Only Day (MOE). 

This Wednesday 19th October we will welcome Archbishop Paul Martin to school to bless the newly refurbished Tui classroom. You are welcome to join us at 2pm for the blessing.

Reminders:

Congratulations to all our tamariki for their performance at Hutt Fest tonight. They were all fantastic. Special thanks to Whaea Katy, Miss Martell and Mrs Bell for all their hard work with our students. Thanks also to Mrs Bell for her wonderful work organising our new costumes.

Tomorrow is a Non-Uniform Day and is a fundraiser for camp. Please bring a gold coin for wearing  Non-Uniform .
Sausage Sizzle tomorrow also for Camp fundraising- $2 a sausage.
School finishes for the term at 3pm tomorrow and reopens for Term 4 at 9am on Monday 17th October.
Happy holidays

HuttFest tickets have sold out.

If you would like to go on our waiting list, please email Anna in the office with numbers by tomorrow morning. (Wednesday 21st). You can can pay via online banking into the school account or cash at the office. ($5 each).

From Monday 26 September you may be able to purchase tickets directly from Walter Nash centre office.

If you are owing money for HuttFest tickets, please pay this by Thursday.

Thank you.

Frock Swap and Hutt Fest reminders

FOSH Frock Swap  – tomorrow Saturday 17 September

Tickets $15 – there will be door sales! Doors open at 7pm with swapping commencing at 7.30pm. Good condition clothes can be donated or dropped to the school hall on Saturday between 10.30am and 12pm. Come for a wine and some nibbles and if you have no clothes to swap, bring some cash and have a night out!

For more information please contact Kate Wasson on wassonkate0@gmail.com

HuttFest tickets

Tickets are on sale from the school office for $5 each. We are selling them until Wednesday, so if you would like one please get in quickly. After Wednesday, they will be available for purchase directly from the venue.

FOSH Fundraiser Frock Swap – Saturday 17 August

Tickets are on sale now $15 each from the school office. Online payment into the school bank account or cash is welcome. Please share this invite to your family, friends and neighbours – everyone is welcome! A glass of wine and nibbles are included in the ticket price. Doors open at 7pm and clothes swapping begins at 7.30pm. If you do not have clothes to swap, come along anyway! Clothes can be purchased for a small amount so bring some cash!

If you can’t make the night but would like to contribute clothes or make a donation of wine, please drop these item off to the office by this Friday. All sizes are welcome and all donations will be greatly appreciated. 

For further information please contact Kate Wasson on 021374335 or wassonkate0@gmail.com

Covid updates

New long-term strategy for COVID-19

You’ll be aware that New Zealand will move to a new, long-term approach to COVID-19. These changes have been made based on public health advice and reflect high levels of immunity and declining case numbers across New Zealand.

This new approach will only result in minor changes to the way we operate.

The very positive news is that household contacts of a person with COVID-19 do not need to isolate, but instead are asked to complete a RAT test each day, for five days. Therefore, ākonga who are household contacts but test negative and do not have COVID-19 symptoms, should continue to attend. It is the best place for them to be so they can be engaged in their learning, and connected with their teachers, classmates and friends.

Information on how to get RAT kits can be found here: Request a RAT– Ministry of Health 

Mask wearing is no longer required. 

All the other recommended public health measures will stay in place as we know they reduce the spread of infectious illnesses including COVID-19. These include ensuring our indoor spaces are well-ventilated, maintaining good hand hygiene, encouraging everyone to cough or sneeze into elbows and, most importantly, staying home and getting tested if they have COVID-19 symptoms.

Thank you for your ongoing support in protecting our community.

Disco tickets, HuttFest tickets, Frock Swap tickets and Book Club

DISCO – Camp 2023 Fundraiser – THIS Friday 9 September

Tickets $5 each. Online banking into the Camp Account please (12-3142-0121485-01) or cash to the office. There will be food and drink available for purchase at the disco, so bring some extra $.

HuttFest – Thursday 29 September

Tickets $5 each are available now. Online banking or cash sales. Please reference HuttFest. (Please note infant admission 0- 2 is free but they must be seated on your lap and you must have an Infant ticket for them. Please ask at the office.) There is no limit to how many tickets you can buy. There will be limited door sales on the night, so please buy through the school office to avoid disappointment.

FOSH Frock swap – Saturday 17 September

Tickets $15. Onsale now from the school office. Online banking or cash sales.

Book club closes Thursday 8 September. Online sales only – please do not bring cash to school.

Reminder – Wacky Hair and Wig Wednesday

Reminder – Wacky Hair and Wig Wednesday is tomorrow – Wednesday 7 September. Gold coin donation (Please put your cash donation in your classroom container.) If you would like to donate more or make an online donation to our Sacred Heart fundraising page, please follow the link: https://wigwednesday.org.nz/sacred-heart-school-petone

Please note that students will need to wear their PE Gear or School Uniform. It is not a non-uniform day.

See you tomorrow!

Reminders – Board Election/Camp Disco/FOSH Frock Swap

Board Elections – closes Wednesday 7 September at 4pm

Please ensure you have returned your Board Voting papers to the office by 4pm this Wednesday.

Camp Disco – Friday 9 September – 5.30pm – 8pm

Tickets $5 each. Online banking into the Camp Account please (12-3142-0121485-01) or cash to the office. There will be food and drink available for purchase at the disco, so bring some extra $.

FOSH Frock Swap – Saturday 17 September

Tickets are now on sale. $15 (includes a glass of wine and nibbles). Please online bank into the school account or pay cash at the office.

Reminders

A few reminders as we come to the end of Week 6:

Tomorrow Friday 2nd September is a Teacher Only Day. No school for students.
Enrolments for 2023 close this coming Monday 5th September. Late enrolments will be placed on the Waiting List.
Book club closes- Thursday 8th September. Order online please.
Enjoy your weekend!