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We are delighted to know that we are getting another playground More fun for all. it’s taking a long time to come so we need to start Fundraising. So children can have more fun.

Sophie, Heidi and Grace working hard

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Sports practice!!! At Holy Family Catholic School we are practicing like mad , training for the athletics this year. Thanks to very supportive parents who sprayed a running track on the back field and extended our sandpit into a long jump pit, and helping us with other sports, we are going to get some winners this year. By: Harry Hughes And Emily Heath.

After morning tea we have something called silent reading which is when you read any book of your choice for a few minutes. It's fun!

Lukas Schafer and Isobel Smith working hard in Room5.

TERM4

Its the second day of team 4 room 5 is working really hard. lots of fun things have been going on latly like cross contery, assembilys, and sking and lots other things too. weve been traning for atletis lots at the end of term3 we had a atletis rotatos fiorst we haqd mrs sturet for animatoin then mrs petit for atltics then miss starky for t-ball Room6 AND room 6 did it to. it was fun!

burend roy

yester day huge clouds of smoke came of mount roy. as smoke rised from we sonner we found ashs of some fern came down. we also found that helicopters with

Monson buckets at 3:00 several houses were avuated now mount roy is burend black

school

Second day of school!Having fun at school with athletics and sports.Next week is the upper clutha sports day!Today we are ton the  Library.

MINYBALL

Today some kids from room5 are doing minyball praice. We are go to do a minyball game. We are called the wildcats. BY:AMY MORRIS

school gala

We are having a school gala on November the 3rd from 10am-2pm at our school at 152 Aubrey road. I hope you can make it

DC

This team room5 is leaning about the paralympics olympics. Lost of people pit sophie pascoe. She has her lelt leg cut off. BY: AMY MORRIS

DC

This term room 5 has been studying the Paralympics so we all picked a person and got a sheet to fill out me and Heidi Rodgers picked Rachel stock she had broken her back nearly 20 years ago. She is forty two years old and is an equestrian rider. Once we found out her details we get to make a poster. BY SOPHIE HB

paralympic picture competition

room5 entered a paralympic

paralympics

Paralympics 2012 London In class we have been learning about the Olympics now the Paralympics. Sophie Frances Pascoe, Sophie has won none bronze 6 silver 4 gold [in her life] in total 10. She is 19 lost her left leg [foot to nee] Do you wonder how did she loose her leg? Her dad accidently ran over her on a ride on lawn mower and it was so mangle it had to be amputated

Alexandra cup challenge 2012

On Saturday the 8th of September I went down to Alexandra to a swimming meet. My first event was Under nine girls individual freestyle 50m . I got a 2nd. My next event was under nine girls individual back stroke 50m .I won that one [1st]. Next was under nine girls individual breast stroke 50m . I came 2nd in that. Then I did girls under nine individual medley 100m. I got first in that. I was put in to a team of four and we did a relay but we got disqualified. The top six girls under nine went in for skins .50m freestyle. All six girls started at the blocks and sprinted down the pool. The slowest two would get knocked out of the race. I was still in the race. We kept doing that until it came down to the last two. I was in the last two. In the ten person relay you would race with other swimming clubs. Emily Heath

Treble Cones Good Weather

The last few days at Treble Cone ski field have been amazing! Powder is everywhere and the snow is wonderful. But the crowds are enourmus and the chairs on the lift are full, apart from that it’s fine.

sacramental programme

On Sunday some of us started the sacramental programme in the cathlic church. We had to write a interesting profile about our self to go on the church wall.

Valarie Adams Nationality New Zealand Born October 6, 1984 (age 27) Rotorua, New Zealand Height 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) Weight 120 kg Valarie Adams is a shot putter from New Zealand. She is a two-time Olympic champion. Did you know? Valarie Adams personal best is 21.24 meters. Coach: Jean-Pierre Egger

Comic Strips

today For wirting we hade to do comic strips. My one was about 3 little pigs sneeking in to the Zoo from there farm and thay fell into the fishs tank and got wet and started to fight. the Zoo kepper found them and put them in jail. It was lot's of fun my farvite part was drawing the pictures. By Sophie.S

