Maia, Sienna and Lucia

Christmas concert

This week we had the Christmas concert. All the classes
performed a dance as well as the staff dance. Everyone
had an excellent time. Most of the parents came to watch
the performances and really enjoyed all of them

Secret Santa

On Friday (the 14th of December) all the senior classes did
secret Santa. We all had a lot of fun opening our presents
from our secret Santa and we all did pretty well to keep our

person we had secret.

 

By: Maia, Sienna and Lucia

Week six - Miranda, Jackson and George

On Wednesday St.Peters college came to Good Shepherd School and performed. One orchestra and one band played. We learned a lot about the instruments.

Then the next day the Good Shepherd team went to the athletics zones and competed against other schools.

By George, Miranda and Jackson 

Athletics day !!!!!!! Liua, Filomena and Lana

On Wednesday, Good Shepherd traveled by bus to the Three Kings reserve for athletics day. At Athletics we did lots of fun activities.

First the year - 0/3 were doing the field activities like long jump, Frisbee throw and softball. Year-4/6 did relay races. First the 800 meter race.

After all the races year - 4/6 and 0/3

Swapped activities. So the year- 0/3 had to do the races and the year 4/6 did the fun activities while the year 0/3 had to do the races.

Once the year - 0/3 finished and 4/6 finished we went home. We had such a great day.

By Lana, Liua and Filomena

Ruby, Sophie and Ruby

Assembly

On Friday the 2nd of November was room 7 and 8's assembly. They did a play
called 'Making Friends is an Art'. We also did a song called 'This is me'. We did
lots of moves and actions.

                                        

                                    Diwali

This week is Diwali in the library there is a stand near the non-fiction.

Diwali is an Indian celebration where there is a parade in town. At school we
have a coloring competition and word find.

  

                                    Guy Fawkes

This week is Guy Fawkes. We have been hearing lots of loud bangs late into
the night. It has been really exciting. We hope your pets haven't been too
stressed

Celia, Ella and Cicely

On Monday we had the day off because of labour day. We had Mrs Walker working with us on Thursday. We did more work on our Kia Kaha unit. We made group brainstorm posters about how we feel at different times.

Earlier in the week we had P.E. It was high jump and discus. It was so fun.

We have also got straight back into Mandarin. We have been learning about the names for different body parts

Hope you enjoy our blog.

By Celia , Ella and  Cicely.

Term 4 - Week 1

Term four!

This week was the first week back at school :)

The ukulele group went to another school to perform. They had such a great
time and we're so proud of them. Some people from room 8 were involved.

We started our P.E rotation this week to prepare for our school athletics day.

By William, Liam and Maverick

Miranda and Jackson

Loud shirt day was on Friday. Everyone either wore a
superhero costume or a bright top. Everyone brought in a
gold coin donation for the hearing house to help kids who
don’t hear as well as the rest of us.

On Thursday we went to the old tennis courts that are now
used for parking. We went round the back and we were
AMAZED at the sight. There were metal poles, screw, parts
of a clock, a plate and believe it or not a frying pan in the
wall! It was really weird. When we got back we made a story
about how we think it got there. We could make it up and we
could also use real things.

By Miranda and Jackson

Celia and Maverick

Cultural week!

This week was cultural week we had two groups come in to perform for us.

We have had fun in our culture classes and have learnt lots of new things.

On Friday we celebrated everyone's learning, here are some pictures

Bianka and Ruby

Week 8 by Bianka and Ruby

Kia ora

This week it is Maori language week.We have been learning
lots we learnt a grace. Here is it is called karakia

E te atua whakapaingia enei kai hei oranga mo matau
tinana whanga hoki mo matau wairua ki te taro e te ora ko
Ihu karaiti to matau kaiwhakaora amini

Also on Friday it is movie night. I hope you will come along.

This week we had an author come in, his name was
Raymond McGrath. He showed us how he created his
stories, got rejected, and kept trying until he was published.
It was very inspiring

Liua, Ukilifi, Aisling - Week 6

On Thursday the school council ran a mini Baking and Books Fair.  This was to raise money to paint a mural on the power box.  There was lots of yummy baking and books to chose from.  We raised around $750.00.  Great work by the school council.

All week the Special Character people have been selling Daffodils.  This to raise money for the Cancer research.  Some of Room 8 children have brought a Daffodil and are wearing them proudly on their uniform.

Sophie, Cicely and Adam - Week 4

This week we learnt about Mary MacKillop here are some facts

Mary mackillop loved kids

Mary mackillop was a nun

Mary MacKillop’s father was Alexader MacKillop and her

mother was Flora MacDonald.

We used these facts to write an information report

On Wednesday it was the assumption of Mary. Room 7 and 8 got together to create a mural showing all of God's good creations

By Cicely, Adam and Sophie 

Mary MacKillop - Ella, Sebastian and Sienna

Saint Mary MacKillop day

On saint Mary MacKillop day we did lots of fun stuff.

In the morning we went to mass. After we went to

Room 3 and did Mary MacKillop collage .

We got a picture of Mary MacKillop and got into groups of

2 or 3 . After we got felts to colour in the little bits and collaged the rest.

We had a sausage sizzle. It was so much fun.

By Ella, Sebastian and Sienna

Week two - George

Baditude!

Yesterday we learnt about gratitude and baditude. Baditude is when you have a bad attitude towards everything. You may even have a unibrow because you are so angry and your frown makes you look like you have one eye brow. It can also be when you feel like your life stinks. You feel all alone and that everyone hates you. Gratitude is when you are helpful and positive to everyone, you smile at them and you have a positive body language. 

Today we wrote on the board what we were thankful for. George wrote "I am grateful for friends because they make people happy on a bad day". Miranda said "I am grateful for friends family toys and everything else".

By George

T3 - W1 - Maia, Leo and Ryansun

Welcome back to term 3!

This week we received a very special letter, from the prime minister Jacinda Ardern. We were very lucky to receive this letter. In term two for R.E we were learning about the Messiah. We were also studying about all the different leaders in the world, and we thought Jacinda Ardern was one of them. We thought up of some questions that we wanted to ask her and  she replied back.

How many jobs do you mostly have to do in a day? What are they?

• Cicely

What is your middle name?

• Liam

Dear Jacinda Ardern,

Why don’t children have the right to vote because I think that we should

• Sebastian

Were you shocked when you got the job?

• Adam

Dear Jacinda,

Is it annoying having so many protectors and bodyguards?

• Miranda

Why did you choose the name ‘Labour’ and the colour red?

• Ruby

Why did you want to become Prime minister?

• Bianka

We are very grateful that she replied back to us. 

This term we are doing P.E . Every two weeks we swap to a different sport. The sports are netball, ripper rugby, soccer, hockey and softball. This week we did netball with Mrs Drummond. We practiced the three different types of passes you can do in netball they are lob, chest pass and the bounce pass we also practiced shooting it was so much fun.

This week we also started our Mandarin lessons. We learned where China was on the map and also learned how to say hello

By Leo, Ryansun and Maia

Week 10

Matariki art 

Come and check out our fabulous Matariki art 

We also had an amazing healthy eating celebration shared lunch. Our tummies were full of delicious healthy snacks!

On the last day of Term we had Nick and Fergie come in to teach the year 3's about dog safety. We learned that we always had to ask the owner for permission before touching their dog and also to only touch the dogs back and sides, never the head. We all practiced this on Fergie 

Have a safe and happy holiday everyone!