NZSL Sign language week On the 6th of June a wonderful woman named Rosie came to our school for Sign Language week. She taught all the classes signs like animals, colors, numbers, alphabet and to [...]

The Catholic Review On Thursday the 8th of June, we had special guests visiting our school. They came to look at our R.E. lessons to see what we were learning about Jesus and God. Mr [...]

I love this photo which captures something of Caleb’s delight in having received this gift from his friend, Melioni. I, also, love that Melioni has, of her own accord (at home), made a model depicting her [...]

On the 31st May Room 2 met two wonderful women named Leona and Judith. They were here to teach us the psalms and readings for church. We were allowed to choose if we wanted to [...]

On Monday the 22nd of May Michael Stewart from Caritas* came to St Patrick's Primary School. He came to tell us about the natural disasters that have happened around the world. First he talked to room [...]

As we took our seats and waited a slide on the data projector invited us to pray for Jarrod, a teenager who has been in a coma since a car crash in December, and his family. Classes [...]

On Wednesday we had the Stations of the Cross, this is a time of prayer and respect. We journey through the day Jesus died for us to forgive our sins and give us eternal life [...]

Beatrice’s Baptism On the 15th of March, Beatrice had her baptism in front of the whole school. Beatrice chose two people to be the altar servers; Breanne and Francis. She also chose these people to [...]

What a beautiful celebration and it was so lovely to join with the children from Holy Cross Church for our students going through the Sacramental programme to receive their first Sacrament of Reconciliation. The Church [...]