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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

Thank you to all those families who choose St Mary’s as the school for their children.

We are a community that is united and strengthened by our Catholic faith, which values each person as being born in the image and likeness of God. St Mary’s has a strong sense of family and is able to provide opportunities for all of our students to shine in our supportive, safe environment, where the individuality of each student is celebrated. At St Mary’s School we place a high value on providing students with opportunities to develop positive relationships which will help them in the future. We encourage all students to take the opportunity to participate in a variety of activities. Our school values are aroha, respect, integrity and excellence and the development of these helps us to nurture children to grow as happy, faith lled, resilient learners who are inspired to achieve their personal best.

Karen Goodall

Culture and Diversity have been our big topic this year and we have explored how cultures are expressed in many ways and looked at di erent cultures within Aotearoa and around the world. We started o by looking at the cultures within families, our school, parish and community. We learnt about te Tiriti o Waitangi, key events that are part of Wairarapa’s history, migration and movement, diversity in science. Each term we teach and reward one of the school values or competencies. This year it was relating to others, self management skills, integrity and respectful interactions with peers. It is always great to see the students practising and improving such important life skills and we all love an outing to the movies or ten pin bowling for the Principal’s Day Out. This year our religious topic has been The Call to Be a Peacemaker. In our daily life we are called to promote peace. This encompasses the gospel values and activities and lessons re ect what is happening in the world. We learnt about the Brigidine sisters who started our school 105 years ago and Mary who we are named after. Our four school values of Aroha, Respect, Integrity and Excellence and our long history are important to who we are today as a school community. This year we have celebrated 17 baptisms and welcomed new families to the school along with 15 students making their First Holy Communion. Students performed well in a range of inter school activities this year with Pippa winning the Year 8 Wairarapa Speech competition and our Year 5 and 6 mathletes winning the South Wairarapa Mathletics competition. We were thrilled to be able to perform our Dance through the Decades show to friends and family in term 3 as well as to perform at the Kapa Haka festival.

Wheelbarrow Race.

Stations of the Cross. Kapa Haka.

Pippa. Dance show.

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