St Peters Concert

St Peters came to Good Shepherd and did a fantastic concert just for us! I noticed a lot of people who used to be here in our school. My personal favourite part was the we will rock you part.

My Halloween Poem

🎃Halloween🎃

I walk around the eerie path,

As i see the decorations of a bloodbath.

I  smell the  delightful aroma  of sweets,

And Very soon kids fill the streets.

House to house is how it goes,

Decorations i feel from head to toes.

I go to everybodies door,

See the lollies with Halloween decor.

I hear the kid screaming their head off,

Until one of them makes a horrible cough

I eat all my sweets not missing a crum,

Halloween was too much fun!

Calendar Art

Good Shepherd Fair 2019

                      The Monsters are Coming! 

Pumanawa

On Monday we did pumanawa, I do preforming arts in room 6 and we were doing make-up design. We learnt about clown faced make-up, we were told to partner up so I chose to go with Miriam. We each got a plate of make-up, I was done first and so Miriam did my face first. I looked scary, but my pain was over and it was Miriam's turn! We ended up in the end both really scary! 

Hockey

On Friday we had so much fun with Sport NZ as they came in to teach us hockey. We got to do warm up and drills with the hockey sticks and played against each other in teams. We are already looking forward to next Friday’s session.

Cook Island Language

Week 3 has been a very busy week with so many celebrations. Good Shepherd School celebrates our multicultural school with our Cook Island Language focus. We looked at the culture through our reading and made fun fact files. We were also lucky to have Alessandra and the cultural leaders teach us a Pure (prayer) to sing.

We learnt Aro’a mai te Atua iaku. See if you can say/sing this pure too.

Aro’a mai te Atua iaku.
Aro’a mai te Atua iaku
I te au mea taku kite nei 

Te anuanua kua iti mai ki roto iaku 

Aro’a mai te Atua iaku

My God loves me
My God loves me
And all the wonders I see
The rainbow shines through my window
My God loves me

Book Week

GSS Book Week 2019





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Room 6 was hungry for books during our book week. We had a whole week celebrating all things books. We had author visits from Stu Duval and James Russell. Stu presented workshops on storytelling, cartooning and writing. James shared his books and told us stories. We did lots of cool book week activities in class like making dust jacket covers, wanted posters, bookmarks and story cubes. Finally our favourite day arrived, Friday. We got to dress up as our favourite characters and partake in the literacy treasure hunt. Overall book week is a fantastic week every year. Room 6 LOVES BOOK WEEK!





Here are some photos from our time:





My book week character was: Mrs Trunchbull from Matilda

                                                                                       

Water Experiment

Water, water everywhere! On Friday of week 6, we were lucky to have Sally from Watercare come to teach us more about the water. We did a drama activity and experiments. Firstly we examined the process that water goes through to become drinkable water in our households. Our drama was based on the process that the water goes through to be cleaned. We were the water going through each stage. We had so much fun as we ventured around the school. Once we learnt how water is cleaned we then had to try and clean the dirty water ourselves. We had to create a filter system in partners. We had to do four different tests for our experiments. We experimented with a range of filters to try and test which filter system was the best.

Cross Country

Good Shepherd School had been busy training for cross country this term and finally the day arrived. In week 6 we all arrived at school in our running gear and had our house colours painted onto us. We were eager and ready to go and win house points. Overall the race was long and required a lot of stamina, but we were prepared. Here is my picture from our race.

Piece of the Puzzle

In Room 6 we are all a piece of the puzzle. There are 29 students and we each complete our puzzle. Without one of us we would not be Room 6. During the second week of school (once the year 6 were back from camp) we spent time learning about each other and completing our piece of the puzzle. We learnt that we are all different and unique made in the image of God. But we also learnt that sometimes people need a little helping hand to make learning fair. Check out our pieces of the puzzle in Room 6 Foyer to learn more about each of us.

Charism of GSS

Did you know the reason Good Shepherd School named their syndicates Connolly and Sheridan? Connolly and Sheridan were the names of the first two sisters that worked at Good Shepherd School when it opened. That is just one of the fun facts we learnt this week when we explored the charism of our school. The charism of our school is the flavour of our school, it is what makes us Good Shepherd School. Over the week we looked at the history of the school and unpacked the visual Image of the Good Shepherd Cross with the values, scripture, feast days and the St Mary MacKillop sayings. We unpacked the values and why we have those values. In groups we identified what each value looked, sounded and felt like before making up definitions. Another new fact I learnt was How our school was made and who made it.

Leadership 2019

This year I am proud to take on the role of Journalist. I look forward to this role because i have a privilege to work with Jemima and Henry while we take pictures of other kids success and write about it in the school newspapers. ]

Year 6 Camp

While the rest of the school was sleeping, enjoying their last day of the school holidays the year six were awake grabbing the last of their essential camp items. Stuffing the cars full of luggage we hit the road making our way up to MERC, Long Bay Beach for the annual Year 6 Leadership Camp. It was a fun, busy and hot week with lots of activities and things to do. There was so much to do with out amazing instructors and helpers, activities like paddle boarding, archery, abseiling, kayaking, rock climbing, giants ladder, stack’em and the list goes on. After the camp day we had plenty to do at night with the camp mass, school council voting, the talent quest and even a spooky game of spot light.

My favourite part was, abseiling because coming down i felt i was going to die! But really i ended up doing it again.Of coarse doing it a second time was optional.