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On Friday morning at school prayers, I presented 24 awards to children that have lived our values. It was a humbling and authentic experience where the children were happy to see their peers be kind in the playground, take risks with their learning and show kindness to new students to the school. At our staff meeting on Tuesday we had a similar experience where staff showed gratitude to each other. We too have shown the Holy Cross WAY by stepping up to leadership roles, covering duty breaks so others could attend appointments or buying others lunch because we had noticed they didn’t have time to get food. The staff set the tone for culture in our school so I was pleased to see that our teachers, TLA’s and support staff show the Holy Cross WAY.
The Zones of Regulation: Our next step in the evolution of the Holy Cross WAY is to investigate how we can regulate ourselves when things are getting tricky. Regulation is something everyone continually works on whether we are aware of it or not. We all encounter trying circumstances that can test our limits. If we can recognise when we are becoming less regulated, we are able to do something about it to manage our feelings and get ourselves to a healthy place. This is the goal of The Zones of Regulation. Below are the different zones and how you might be feeling.
Blue Zone: Sad, fatigued, bored, sick and tired
Green Zone: Focused, happy, content, calm and proud
Yellow Zone: stressed, worried, excited, silly, frustrated
Red Zone: Elated, overjoyed, angry, terrified, panicked, devastated, and out of control,
On Thursday, we will have our first session with the RTLB (Resource Teachers: Learning and Behaviour) team to understand the approach and figure out how we will integrate this into our school. After understanding what the zones are; blue, green, yellow and red, students are given tools they can use to get back to the green zone. The green zone is the optimal place to be for learning. There is an understanding that we can also sit in the other zones at different times of the day and that this is normal.
Students are then asked to consider where they and others might be at any given time and how they might communicate with someone that is in the red, yellow or blue zone. Lots of work will be needed to carry this out and make it sustainable but we are up to the challenge! We are excited about teaching this and hope that well regulated tamariki will know how to assess situations by looking at what zone they are in, what zone others around them might be in and how to respond moving forward. To measure our success we will also complete the “Wellbeing@School Student Survey” for years 5-8 to have some baseline data to compare results too.
Ngā mihi nui,
Tala Moemai
Holy First Communion
Congratulations to Cleo, Haven, Avery, Moana, Angelia, Terissa and Zoe for receiving their Holy First Communion on 25th August at St Patrick’s Church, Kilbirnie. This was a joyful celebration presided by Fr Bill and Fr Dyson. The children completed their Sacrament of Initiation into the church and received the body of Jesus in the form of bread and wine at Mass for the first time. It was a time to deepen their personal relationship with Jesus and give a deeper appreciation of Mass and the church as a community.
The Sacramental Program at Holy Trinity Parish is available to all children in year 4 or above who have been baptised in the Catholic Church.
We will also offer a Baptism and preparatory program at HCM in term 2 in 2025.
Enrolment forms for both the Sacramental Program and Baptism in 2025 will be given out at the beginning of the next school year.
Please take note that the Sacrament of Baptism is compulsory to get married in the Catholic Church and the Sacrament of Holy First Communion is highly encouraged.
ROOM 1
Pedal Ready Fun
We had pedal ready training this week. It was only Grade 1, a refresher course for
us, but I was still excited. Our coach was Gary.
First, after checking our helmets and bikes, we had to put pressure on the brakes to check they worked.And then pedal, Gary said, go! We did it with pace, and then we used both brakes to stop.
We did it another three times to be sure, then we put Velcro belts on and went around the courts on our bikes to grab a tag with our hands.
After that, we practised indicating with one hand and keeping our balance. It was a
lot of fun.
By Charles Y8
High Jump
We got to do High Jump practice for our school athletics. And I'm short so the
high jump is a real challenge for me but I sucked it up and gave it a go.
Once we got to the hall it was time for warm-ups we were doing stretches such as High knees and all of that stuff.
Our teacher, Ethel, thought we were ready to use the bar to jump over. That
gave me a boost of confidence, and now I'm in the zone.
It was finally time for me to jump. I did a big run-up and knew it was time. I’m
running. I feel the wind blow on my face. I lift up my leg, and I feel like I'm jumping into space!
I saw my friend Alazanda holding the rope. For a second, I thought he was a star. I
was dreaming I was going to jump so high, but in reality, I actually did it! I was so happy with myself. That confidence really helped me.
I want you to know that whatever you believe, you can achieve, go catch those
dreams!
By Mason Y8
High Jump Poem
The high jump is simple!
You need to pump your legs to fly over the pole
You need to make sure there are no gaps between the mats,
before you jump high!
If you succeed,
the audience will raise their hats to you.
By Serena Y8
ROOM 2
Room 2 has had an exciting time of learning so far this term. Here are some highlights.
Ukulele lessons on Thursday afternoons.
Welcoming Para-Olympic Gold Medalist swimmer, Mary Fisher, to our school.
Admiring Mary Fisher's Olympic Gold medal.
Enjoying some kai together at Garden to Table.
Can whānau please contact their child's classroom teacher if they wish to offer help on Wednesday, Hikoi Art Creation Afternoon - 11th September 2024, or on the Hikoi day, Monday, 16th September 2024.
NETBALL
24th August 2024
Holy Cross Thunder Player of the Day for this past weekend was the wonderful Olive!
The team was already down one player due to injury coming into the game, meaning they had no subs for the match. Part way through Mila suffered a nasty ankle roll which left her unable to play the rest of the game.
Despite this the girls all dug deep and continued for a period with one player down till a member of the Lightning team came to their aid.
In the midst of this Olive showed absolute poise and played an all round awesome game at Goal Defence. Despite being down one player she put lots of pressure on the opposing Goal Attacks and made some excellent intercepts!
Together they managed to pull off a win.
The final score was 19-11 vs Newtown Toa.
The girls had another excellent game over the weekend. They managed a win together against Scotts College Kea.
As the team is still down one player and will be for the remainder of the season, Moana from the Holy Cross Lightning team very kindly stepped in to assist.
She slotted into the team seamlessly, like they'd all been playing together from the start of the season. Filling in at Centre she had an exceptional game! With efficient, lightning fast ball movement across the court to our shooters and excellent catching and passing. We were blessed to have her along for the day!
BASKETBALL
Another top game by the girls on Monday!
We managed to defeat St Marks 36-16. Some solid performances from the team with our shooting and composure looking assured.
Thanks to our number one fan Moana who was unable to play but supported really well!
Well done team!
Wishing the following students a very Happy Birthday, may all your birthday wishes come at once!
Enzo, Manisa, Henry, Charles, Esme & Araiya.
Just a reminder that this promotion finishes at the end of September. The more stickers (on the fruit) or labels (on the bag of apples itself) we collect the more sports equipment we can buy for the school. If you have any stickers/cut out labels please bring them to the office.
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