COURAGE: to be proud of being part of a Catholic Community Believing in yourself and following what Jesus would teach Obeying God’s commandments with confidence Living and understanding the Acts of Mercy Talking to others about your faith Know the relationship between the word Mercy and our school Charism Choosing to do what Jesus would do COURAGE: taking risks To “give it a go” when you face a new challenge Being responsible when trying new things Learn from your mistakes, they are learning opportunities Being strong and not giving in when things are hard To be the best you can be Using prayer for inner strength The Weekly Word @monte T3 W1 We endeavour to keep you all informed, well in advance of what’s happening around school. We will send out an email or flyer, when appropriate, as a gentle reminder about happenings and events, we will also use our app as a reminder tool. Sometimes this could be 24 hours beforehand. Please also check our website calendar. Please note the days that support your child’s faith journey and help them to attend celebrations that are not necessarily during school hours. Mass at St John Vianney is at 9am every Sunday.
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COURAGE: to be proud of being part of a Catholic Community
Believing in yourself and following what Jesus would teach
Obeying God’s commandments with confidence
Living and understanding the Acts of Mercy
Talking to others about your faith
Know the relationship between the word Mercy and our school Charism
Choosing to do what Jesus would do
COURAGE: taking risks
To “give it a go” when you face a new challenge
Being responsible when trying new things
Learn from your mistakes, they are learning opportunities
Being strong and not giving in when things are hard
To be the best you can be
Using prayer for inner strength
The Weekly
Word
@monte T3 W1
We endeavour to keep you all informed, well in advance of what’s happening
around school. We will send out an email or flyer, when appropriate, as a
gentle reminder about happenings and events, we will also use our app as a
reminder tool. Sometimes this could be 24 hours beforehand. Please also
check our website calendar.
Please note the days that support your child’s faith journey and help them to
attend celebrations that are not necessarily during school hours.
Mass at St John Vianney is at 9am every Sunday.
Dear Whanau,
Welcome back to school for an action
packed Term 3! We are going to be
showing Aroha in Action through ART
this term. Our Science Rotations in
term 2 were hugely successful with
both kaiako and ākonga experiencing
different learning experiences in
different hubs, so we are going to
embed this practice this term on
Marvellous Mondays and Terrific
Tuesdays - all with an Arts focus.
In our New Zealand Curriculum; The
Arts curriculum has three themes
within it (Drama, Music – Sound Arts
and Visual Arts), and our staff have
chosen to cover Visual Arts this year.
Through this we will be (1)
Understanding the Arts in Context, (2)
Developing practical knowledge, (3)
Developing ideas and (4) Communicating
and Interpreting.
All teachers will once again be teaching
and learning with every child in the
school, which is one of the wonderful
advantages to the way we can use our
Innovative Learning Environment at
Monte Cecilia Catholic School.
In the last newsletter I spoke about
what it is to be a ‘Monte Person’. This in
detail was about our expectations as a
faith based school, following our vision,
mission and charism ideals and values. It
was about the goals that we work
towards and strive for together in our
journey as a Monte community. Some
families are ‘Monte people’ for just six
years, and others for a lot longer as
multiple children go through our school.
Regardless of the time that is spent at
our school, we become a part of our
Monte Community and we need to work
together as one; striving to journey the
‘Monte Way’. As teachers, we are a part
of that journey with the children, doing
all we can as Monte People by providing
opportunities to learn, feel happy and
safe while at school. Our children as
‘Monte People’ have a job too; which is
to learn and take ownership of their
learning. They do this with enthusiasm
most days! Our recent Learning
conversations showed us how engaged in
their ‘jobs as learners’ they are. As
whanau we appreciate your support as
Monte People at home with home
learning, as well as with the many
opportunities you take to help out as
volunteers and participants in our
activities.
We are a great little school, blessed
with fantastic facilities and are right
next to our parish which is an invaluable
asset to our journey as a Catholic
community. Being a small school we do
rely on all our stakeholders to help out
in whichever way, big or small that they
can.
This term the PTA are hosting our
biggest fundraiser for the year;
Monte’s Mid Winter Quizmas.
How can YOU help as one of our Monte
People? Contributing to the whanau
group hampers, selling tickets to
colleagues or friends, getting your own
team together, spreading the word –
every little contribution is valuable to
our fundraiser and TRULY
APPRECIATED by us as a whole school.
Let’s ALL get behind this really
great fundraising event for our
school to have the best
resourcing for our tamariki and
their learning place.
God bless, Michele Mill
What’s happening when (All event dates are on the Website Calendar)
St Mary’s College Service Retreat: Wednesday 2 August
VIANNEY Day – Students wear RED:: Friday 4 August
St John Mary Vianney Feast Day Sunday:
THIS Sunday 6 August – EVERYONE is invited to celebrate at 9am
MacKILLOP Day – Students wear GREEN: Tuesday 8 August
MID WINTER QUIZMAS: Saturday 12 August- Let’s
have a blast and raise some $$ together !
The Assumption of Mary Mass: : Tuesday 15 August – all are
welcome to attend with our tamariki
Please continue to PRAY DAILY for us all.
Remember Ambrose Fahey and Trevor Mill in your prayers please.
Please also pray for the families who have lost loved ones in our community. (Please notify us of bereavements to publish for community prayer)
Term 3 ends on Friday 29 September and Term 4 begins on Monday 16 October.
THANK you for supporting our MIDWINTER QUIZMAS fundraiser with your contributions for our raffles and hampers as well as the great Auction Items that have been donated – all these will help make a great evening of opportunity to fundraise.
Please help us to fill all our tables by asking friends and colleagues to join in with a team.
Thank you or your attendance at our toku mahi pūtaiao last term. Our
tamariki were excited to share their great learning and efforts with their whanau
The Parent Portal is up and running with the first round of mid-year
reports being published on here. Thank you for the positive feedback
received. If you are having any challenges with the system, please
There is also an FAQ (Frequently asked questions) section on the
portal if you want to check it out.
We have three WHANAU group celebration Feasts this term. Vianny (RED) is on Friday and MacKillop (GREEN) is the following Tuesday (8th). All children wear the colour of the house to school that day in support!
