Please see below the email I sent to families last Friday, 22nd November.

I just wanted to touch base with you all to let you know of a wee tweak to our End of Year Celebration.

Yesterday, Archbishop Paul let us know that he will be officiating  our End of Year Mass assisted by Father Patrick. The actual Mass is going to be filmed and shown  on Shine TV on Christmas Day (please note there will be no filming on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception).

It is a very special Mass for our Year 8 students so the format will be slightly different to previous years. The school will sing a waiata as the Year 8 students enter the Cathedral.

Our Presiding Member Suzanne Adair will welcome us and instruct us on safety in the Cathedral. Then, the actual Mass will start and filming will begin focusing on the service at the altar. Even though it is  Advent our tamariki will be singing Christmas Carols. Once Mass has finished , filming will stop. Then we will continue on with farewelling our Year 8 students.

We are planning on this event being no longer than one hour and twenty minutes as there will be the normal lunchtime Mass in the Cathedral.

Bernadette Murfitt