This is Thursday today the juniors (Years 123) are seeing a clown ha-ha I love clowns they have walked to the church and are watching them right this minute!!! If you would like to see some work on the Olympics come to our class we are covered in Olympic stuff!!!! We are finally publishing our second narrative and we hope you can read our stories.Our story's are focusing on sucess criterias and marking each others work so we can find mistakes and know how to fix them! By: Brianna

Cheeting gets you no were

Valerie Adams' main Olympic opponent, Belarussian shot putter Nadzeya Ostapchuk, is reportedly denying any wrongdoing after testing positive for drugs and being stripped of her Olympic gold medal, bumping Adams to top spot. Ostapchuk tested positive for metenolone, an anabolic agent. The announcement came just hours after the curtain came down on the 30th Olympiad in London. "I was tested twice more in London but I don't have any idea how this thing ended up in my body. I'm going to fight this allegation because it can't be possible," Ostapchuk reportedly told local media in Minsk. "In total, I've been tested 16 times since April. You must be a complete idiot to take doping just before the competition especially such an outdated drug as a steroid, knowing you're going to be tested not once but probably several times." Ostapchuk also accused Olympic organisers of prejudice against the Belarussian athletes, Reuters reported. "You all know how we had been treated there, just ask Ivan Tsikhan," she said, referring to the Belarussian hammer thrower booted out of this year's Olympics because of a positive drug test from the 2004 Games in Athens. "We must fight for our rights. If we remain silent and accept the punishment, then they will continue to humiliate us." On Tuesday morning, Adams finished second behind Ostapchuk. Her throw of 20.7m was well behind the Belarussian's 21.36m. Adams was driving to the Switzerland home of her coach Jean-Pierre Egger when she was phoned by New Zealand Olympic chef de mission Dave Currie who broke the news. "I questioned whether he was telling me fibs or was it really for real. He said 'no, no, no it's for real'. As soon as I hung up from there I got about 26 text messages congratulating me." She told TV3's Firstline she was "absolutely over the moon". "Words cannot express how much I am so happy." However, she admitted she was disappointed she didn't get to stand on the Olympic podium. "I've been robbed of the moment, so to speak, and enjoying the moment and hearing the national anthem played and just enjoying that with my family being there." She said she did not want to "waste any of my time or my breath" on Ostapchuk. "It's a matter of savoring the moment now and celebrating with the rest of New Zealand on what has been, for me, a very emotional last seven days at the Olympics." Adams' Olympic teammates have rallied behind her. Gold medal-winning rower Mahe Drysdale told TV3 there had been some suspicions around the Belarussian. "It's great the system's working, obviously, that everyone's tested and they're finding the drug cheats," he said. "I still don't think personally, as an athlete, (Adams) will be that happy with her performance because she didn't perform to her high standards but she was still the best clean athlete out there on the day and she was absolutely fantastic. "All of us as team mates ... are very, very happy to see another New Zealand gold medal." Ostapchuk, 31, was first tested by urine sample the day before competition and again straight after the final. Both samples showed up the presence of metenolone. By Sophie.S

MONDAY MORNING WHOLE SCHOOL PRAYERS This morning room5 was on whole school prayers. It was a bit of a muddle up at first but Miss Starkey got it sorted Our theme was excellent First we had to sort out who was going to do what There were lots of jobs we had to cover Like Parys of faith each person had to make up a prayer depending on the theme they got Bible reading you gets to read a reading from the bible Art you design a letter each And Power point you make a short film type of thing It was a lot of fun we also showed a video And did some singing at the end to practice for Saturday night My prayer was Jesus we pray for help to be kind to our contestants to lesson to you when you are trying us something important to be strong and open to participating and relating to friends when we don’t exactly feel up to it and also To remind us that we do not always win but it costs at least if we try. The response: Lords help me to be the best I can be By: Kylie Pilkinton

IN DC In dc our class has got a sheet that has 4 categories Creating, applying, analysing and evaluating First we pick a category and pick one of three Activities and complete it. Than we go on to the Next one and we pick a different category and do the same Thing again till we have complete the sheet we have to Do one of each category before we do the same category. The whole sheet is based on the Olympics. by Sophie

DC

DC:Democratic Curriculum In dc we are learning about the games. I have a dream of going to the olyimpics.

