Calendar Art

This is my Calendar Art

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Marae Visit

On Wednesday 28th of August 2019 we went to a Marae. Once we got off the bus we got welcomed on to the Marae by the Kaikaranga. It was really fun, we got to listen to Maori myths. After that we got get something to eat. We got to eat biscuits, Milo and scones. Once we  finished we all went outside to have a run a round. After that we did a Haka with all the year 6's and year 5's. It was really fun!

Mixed Media-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.

Cultural Language week

Week 3 has been a very busy week with so many celebrations. Good Shepherd School celebrates our multicultural school with our Cook Island Language focus. We looked at the culture through our reading and made fun fact files. We were also lucky to have Alessandra and the cultural leaders teach us a Pure (prayer) to sing.

We learnt Aro’a mai te Atua iaku. See if you can say/sing this pure too.

Aro’a mai te Atua iaku.
Aro’a mai te Atua iaku
I te au mea taku kite nei
Te anuanua kua iti mai ki roto iaku
Aro’a mai te Atua iaku

My God loves me
My God loves me
And all the wonders I see
The rainbow shines through my window
My God loves me

Room Six's Assembly

Last week Room 6 performed their assembly. Our main entertainment was a drama circle on occupations. We also displayed our mixed media we made in term 2. Some people also shared about what they put on their art and why. We all had so much fun preparing and presenting our assembly.

Here are some pictures of our assembly:

Hockey with Room 6

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:

Room six's 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 are some pictures of our prayers:

Mary Mackillops 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 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.

Matariki

This week is Matariki. There are 7 stars in the sky. There names are Matariki, Waipuna-a-rangi, Ururangi, Tupu-a-rangi, Hiwa-i-te-rangi, Tupu-a-rangi, Waita, Waiti, and Pohutkawa. They are all sisters. I made an acrostic poem here are some photos.

  

Spreading the Good News

Today we did R.E on Spreading the Good News. It was about St Paul and where he traveled. I learnt that Paul made a lot of friends while on his Journey. Here is a picture of mine

The Water Cycle

How Does the water Cycle Work?

I am learning to inform my audience through an explanation.
By Riley

Do you ever wonder when you are taking a drink of water, that you could be drinking water that a caveman may have been drinking or even a dinosaur? This is all because of an amazing cycle that earth has called the water cycle! A cycle is something that repeats over and over again and never ends. Do you know that there is only 3% of fresh water but 2% of that freshwater is locked away in ice caps, so that means the other 1% is the actual drinkable water. The other 97% of Earth's water is salt water in the ocean. There are three main stages of the water cycle, evaporation, condensation and precipitation but evaporation starts off the water cycle.

Evaporation is when a heat source warms up a liquid forcing the liquid to change into a gas. The water cycle an example of this, the water in an ocean, lake or river is heated by the sun it turns the water into water vapour. An example of this in our homes is when you are drying your clothes on your washing line, the damp water in your clothes does not all fall to the ground. The water from your clothes evaporates, the sun heats up the water and it changes into water vapour. Another example is with a kettle you can see the water as steam just before it changes to vapour before it disappears! If you cool the water vapour down it will condense back into a liquid. You may think that the water cycle is finished but its still has a more stages to go through.

Now I will be talking about condensation. When the water vapour gets high enough and the atmosphere starts to cool the water vapours down they begin to collect and start to form a cloud. The cloud goes higher in the sky and the water vapour in the clouds start to get heavy and eventually will fall from the clouds as either rain, snow, hail or sleet.

Precipitation is when the rain droplets from the clouds comes down in sleet, snow, hail Then when it starts to rain the water droplets return into the sea, lake or just on the ground. When any type of rain falls on the ground it is called groundwater, once that step is completed the three main stages evaporation, condensation and precipitation start all over again and it will never end.

So, as you heard the water cycle has three main stages evaporation, condensation and precipitation, they are all very important to the water cycle and if one step was removed we would not have water. So you are probably wondering “is that how water is recycled?” Yes that is how water is recycled, through all those complicated steps it final makes water.

GSS Book Week 2019

GSS Book Week 2019 

Room 6 was hungry for books during our book week. We had a whole week celebrating all things books. We had author visits from Stu Duval and James Russell. Stu presented workshops on storytelling, cartooning and writing. James shared his books and told us stories. We did lots of cool book week activities in class like making dust jacket covers, wanted posters, bookmarks and story cubes. Finally our favourite day arrived, Friday. We got to dress up as our favourite characters and partake in the literacy treasure hunt. Overall book week is a fantastic week every year. Room 6 LOVES BOOK WEEK!

