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Reminder: Teacher Only Day - This Friday 30 May. School is closed.
Welcome
Welcome
A warm welcome to our new families. This week we celebrated and thanked our wonderful support staff at SFDS - Office Staff, Teacher Aides, and Librarian! We are blessed to have such a committed group of people on our staff team - all looking out for the needs of our children, and supporting them to reach their full potential.
Catholic Schools' Day
Today is catholic Schools; day across New Zealand. Before his passing, Pope Francis designated 2025 as the Church’s Year of Jubilee: Pilgrims of Hope, Manene o te Tūmanako (te reo Māori), Faigamalaga o le Fa’amoemoe (Samoan); Pilikimi ‘o e Tu’amelie (Tongan). He challenged us to foster and transform our world with a strong focus on a greater sense of sisterhood and brotherhood, solidarity with the poor and displaying care for our environment. Pope Francis wants us to be hope filled and to look to the future with an open spirit, a trusting heart and a vision that views our world as heaven on earth.
As a Catholic school, we are placed beautifully to bring this vision to fruition. We would see our Catholic school as great examples of a Catholic community that fills our students with hope through modelling God’s desire and plan of love, justice and peace for all humanity. By living Jesus’ Gospel. Our staff are encouraging our students to be countercultural and to live a life of love. At our best, our schools empower students to respond with compassion, to support each other and to desire the best for each other and creation.
We will be meeting the two other Catholic Schools in our Parish (St Anne's and St Bernard's) this Friday for our staff professional learning. We have a great community together.
Learning Updates
Learning Updates
Garden to Table
We are excited to share some wriggly new additions to our Garden to Table programme — a worm farm!
As part of our commitment to hands-on learning and sustainability, Monday's Garden to Table group helped set up a worm farm in our garden area. This simple but powerful project has given our students the opportunity to explore nature, science, and environmental responsibility in a fun and engaging way.
With the help of some friendly Tiger Worms, we are now recycling our school paper, cardboard, fruit and vegetable scraps into rich, organic compost. The students have learned how worms break down food waste, how to care for the worms, and how the resulting “worm tea” can help our newly planted winter vegetables.
We would like to thank Annette Moffat (Grandmother of Heidi and Roscoe) who ran our session on Monday. Annette kindly donated the 'worm farm bedding' so we could recreate our worm farm and get it up and running again! We would also like to thank Anita Watson (Mum of Noah, Willow & Liam) who very kindly sourced and donated the special Tiger Worms. Thank you both so much for your generosity - it is very special to be able to involve our community in our Garden to Table projects!
We will be sharing our 'extra' Tiger Worms with Island Bay Kindergarten so they can get their worm farm up and running again! What an awesome community we have :)
Sports
Sports
Southern Zone Cross Country
We were very proud of all our runners who ran last week at this event - it was a challenge in the wet and muddy conditions. A huge thank you to Sarah M and Michael H who helped out as marshals.
Congratulations to the following students who have progressed through to participate in the Inter Zone Cross Country (top 10 in years 4 - 6, top 6 in years 7 - 8) coming up on Tuesday 10 June back at McAlister Park.
Year 5 boys: Raffaele D - 1st. Frank W - 5th, Liam W - 8th, Year 6 boys: Michael P - 2nd, Year 7 boys: Noah W - 1st, Year 7 girls: Harper M - 1st, Victoria M - 2nd, Miriam P - 4th, Sofia P - 6th, Year 8 boys: Johnny W - 3rd, Liam N - 6th, Year 8 girls: Sofia S - 1st, Lilly M - 2nd, Sophia L - 3rd, Willow SE - 4th, Lily M - 5th
School Notices and Events
School Notices and Events
Yummy Stickers
We are still collecting Yummy Stickers - the more stickers we collect, the more free sports gear we receive.There are lots of yummy new season apples in the supermarkets at the moment so make sure you make the most of those and collect the stickers off Yummy apples and the cut outs from the bags of apples. We will collect the stickers towards the end of term 3.
PSL Sausage Sizzle coming up
PSL are holding a Sausage sizzle Friday 6 June! Sausages available to order on Kindo now! They are looking for some parent helper on the day! If you are able to help out please let them know by emailing them on psl.sfds@gmail.com
Dates to Add to Your Diary
Dates to Add to Your Diary
Please also check our SFDS Events Calendar
Thursday 29 May 2025
9:15am - 12pm Wheke (Rm 7) & Parareka (Rm 8) Recreation Centre Trip
St Patricks College Open day tour- Please email the office if you son is going!
