On Friday we had a visit from Parvyn Singh & Josh Bennet who along with their son make up BlueGuru. They shared with us a colourful blend of Indian music and dance featuring .
Parvyn performed traditional Indian song and dance accompanied by master musician Josh Bennett on various Southern Asian instruments. Josh & Parvyn’s performance gave our tamariki a fascinating insight into Indian music, dance and culture.
Parvyn even taught our tamariki some popular Bollywood moves!

Josh shared with us his mastery of instruments of the sitar and tabla.

To thank our wonderful guests Sudhiksha and Ananyaa shared a lovely song in Tamil.

On Friday we shared a video of our tamariki performing their Bollywood dance with you through email. We hope you enjoyed it.

Cardinal McKeefry School joined in with many other schools and organisations across New Zealand in celebrating Bully Free Week NZ through Pink Shirt Day.

 

The origin of Pink Shirt Day is explained here: https://www.pinkshirtday.org.nz/about/

On Pink Shirt Day we ask New Zealanders to Speak up and Stand together to Stop bullying.

Celebrated annually around the globe, Pink Shirt Day began in Canada in 2007 when two students, David Shepherd and Travis Price, took a stand against homophobic bullying after a new year 10 student was harassed and threatened for wearing pink. David and Travis bought dozens of pink shirts and distributed them to their male classmates to wear the next day. The word got out online and hundreds of students showed up in pink, some from head-to-toe, to stand together against bullying.

We’ve been celebrating Pink Shirt Day in New Zealand since 2009 and the campaign grows stronger and larger every year.

Pink Shirt Day is led by the Mental Health Foundation, with support from: The Peace Foundation, RainbowYOUTH, InsideOUT, New Zealand Post Primary Teachers’ Association, Youthline and Family Works.

Child Parent Teacher Goal setting interviews are on Thursday 15 March and Monday 19 March. Please go to www.schoolinterviews.co.nz and use the code 2m5pn to book or click on this link: https://www.schoolinterviews.co.nz/code?code=2m5pn  We are aiming for 100% attendance for these interviews and the students have been working hard on setting their goals and planning what they want to say in their interview. Please remember to set a time that allows you to bring your child with you.

Thank you to all of you who were able to make it a priority to send a family member to our curriculum sharing evening and picnic. You will find the presentation below. Please try the desk activity with your family.  

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Each year we place an image on  the hall stage wall that represents the overarching concept our tamariki will explore for the year. In 2018 we are looking at the concept of CHANGE. This year we invite each child and family to take a picture of something that changes, or something that symbolises change for them. Then email the picture as a high resolution jpeg to picture@cardinalmckeefry.school.nz. Please send your child’s picture, including your child’s name and room number, by Thursday the 1^st of February. During the first few weeks of school your tamariki will be able to add their printed picture to our hall display wall. We hope to have our completed wall ready for viewing in time for our Pancake Breakfast Celebration.