St. Michaels Catholic School Rotorua

A warm welcome back to St Michael’s to all our students. Fortunately the weather has been good for the first couple of days. The final term is always very busy, a number of exciting activities are planned to enhance the children’s learning.

Today’s speeches were all of an incredible standard. It was a privilege to listen to the children present the speeches. The poems, bible readings and the traditional speeches represented many hours of hard work, dedication and commitment.

I’ve just been shown this website that contains a number of good maths activities –
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/index.html
The activities are for all children in Years 1 – 6.

As the school principal it is an honour and privilege to meet and talk with parents. The staff and I work hard to ensure that a quality learning environment occurs here at St. Michael’s Catholic School. Both formal and informal conversations allow the quality of relationships at St Michael’s to improve. This directly improves the learning as new ideas are shared between parents – staff. As  a member of St Michael’s please feel free to make contact with us.

Our staff are currently involved in two major professional development programmes. We meet as part of a cluster group (with St Mary’s staff) to complete a religious education paper that is credited towards a Diploma in Theology or Diploma in Religous Education. Such professional development enhances our personal awareness of our faith. We are in a better position to deliver teaching and learning programmes that enhance the special character of St Michael’s Catholic School

Yesterday we were privilaged to have one of our Parish Priests visit out school. Fr. Mark met with the children in Mrs Brit’s room and they shared their learning experiences with him. Our link with our Parish is a tangible example of our Special Character.

This is our new school website. Soon every classroom will have its own blog.