Twilight Market – We are collecting Bottled Items (anything that comes in a bottle) this week – what better way to earn house points!!!
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The St Vincent de Paul Parish Food Bank began its operation on Wednesday 3rd September – we thank you all for your generous donations to date – let’s continue to support the food bank in their preparation to resume their amazing work of providing food items and toiletries to local families in need – please bring your food bank items into school.         

Raffle Tickets!! Please return your stubs and money to the office. We have more booklets available should you wish to sell more over the school holidays. Prize winner will be “Principal for a Day”

WHAT’S HAPPENING NEXT WEEK

Sunday 14 September

  • Kapa Haka Costumes and rehearsal 2.00 – 4.00pm in the school hall

Maori Language Week – Māori flag will be flying to honour this

Monday 15 September

  • Positive Puberty Parent Meeting via Zoom 6.45pm – 8.15pm for Year 5 and 6 family members – Zoom link This meeting is for adults only.

Tuesday 16 September

  • Kapa Haka 8.00 – 9.00am
  • Positive Puberty 9.00am – 2.30pm for students in Year 5 and 6
  • Netball Prizegiving under the COLA 6.00pm for students who were involved in the Star of the Sea netball club this year

Wednesday 17 September

  • Mercy Day Liturgy 8.45am in the hall. All welcome.
  • Mercy Day Celebrations. Children will be carrying out acts of Mercy throughout the day.

Thursday 18 September

  • Cantonese & Mandarin Speech Comp for Year 5 and 6 students who qualified at our in-school competition 
  • Kapa Haka Rehearsal at SMC students leaving school at 10.00am and returning at 11.45am
  • Kahui Ako Kapa Haka Festival 6.00 – 8.45pm at Sancta Maria College – Students time to be onsite is to be advised

Friday 19 September

  • Garin House Assembly 9.00am
  • End of Term 3 – School finishes at normal time

Term 4 Starts Monday 6 October

Keeping our Kids Safe Online – tips on how to support the wellbeing of our tamariki 2-Minute Fridays Parenting Video!

Kia ora e te whānau, 

Here is this week’s 2 Minute Friday Parenting Video – Not My Kid? How Algorithms Nudge Good Kids Toward Extremes

This week’s message comes with a ‘parents only’ warning – this may not impact your primary age child now, but for those with older children and for our parents of young children, knowing the digital world our children are going to be exposed to as they grow, this hard-hitting message is important to note. 

Something a little different this week—and if there’s one video you watch, make it this one. It was six months in the making.

For many of us, the idea that our beautiful child could be drawn toward radical views feels absurd—we’re a good home with solid values. But our kids are online… a lot. Even seemingly “harmless” platforms like YouTube can shift a feed after one watch. One edgy clip → the algorithm serves more of it. The feed narrows, the voices get louder, and an echo chamber forms: …..they’re the problem… it’s us versus them.

In this video Rob Cope breaks down how that drift happens (no panic, just the mechanics). Here’s the parent playbook to spot it early and steer together.

If you attended Rob’s talk last year and received the coupon for his course, there’s a youth version of this video made specifically for age 12+ waiting inside your course access. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka05ZkD75G8

Arohanui, Tōfa soifua, ‘Ofa lahi atu, Cordialement, Loloma levu, Fakaue lahi, Zhù hǎo, 안부 인사를 전합니다

Louise Campbell
Principal 
He Whetu o te Moana

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