Newsletter - Week 2, Term 1 (12th February 2020)

Our Lady

of the Rosary

School

Wainui Road, Waiwhetu, Lower Hutt, 5010

Phone: (04) 566 3258

Fax: (04) 566 3159

Email: admin@olr.school.nz

Web: www.olr.school.nz

OUR SCHOOL VIRTUES: Faith – Whakapono Hope – Tūmanako Love – Aroha Charity – Manaakitanga

Welcome, Kia Ora, Talofa, kumusta, Mālō ni

What a great start to our new year. It is always a joy to hear and see the buzz and excitement of our students back with their friends and enjoying the opportunity to make new friends. PRIDE in Our Lady of the Rosary - A timely reminder to all our families, please support us to ensure your child/ren are wearing the correct school uniform. Our school regulation SUNHATS are part of the school uniform and extremely important for our children to wear to protect them from the sun. Here at Our Lady of the Rosary we have high expectations regarding all students wearing their correct uniform, showing PRIDE as an OLR student. Please refer to the attached information regarding our school uniform.

Thank you for completing the OLRS Student Internet Agreement that was sent to your email address on Monday 3rd February. If you are yet to do this, you will

need to login to your Signmee account and read through the agreement with your child/ren and ‘sign’ at the bottom. Until this has been completed your child/ren will not be able to use digital devices at OLRS.

Mya Cera

We are an Enviro-School. Our Newsletter is emailed to all

families and put on OLRS facebook and website each Wednesday. If you require a PAPER COPY, please let the

school office know

REMINDER - WHANAU EVENING - GET-TO-GETHER/MEET THE TEACHERS/CAMP

We are holding our beginning of the year PICNIC and WHANAU GET-TO-GETHER/MEET THE TEACHERS on THURSDAY 20th FEBRUARY from 5.30pm to 7.30pm at our place! We welcome you to bring a picnic tea, fish and chips etc.

The evening is for all our families to mix and mingle and get to know new faces to begin our school year. From 6.15pm children are encouraged to welcome their families into their classrooms. This will be an opportunity for you to meet your child/ren’s classroom teacher and ask any questions you may have.

INTERMEDIATE HUB CAMP 2020: On THURSDAY 20th FEBRUARY at 7pm a camp meeting will take place for families who have Intermediate students. The meeting will be an update regarding the planning ahead and fundraising. We would really appreciate all parents/caregivers at this meeting as CAMP takes place in week 9 this term!

Our Intermediate Hub will

be selling yummy deserts

on our whanau evening,

20th February! All goodies

will be $1.00

Thank you from the Intermediate Hub

12 Feb Floorball begins (correction of date) 12 Feb FOS (Friends of Our School) Meeting and AGM,

6.30pm in the school staffroom 14 Feb Mass at OLR Church, 9am, Rooms 1 and 10 14 Feb Friday Ice-block/Cream after school sales begin 14 Feb Touch Rugby begins 16 Feb ‘Round the Bays’ 20 Feb Whanau Evening - 5.30-7.30pm 21 Feb Final day to order Pies - camp fundraiser 25 Feb Yr 7/8 Immunisations 26 Feb Ash Wednesday, Mass at 9am, OLR Church 27 Feb SLICs day year 8’s 9.15am—2pm 2 Mar Junior Syndicate EOTC week 6 Mar Mass at OLR Church, 9am, Rooms 6 and 11 12 Mar Weetbix Tryathlon 12 Mar Reading Together Programme, 5.30pm (juniors) 13 Mar Mass at OLR Church, 9am, Rooms 7 and 12 17 Mar St Patrick’s Day 20 Mar Mass at OLR Church, 9am, Rooms 4 and 0 24 Mar SouthEast Zone Quick Rip Comp Yr 3-8 27 Mar Mass at OLR Church, 9am, Rooms 3 and 8 29 Mar-3 Apr Intermediate Hub Camp, Teapot Valley 3 Apr Mass at OLR Church, 9am, Rooms 2 and 9 9 Apr Holy Thursday 10 Apr Good Friday

God Bless, Whakapaingia te Atua Karolina Surynt-Tapiki Principal

If your contact details have changed (postal address, email address, phone numbers) please let the office know by emailing admin@olr.school.nz, phone 04 5663258 or pop into the office.

ENVIRO SCHOOL As an enviroschool we are working towards our Silver Award. We actively promote reducing rubbish waste and in 2019 our envio group investigated our rubbish and presented the information to the Board of Trustees. As a result our school is RUBBISH FREE in LUNCHBOXES. Children are asked to take home all food wrappers and packaging eg. chippie packets and bar wrappers in their lunch boxes. Please support us in keeping our environment clean and green! The ENVIRO TEAM

OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY FAITH in action…. Our virtue for this week is

FAITH — Whakapono Like Mary, we aim to Live, Learn and Love with

Christ by living our virtue of

FAITH is living in HOPE.

