Catholic Cathedral College
Newsletter / Pānui o Te Kura
March 17, 2017
2017 Theme: In the Way of Mary
Dear Parents and Caregivers,
Nau mai haere mai. Talofa lava. Mālo ē lelei. Kumusta.
Fr Benito from Christ the King Parish visited this week and celebrated Mass for two Year 9 classes in
the Library and blessed the statue of Mary which helps us with our focus for 2017: “In the Way of
Mary”. We aim to invite all our local Parish Priests to visit and meet our students and teachers over
the course of the year.
On Friday we mark St Patrick’s Day and will be raising money for the Caritas mission in Kiribati. This
small group of Islands on the Equator is clearly experiencing the impact of global warming and rising
sea levels. Drinking water on the main Island is in very short supply and is gathered from rainfall. After
long periods with little rain, there is not enough drinkable water. We hope that our contribution to
the Caritas project will make an impact for the local people.
The early finish on Friday for year 9 & 10 students is to enable all teachers to have their first meeting
with the senior students being mentored by that teacher through this year. This mentoring has had a
significant impact on the academic success of our students. The information that we cover at this
interviews is published on Kamar and can be accessed by parents through the Kamar portal. At this
stage we are asking each senior student to set realistic academic goals and the teacher mentor will
discuss these with each student. It is certainly appropriate for parents to also discuss these
goals. From the end of Term 1 all senior students will have results recorded on Kamar for their first
achievement standards in each subject.
The 70 students that have been rehearsing for Polyfest have their big day on
Saturday. Our College has been allocated the last slot of the day. This is
because the organisers feel that the crowds will want to stay to see the best
performance! Our students will perform about 4pm, but it will pay to be there
earlier as it may take some time to walk from the carpark. The venue this year
is the corner of New Brighton Rd and Locksley Street in Dallington. I am
impressed with the dedication, effort and determination the large group of
students have displayed.
May God bless you all,
Tony Shaw
Rick Stone DRS - RE Department
The Angelus devotional prayer
The Angelus is a short practice of devotion in honour of the Incarnation repeated three times each
day, morning, noon, and evening, at the sound of the bell.
This wonderful prayer evolved from a recitation of three Hail Mary’s following an evening bell
around the 12th century to its present form (with morning and midday recitations) in the 16th
century.
When prayed in a group setting a leader recites the verses and everyone recites both the responses
and the Hail Mary’s in between each verse as shown below
Although the Angelus has been traditionally said three times daily, at 6 am, noon and 6 pm, you can
pray it at anytime!
V. The Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary.
R. And she conceived of the Holy Spirit.
Hail Mary, full of grace,
The Lord is with Thee;
Blessed art thou among women,
And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
Pray for us sinners,
Now and at the hour of our death. Amen
V. Behold the handmaid of the Lord.
R. Be it done unto me according to thy word.
Hail Mary, etc.
V. And the Word was made Flesh.
R. And dwelt among us.
Hail Mary, etc.
V. Pray for us, O holy Mother of God.
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
LET US PRAY
Pour forth, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts, that we to whom the Incarnation
of Christ Thy Son was made known by the message of an angel, may by His Passion and Cross be
brought to the glory of His Resurrection. Through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen.
Marist Brothers Jubilee
MARIST BROTHERS’ JUBILEE CHRISTCHURCH
Friday 1st, Saturday 2nd, Sunday 3rd September 2017
We are setting this weekend aside to commemorate the Founding of the Marist Brothers by St
Marcellin Champagnat in France 200 years ago. Marcellin was a Marist Father who had been
ordained only six months earlier but saw that the young people of his area were completely lacking
any education and resolved to start a teaching Order of men who could resolve this situation.
Please visit the website for more information – link below
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-iT3jL_6DOOWe82mS-v06HuK-_8EBIdlH9pohJ8ipfE/edit#
Year 9 Class Mass and the Blessing of the Mother Mary @ the Library
This Thursday, two Year 9 classes had a class
mass in the library during their RE period. The
library was kindly set up by Ms. Zapanta, Mr.
Stone and senior students. The Holy Mass was
celebrated by Father Benito and students from
the Year 9 classes prepared and read the
readings.
After the mass was celebrated,
Father Benito blessed the Mother
Mary icon in the library. The
school's theme this year is "In the
Way of Mary" and therefore, it is
important for the school
community to have a good view of
Mother Mary inside and outside of
the library to remind us of our
good mother who willingly said
"YES" to her faith.
A huge thank you to the Year 9 classes and their teachers,
Ms. Zapanta, Mr. Stone, to all the students who helped out,
and a special thank you to Father Benito.
Lee Nanai-Stewart – Deputy Principal
Kia Ora koutou, Tālofa lava, Kamusta, Mālō e lelei, Bula Vinaka,
It has been a busy and productive start to a new academic year. We as a College endeavor to inspire
and lead all of our students to develop their spiritual, academic, cultural and sporting abilities and to
be the best that they can be in all areas. All students should now be well into their academic year,
aiming high and setting up good study habits that will enable them to achieve the very best results
they can.