Coss country

Cross Country winners! Last Tuesday in our small school we competed in the Upper Clutha cross country. We have just heard that 8 people have been accepted into the Central Otago in Queenstown. 8 people have been exceptionally good and got exactly what they wanted, everybody raced their hearts out we were all very good fast. After the race everybody got to relax and buy water popsicles and sausages. YUMM!!! It is going to be very exciting for the people who get to compete in the Upper Clutha. But we not everybody knows who the 8 people are!!!!! You better find out!! By: Brianna Curtis

running club

running club on tusday and wedsday we practise for the cross country for we can yet faster for we can win

MISS BEECH

Today Mrs Beech came into are school. She had her baby with her.It was so cute .All the kids were crowding the window. We all miss you..... By: amy morris

note

Tomorrow we will farewell jody and have a shared lunch will children please take a plate of food to school.

Next week on Monday the teachers are going away for a first aid course. And I do first aid practice as well! I love teacher only days because you can hang around at home and have a long weekend. So when they come back they will hopefully know some life saving stuff! By: Alexander

Witing Argumets

In our clss we have been witing arguments in little groups we have been writing argumets about how childen should or shoud not be takein away from there perents we had to make up ponts of what we think we had to write in parogaths Here is 1 eample for sould not be tacken away from there perents childen shold have a super viser around there perents to make shore they are tacen care of proply and so they etlest get a second chace. Here is 1 example for the opisite Its crole for the parents to bbe treting there childen unkindly and not letting them have there happily ever. So what do you think? Do YOU think yes or no

posters

last week for homework we desided to do somthing differnt instead of our activites in our homework books so miss starkey said we need to pick a topic and do a poster,peom,song,argument,speech or anything like that and present it to the class. My topic was the titanic and i did a poster. My freind isobel also did the titanic but in a prezie.Every one did somthing i would have not thourght of.

World War

As the noise of the siren wakes me from my sleep. I run for cover, a bell rings In my head. A gun confronts me and also flam. I sprint for my life. Grabbing a Gun at the harbour. The planes look like Germen bombers. Screaming is heard.

Hillside Songs

Poetry

Tuesday the 15th May 2012
Today we will start writing poetry about our special place.
Yesterday we had to draw a picture of the special place. I started drawing a creeper (minecraft beast) and it's going well.
It's probably not going to be very good.
I'm not a poet.

Winter School Uniform.

Winter is here and it is starting to get cold in the frosty mornings. The School uniform has changed for winter and you might need to know about the change.

The girls wear black tights a skirt or pinafore icebreakers go underneath the sports top (they have to be black everything).

Boys have a choice too. They can wear the grey shorts or trousers (lined or unlined). The same as girls a icebreaker and sports top on top.

BLACK SOCKS ARE ALOUD BUT NO OTHER COLOUR!!!!

ART IS FUN

ART

On Friday we did art the art was a about the holy sprit

Frist: we got into groups Miss Starkey told us to do ether do wind, water, fire and the holy spirit and the holy cross.

Next: we glued and cut the pieces from magazines to the water wind and fire.

Last: we put the water fire and wind on the wall for display for people to see

By: Jack          

Netball

On Saturday the 5th of May there were netball games for the year 3-4 and 5-6 teams. First there was a coaching clinic from 9:00-10:00.then we had our games. I was in the year five-six team and we had 1 win and 1 loss.  By Isobel Smith          

                                      

MY PARTY

On   Friday it was my birthday I invited Drew, McKay, Laurie and Lukas. We watched star wars the clone wars, Harry  potter 1 and a Tintin cartoon and played soccer .It was awesome.  

BENS PARTY

On Friday I went to Bens birthday party it was a lot of fun we watched stars wars the clone the clone wars we opened presents ate lollies played soccer watched harry potter and watched tintin. I got ben a star wars slinger.I bet you would have wanted to come as well.

                                                         By drew                                                      

Mrs O'Neil

The New Teacher!!!!!!

Mrs O’Neil is our new teacher she is the new principal of Religious studies. She is now teaching Room 2 and if you poke your head in the door you can see she is very nice and is already feeling welcomed with all the happy smiles inside that little classroom.

She has got a brilliant start to our school and is making the children in her classroom smart, polite cheerful kind kids and I hope she feels welcomed.

