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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 May

Thu 14

Practice Swimming sessions

14 May 2026

Fri 15

Dunstan Zone Rippa

15 May 2026

Tue 19

Twilight Meeting -

19 May 2026

Thu 28

School Swimming Sports from 12noon

28 May 2026

Latest Notices

Hockey Practice cancelled

8 May 2026

All hockey practice cancelled today. thank you

School accounts

7 May 2026

Kia ora whānau,

Winter sports fees are now on school accounts, along with camps and other activities. Please come and see Chrissy if you have any questions or if you are unable to see these on HERO for any reason.

Setting up a small automatic payment each week can be a great way to manage costs if paying larger amounts at once is difficult. Even small regular payments make a big difference and help reduce our overall school debt.

Also, if you are planning to take up the opportunity to make cheese rolls to help pay off your school account, now is the time to get selling!

Thank you all for your ongoing support.

Oteake-Celebration Sports Day

6 May 2026

The Pom Pom jar is completely full! One pom pom goes in when great things happen in our learning. The reward is discussed and voted on and the decision was made last Friday for a day of sporting fun at school. Miss Passmore is teaching tomorrow and taken up the challenge of supporting the kids with this. Sports uniform is allowed but optional. We are still having our 20 minute Structured Literacy lesson after break!

Congratulations to Jacob Winstanley who was voted in last week as our Oteake class rep on the Student Council.

Library Visit Tomorrow Afternoon

6 May 2026

The weather forecast is for rain tomorrow, so please bring a coat and an umbrella if you have one for the Library visit tomorrow afternoon.

Thank you very much

Neroli and Karen

Waikerikeri Wool items - four people left to bring in an item

6 May 2026

Please help your child organise a woollen item for us to write about and to share. Thank you for all the wonderful pieces today. We still have a couple of people who have not managed to bring anything in. There were wonderful stories attached to them all.

I would love them back tomorrow to add to the leftovers, so we can get a class photo. Please and thank you. Rachel Petrie