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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

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Term 4 Week 3           Oteake Rm 4  Years 3 & 4   Kia ora Oteake families, Spelling and sentence reading H/W is being...
27 Oct 2026

 Kia ora Oteake families,

Spelling and sentence reading H/W is being done well by our learners. Thanks for your support at home. We would like to add in some Basic Facts so you can see where your child is at. Find a way that works for your child to learn these-rote learn, sing them, chant them, write them in a notebook. There is only so much time in our school day for your child to learn these (and we are using it), but they all need the extra practice at home until they have them secure in their Maths toolbelt.

We are visiting the Science Road show held at the Terrace school on Friday. We will be away from school between 12-2pm.

If you have any small boxes, shoe boxes, toilet paper rolls, paper towel rolls, tissue boxes etc can these please be brought into school before Friday.

Keep an eye on Skool Loop for a timetable which will outline rehearsals at the theatre in Skird St for next week (Wk 4).

Anne’s knee surgery was cancelled last week and is now on 13th November.

Kind regards,   Anne, Jo and Camryn

 

Teeball & Softball draws for the rest of Term 4 Hi all,  Please see attached the draws for the rest of...
27 Oct 2026

Hi all, 

Please see attached the draws for the rest of the term. 

Please note, there is a NEW diamond layout starting this week too. 

Any cancellations will be put on Facebook and Skool Loop as soon as we hear anything.

Year-3-4-Final-Draw.pdf

Year-5-6-Final-Draw.pdf

Year-7-8-Final-Draw.pdf

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Musical tickets Morning, Just a heads-up: only about 30 tickets are left for...
27 Oct 2026

Morning,

Just a heads-up: only about 30 tickets are left for the 6pm show.

Thursday 5th November: 1 pm show and 6 pm show. $2 for the day show and $5 for the evening show.

Tickets are at the office. Please note that Chrissy is not in the office today, so contact Julie.

Thanks

The ticketing office

Haehaeata weekly notices Kia ora koutou. I hope everyone has enjoyed the long...
26 Oct 2026

Kia ora koutou. I hope everyone has enjoyed the long weekend and had some nice family time together. Last week we were very fortunate to enjoy the workshop from the NZ Symphony Orchestra, as well as a big day of sports at the Fern Fever event on Friday. This week we continue to work hard towards our production, and on Friday we'll enjoy the Science Roadshow. Please could everyone bring their musical production costume to school on Tuesday, in a clearly named bag. We will collect these and keep them at school until after the show.

Here’s the plans…


Rāhina/Monday 26th Oct

Labour Day holiday


Rātū/Tues 27th Oct

-Mr Yeoman deputy principal release time. Miss Andrews in Haehaeata


Rāapa/Wed 28th Oct

9:00 Mass

10:30 Rest home visits to Ranui and Castlewood


Rāpare/Thurs 29th Oct

-Normal day


Rāmere/Fri 23rd Oct

12:25pm Science Roadshow 


Homework


-Normal spelling homework including a word list to practice, and sentences to read each night.

-Maths homework is an activity to consolidate the learning we’ve been doing in class with probability, as well as some times tables practice.


Ngā mihi nui


Mr Yeoman

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