My Mihimihi

Mihimihi 

Seihara

I am learning to: introduce myself and others, and respond to introductions using my personal information

Tēnā koutou katoa,

Nō Aotearoa ahau

Ko Maungawhau tōku maunga

Ko Waitemata Harbour tōku moana

Kei Tamaki Makaurau tōku kāinga ināianei

Ko Te Hapara pai tōku kura

Ko Andrews tōku whānau

Ko Mark Andrews tōku pāpā

No South Africa ia

Ko Margie Andrews tōku māmā

No Cook Islands ia

Ko Seihara tōku ingoa

Nō reira, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā Kātou katoa.

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.

Our Body Percussion

For one of my activity's for my passport I did a body percussion with my friends. We did it to a song called Maori Boy. And the steps were,
1. Jemima starts doing our first move which is pat your lap the clap your hands,
2. Sarah goes,
3. I go,
4. When he starts sing I start to pat my lap,

5. Sarah starts to click her fingers,

6. Jemima starts to clap.

We developed more moves and Sarah and Jemima started to clap and stomp, clap and stomp, clap and stomp. And I just stomped and that added a nice touch to it.

After some practise we went move after move and finally we were done! So we asked to preform it and we did. It went well and we really enjoyed it. 

Graduation Mass

Yesterday we had our last Mass of the year. It was the Year 6 Graduation Mass and it was upsetting to see all the Year 6's go. 

We sang a lot of songs and readings were read then all the Year 6's went up with a long dark blue candle each and some of the Year 6's had two candle's each. Mrs Hahn told the year 5's to come up and get our leadership candle! because next year the Year 5's will be Year 6's!

After we got our candles handed to us we turned around to see all our proud parents smiling and clapping for us. It made me happy the others around me feel like a leader. We went back to our seats and sung one more song. Mass was finished after that and I went to my family and showed them my candle.