Advent - Collection of Festive Food Items

Advent Outreach

We are collecting festive food items to donate to St Vincent de Paul who will use them to make Christmas food hampers for people in our community this Christmas.

Please consider giving foods such as fruit cakes, tinned fruit, pickles, sauces and relish to go with meat, jams and jellies, meringues, fruit mince pies, chocolate, fruit sauces for use with desserts, good quality biscuits, crackers to go with cheese and dips, nuts etc.

The food will be presented to St Vincent de Paul at the 9.30am mass on Sunday 6 December 2015.

This will be our first act of corporal mercy

“Give food to the Hungry”

as we begin the Year of Mercy. I would like to encourage every family to give at least one item of food.

Year 7 and 8 camp gear list

Gear List for Camp Sneakers or comfortable walking shoes sandals socks underwear shorts and/or leggings t-shirts sweatshirt polar fleece top long trousers (jeans or tracksuit pants) togs swimming towel sunscreen

Bath Towel Toiletries Pyjamas wet weather jacket (ESSENTIAL) warm jacket (ESSENTIAL) sun hat woolly hat day pack lunch box drink bottle small torch (1 between 2-3) cup, bowl, dinner plate and cutlery  (please mark with child’s name)

Swimming

Hi
Please visit the following link and complete the form - this enables your child to be placed in the best group for their swimming lessons.

https://docs.google.com/a/stpauls-richmond.school.nz/forms/d/1ztn42J20uKH56hWqfCm-KbmpNTQtCWMlyNuQmxH4itQ/viewform#start=invite

Art in Hoiho

Mrs Dorman is teaching us about the Impressionism.  We are using some of these techniques to create our own paintings and canvases.  

Calendar Orders

Have you ordered your calendar yet?  Check out the gorgeous art work - these will look spectacular on your wall - solve that Christmas gift idea, order forms were sent home last week.

Visiting a marae

To prepare for our visit to the Whakatu Marae on Thursday watch the following clips.

http://hereoora.tki.org.nz/Videos/Te-marae/Powhiri-on-a-marae

http://hereoora.tki.org.nz/Videos/Te-marae/Turangawaewae-What-is-a-marae

http://hereoora.tki.org.nz/Videos/Te-marae/Features-of-a-marae

http://hereoora.tki.org.nz/Videos/Te-marae/Shared-roles-and-responsibilities

Learning our mihi

Kia ora koutou katoa.
Ko _________ taku ingoa.
Ko _________ taku màmà.
Ko _________ taku pàpà.
Nò _________ ahau.
Tekau mà _________ aku tau.

Greetings to you all.
My name is _________ . My mother is _________ . My father is _________ .
I am from _________ .
I am _________ years old.

Ko Whaea/Matua _________ te kaiako.
My teacher is _________ .
Nò te whànau _________ ahau.
I am from the _________team/syndicate.
Ko Whaea/Matua _________te tumuaki o taku kura.
_________ is the principal of my school.
Nò reira e te whànau, ka nui te mihi.
Therefore, an extended greeting to our school family.
Tènà koutou, tènà koutou, tènà tàtou katoa.
Greetings, greetings, greetings to us all. 

Bridgette's trip to Rome

Bridgette is going to update us here on her trip to Rome.  Have a wonderful time Bridgette and safe travels.

Hello, we are in Rome and its so hot, its like a billion degrees. It is so picturesque here and every where you look there is a building ten times the size of any in nz. I'm so lucky today (as part of the conference) we went to see the pope and although there thousand and thousands of people there for some reason our conference got to sit really close to him (we have lots of great photos) and afterwards he came about right up to us. He shook everyone's hand but sadly I was to faraway but he smiled and waved. A mother was holding up her baby from the audience and one of the popes body guards took her baby so the pope could hold her, he gave her a cuddle amd a kiss on the forehead and its was so cute!!  (Thursday 3 September)

America is so much fun, it has been such nice weather. The first place we went to was San Fransisco, it was so big haha, there was lots of homeless people there, begging and stuff, so we went around giving them money and Muslie bars. On the second day of San Fran we went on theses really cool old fashioned tram thingys, instead of sitting inside like a normal car or bus or something you had to hold on to poles outside of it. We did lots of shopping as well. The next day we biked over the Golden Gate Bridge, the bridge is so amazing except I got told off many many times for biking on the wrong side of the road, it's really tricky to get used to which side of the car you get into, and it looks like little kids who are sitting in the passenger seat are driving. Three days ago we came to Denver, then had a long car trip to Colorado Springs which is so beautiful. That's where I am at the moment, it's 10.00pm but I won't be tired till about 4 in the morning (still really jetlagged) tomorrow we have a 10 hour flight to Germany then straight after a 3 hour flight to Rome, which should be awesome. I'm a little bit homesick but I'm having a lot of fun, I'm not looking forward to the 25 hour flight home though. I have made lots of friends and pen pals while I'm over here and they hope to come to nelson and stay with us sometime. They all love our accents and they Mimick us haha. Also there are about three Starbucks on each street Keri would like that haha.

Alcatraz Island, it is an old prison that is infested with great white sharks in the water around it, they put all the worst criminals in there because even if they somehow managed to escape they would be eaten straight away.