All Saints Day

    All Saints Day

Today was all saints day we prayed to those who has died in the past. I prayed for my great grandma, who has died from diabetes she was a great role model to me when I was little kid.

                                                                 

Room 6's 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.

Here is a picture of our Prayers:

R.E Poster

In room six this week,  we did a poster about famous people in the early churches. Me and my buddy Seihara did Phoebe, Phoebe is a co- worker of Paul and is a deacon, a deacon is a person who works as co-worker or has the role of ministering and preaching within the churches.  We all did a great job doing our posters.

Here is a photo of my poster:

Jesus Strand - Religious Education

During term 1 we have been learning about Jesus the Son of God. This is my cube on how Jesus showed us that God loved us all his children, we are all blessed with the gifts of faith and love

Ash Wednesday

Today was Ash Wednesday. We went to church and sang some hymns, got the ashes on our foreheads, sung happy birthday to a little girl starting school on her birthday! We then went up and got a blessing.

We did make an attempt to keep our ashes on our foreheads, but that was a fail due to swimming and itching it off. We had a good day and hope everyone season of Lent and it is a time of preparation.  


This year I am focusing on to do more jobs around the house without being told and i am also giving up on chocolate and candy.

Good Shepherd Charism

 

Year 5 and 6: Charism

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 that Connolly and Sheridan were the names of the first two sisters that worked at Good Shepherd School when it opened.

Room 6's Prayers

Week 5 and 6 were busy for Room 6 we presented our assembly in week 5 and had whole school prayers on Monday, week 6. Our theme for prayers was community, compassion, and discipleship.This was inspired as we approach Christmas and start to think about others and those who are in need of help. Our reading was 1 John 3:16-18, we also presented a song that we put lyrical dances moves to our song was: So Will I

Mother Teresa Slideshow

Our focus this term in Religious Education was the Communion of Saints. We learnt about the three parts of the Communion of Saints and how we are all connected. The Communion of Saints is bonded through prayer, baptism and the Eucharist.

Year 5 Retreat

This term all year 5's were on Retreat with brother Phillip, we did so many things on our year 5 retreat with big help from brother Phillip. All girls and boys that were in the Retreat got to lit up a little candle and say a little prayer for one of their family members to get better. We also did activities like trying to find the same leaf on a tree we were in pairs and worked together as a team to try and find the pair of the leaf on a tree. We also had lots of fun doing clues but this time it was very challenging because we were in a group and we all had to stay together because we had to hold on a long piece of plastic paper but surprisingly we worked together as a team  to find all clues. All girls and boys that were in the Retreat had lots of fun we had so much with brother Phillip and all teachers.

Cross

In room 6 we have been painting our crosses for the fence. We first had to draft our design on a piece of paper 3 or 4 times. Then we did our final copy with colors. This is how it turned out...

St Mary Mackillop's Feast Day

St Mary Mackillop’s Feast Day

Yesterday was the St Mary Mackillop Feast Day. We started our day attending our parish mass to celebrate her feast day as whole community.  All the students came back from mass to continue the celebrations by joining our buddy class. Room 4 and 6 together came together to work on paper dolls of ourselves.  We know St Mary of the Cross always supported and helped all the children in need. We made a large St Mary MacKillop and we placed all out paper dolls of ourselves around her. Then we were all very lucky to receive a free sausage sizzle from the PTA to continue the celebrations at lunch.  In the afternoon we then got to go and play a range of fun games with our buddy class. This was such a fun day working along each other but most of all having fun. Happy Saint Mary MacKillop Feast Day.  Here is our  Mural....

The Ascension of the Lord

                                     
                                  In R.E we learnt about the Ascension of Jesus. At Galilee
                                  Jesus told his disciples to take his Gospel to the whole
                                  world. He promised to send the Holy Spirit to be with us
                                  always and then he returned, in glory to his Father in Heaven.

                                  We used crafts to show how Jesus went body and soul to heaven