Saint Mary Mackillop 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 travelled 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.

Christmas Card

Today we made a Christmas card but we made our Christmas card more colorful by blending in colors, I made my colors as a rainbow!! I added twink just to make more detailed so that it can be snow. This took a lot of time and patience but we did it!!! You could make a card like this all you need is...


Masking tape
Color Pastels
Grey Pencil
Paper
Twink ( Optional ) Just to make it a little detailed

                                                                                     

Our Paper Christmas Ornament

Today all the year 5's from room 9 and 5 got to color a bird as a Christmas ornament to hang up on their Christmas tree we got to pick a bird with so many patterns and I chose this bird. I chose this bird also because it has Maori patterns and it also represents our culture Aotearoa.

Room 6's 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.

Grandparents Mass

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.

Malo to Samoa language Week!

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

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 math before finishing our math session with a clapping game in Samoan.

Selo-tzero

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 Suzan Aubuert

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.