Our Assembly

Last week on Friday Room 5 performed an assembly for the whole school. Our assembly was about stereotypes and to not judge others. We did a play about it as well, one of the situations was when a girl wanted to play soccer with the boys but the boys said that netball was for girls and soccer was for boys but the girl proved him wrong and showed the boys that she was really good at playing soccer. We also did a song to Individuality. Here are some photos of our assembly:

Marae Trip

Today the whole school went to the Unitec Marae. Once we got the Marae we walked slowly to the wharenui while Whaea Linda and Whaea Jess welcomed us to the Marae. When we got there Papa Hau told us some stories about the carvings on the wall. At the end, the Year 5 and 6 boys did an amazing, powerful haka. It was so much fun!

Fair Project

This term in Good Shepherd School all of the classes have worked on something to sell at the fair. In Room 5 we have split up into groups to make a product of our own in a group. In my group is Kayano, Lucy, Annika, Soeun and I. Our product that we are going to sell is sherbet, we chose sherbet because it is easy to make and very delicious. Also, every group had to make a logo for our product and this is what ours it looks like.

Cook Island week

This week is Cook Islands week we have learnt so much. It has been an amazing week so far!

this is how you count to ten in Cook Island Māori

one = Ta'i

two = Rua

three = Toru

four = 'Ā

five = Rima

six = Ono

seven = 'Itu

eight = Varu

nine = Iva

ten = Ta’i nga’uru 

Book Week

Book Week is an exciting and amazing week of fun. When it is Book Week in the library we get more new books that people can buy. There are lots of fun activities like creating a book cover, writing a story and more you can win and get a prize. But the best part of Book Week is definitely Friday. On Friday there is a book parade and you can dress up in a character of your choice. My friends and I were the Three Little Pigs. Book Week was so much fun!

Anzac Art

This week we have been making art on Anzac, we coloured in a picture and dyed the background and it turned out amazing! We presented them in our assembly. This was so much fun, here is mine.

Shine Week

This week it is Shine Week and today we have dressed up in orange.  The reason we dress up in orange for Shine Week is because we are donating money to the people that have experienced domestic violence.  Throughout the week the special characters have been collecting money after school. 

  

Shrove Tuesday

Today is Shrove Tuesday we have done some cool stuff.  In the morning the whole school met on the turf to burn the palms to use the ashes tomorrow for the start of Lent tomorrow.  Shrove Tuesday is also known as pancake Tuesday so we made some pancakes.  The reason why we make pancakes is because in Jesus's time the gave up flour, eggs and all of the other ingredients that you need to make pancakes. They made pancakes and ate them on the day before Lent which is on a Tuesday.

Camp 2019

Abseiling, Orienteering, Rock Climbing, Kayaking, Stack-em, Sailing, Giant Paddle Boarding, Giants Ladder, Mountain Biking, Snorkelling and Raft building, These things are what we did at camp! In my opinion camp was so much fun, I mean, who wouldn't like pushing people off a giant paddle board! My favourite activities were Giant paddle boarding, Orienteering, Stack-em  and abseiling. Camp started on Monday the 27th of January 2019 doing three activities and applying  thousands of layers of sunblock each day.  It finished on the 1st of February 2019. It was so much fun!

Graduation Mass

On Wednesday it was the Graduation mass celebrating the year six leaving Good Shepherd.  It was very sad to watch, also the year fives got a candle for next year for being a year six.  The mass that we went to was the last mass of the year.  I am so excited for next year!

Silhouette Christmas Card

Today in room six we have been doing some Christmas cards for our family and used pastels and masking tape to make it here is mine. 

Assembly

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." 

Week 5 was non stop for Room 6 with athletics, kapa haka and irish dancing. But it was also our final assembly for the year, and for some of us our final assembly at Good Shepherd School. This was the perfect time for us to share some of our talents and learning. We had been focusing on New Zealand music through our passport tasks so it was only fitting to pick a kiwi classic; Six Months in a Leaky Boat by Split Enz (written in 1982). We sung along to the words and put some of groovy moves together to create a dance. Throughout the year one of our favourite activities was reading Chris Gurney’s books during book week. Chris has written so many wonderful and humourous traditional tales with a kiwi voice. We absolutely adore her books, so for our assembly we presented a Readers Theatre: Trev and the Kauri Tree.

