CTK Newsletter 11th December 2017

Monday 11th December, 2017

Dear <<First Name>> <<Last Name>>,

Welcome to Astrella Fernandes and Sheena Cox, our two new parent representatives!

LAST DAY OF TERM 4
School Closes for 2017 at noon this Friday (15th Dec).
Please ensure arrangements are made to collect your child/children at this earlier time.
SKIDS care is available, please contact VERONA on 021-2592114 or verona@skids.co.nz if you require a casual booking for that day.

SKIDS CARE (during the holiday period)
SKIDS will be on site next week: Monday 18th - Friday 22nd December
SKIDS will also be available in January - please refer to the flyer attached at the end of this email.

IMPORTANT DATES FOR THE START OF 2018
The School Office will be open on Wed 24th and Thurs 25th Jan (from 10am - 1pm) for uniform and stationery sales and for any other enquiries.
(2018 Stationery and Class Lists will be posted on the CTK Website and distributed via email by the end of the week).

SCHOOL RE-OPENS
for instruction on Tuesday 30th January at 8.50am.

Summer Learning Journey

Students in Years 4-8 have been invited to participate in a free on-line Summer Learning programme. Educators from Auckland University will interact and support our learners as they complete on-line tasks and post to their individual school blogs.

We hope all our children will participate. To find out more, please follow this link:
https://sites.google.com/site/summerlearningjourney/welcome

Congratulations to those students who were acknowledged at the recent Celebrations of Learning. Well-done to the following students who were awarded the school cups:

Special Awards
Attitude of Gratitude: Isaiah Bentley and Losaline Ahokava
Being a Gift of Love and Compassion: Marshall Rekareka and Faith Siofele Toilolo
Creating Community: Josephine Atkinson and Caitlyn Richard
Perseverance Award: Mikayla Greenhalgh
Seeing a Need and Responding: George Gray and Maira Tauia
All Rounder/ Good Sort: Abhi Patel and Camilla Jahanmard Arani
Duffy Award: Jacob Kaufman

Cups and Shields
Fine Arts Award: Leyton Ierome-Iosefo and Camilla Jahanmard-Arani
Music and Culture Award: Jacob Aute-Talo
Phil Goff Public Speaking Award: Caitlyn Richard
Sports Award – School Sports Cup: Vincent Ieriko
Michael Abraham Award for Sport Leadership: Losaline Ahokava
Proxime Accessit – Academic Excellence: Josephine Atkinson
School Dux - Academic Excellence: Maranita Wulf-Meafua
Merit Shield: Maranita Wulf-Meafua
School Cup – Winning House 2017: Owairaka (House Captains - Faith Siofele-Toilolo and Marshall Rekareka)

A reminder that all the large cups / trophies should be returned to school by Wednesday 13th December.

Please look under beds and behind sofas, we need all of our school LIBRARY and CLASSROOM READERS back at school before we close for the year.

We have a huge pile of lost property (uniform, mufti, drink bottles etc) stationed at the office door.
Please come and look through it and claim your missing items.

Skids Holiday Programme

Our Josephite Catholic School

Prepare My Heart for Christ’s Coming

Shared Lunches /
Class Christmas Parties

This Wednesday, students are invited to wear Christmas coloured/ themed mufti and are reminded to bring a small sharing plate to contribute to the shared lunch.

Lunch will start at 12.30pm.

Please avoid sending foods that need to be cut and/or re-heated.

A reminder that there are to be no Fizzy drinks brought to school on this day.