What a great way to start the term, with a trip to Zealandia. Our tamariki and kaimahi|staff were buzzing on their return. An excellent provocation to begin our  term focus on ‘Celebrating our Whenua.’ Special thanks to Penny Duncan for her efforts in organising this trip. Ka pai to all the awesome parents that accompanied us on this trip. 

This week we had great delight in welcoming our new tamariki formally into our school and parish with the mass and pōwhiri. Well done to all our tamariki who led this special liturgy. On the note of our students excelling we are thrilled with the number of outside providers that are commenting on how wonderful our learners are, and how engaged and well-mannered they all are.  So ka pai to all of you for raising such wonderful children. And also a huge thanks to everyone for responding so rapidly this morning regarding our drain issue - you are a fabulous community!

You Can’t Take It With You by Paul Skippen- Grapevine

 While visiting castle ruins on a trip to Ireland, I was awestruck: Did the people who had built the crumbling walls all around me know that their toil, craftsmanship, and dreams would decay into nothingness? When the builders planned the placement of each stone and timber, did they picture how it would all pass into disuse?

 A similar feeling used to overtake me when I rode my beloved bike around town as a child. There was an abandoned warehouse at the end of a neglected street, once owned by a wealthy, powerful family. They had been the talk of the town. Now they were a sketchy memory. Scandal, death, and time wore away almost every trace of their existence.

That still haunts me because it immediately calls to mind my own pointless quest to accumulate a “me” museum. Every purchase, significant or trite, compiled room by room, is destined for ashes and neglect. This dark thought brings fear. Then the light comes on. God speaks to my heart, reminding me that a healthy dose of reality-checking now can save me from a life lived in things. I am pulled back to authentic living in Christ.

Over the next few months, St Anthony’s School community has a most important job to do – to elect five community members to guide our school for the next three years.

Nominations are now open for the election of five parent representatives to the school board.

You can use the form below to nominate yourself or someone else in your community. We have nomination forms available in Te Reo Māori and some other languages. Please contact the returning officer if these are required.

Nominating yourself or someone else

If you are on the voting roll and eligible to vote, you can nominate yourself. Please remember to sign both parts of the form.
If you are nominating someone else, complete the nomination form and make sure it includes all the required contact details and signatures.

You can post, hand deliver (to the school office) or email the nomination form to the returning officer prue@pruekelly.nz.

Nominations close at noon on 10 August 2022 (please see our website or the email sent to you for more information about completing the nominaiton form).

Celebrating 100 Days Of School

Pōwhiri

Inquiry

Zero Waste with Lorraine

Wellington City Council is committed to helping children learn about sustainable resource use and understand their role as waste minimisers and so fund the Zero Waste Programme in Schools. Last term the Wellington City Council Waste Educator came in and told our school all about waste. Her name was Lorraine, and she was teaching us about waste/rubbish that is being used or thrown away from all around New Zealand, and even worldwide. She taught us about things like rubbish and recycling, and how good or bad we were at reusing, reducing, and recycling. Turns out New Zealand isn't really good at this, which is why Lorraine came in.

We learned what actually happens with the rubbish that is put in the landfill, and why it's important to recycle. She also told us how much Co2 is produced during the making of a product. Lorraine told us what lots of materials are made of like plastic is made from oil. She called them Papatuanuku’s taongas, so when we take them away, we need to recycle them or try to use less of them before they run out. She called these natural resources. These included trees, bauxite, iron sand, silica sand, and oil. We also learned what is and isn't compostable and recyclable. Using the new information we have, we can start recycling more items, reducing the amount of plastic or non-recyclable products, or reusing what we have because if we act now, we can stop the increasing amounts of pollution and rising temperatures. 

This term our challenge is to work out how we will make changes to work towards Zero Waste. 

By Alina Meech

Now that we are sending all invoices/statements by email to families, please contact us if you have changed your email address so that we can update your account. Invoices will still be posted to families without an email address.  

The Term 3 invoice will be emailed to all families shortly. Please check that the invoice has not gone to your Spam/Junk Inbox and that all your children are listed on the statement. If you have not received any invoices this year, please contact us.  

Financial assistance is available to families experiencing financial hardship (loss of income/redundancy, family reasons, etc.). It is a condition of the assistance application that the family has an affordable regular payment in place. 

If you have any questions, please contact us: 

Phone: 0800 462 725       Email: dues@wn.catholic.org.nz         Text: 021 08907902 

We have school photos booked in for Tuesday 23rd August (Week 5).  If you would like a photo with younger out of school siblings they will do this about 8.30am in the morning.  Just let the office know if you would like to be added to this list.

FOSA Meeting

We will be holding our next FOSA Meeting next Monday 8th August at 7.30 pm at St Anthony's. Any new members are more than welcome to attend - we would love to see some new faces to help spread the load. This is a really great way to help the school and get to know the school community. The meeting will be kept to one-hour maximum.

Hope to see you there!

School Lunches

This week we have Pizza on offer. Order forms should have come home already but if not it is you can print it off from the link below.

Thanks to our parent and year 6 helpers for getting this ordered for the students.

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FREE TRIAL WITH THE ROCK ACADEMY BAND SCHOOL!
We are looking for pupils between the ages of 9 to 14 who might want to join a rock band.
Our band room is located in Cuba Mall and runs after school Monday to Friday.
It is a beautiful big room and parents often sit on the couch to watch.

Harbour City Gymnastics

"Gymnastics is a great and fun activity for developing confidence, coordination, strength and agility. Harbour City Gymnastics, Hataitai Park, are currently taking in enrollments for term 3 and have spaces available in our Monday Ribbon Award 5-6 y/o class and our Monday and Wednesday Badge Award 7-9 y/o classes! Email our office office@hcg.org.nz for further information or to register"

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Eastern Bays Kea Club

"Scouting is operating in your area, the Eastern Bays Scout Group situated in Worser Bay is open to all youth aged 6-14. 

We welcome young people and are open to all genders, ethnicities and religions. We are the world’s largest non-formal education institution, serving over 13,000 young people all across New Zealand. 

There are five youth sections in our Scout Group and we are keen to recruit new members for our youngest section, Keas which is for 6 to 8 year old.

If you would like to know more please - email easternbays@group.scouts.nz

Donna and Stuart, Kea Leaders."

Lunchtime Drama Classes at St Anthonys 

Do you have a child who would love to perform in a theatre? Or one that is just needing a bit more confidence speaking in front of a group? Come join our wonderful lunchtime drama class that is held on Fridays! We are about to start working on a scripted show to perform at Gryphon theatre so it is a great time to join up. Contact:kids4dramawellington@gmail.com