Tangaroa (Year 0-3) Pe Day- wear PE Gear
Tarawera (Rm 2) Pe Day - Wear PE Gear
12:30pm - 2:45pm Technology Ranginui (Yr 7 & 8)
Friday 30 May 2025
Curriculum Teacher Only Day 2 (MOE) - school closed
7:50am - 8:30am Flames Netball Practice
3pm - 4:30pm Year 5/6 Netball Practice
4:30pm - 5:30pm Year 7/8 Comets Netball Practice
Monday 2 June 2025
King's Birthday - Public Holiday School is closed
Tuesday 3 June 2025
Pohutukawa (Rm 10) PE day (Wear PE Gear)
Wheke(rm 7) and Parareka(Rm 8) PE Day (Wear PE Gear)
Wednesday 4 June 2025
Boostrix - Year 7 Boys and Girls
Gardasil – 1st Dose Year 7 & 8
Pohutukawa (Rm 10) PE day (Wear PE Gear)
Ranginui (Year 7 & 8) PE Day- Wear PE Gear
Tuesdays 3 June 2025
Pohutukawa (Rm 10) PE day (Wear PE Gear)
Wheke (rm 7) and Parareka (Rm 8) PE Day (Wear PE Gear)
Wednesday 4 June 2025
Boostrix - Year 7 Boys and Girls
Gardasil – 1st Dose Year 7 & 8
Pohutukawa (Rm 10) PE day (Wear PE Gear)
Ranginui (Year 7 & 8) PE Day- Wear PE Gear
Thursday 5 June 2025
9:15am - 12:30pm Pohutukawa (Rm10) Recreation Centre Visit
Tangaroa (Year 0-3) Pe Day- wear PE Gear
Tarawera (Rm 2) Pe Day - Wear PE Gear
Technology Ranginui (Yr 7 & 8)
Friday 6 June 2025
7:50am - 8:30am Flames Netball Practice
Ranginui (Year 7 & 8) PE Day- Wear PE Gear
Wheke (rm 7) and Parareka (Rm 8) PE Day (Wear PE Gear)
3pm - 4:30pm Year 5/6 Netball Practice
4:30pm - 5:30pm Year 7/8 Comets Netball Practice
Monday 9 June 2025
Tangaroa (Year 0-3) Pe Day- wear PE Gear
1:30pm - 3pm Rm 2 & 6 Paekawakawa Reserve trip
1:45pm - 2:45pm Rm 5 Island Bay library trip
Tuesdaysday10 June 2025
Inter Zone Cross Country
Pohutukawa (Rm 10) PE day (Wear PE Gear)
Wheke (rm 7) and Parareka (Rm 8) PE Day (Wear PE Gear)
Wednesday 11 June 2025
Pohutukawa (Rm 10) PE day (Wear PE Gear)
Ranginui (Year 7 & 8) PE Day- Wear PE Gear
6pm - 7pm St Catherines Open Evening
Thursday 12 June 2025
Inter Zone Cross Country pp
Tangaroa (Year 0-3) Pe Day- wear PE Gear
Tarawera (Rm 2) Pe Day - Wear PE Gear
12:30pm - 2:45pm Technology Ranginui (Yr 7 & 8)
Friday 13 June 2025
7:50am - 8:30am Flames Netball Practice
Ranginui (Year 7 & 8) PE Day- Wear PE Gear
Wheke (rm 7) and Parareka (Rm 8) PE Day (Wear PE Gear)
3pm - 4:30pm Year 5/6 Netball Practice
4:30pm - 5:30pm Year 7/8 Comets Netball Practice
Monday 16 June 2025
Tangaroa (Year 0-3) Pe Day- wear PE Gear
Rms 2 & 5 Paekawakawa Reserve trip
Rm 6 Island Bay library trip
Tuesday 17 June
Pohutukawa (Rm 10) PE day (Wear PE Gear)
Wheke(rm 7) and Parareka(Rm 8) PE Day (Wear PE Gear)
Wednesday 18 June
Pohutukawa (Rm 10) PE day (Wear PE Gear)
Ranginui (Year 7 & 8) PE Day- Wear PE Gear
Thursday 19 June
Suzanne Aubert’s birthday
Tangaroa (Year 0-3) Pe Day- wear PE Gear
Tarawera (Rm 2) Pe Day - Wear PE Gear
PSL DISCO
Friday 20 June 2025
Matariki - Public Holiday School is closed
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