Welcome Polito-Siaki and Avah

This morning we welcomed the 2 newest Tuis to Sacred Heart Petone at School Prayer time.

Polito-Siaki was welcomed first.

It was so lovely to have 3 generations of his whanau here. His Nanny shared Polito's links with the Petone area that went back 8 generations. His big sister Te Raukura and his many cousins stood up to awhi him as well. His previous teacher Maria told us a bit about him and how lucky we were to have him.



Next up was Avah. Although she doesn't have as many whanau here at school her Mum Lillian and Godmother Levinia were both taught by Mrs Pennington at another school. Dad Sebastian told us how excited Avah was to be here at Sacred Heart.

Meet our Terrific Pukeko Buddies

At Sacred Heart Petone we have a wonderful buddy system. our big buddies look after us in the playground, at church and any whole school event. We've started getting together every Wednesday afternoon for 30 mins for a variety of activities.

 Avah and Tessa

Alexis-Sia and Sophie

Benjamin and Joel

Locky and Jarvis

 Suraiyah and George

Catie and Marcos

 Oliver and Hunter

Eva and Meg

Off we go to swimming sports

So excited to catch the bus to Naenae Pool for our swimming  sports .

More fun with Numicon

We just love learning with our new Numicon equipment. Look how clever we are.

Welcome Benjamin

It was another special School Prayer this week. We welcomed Benjamin on his birthday to Sacred Heart Petone. Malia and his friends from Barnados walked him down to school. He has been going there for 3 years and Malia was very sad to say goodbye. But don't worry Malia we'll be down to visit soon and you can come see us too.

Mum, big sisters Ella and Amelie introduced him to us. Little brother Ernie was there too. Welcome Benjamin we are thrilled to have you join us. Benjamin's big buddy Joel helped put our special korowai on.

Monarch Butterfly Time

In Tui we've been keeping a close eye on our swan plant and its inhabitants. One morning we came into find our first chrysalis had hatched into a beautiful monarch butterfly. We've also watched as our small caterpillar munched its way through nearly all the leaves until it was a big fat caterpillar. Then it became very still for a couple of days and one morning we watched it wriggle wiggle and turn itself into a chrysalis! We've read to it, Jarvis thought The Hungry Caterpillar would be it's favourite book.

Welcome Eva and family

On Monday we welcomed Eva and her family to Sacred Heart Petone. Her friend Colleen also came along and shared a very special prayer with us. Eva is really lucky to have  Meg as her special buddy and Scarlett looks after her as well. It's great having you here Eva.

Special visitors to Tui

We were so lucky in Tui class this week. Oliver's Poppa and Granny came into class to talk us about traveling all the way from England. We looked at the Globe and found both New Zealand and England on it. It was amazing to learn about how far and long it was to fly there, how planes have to stop to refuel and explore why it's night in one place and day in another. Poppa even spent time before the bell chatting to people from other classes.

The Summer fun continues...

It was another short week at school and quite a busy one. 

We started our daily swimming programme at McKenzie Baths. The hot summer weather has meant we are very keen for a nice refreshing dip. Our instructors from Learn to Swim think we are awesome too.

On Wednesday we celebrated Ash Wednesday with our school community. We are learning all about Lent in class.

One of Tui Classes celebrities came on Wednesday to start his weekly ball skills programme. We are so lucky that Fafa Bob, George's granddad still  wants to come to Tui even though George has moved on.