Shine week - Maia, Uikilifi, Filomena

Shine Week!

Today (9th March) we wore our orange clothes to school and donated money to support those who suffer from domestic violence in their homes. 

It was so good to see Good Shepherd all coming together to support those in need. 

By Maia, Uikilifi and Filomena 

Week 5 - Ella and Genevieve

Dean Greenwood swimming

This week year 3 and 4 went to Dean Greenwood swim school. Room 7, 8 and some of room 9 went. There were 9 different swimming groups. They taught us many things like free style, back stroke and many more. We go again next week

Art

Room 8 have been working on self-portraits for the last few weeks. First, we painted the backgrounds. Then we drew our faces over the top with pencil and painted them. Then we drew in the details with pastels. Come in and check them out 

By Genevieve and Ella

Week 4 - Adam, Ruby and Ryansun

Swimming

On February 22nd, Linley from swim safe Auckland came in to teach us how to be safe in and around water. Next week we are going to swimming lessons at Dean Greenwood swim school. We have been having loads of fun in the school pool and can't wait for our lessons.

Maori

We have been looking at greetings in Maori. To ask how someone is we say "Ke te pehea koe?" which means ' how are you? On our wall we have different feelings in Maori. Everyone is able to move their name to how they feel

Wera - Hot

Harikoa - Happy

Pai - Happy 

Pouri - Sad

Riri - Angry

Mauiui - Sick 

Hiakai- Hungry 

Makariri - Cold

Hiamoe - Sleepy 

Lenten promises

We have been talking about Lent. We all made our Lenten promises and wrote them on a love heart. We will try our best to keep these for all of Lent and also afterwards

By Ruby, Ryansun and Adam 

Week three - Lana and Jackson

Chinese new year

2018 is the year of the dog. The year of the dog begins on the 16th of February (today!) The qualities of someone born in the year of the dog are - Loyal- Honest- Friendly - Cautious - Good communicators and responsible
We had a go at making some year of the dog finger puppets. We put a lot of colour onto them, cut them out and glued them together. 

Shrove Tuesday

Shrove Tuesday marks the beginning of Lent. Shrove Tuesday is also known as pancake day. People used to use up all of their 'good' ingredients before the beginning of Lent. We celebrated Shrove Tuesday in Room 8 by making our own pancakes 

By Jackson and Lana

Week Two - By Aisling and Miranda

              Bucket filling                       

Everybody carry’s an invisible bucket. It fills when you are happy, it empty’s when you’re sad.  Room 8 has their own buckets - this is how it works: Someone is nice to you they tell Miss O’Neil and miss O’Neil puts a pompom in their bucket to show that they have been a bucket filler. Here is a picture

Waitangi day    

      

Waitangi day is a special day for all New Zealanders. We had a day off on Tuesday to celebrate this special day. The treaty of Waitangi is kept in Wellington. The Maori and British people wanted to make an agreement to share New Zealand. The treaty was translated from English to Maori. The treaty was saved from a fire by a man named George Elliot.

By Aisling and Miranda 

Welcome to Term 1 - 2018

Kia ora and welcome to 2018!

We hope you all had a wonderful holiday and had loads of great adventures! We sure did!

What an exciting year this is going to be! We are two Year 3/4 classes and it is lovely having some
familiar faces back again this year and to our Year 3s, you are going to love being in Room 7&8!

Miss Vergis

Kia ora from Ruma Whitu! I’m looking forward to sharing this year with all of you. I’ve been at Good
Shepherd for 10 years and this is my 6th year teaching here. I have a cute, little puppy that you will
definitely hear lots about over the year. In my spare time I like to bake, go for walks and I run a
youth group at my church. I love going to the beach and being out in the sunshine. I’m excited to
be working more with Miss O’Neill this year and creating a more collaborative learning space.  I
look forward to meeting you all in person. If you wish to contact me, you are more than welcome
to pop into the classroom or contact me via email : kvergis@goodshepherd.school.nz

Miss O’Neill

Kia ora from Ruma Waru! As most of you know, this will be my second exciting year at Good
Shepherd School. Before teaching here I spent two years teaching in schools in London and
then went on to working as a Camp Counselor in a summer camp in America. I am a huge bookworm,
am overly passionate about coffee, love Harry Potter and growing up was known as ‘bug girl’. I am
very excited to be working alongside Miss Vergis, even more-so than we did last year. I look forward
to meeting you all in person. If you wish to contact me, you are more than welcome to pop into the
classroom or contact me via email : joneill@goodshepherd.school.nz

Room 7&8 are part of the senior school which is the “Connolly Syndicate”. It is a big step up from Year 2
so be prepared for more homework, more opportunities and more fun! We will be working collaboratively
so we will be in and out of each other’s classrooms a lot.

Good Shepherd will be doing a production this year. It will involve the whole school and we would love
lots of parents to be involved behind the scenes. So if you have any hidden talents like sewing, face
painting, etc, please let us know when the time arises. We will be focusing on this in Term One and it
will be performed early Term Two.

This term, the Year 3 and 4s are privileged enough to attend a swimming school in weeks 5 and 6. The
swimming lessons will be catering for the children’s swimming abilities from trained professionals. All
children must participate in this, however, if your child is unable to go swimming, please send a note.

Homework will be given out weekly. It will include reading, writing, maths and spelling and occasionally
Religious Education. Please ensure your child completes their homework and returns it on time. If you
have any questions about this, please feel free to talk, or email us.

There will be important dates coming up during the year and we will try our best to remind you about
them by putting up signs on the classroom window or by speaking to you in person. However, it is still
important that you read the school newsletters and check the updates on the school calendar and app
regularly.

We hope you have a wonderful year!

Happy 2018!

Poetry

Room 8 have launched straight into poetry this term. We started by looking at some of the language features usually found in poetry and have moved onto writing our own rhyming couplets. We worked with Mrs White today on these:

He went to the sea and caught a bee

The bee was a beautiful sight to see 

Emelia F

There was a man who had a cat

The cat tried to catch a rat

Aiden P

There was a young man who had a pet pig

And he was so big.

He was ever so pink

And loved to wink

Po'oi K

There was an old man who had a pet cat

The cat sat on the mat

The cat caught a mouse and brought it into the house

The man was cross and showed him who was boss

Remy K