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LOVE - aroha ai... LEARN - ako ai... GROW - tipu ai

Principal's Welcome

I warmly welcome you to St Gerard's school in Alexandra, Central Otago.

St Gerard's is a state integrated school for girls and boys up to Year 8 offering an education with special Catholic Character. The special Catholic Character of our school follows the education philosophy of Catherine McAuley as gifted to us by the Sisters of Mercy.
As a school community we are committed to educating our students through our vision of Love (aroha ai), Learn (ako ai) and Grow (tipu ai).
Our greatest asset is our people - He waka eke noa - a canoe which we are all in together - no exception.

Julie Flannery
Principal

What's happening at St Gerard's School?

Upcoming Events in February

Wed 19

Family picnic - night 5-7pm

19 Feb 2025

Fri 21

Kopuwai & Mata-Au Library visit

21 Feb 2025

Latest Notices

library cards

12 Feb 2025

Hey everyone,

I hope you're all having a great week so far! This is a friendly reminder to please remind your child to bring their library cards to school tomorrow for our class library visit.

Kind regards,
Phillippa

Oteake Rm 4 Years 4,5 & 6

10 Feb 2025

Term 1 Wk 2 Oteake Rm 4 Years 4,5 & 6

Kia ora Oteake families,

Great work on the Place Value H/W last week. It started some great discussion on ‘how do you write a billion, a trillion?

Starting NEXT week (Wk 3)

*We visit the town library on Mondays starting on the 17th. Remember library cards on this day so the children can self issue. Please join your child if they are not members.

*We practise for Athletics on Wed and Thurs (sports uniform please).

*Our Structured Literacy spelling programme begins with Haehaeata (you will see this H/W in their books).

Thanks, Anne

0276782554 anneearland@stgerards.school.nz

Kopuwai - Term 1, Week 2

10 Feb 2025

Good afternoon everyone,

What a lovely few days we had last week getting to know each other, and some of our classroom routines. We are lucky to have Carmen Monaghan working alongside the children during Action Stations this year. Also Mrs Emma Stratford will be teaching in Kopuwai on my release days.

Thank you all so much for providing all your stationery named and labelled. This made everything very easy to sort.

Today your children brought home their Homework Books. Inside is information about our classroom routines and an alphabet and counting sheet. Also included is the Children’s Suscipe Prayer which was written by Catherine McAuley. Catherine McAuley established the Mercy House in Ireland in 1827. As our school is a Mercy school, we say this prayer every Monday morning at School Prayer. It would be helpful if your child learned this too please.

Tomorrow we will be talking about our Mihi and we will paste in a sheet for you to complete together at home.

This week is a normal week, with Mrs Stratford teaching on half day Wednesday and Thursday, so I can do some assessments.

Father Brendan will be visiting us one afternoon this week.

There will also be a School assembly and house groups on Friday afternoon.

On weeks 3 and 4 we have athletics training on Wednesdays and Thursdays, so please wear sports uniforms on those days.

Have a great week.

Neroli