Today we were privileged to have the newly created commemorative art piece, Ho Hāta Maria, te Matua Wahine o te Atua - Holy Mary, Mother of God, at St Francis'. The artwork will be at the Pro-Cathedral for the weekend Masses.

Kākano Hub has enjoyed making prints using string, glue and cardboard materials. We focused our designs around what makes us happy or a symbol of happiness which was linked to our Project Based Learning from last term. Here are a couple of examples. Check out more amazing designs on our hub blog!

The Young Vinnies group are running a Reverse Advent Calendar for our school. This is an appeal that reaches out to those in our community less fortunate than ourselves, by giving gifts for Christmas.

Our new token box arrived this week. It replaces the boxes that have been used up until now. The children earn tokens for positive playground behaviour.

Thanks to the efforts of Aisling O'Riordan and Sawyer Carter, our Mum and son hiking team - we now have a new AED (heart-saving defibrillator unit) at our school for use in the community.

Beth Andrew, Sophie Davies, Beth Penrose, Sophie and Ella Lingard qualified for the National NZCaf Aerobics competition. The competition was online this year to meet the current restrictions.

What a fabulous gift!

Fantastic results for our Jump Jam team - thanks to Nicola Smith-Palmer and Tracey Bryce for all their efforts getting the team to this standard.

The St Francis of Assisi Catholic School Board has approved the following dates for 2022.

End of year Information

We’ve teamed up with OfficeMax to make getting school ready faster! Our back to school stationery lists are already loaded and ready to go on the OfficeMax MySchool website.