Farewell to Anne

Last week members of the school community and others associated with us, gathered to thank and farewell Anne, our school secretary, who is leaving us soon, after thirteen and a half years.  There was much conversation and reminiscing over morning tea,  followed by presentations from the Board of Trustees and Parent Teacher Association.   We [...]

Mathswell Champions 2011

Congratulations to our 2011 Mathswell Competition  winners.  The six member team won this annual regional competition held Thursday night, 25 August competing against 27 other schools. The winning team - Multi-choice:  Abigail L, Michael B and Gabriel W;   Problem Solvers:  Ethan C, Sebastan O and William R.   Well done to you all.

Winning Writer

We are thrilled that Cate, one of our Year 8 students, has won the 2011 Elsie Locke writing competition.  This competition  commemorates Elsie Locke’s life as a New Zealand writer and campaigner for peace, the environment, and women’s issues. Cate’s Close to the Wind was judged the winning story from 1200 entries from across New [...]

Term 3

We look forward to welcoming students back to school on Monday 1 August.

Cross Country results

Last week’s Western Zone Cross Country event was held in perfect conditions. We were very proud of all our competitors and a special congratulations to Michael B, placed 6th in the Yr 8 boys’ event. Michael has gone on to represent us at the interzone event, held this week at Martin Luckie Park.  He was [...]

An inspiring woman

Never see a need without trying to do something about it. That was the personal mantra that drove a woman of strong character and steadfastness. Troubadour Theatre came to CMS last week, and through their dramatisation of many of her early adventures, we met Mary McKillop and experienced her liveliness and spirit. The recently canonised [...]

A Christian milestone

Archbishop John Dew will confer the Sacrament of Confirmation on five of our students at a ceremony this Sunday at St Teresa’s Church, Karori.  Quin, Aiden, Mary, Finn and Stephanie, along with students from neighbouring parishes, will receive the full outpouring of the Holy Spirit, given to the apostles at Pentecost. Confirmation will increase and deepen [...]

Callum (Yr 8) has his say about the Wellywood issue

Many people are cringing over the Wellywood sign; well, I cringe with them. Wellington is said to be a creative city but we are copying Hollywood. That’s unoriginal. Why not a sign saying “Welcome to the creative capital of the world”. It’s original and backs up our creativity. In my eyes the sign is visual [...]

Abigail (Yr 8) reports on this week’s Youth Leadership Day

Thirteen Year 8 students, Mr Masson and Kavita  went to the Catholic Schools Leaders Conference at Westpac Stadium Among the many speakers were All Black Conrad Smith, journalist Daniel Faitaua, organiser of the Christchurch student army Rowan Barbalich, and Taase Pusa, the head girl from Sacred Heart College. There were a number of performances including [...]

Year 2 students write about this week’s gymnastics

The best thing I liked was when I got to do skipping. I like skipping because you get to jump and stuff – Max Today we went to the gym in Karori with Room 4 on the bus. We did forward rolls. We did flips. We balanced. We did jumps. We learned how to do [...]

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