Good Shepherd school fair 2019

The MONSTERS are coming....

DUN DUN DUNN ah!

Marae trip

On Wednesday the 28th of August the whole school went to a Marae. We were welcomed into the Marae and then we all sat down. The school council did the hongi with some of the members at the Marae. We all heard a story about a Maori man that used a stingray to get to New Zealand. Then we all had morning tea. After that, we learned a dance. Then we went outside and the year 5 and 6 boys did a haka. After that we headed back to school.

Procedure Writing

       

How to blow Bubblegum




By Aidan

I am learning to write a procedural text for our audience to follow.
Materials:
A piece of bubblegum, Hubba Bubba
Mouth

Step 1: Take one piece of Hubba Bubba grape gum and unwrap the gum

Step 2: Place the gum into your mouth and make sure the wrapper goes into the bin.

Step 3: Bite down on the gum, pushing the gum to one side of your mouth

Step 4: Chew until gum is stretchy

Step 5: Wrap the gum around your tongue

Step 6: Push your tongue through the gum but don't make a hole in the gum



Step 7: Seal your mouth and blow and a bubble should appear

Visual Arts

In Term 2 our Visual Arts focused was on Mixed Media. We finally finished our pieces of art at the end of the term. We started off by creating two hands, most of us copied our own hands as templates.  One hand represents our past and the other hand our future. We used lots of different materials and symbols to make our artwork as well as exploring a range of different techniques with watercolor paint. This is my art work.

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. Here are a couple of pictures:

St Mary Mackillop Feast day

Another celebration for Good Shepherd School in Week 3 was the Feast Day of Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop. St Mary MacKillop a vital part of Good Shepherd School, this is because she was the founder of the Josephites aka the Brown Joes. The Brown Joes traveled all over Australia and New Zealand helping the poor and those in need. They built schools and that is how we are all students at Good Shepherd School. We celebrated the Feast day by going to a Mass for St Mary of the Cross and also having fun with our buddy class Room 4 as we worked on a St Mary MacKillop Art project.

Whole School Prayers

On Monday the 5th of August Room 6 hosted whole school prayers. Our theme was The Gift of Faith. We did a song called ‘Open the Eyes of My Heart’ and Jiwoo, Zara and Maggie made hand actions for us. There were also people who did the prayers of the faithful. Overall prayers was a big success and everyone enjoyed it.