Over the Rainbow

We have had so much fun working and presenting our latest whole school production - Over the Rainbow. Thanks Mrs Van Eijk for all your work and patience with us. We had a ball!

Ag Day at Te Poi

Katarina and Baliegh took their kid goats along to the Ag Day at Te Poi on the last day of Term 3. It was their first time with an animal and they had s great time. 

Clean up NZ

This afternoon we put on our rubber gloves and headed out in teams of 3 to clean up the area around the school and down Centennial Drive. We filled two black bags with rubbish and got half a bag of recycling. It's amazing what we found! Come on people - let's think about what we throw out. Put your litter in the bin and keep NZ beautiful!!

Digi Awards 2016

350 - that's the number of entries received from across the Matamata District for this year's Digi Awards. St Joseph's had 4 of our entries make it through to the finals -  Joseph for his photo, Baliegh, Jackson and Oscar for their animations. Check out their entries at the bottom of the post.

The evening was a lot of fun and all of the schools in the District were represented. All of the finalists sat with bated breath awaiting the results of their categories. We were so thrilled and proud to have Oscar win the Y5-6 category for his "First Landing on Mars" animation - but wait, there's more - he then took out the Y5-6 Supreme Award!!

A fantastic effort by all 4 to get into the finals - and a wonderful result for Oscar, rewarding the determination and persistence involved in the creation of his 831 slides! Congratulations to you all.



 Joseph Gallagher - Winter Reflection
  Finalist in the Y3-4 Photo

Baliegh Williamson -
Finalist in the Y3-4 animation

Jackson Donderwinkel -
Finalist in the Y5-6 Animation

And Oscar Donderwinkel -
Finalist and winner of the Y5-6 Animation
plus Y5-6 Supreme Award winner!!
(Make sure you watch it right to the very end)

Digi Awards 2016

350 - that's the number of entries received from across the Matamata District for this year's Digi Awards. St Joseph's had 4 of our entries make it through to the finals -  Joseph for his photo, Baliegh, Jackson and Oscar for their animations. Check out their entries at the bottom of the post.

The evening was a lot of fun and all of the schools in the District were represented. All of the finalists sat with bated breath awaiting the results of their categories. We were so thrilled and proud to have Oscar win the Y5-6 category for his "First Landing on Mars" animation - but wait, there's more - he then took out the Y5-6 Supreme Award!!

A fantastic effort by all 4 to get into the finals - and a wonderful result for Oscar, rewarding the determination and persistence involved in the creation of his 831 slides! Congratulations to you all.



 Joseph Gallagher - Winter Reflection
  Finalist in the Y3-4 Photo

Baliegh Williamson -
Finalist in the Y3-4 animation















Jackson Donderwinkel -
Finalist in the Y5-6 Animation

And Oscar Donderwinkel -
Finalist and winner of the Y5-6 Animation
plus Y5-6 Supreme Award winner!!
(Make sure you watch it right to the very end)

Rotary visit

A huge thank you to David Hulme and Kevin Singh from Rotary. David and Kevin visited us today and explained some of the work that Rotary does here in Matamata and around the world. They then presented 8 of our students with their own special dictionaries. The students are all very pleased with them - and were even browsing through them at lunchtime!!! 👍

Mothers Day Bliss Balls

Ingredients:

1 cup of apricots or cranberries

1/2 cup of dates

1/2 cup of almonds

1/2 cup of cashews

1Tablespoon of coconut

1Tablespoon of cocoa

1Tablespoon of honey

Method:

Soak apricots and dates in hot water for a few minutes

Drain them and put into food processor with almonds, cashews, cocoa, coconut and honey.

Whizz them until chopped finely and sticking together.

Roll into balls and coat with coconut.

Keep In fridge.