To support our senior students to reach their potential they will have a teacher who will mentor them
through their senior years at the College. Their Vertical Mentor will take a more active role in the
responsibility of their success by supporting and guiding them. In addition, the student is also
supported by subject teachers, the Pastoral Care team and school leadership. The mentoring process
allows parents/caregivers to be a part of their child’s learning journey. Further details about our
mentoring process for senior students and the involvement of parents/caregivers will be
emailed/mailed to parents over the next two weeks.
The mentoring process starts with senior students reflecting on 2016, setting goals for 2017 and
developing strategies to achieve their goals. Senior students have been emailed details of how to enter
their goals on their student portal. Following this they will meet with their Vertical Mentor on Friday
17th March 2017 to discuss the goals they have set. Learning how to set SMART Goals
(http://topachievement.com/smart.html) and achieving them is something we can all do. I encourage
you to talk to your child about what they would like to achieve this year.
I think mentoring is an understanding between two or more people. It is a
way for people to learn from each other. Even though most think mentors
are older, I think it's a bond and no matter age, race, or gender.
It's a way for people to communicate!
Kristene Burns-Saraiva
Ngā mihi nui,
Lee Nanai-Stewart
Rachel Hogan – Assistant Principal, Teaching & Learning
NCEA Assessment Handbook 2017
All Year 11, 12 and 13 students have been provided with a National
Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) Student Handbook
for 2017. This handbook outlines the procedures and conditions for
the study of NCEA at Catholic Cathedral College.
Students will be provided with specific course information by their
subject teachers. This will outline details of the standards to be assessed including their credit value,
whether they are to be internally or externally assessed and approximately when they are to be
assessed.
External assessments are NZQA examinations that are held in November and December. NCEA
internally assessed tasks will have a minimum of one week’s notice of completion date or test date.
Students are required to co-ordinate assessment information and carefully plan their study time to
ensure that they are prepared to meet their subjects’ assessment deadlines, especially when
assessments fall close together, which is sometimes unavoidable due to the large number of subject
choices offered at Catholic Cathedral College.
Where an NCEA assessment is missed due to illness, a medical certificate is required. For all other
absences, prior notification to Mrs Hogan is required, this may or may not result in a later
assessment opportunity being available depending on the reason. Please refer to the NCEA Student
Handbook.
Students are expected to attend all assessments and examinations and personally carry out a
satisfactory course of study and practical work for each subject. Absences may prevent a student
achieving at a level that represents his/her ability. When a student is absent from school it is his/her
responsibility to catch-up on work missed and to find out any assessment deadlines advised during
the period of absence. The satisfactory completion of an NCEA course requires students to attend
school until mid-November 2017, after which the external examinations follow.
A copy of the NCEA Student Handbook along with further information on NCEA related matters can
be found on the school’s website under Courses > NZQA Course Information.
http://www.sporty.co.nz/cathcollege/Learning/NCEA
Thank you for your support.
Reader/Writers Required
Volunteers are needed for senior student assessment assistance. We are currently
looking for members of the school community to support some of our senior
students with NCEA assessments. This may take the form of being a reader, writer
or supervision of computer use. You must have neat writing and be able to spell
accurately Applicants will have a police check and be trained in this process.
Please contact the school office 9821690 or email [email protected]
if you are interested in helping our students in this area.
School Swimming Sports
Our school swimming sports were on Thursday afternoon at
Waltham Pool. Year 7-9 students walked down to the pool and
back again and enjoyed a spectacular day of sunshine.
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Young Vinnies Morning Tea
Earlier this week our CCC Young Vinnies group held a morning tea for Age Concern. This was the very
first event our group had organised as we have now established our very own group in CCC. Young
Vinnies members show great interest in helping the vulnerable members of our community, and our
main focus for this term is the elderly. It is nice to see many students attend our weekly meetings,
reaching a roll of more than 30 students! We would like to thank all the students who put their hand
up to help, assist and sacrifice their time for this successful event. We would also like to thank Mr.
Houghton for being an excellent teacher in charge as well as a massive thank you to Nina and Trish.
We would like to invite all students to come to our weekly Friday meetings where we put our faith
into action.
God Bless,
Hanna Corre & Andre Moneda
(CCC Young Vinnies Leaders)
Polyfest
Polyfest Performance: Saturday,
18th March, 4.30pm.
Cnr New Brighton Road &
Locksley Ave
The Catholic Cathedral College
Polyfest Performance group
have been practicing daily with
Mariah Toimoana and Tutor, Lio
Fasi leading the group. It is a
pleasure to serve these students
& families who are investing
their time and energy into the
preparation. A big thank you to
the families for allowing us to
spend Saturdays with their
children. We will make you
proud of us.
Hope to see you all there for our performance at 4.30pm
Sports Department
Athletics Canterbury Team:
Congratulations to Harriet Clapp for being selected for the Canterbury Athletics Team
(Grades 7-11) to compete at the Triangular Meeting in Dunedin on Sunday 26 March
2017. Well done and good luck!
Congratulations also to our Athletics Day Champions listed below.
