We love Choosing time!

There are lots of reasons that we love Fridays but in Rimu it's Choosing time. Today Rimu say Goodbye to Ginnethon who is off to Australia with his family. As a farewell, Ginnethon has given the children in Rimu a box of his toys. Thank you Ginnethon! Ginnethon's box is going to be well utilized!
We wish Ginnethon, Matthew and their family all the best in Australia.

Beanies at St Patrick's

What a surprise to have a visit from Jenny and Shirley from the Catholic Women's League today. The wonderful ladies came with bags of beanies for the children. No excuses for cold heads now! Thank you so much Catholic Women's League for thinking of the children in Kaiapoi.

Winner at Dudley pool

Congratulations to Sean W who had great success on the weekend at Dudley Pool. He won the 6 yr boys trophy which hasn't been awarded for 23 yrs! Fantastic effort Sean!

Totara and Pohutukawa enjoying the sun.

What a great day to have the North Canterbury Sports coaches teaching ball skills. The children from Totara and Pohutukawa were very enthusiastic. As an aside - we had 6 male teachers in the staff room this morning. Almost out
numbered!!

The children in Rata said .................

I like being at St Patrick's school because......
people are nice to me.
you get to learn hard things.
there are lots of lovely people.
we get to have wheels day and the big kids help us with things.
you get to meet lots of new friends.
I get to see my friends.
you get to do science.
we get to play with friends and the big boys help us.
I get to play and I get to go with Mrs Sharp.
you get make friends and have book character day.
It's got very, very nice teachers and a very,very lovely Principal and people are always doing the 3 Cs.
You get to do reading, writing, maths and spelling.
Sometimes we look after the environment.
it has Saint (in the name) ....because we care for other people.
we get to art and maths and writing.
we get to do science and maths.
we do writing and have to do easy words and hard words.
there are nice teachers and it's a Catholic school and the big kids help us do things.

Pirates at St Patrick's

Five children in Rata had the joy of teaching today. After they had read and interpreted instructions about how to make a pirate hat, they had to teach their class mates. Here are some of their comments:
" I didn't know it was going to be fun teaching but it was."
" Some people were cutting and not listening to me."
" I liked telling people to do it and they listened to me."

Classroom happenings

Some very hard workers spotted today