My book week character was: Jesus

Here are some photos from our time:

Watercare

Water, water everywhere! On Friday of week 6, we were lucky to have Sally from Watercare come to teach us more about the water. We did a drama activity and experiments. Firstly we examined the process that water goes through to become drinkable water in our households. Our drama was based on the process that the water goes through to be cleaned. We were the water going through each stage. We had so much fun as we ventured around the school. Once we learnt how water is cleaned we then had to try and clean the dirty water ourselves. We had to create a filter system in partners. We had to do four different tests for our experiments. We experimented with a range of filters to try and test which filter system was the best.

Cross Country

Good Shepherd School had been busy training for cross country this term and finally the day arrived. In week 6 we all arrived at school in our running gear and had our house colors painted onto us. We were eager and ready to go and win house point. Overall the race was long and required a lot of stamina, but we were prepared. Here are some pictures from our races.

Samoan Language Week

This week was Samoan Language Week. In Room 6 we learnt a lot about Samoa and the Samoan culture. We watched Cultural Hub clips about the Samoan alphabet, animals and body parts. Did you know that the Samoan alphabet has only 17 letters?. Also during reading time we did a scavenger hunt on facts about Samoa, we then searched the classroom for clues to complete our Samoan puzzle. We had experts teaching us greetings and phrases, our experts were Matila, Remy and Rosa.

Eden Albert Football

On Tuesday we went Eden Albert football zones, we played 5 games of football it was really fun but we lost 3 games and tied two. I learnt lots of cool tricks as well, we had a football coach that we called croc man because he wore crocs all the time. He was really nice. My favorite part was when I nearly scored a goal from half way. Here are some pictures...

Science in a Van

Last week on Friday there were these people who came in to do science with us. They were really funny and once I got pick to go up on to stage with them. We were balancing stuff on our fingers but I dropped the mob that I was holding with both of my fingers and accidentally knocked somebody else's item. I had lots of fun. Here are some pictures

  

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Original and Personal Sin

In today's lesson in Religious Education we learnt about original and personal sin. Original sin is where you are thinking of do something in your head that tempts us.  Personal sin is where you do that thing that you were thinking about, like say if there was a donut in someones bag and you were really hungry and you just take it and eat it that would be a personal sin but if you were just thinking about it, it would be a original sin. 

Martin Luther King, Jr poster

Last term we learnt about growth mindset. We made a factual piece about famous people with a growth mindset and how they never gave up. I picked Martin Luther King, Jr because he was one of the greatest leaders because he fought for equality. There were lots of interesting facts like his birth name which is actually Micheal. Here are some pictures 

     

Up,Up and away-Dr Seuss

This is my hot air balloon that we created to show that our goals are going to take us to new heights.

Growth Mindset- Goal Bunting

Each student in room 6 has made a bunting triangle to show our Growth Mindset goal and motto that we want to work on. Come and check them out!

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 as His children. We are all blessed with the gift of faith, hope and love.

St Joseph's Day

Saint Joseph's Tabloid Sports

Tuesday 19th March was St Joseph’s Day Feast Day. The whole school attended mass to celebrate the leadership Saint Joseph showed. Saint Joseph is also special to our school because Saint MacKillop and the Sisters of St Joseph were inspired by Saint Joseph. Saint Joseph is also the foster father of Jesus. The following day, the whole school came together to celebrate with fun tabloid sports in our houses. We all got to play so many fun and exciting games. Thank you to our leaders who prepared this.

My Accident Story

Sword Fighting
February 2019
By: Riley
I am learning to entertain my audience through a recount.

POW, SMACK, CRACK, these were the noises echoing from my bedroom before an almighty … AHHH! It was a typical afternoon play fighting with my dad. We had our foam swords drawn facing each other as the battle continued. Dad taking another swing at me in good fun, me ducking and diving as I would stab at him. Dad swung at me again with his green foam sword… If this was in slow motion it would be like the matrix but that wasn't it, it was us in my room. I ducked again, not feeling anything as the sword connected with me, but my dad just stared at me with fear in his eye. He ran to his phone in a panic dialing the A&E. I didn’t know what was happening so I looked in the mirror behind me...

