St Leo's Catholic School, Devonport

We have had a great week with speech finals (Congratulations to James and Oscar who will represent the school at the Catholic Schools speech competition on Monday,) an open day, the whole school attended the Science roadshow at Hauraki School and finished off the week with our very successful Matariki Whanau evening. 96 people attended and we were entertained by our Kapa Haka group followed by a delicious hangi dinner and community connection.
A big thank you to all the special people that helped this evening to be so enjoyable.

Week 8 has flown by.
Kapa Haka practices are coming together ready for their first performance on Friday night at our Matariki Whanau evening.
The year 1/2 finished the week last week doing a Science experiment with milk and food colouring.
They had to put three different types of food colouring into a bowl of milk, then mix it around with detergent and it made a rainbow pattern in the milk.

Today St Francis tamariki investigated patterns. They did two-, three-, and four-colour patterns. They were able to guess which colour would come next to grow their pattern. We created new colours for the pattern.
They also celebrated finishing their literacy "Milo's Surprise" book, with a birthday party for Milo! They made animal masks to wear to the party. They had popcorn, ate animal biscuits, played pass the parcel and turtle, and danced!

5 wonderful athletes represented the school at the inter school cross country on Wednesday. Well done to Jayce, Noah, Sam, Eva and Dyna.
Kapa Haka practices are going well ready for us to perform at our hangi evening, the Bayswater Matariki festival and many other events.
We collected lots of cans for the Rotary Cans for a Cause collection.

This week the junior class got some garden to table time and made Kale chips. They each harvested a leaf of kale. Almost everyone tried it and most enjoyed it and came back for more.
We were entertained by the choir during assembly this week.
The year 5/6 class had STEAM this week and made robots. There were some excellent looking robots around.
A group of year 6 boys attended the Rosmini College open day.
Today is Teacher Only Day.

This week involved a bit of sport.
4 of our children represented the school at the Waterwise Regatta at Narrow Neck beach and did extremely well and came in 3rd.
23 children attended the Rippa rugby tournament at Takapuna rugby club and had a great day and did the school proud. The children that didn't go to rugby had a STEAM day.
Today the whole school attended midday mass.

Hi I am an old girl of st Leo’s and would like to connect with another. Does anyone know if she is still in the area. Her name is Pam Mander. Cheers. Ne. Joy Denize

Another week has flown by (can't believe we are nearly half way through the year already),

We have welcomed some more new pupils and some visiting ones too.

Today was Pink Shirt day and most of the children wore something pink.
By wearing pink, we make a visible commitment to showing kindness in every interaction. At St. Leo’s, we believe kindness isn't just the absence of conflict; it is an active choice to be a "bucket filler" and a constant source of encouragement. By turning our empathy into action, we demonstrate that kindness is our greatest superpower.

We also held our cross country races today at Mt Cambria. It was a beautiful day for it and everyone did really well.

Congratulations to the children getting baptised on Sunday.

A big thank you to BlueSky Community Trust, as well as Te Whangai Trust, for supplying us with plants for our gardens. We get these plants free to recycling all our paper rubbish. Each bin earns points towards free plants.

Another week of great learning and experiences.
This week was Road Safety week so a lot of learning about that has happened and finished with Waka Kotahi coming in and teaching the children what to do around road works etc and how to be safe on the street.
Year 6 had their last water wise for now, there will be more sessions in term 4.
Today we had a lunch time sausage sizzle, thanks to Greg, Nick and Candice for their help.
Kapa Haka practice has resumed and the children were very enthusiastic.
The whole school attended midday mass.
The year 4 - 6 children did garden to table. While one group made a delicious Apple Cinnamon Cake the rest went out and did a big garden tidy up.
We wish all the Mums a happy Mothers Day on Sunday.
Will hopefully add some more photos next week.

Week 2 has been a little more sedate.
We started with the Anzac Parade. Well done to Aria and Sophie who laid the wreath for us and for the rest of the children who represented the school.
The year 6's had another great day at Waterwise and we have picked our team to represent the school at the upcoming Waterwise regatta.