Year 7 Girls
Jumara
Muliaga
Year 7 Boys
Reuben
Wild
Year 8 Girls
Natasha
Ansett
Year 8 Boys
Matthew
Logopati
Year 9 Girls
Amy
Stewart
Year 9 Boys
Richem
Bothalage
Year 10 Girls
Jayda
Siyakurima
Year 10 Boys
Joshua
Bull
Year 11 Girls
Janet
Moala
Year 11 Boys
Francis
Go
Year 12 Girls
Daisy-Aimeethist Sekai
Year 12 Boys
Joshua
McPherson-Davidson
Year 13 Girls
Soi
Muliaga
Year 13 Boys
Joshua
Sutton
Well done to the Rugby League boys who
played in the tournament on Thursday. Pictures
below.
Volleyball/Korfball Results
Indoor Volleyball
CATH Senior Boys
CATH Senior Girls
CATH Yr 13 Social Girls
CATH Yr 12 Girls
BYE
Won to
BYE
Won to
CATH Yr 11-12 Girls
CATH Yr 11 Girls
CATH Yr 10 Girls
St Margs Blue
2-0
Papanui Seniors
2-1
Won to
Won to
Darfield A
CHCH Girls Kowhai
2-0
2-0
Won to
Villa Yr 9/10
2-0
CATH Senior
Won to
Papanui High
20-9
CATH Yr 10
Lost to
Cashmere/Riccarton
4-5
Korfball
Wednesday 15 March - Sport Results
Indoor Netball
CATH Yr 11Girls
CATH Yr 12 Blue
CATH Yr 10
CATH Yr 13
CATH Yr 9
CATH Yr 12 Red
Lost to
Lost to
Won to
BYE
Won to
Lost to
Girls High
Chad Cas4
Cashmere Mixed
18-12
20-14
15-13
Hillview
Lincoln Silver
16-14
20-10
Indoor Football
CATH Girls
CATH Yr 11
CATH Yr 9-10
Won to
Lost to
Lost to
St Margs White
Papanui Yr 12
Rudolf Steiner
5-4
4-1
4-1
Futsal
CATH
Touch
Lost to
STAC Seniors
11-1
CATH Boys
BYE
CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL COLLEGE
LIBRRY
Are you…
Do you…
friendly, cheerful,
reliable,
hardworking,
enthusiastic, full of
ideas and a good
team worker?
love books, like
computers and
have a passion for
helping other
people?
We need you to
play an exciting and
important role in the efficient running of our School Library.
love books, and keen to help other
STUDENT
LIBRARIANS to work closely with the Library
students and staff
Staff and other students at break and lunch time in the
library.
FULL TRAINING WILL BE GIVEN
Please come and visit
the library for an
APPLICATION FORM
and for more details
starting
9 March 2017
Deadline of Application
is on:
20 March 2017
Successful Applicants
will be informed on
27 March 2017
BYOD at Cathedral College
As you may be aware at Catholic Cathedral College all Year 9-11 students should have a
chromebook (BYOD device). For Year 12 and Year 13 Students it is optional but
The advantages of having BYOD devices have been reported widely.
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Student engagement increases
Learning becomes student driven
Students learn to collaborate, share and present work
Personalised learning
Students who are studying for NCEA are aided by having a device, this allows them to use
their time more effectively and allows the teacher to give constant feedback. Allowing them
to gain higher grades.
As a school we support the use of Chromebooks they are relatively inexpensive, light and
durable. We do encourage all students at Cathedral College to bring devices to school.
Chromebooks can be purchased at Warehouse Stationery, Harvey Norman's, Smiths City,
Noel Leamings and of course second hand ones off Trade me.
Wendy Crossen
Pioneer Stadium
75 Lyttelton Street,
Somerfield
Friday 24 March 9am7pm
Saturday 25 March
9am-4pm
Term Dates 2017
Term 1
Term 2
Term 3
Term 4
Wednesday 1 February
Monday 1st May Monday 24th July
Monday 16th Oct
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- Thursday 13th April
Friday 7th July
Friday 29nd Sept
Thursday 14th Dec
Coming Events
March
Fri 17 – St Patricks Day, ‘Dress in Green’ Fundraiser, Gold coin donation.
Faith n Chips day, Mass at 4.30pm followed by Fish n chip tea, all welcome.
Senior Mentoring Interviews, Yr 9&10 students finish 1pm.
Sat 18 – Polyfest, Cnr New Brighton Rd & Locksley Ave, 4.30pm (be there early!!)
Tue 22–Fri 24 - Yr 10 Retreats
Thu 23 – Yr 12 Geography Trip, Arthurs Pass
Fri 24 –Ki-o-rahi Tournament, All day, Catholic Cathedral College Hosting
Fri 31 – Sat 1 April – Caritas Cardboard Challenge, Friday 2.30pm – Sat 12.30pm