Standing before me was red liquid running down my forehead. It was a nightmare even if I couldn’t feel it, it was terrible. The little 8 year old me was scared for life. My dad rushed over with a towel and an ice pack to put on my forehead. My dad made me sit down and wait till he had finished his call with the receptionist at A&E. As he hung up the phone that was it we were off to A&E, VOOMMMM. Once we got there we had to wait so long but then finally we got in to the doctors office. I had to get glue on my forehead, it hurt so much it was like 4 people sitting on your face! But it was over in a bit and I have definitely learnt my lesson to not start a fight with my dad.

Ash Wednesday

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 else did to. During the lent season we have to remember to pray, alms giving and helping others. else did to. During the lent season we have to remember to pray, alms giving and helping others.

This year I am focusing on not to eat sugar, to be kind and nice through out the year and also for lent.

Swimming sports

Swimming sports

Room 6 had a wonderful day at swimming sports. When we all went to the turf we split up into our houses. Thank you Sharyn and parents for helping us with the non competitive swimming and competitive. Also thank you parents for coming along and supporting your children. Good shepherd students thank the teachers very warmly, as every year as they set up and prepare this event for us. I’m sure that every student enjoyed the event. I saw everyone compete with my own eyes and they all did well. The people who lost don’t have to be sad because they should be grateful they got a swim in the warm weather also because there’s always time and effort to improve.

Shrove Tuesday

Shrove Tuesday

Tuesday was Shrove Tuesday. We all had a great day in room 6. The festivities started with the burning of the ashes on the turf. This was a new and exciting experience that not many of us had seen before.
Later on during Religious Education we learnt more about Shrove Tuesday and Lent. People used to get rid of all their luxury items such as flour, sugar, butter, eggs and milk by making pancakes. We were even able to enjoy some pancakes of our own. We all thought it was a great start to lent and we are looking forward to the lenten season as we prepare for the death and resurrection of Jesus. We are the season of Lent and it is a time of preparation. Here are some pictures...

Shine week

Shine Week

A sea of orange flood Good Shepherd School on Friday the 8th of March. This week was shine week. We raise money to help people whose lives are affected domestic violence. In support we all wore orange clothes and brought a gold coin donation to help the charity. Here are some pictures:

My Mihimihi

Mihimihi 

Riley

I am learning to: introduce myself and others, and respond to introductions using my personal information

Tēnā koutou katoa, (greetings to you all)
Nō Aotearoa ahau (where you are from / Aotearoa*)
Ko Maungawhau tōku maunga (Mountain)
Ko Waitematā Harbour tōku moana (ocean)
Kei Tāmaki Makaurau tōku kāinga ināianei (I now live)
Ko Te Hapara pai tōku kura (school / Good Shepherd School*)
Ko Dwyer tōku whānau (family name)
Ko Willam Matthew tōku pāpā (father)
No Turanganui-a-kiwi ia (Father is from, share diverse backgrounds)
Ko Racheal Janine tōku māmā (mother, ask if maiden or family name)
No Tamaki-Makau-rua ia (Mother is from, share diverse backgrounds)
Ko Riley Dwyer tōku ingoa (your name)
Nō reira, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā tātou katoa.
(Therefore, greetings to you, greetings to you, greeting to us all).

Leadership Role

Year 6 Leadership Role  

This year I am proud to take on the role of House Captain. I look forward to this role because the people in shepherd house will look up to me. 

Piece of the Puzzle

Year 5 and 6: Piece of the Puzzle

In Room 6 we are all a piece of the puzzle. There are 29 students and we each complete our puzzle. Without one of us we would not be Room 6. During the second week of school (once the year 6 were back from camp) we spent time learning about each other and completing our piece of the puzzle. We learnt that we are all different and unique made in the image of God. But we also learnt that sometimes people need a little helping hand to make learning fair. Check out our pieces of the puzzle in Room 6 Foyer to learn more about each of us.

“It’s always the small pieces that make the big picture.”

Year Six Camp

Year 6 Camp

While the rest of the school was sleeping, enjoying their last day of the school holidays the year
six were awake grabbing the last of their essential camp items. Stuffing the cars full of luggage
we hit the road making our way up to MERC, Long Bay Beach for the annual Year 6 Leadership Camp. It was a fun, busy and hot week with lots of activities and things to do. There was so much
to do with out amazing instructors and helpers, activities like paddle boarding, archery, abseiling,
kayaking, rock climbing, giants ladder, stack’em and the list goes on. After the camp day we had
plenty to do at night with the camp mass, school council voting, the talent quest and even a
spooky game of spot light.


My two favourite activities were abseiling and giant paddle boarding.

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. A fact that I learnt was Connolly and Sheridan were one of the two sisters of Mary MacKillop.