BY: BRIANNA CURTIS!!!!!!!!

war

for D.c room5 are doing war. at the moment we are learning about where are the country on a map

LIBRARY

I went to the library on Friday with room 5 and 6. We had to walk to the library. At the librar get  some booksy we  had  to.

library

I went to the library on Friday with room 5 and 6. We had to walk to the library. At the library we  had  to get  some books.

Last Thursday the year 6 7 8 netball team had 2 netball games at mac. They had a game aganst   black and white and lost 8 to 9 to red but they really tried and had a grate game GO holy family

Anzac

                Delightful Anzac Biscuits

 

Firstly you put all the ingredients in a bowl.

• oats
• golden syrrup
• suger
•  melted butter
• boiling water
• flour
• coconut

Next you stir together.



Then we put them into a ball then flatten it out.


After that put it in the oven for 15 min


finaly we ate.

Soccer Sunday

On Sunday my family went Queenstown for soccer. The first game we  won against Queenstown falcons but we lost against Queenstown titans. we are tying in fourth. Right after we finished our last game it started raining and bens team had to play in the rain. After our last  game we went to the pool while we were there I saw Laurie.

On Friday last week we did a fundraiser called Lonnie laps it was really fun we had to run around chairs and over and under tables  and around Kelly's flat we had 45 minutes to run around Kelly's flat and to do as much as we could i got one of the best records in the school i got 21 laps the Seniors had to do bigger laps then the joiners which i am a Senior it was really fun and i got a prize for the best laps i would also like to thank miss scoot  for organising it  I'm shore we all had a blast . posted by harry

Anzac Artwork

On Tuesday  room 5 did some artwork. We made poppy fields as the background and used red paper to make the poppies and stuck them all over the page. It looked great. All we had to do for the background was get some pastels and draw grass , sky and a sun and tree if we wanted . We then drew poppies on a piece of red  paper  and got a black felt and drew a little circle in black. Then we cut it out and stuck them on. Here is a photo of one of the artwork’s.

By Jody

ANZAC Artwork

                                                    anzac day

on wednesday 25 april 2012 all the schools in new zealand got a day of becouse it was anzac day.
my family went to the morning one  with nana.
we learnt a lot of things like..............................

Anzac Day is a day to remember all of our servicemen and women – their actions, their bravery, their sacrifice, and their ingenuity. It’s also a chance to reflect on the horrors of war and resolve to learn from the lessons and experiences of Gallipoli.
anzac means:Australian and
New
Zealand
Army
Corps:
and lots more

by heidi                                                         

 

                                                       

ANZAC art

On Tuesday we made the field with popies in it I used a light blue pastle and a white pastle miksed
 together to make the sky.Then I used green and brown pastles to make the field.After I used red
paperand cut out popies then glue them on. Jacob

EASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Get ready guys because your lawn or backyard will have a hidden stash of Easter eggs!!!

Still that’s not why we are so excited. “Well then what is it you might ask me right now”????

It is when Jesus was crucified and nailed onto the cross. We celebrate Jesus’ death because it’s a sign of how much Jesus loved us; He was also trying to tell us that god was there and wouldn’t let us suffer.

BY BRIANNA CURTIS!!!

Triathlon

Last week on Wednesday most of the seniors in Holy Family School went to Cromwell to participate in the triathlon that was being held. First went the year 5-6 individuals then the year 5-6 teams whizzed past.They all ran 1.5k, biked 4.5k, and swam 4 lengths.

After a quick lunch break our fast year 7-8 individuals set off, not long after they  reappeared the teams went, they seemed to only take a minute to pass by. These guys ran 3k,biked 9k,andswam 6 lengths. We had a lot of participants from Holy Family and we are very proud of those who went.

posted by: Isobel Smith. 

Game on

On Sunday my dad and I drove all the way to Alexandra to play soccer. I am in monster energy we are undefeated even though we versed the Queenstown Lions (Queenstown has the best teams). The players in my team are Tana Ronan Luka Nicolas James and I. James and Nicolas were defence Tana and Luka were attack and I was goalie. After the game my dad and I went to the Alex Fulton Hogan jump park. I went over all the jumps 3 times and the 4^th time I got too much

air cashed and scraped my knee

by drew

SOCCCER

On Sunday I drove all the way to Alexandra to play two games of soccer. The first game I played defence and we won 2 nil. The second game I played goalie then attack we also won two nil. I had a great time         

today we have a new teacher because miss Starkey came in with a sore throat  she is called ms winslade she is super  nice and is really cool we are  having so much fun but we all hope miss Starkey gets better posted by harry

The Triathlon!!!!

