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Week 7, Term 4 2022!!!

Wow!  It's December this week already and only 3 weeks to go till the end of the school year.  The children have been pushing themselves to "finish the year strong".  We had a wonderful time swimming in the rain last week as well as an introduction to Street Racket which the children all enjoyed.  We have another session of Street Racket this week.

We are encouraging our children to have a go at something different during learning through play.  All three classes have enjoyed working with the House of Science kits over the last two weeks.  We are looking forward to the next kits to work through. 

See below the inventions from our budding engineers! So much thought and effort goes into each creation.






There is no swimming for Kahikatea this week.

Library
Please return all library books this week and have a good search at home for any that have  been misplaced.  There will be no more books issued for this year, but we will still visit the library to enjoy time reading there.

Young Vinnies Food Bank Collection
Advent Liturgy
Please feel welcome to join us for an Advent Liturgy in the hall at 12:15 on Thursday.  

Upcoming dates

TERM 4 DATES.

Monday 5th December Year 0 - 3 BIG DAY IN Year 0 to 3 at school

Tuesday 6th December Junior Tryathlon 11.00 am Year 0 to 3 at school

Thursday 8th December Tryathlon/Swimming Sports for Years 4 to 6 at Aquatic Centre

Monday 12th December End of year Mass. 9.00 am

Tuesday 13th December Big Day In (Y6) 

Wednesday 14th December Prizegiving - 9:30-11:30 

Thursday 15th December Missioning - 11-12:00

Thursday 15th December Last Day of the term

Please check the Blogs regularly as we will post any details for upcoming events on here.  

Have a wonderful week.
Mrs Shelly and Team Kahikatea

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