Sharing the learning! 2020

Great work St Dom's.....we now have 21 kids registered for the 9th of February 2020 Tryathalon at Pt England so far. Please spread the word within your school group networks & remember older siblings , other family members or friends are welcome to join our group. The more registrations we have in our group, the more chances we have of winning sports equipment for the school. Kids can do it individually or in groups of 2. Everyone gets a T shirt and a medal at the finish line. The St Dominic's tent will be up all day and we will have a BBQ at our site. It's a really great day. and the kids all love it. The 6 year olds can do a modified course this year (at Pt England).

After much debate and sharing of ideas with the children this year, we have come up with the theme LEARN......SERVE......LEAD........SUCCEED This theme will follow on from our 2019 theme of Be your BEST and Let GOD do the Rest! We have had loads of fun with this theme and we will continue to use our school theme in 2020 to bring the school on board with its meaning. A theme ties the school together and lets children understand they are part of an overall idea or goal. Children get to remember them and can rattle off the meaning and why they need to be learning and playing hard each day in order to achieve the year's theme. LEARN - children understanding that they are active participates in the learning process. How do they learn and what do they need to do each day in order to learn as much as they can. In order to learn, we need our parents, our friends and our teachers. The relationship of child and teacher is a BIG aspect to this Aspect of our 2020 goal. SERVE- What...

Kia ora kotou everyone,  Last Friday was Sienna's special Baptism day and it was amazing. Sienna's family plus room 1, 8 and 10 came to attend the baptism. When we all came in Sienna was wearing a stunning dress with flowers all over it. Esther started us off with an opening prayer she read delightfully. Once Esther finished her prayer all the disciples came down the isle with one special item, you could see the excitement on Sienna's face. When Sienna got baptized her face light up, she is now an official a member of Gods church! Once she got baptized, she went down the isle and came back up in a beautiful white dress. After the baptism we sang some hymns and had eucharist, everyone sang incredibly by the way. After the mass we had some special baptism cupcakes. A big thank you to Sienna's family for those incredible cupcakes, the disciples for helping with the mass and reading so wonderfully and of co...

Year 5/6 Camp 2019 Where Peter Snell Youth Village, Whangaparaoa When The camp will take place on the 10 th to the 13 th December during week 9 of term 4. Who All the Aquinas students (Year 5/6), Mrs Wood, Mrs Williams, Miss Senicic, Ms Spencer, Miss Mchyzer and the parent helpers. Why Students are going to camp to learn and experience different activities that they might not see or do on a regular basis, get to know each other better by being in each other’s company for a few days, but most of all to have lots of fun! How Everyone will be taking the bus up to camp, but the parents can take their cars up if they prefer to. What At camp everyone will partake in awesome activities such as ·      Orienteering ·      Archery ·      Confidence courses ·      Climbing ·      Hobo Stoves ·      Slug guns ·   ...

Currently we have had 36 wonderful people who have donated money for a bike, and we have 14 to go. It is so great to see all the kids going up to put on their sticker.  It's amazing and very exciting how fast this is going, so thank-you to all the kids that persuaded your parents to donate and to all the parents and caregivers that have donated. Bike track will soon be here!