Last Friday our Catholic Character team including Julia Toma, Kirdan Tofilau, Mikayla Bishop, Kace Fata Tolai, Alex Single, Roma Fa’amausili-Mckenzie and Libby Duncan went to St Thomas More Church to learn more about what a leader is and how we can show leadership in our school as well as learning how to perform a liturgy.

To understand what leadership meant we looked into leaders like Pope Francis, Cardinal John Dew, and members of the clergy by researching and identifying what makes them good leaders.

The catholic character team then went on to split into four different groups. Prayers of the faithful, liturgical dancing, proclaiming the word and dramatizing the gospel (specifically the last supper).

Overall we learned many things about how to be a leader and what sort of attitude we should have towards organising things like liturgies and events for our school!

In Tamariki Tuakana we have been learning about each other and setting up class expectations for the year ahead.  This video shows some of what we have been doing.

Well done to Makaio and Logan for winning Humanity Awards from the Fred Hollows Foundation for showing our school value of service. Great example, boys!

A number of Year 7&8 students took Te Reo as an online extension subject at school, through Te Kura. Congratulations to Serene for being awarded Achievement in te Reo Māori in Years 7 to 10 across the country! Good on you!

A Huge Congratulations to our budding athletes! These results speak for themselves! This is a massive effort for you all – good on you!

My Confirmation

I did my confirmation last Sunday and it was fun because we got a present after we got the holy spirit in us. We also got a special lunch out of church  with sponsors and mums or dads and the special lunch and presents were my favorite. 

I’m sure that everyone’s favorite part was a special lunch out of church with their sponsors and mums or dads and the presents. I did the one of the prayers of the faithfuls, Mark did the welcome reading, Markus did the second reading and Alice did the first reading. The presents I got were a cross that was made with real wood that you can hang up from Joseph and the second present I got was from one of my sponsors named Jannie. She gave me a nerf gun and it had really good accuracy. It also had attachments for the gun and the attachments were a scope and a bullet holder which can hold three bullets. My saint was Teresa of Avila. I chose her because she did little deeds.

Joseph’s favourite part of church was collecting the money and he got a lot. He went to karori park cafe to celebrate his confirmation and he got a hot chocolate with a chocolate fish and he put in the chocolate fish in the hot chocolate and soaked it and then ate it, also he got chicken nuggets. His saint was James because it is similar to his name. Really confirmation is about getting the Holy Spirit inside you and being like your saint and having the gifts and fruits of the spirit. We also need to be confirmed and confirmation makes us get confirmed.

When you’ve done all the sacraments you are obviously confirmed. 

By Jaden

Tamariki Potiki went to Otari Wilton’s Bush on Wednesday. Enjoy the video!

Some children went to Makara Beach for a language experience. They had the opportunity to eat fish and chips on the beach, fly a kite, explore the rock pools, pick up litter, build rock towers and create messages with driftwood on the beach. Here is a video where the children share their experiences.