Events:

Two students from the Intermediate Hub will be attended the Anointing Mass at OLR Church and will serve coffee and tea afterwards throughout the term.

Tuesday 25th February: The teachers will attend the ‘Commissioning Mass’ at Sacred Heart Petone, with other Catholic schools in the Wellington region, to begin the school year.

Wednesday 26th February: Ash Wednesday Mass. The school will join with our parishioners at OLR Church. You are all welcome to join us as we begin Lent.

During the term, classes will join with their buddy class for Mass at OLR Church on rostered Fridays.

We have special events planned for Holy Week. Please check our weekly newsletters for updates.

God bless, Jane Carter, Director of Religious Studies (DRS)

Tēnā koutou e te whānau Welcome back to a new school year. I hope you all enjoyed your summer break and have come back refreshed. This is a reminder that the Board has changed our school policy effective from the last Board meeting lastyear in regards to going rubbish-free in lunch boxes. Any packaging that can be recycled or food scraps that can go into the compost or worm farm will be, and all other rubbish will be sent home for disposal. We thank you for your support in our efforts to be more sustainable. We look forward to an exciting year ahead. Ngā mihi Natasha Watson Board of Trustees Chairperson

10th February 2020

Our Lady of the Rosary - Friends of Our School

Chairpersons Report

Hi to all the families and friends of Our Lady of the Rosary community.

The 2019 school year was once again extremely busy for our dedicated team of individuals that make up the

FOS Committee. It was great to see some new parents joining the FOS and sharing their passion and

enthusiasm for our kids and school. This meant that we had new ideas and a few more hands to complete the

many tasks that were involved with fundraising. So I would like to thank all of them for their time and efforts

to raise funds and further improve our kid’s school environment. This was our best year since I joined the FOS

6 years ago. Awesome effort and thanks to the community for supporting our efforts.

Our focus for 2019 was to raise funds for a number of outstanding school requirements including new

Drinking Fountains, Bike Shed (including fit out) Bike stands and a new PA-system. This year we have donated

over $5,500 towards these costs. We are still trying to sort out the Drinking fountains but will keep working

towards getting these sorted during 2020.

This year we ran 10 different fundraising activities including Entertainment Books, Wacky Wednesday, Karma

Keg, Movie Night and our End of Year Raffle. Our biggest fundraising initiatives were:

Easter Raffle $ 1,460

Ice Blocks $ 1,066

Disco $ 1,237

Calendar / Artwork $ 1,212

School Gala $12,714

2019 Grand of Total Funds Raised = $20,356

The Gala was our standout event which brought our community together for a great day of fun. Thanks to all

the people that joined in and helped with this event and made it the success it was. This has meant that the

FOS bank account starts the year in a healthy state and we can focus on delivering some of the bigger wish

list items for our kids during 2020.

The FOS committee would be nothing if it wasn’t for the passion and dedication shown by the small group of

people that meet regularly so special thanks to all members from 2019. Special thanks to Sez Brannigan as

Secretary and Yen Jong as Treasurer. Tonight we have our AGM Meeting at 6:30 in the staff room to kick of

the exciting year ahead. We would love to see all those interested to come along and join us. The more

people we have the more fun we have.

Ngā mihi nui

Barry Arthur

Chairperson OLRS Friends of Our School Committee

5 trip tickets are available to purchase for $5

Our Lady of the Rosary

Pie Fundraiser

This term we are fundraising for our Intermediate Hub Camp by selling pies from Centa Bakery. These pies are delicious and contain real meat and vegetable filling. They have a minimum weight of 600gm. They can be frozen and reheated at a later date without losing their quality. The family dessert pies can be eaten hot or cold. Yummy! Yummy! Yummy! How it works: You fill in the order form indicating what pies you would like to purchase and return with your payment to school by Friday 21st February. Pies will then be delivered to school for pick up on Thursday 5th March. (The pies need to be taken home on this day)

Child’s name: ________________________ Child’s class number: _____ Buyer’s name: ______________________ Buyer’s phone number: ________________ Payment by cash Payment by internet banking (number: 12-3142-0280566-00 ) Please put child’s name and ’PIES’ as reference

(Bank payments must be made by 21st February)

MEAT PIES QUANTITY PRICE PER PIE

TOTAL

MINCE $10.00

MINCE & CHEESE $10.00

STEAK & ONION $10.00

STEAK & KIDNEY $10.00

CRACKED PEPPER STEAK $10.00

COUNTRY CHICKEN $10.00

STEAK AND CHEESE $10.00

MEDITERRANEAN LAMB $10.00

POTATO TOP $10.00

FRUIT PIES

APPLE $10.00

APRICOT $10.00

CARAMEL $10.00

LEMON FLAN $10.00

TOTAL $

IF I SAY YUMMY,

YOU SAY PIE!

YUMMY ….