Cultural Week

This week the whole school have been learning about a different languages, everyone from each class performed something to the school. In my class I have been learning Japanese we all performed a fan dance, the color song and a body part song all of us had a great time! can't wait for it next year.

Mini BB Fair

At Good Shepherd School 2018 we had a Mini BB Fair, we had a Mini BB Fair to raise money for a mural on the power box outside the school.  at the Mini BB Fair there were a few stalls that had books and baking.  all of the students rushed outside to get the delicious food and books.  we all had a great time, thank you Good Shepherd School!!

Grandparents Mass

On Friday 24th August 2018 we celebrated Grandparents Mass with our grandparents, family/whanau and the whole school. We first went to mass to celebrate with Father Bernard Kyle, who blessed our dear Grandparent with a blessing and we sung a special song to them. When mass was finished our PTA team prepared a treat for us. There was lots of sweet and coffee/tea to sip on. By the time the that all the food was finished it was then time to perform some dances for our audience. The groups that performed were the Sheridan Kapa Haka, Choir, folk dancing, Ukulele and Irish Dancing. That was a joyful day that we would always remember. We are blessed to have such special people in our lives.

Book Week

It's week 8 and it is the bookworms favourite week of the year! Book week! A lot of things happened this week. The library was jam packed full of books and other cool stuff like pencils and rubbers, authors and poets were visiting the school, the book parade was on Friday where we were able to show off our costumes of our favourite book character!

Monday we were in groups competing against one another as we did a literacy quiz! There were 30 questions and three topics. Each question we got right earned us a point! And, we all had to pick a topic where we DOUBLED our points.

The next day Tasman Flinn visited the school. We all sat in the hall and sat on the chairs while she showed us her poems and talked about poetry.

Then on Thursday, all of us year 5 and 6s went to Room 2 so we could see Chris Gurney. She talked about her books and how to make a book. And she picked a few volunteers to act out a play, based off her own book called “Cindy And The Lost Jandal” (Miss Down’s favourite book).

Then on Friday, we all dressed up in our favourite book characters, and finished off the week with the book parade! Where we showed off our amazing costumes on the stage.

We all had so much fun during book week. Thank God for books!

Afio mai to Samoan language Week.

The cultural leaders opened the week with their national costume and dance.

In room 6 we have been exploring the Samoan Cultural with general facts. We searched for our fact card around the room and collected information for our Jigsaw Reading Hunt.

Next our Samoan experts in class gave us a lesson on greetings and phrases in Samoan.

Then we moved onto counting to ten in Samoan for maths before finishing our maths session with a clapping game in Samoan.

Selo-zero

Tasi-one

Lua-two

Tolu-three

Fa-four

Lima-five

Ono-six

Fitu-seven

Valu-eight

Iva-Nine

Sefulu-ten

Happy Birthday Suzanne Aubert

Ra Whanau Suzanne Aubert

In room 6 we have been celebrating Suzanne Aubert’s birthday by making flowers for the theme, “Always choose the little flower of hope.”
Suzanne looked after sick people, people with disabilities, children whose families couldn’t care for them, and the elderly. The work she started continues to this day in places like Wellington’s Compassion Soup Kitchen.
Suzanne left her home in France and came to Aotearoa to support the Maori people. She honoured the Maori people, their tikanga, reo and rongoa. Suzanne loved God and always thought about what he wanted her to do, not what she wanted, even when that wasn’t easy.

To My Mother

My Handprint

Here is my Handprint, five fingers in all, outside they are short, but the middle is tall, You will find them on the windows, you can find them on the wall, they will make a big mess, for something so small.  One day I will grow, and leave them no more, my hand prints will be missed, of that, I am sure.

So here is one now, that you can't wipe away. My present to you, this Mothers Day.