On Wednesday room 5 and room 6 did a triathlon if they signed up for it. I was in a team that had Drew, Monty and I. When Drew had finished his bike he sprinted towards me and tagged me, from there I walked into the pool and saw all my friends and my mum cheering me. Then I dived away, I started to swim my best finally I was out the water! I loved the triathlon!!!!

Weet-Bix Tryathlon
last week end.My family and i went down to dunedin so i could do the weet-bix tryathlon.Teaparu george was there along with some other athletes. one of them was an olimpic tryathlete.when i fineshed i got to run along side him and abut 5 steps from the finish he got me to put up my hands like a propper trythlete would do in  the olipics finish. that was the 20th aniversiry.
emily heath

jeans day

On Thursday the 19 holy family were doing another caritas fund raiser which was jeans day, we also had a barbeque.

Caritas  is a fundraiser  to raise money for people all over the world even in new  Zealand

By Sophie

Jeans day!!!!!!!

maria gill

A few weeks ago.  A author called Maria Gill came in to talk to us about her writing hood and what inspired her to be a writer.

 She gave us lots of tips. After her session, she took a writing work shop with a few chosen

 pupils that was chosen by Miss starkey the best teacher in the world.We started

To plan our story and I’m not kidding, we all thought that it was planning but maria thought

 ‘’no, just perfeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeect.’’

HEALTHY FOOD
Today a splashiest on healthy food came and talked to us about what food is healthy and what food is not healthy. I think that we have learnt allot and now that we know we can put that idea in our brain and so we know what we are putting in our mouth we all had a blast.

The Mummy!

On Saturday in Dunedin mum and I went to the museum to see the mummy.

She is not royal but is very wealthy. I went because my class, room five are learning about Ancient Egypt!!!  Mum and I took even a video of it to show the class. If they send her back to Egypt she will not be loved because she is not royal weird isn’t it. They also had had pots and kettles made out of pure gold.

By grace Shannon

Today we had a crazy hair day. we all looked very weird, especially the teachers. Before playtime, our hole School went up to the tennis court to judge every ones hair do.
                                                    by Lukas
                                                
                                              

Swim sports

Emily Heath and Louis Hughes went to Cromwell for the qualifying swim sports. It was a great day in Cromwell and Emily made it to the finals in Dunedin. they competed in freestyle back stroke and breaststroke.

by Ruby and Jody

crazy hair day

on crazy hair day we had to decided a hair do i used a barbie drees i tied ribbon on it  and i put it over my high bun then i sprayed my hair with hair spray to stiffen it up so it stayed in nicely.
we had to bring a gold coin to fundraiser for Carita's i brag 1 dolour.
at school we had a parade to show of our glamorous hair, Mrs Fourth took a picture of my hair.
"CRAZY HAIR DAY WAS FUN".

BY HEIDI

CAZY HAIR DAY

Today it is crazy hair day. Every one came with crazy hair. IT IS VERY COOL.I love it so much.



BY   AMY!!!

Assembly practise

Room 5 are practising walk like an Egyptian by the beetles its really fast and really hard to keep up with. We need to make up a dance to it. It will be quiet  hard to learn but we will get the hang of it hope you can come to our Assembly and watch

Lent

LENT!!!!!!!!!!!

For lent we all have to promise to do something important like clean our rooms, or make our beds. It can be absolutely anything.

Then we have to try to stick to our task for forty days it’ll be hard but if all try our best our mums will be able to have more spare time.

On Wednesday the whole school had clubs my club was biking club. We had to weave in and out of cones. Then we had to practise going down hills and then we went for a 30 minute ride.

Swim sports
last Wednesday Emily Heath , Ruby Burk, Sophie h.b, Amy Morris, Lukas Shaffer, Ben Machlochlon, drew Pilkinton went to swim sports. we all got good results. We all learnt something to. I learnt to swim as hard as I can