Calander Art 2019

This is my calendar art

2019 GSS Fair

The monsters are coming!

Mixed Media Art

You hold the future in your hands.


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.

Prayers

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:On Monday the 5th of August

Saint mary Mackillop

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.

Hockey

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

Cook Island 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

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

For The Love Of Bees

Today the Wastewise team went to a project in the city called for the love of bees. When we got there we played on the seesaws and then we talked about bees and what plants they like. We also learnt all about the bee hive and different types of bees. I think we all really enjoyed it.

St Mary's Band

Today Saint Mary's came to school and performed some songs for us we all really enjoyed the songs. They also told us that if you unravel a french horn it is 11m long.

Book Week

GSS Book Week 2019

Authors, Illustrators, Books, Book Week, Parade, Event, 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!                         
 

Here are some photos from our time:




My book week character was: Chewbacca 

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.

Chess Interschools

This week I went to the chess power tournament with other kids from my school. I won 3 games lost 3 games and drew one, I achieved the credit certificate and only %25 of people achieve who did chess achieved that certificate I loved the tournament.

Science in a Van

Today some people called science in a van came and talked to us about science, matter, the periodic table and the center of balance. It was really cool learning heaps of stuff about science.

Sign Language Week

Today we had guests that came in and talked to us about sign language because it was sign language week. They taught us the national anthem in sign language they also taught us some random words in sign language like love and dog. It was really cool learning all about sign language. 

Holy Spirit Triangles

This week in R.E we did Holy Spirit triangles. I really liked making the triangles  because we did heaps of different designs. Each side had either faith, hope, love or the Holy Spirit. Here are the pictures of each side.

Problem Solving Maths

In maths this week we worked on word problems. These problems used bed mass and input output tables. Here is one of the worksheets.

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 check them out! 

Jesus Strand-Religious Eduaction

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

Saint Joseph's Day 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.

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.   

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.

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.

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 Accident Story

My Mihimihi

Mihimihi 

Otis

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 Waitemata Harbour moana (ocean)

Kei Tāmaki Makaurau tōku kāinga ināianei (I now live)

Ko Te Hapara pai tōku kura (school / Good Shepherd School*)

Ko Irvine tōku whānau (family name)

Ko Sam Irvine tōku pāpā (father)

No Aotearoa ia (Father is from, share diverse backgrounds)

Ko Marieke Zieleman tōku māmā (mother, ask if maiden or family name)

No Holland ia (Mother is from, share diverse backgrounds)

Ko Otis Irvine tōku ingoa (your name)

Nō reira, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā tātou katoa.

(Therefore, greetings to you, greetings to you, greeting to us all).

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 I learnt why the Connolly and Sheridan are called Connolly and Sheridan.

Pieces 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.”

Leadership

This year I am proud to take on the role of Chairperson. I look forward to this role because you get to do lots of stuff for the school and help people.

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 Archery and Orienteering. I liked archery because it came naturally to me. I also loved orienteering because we got to learn about the history of the park next to MERC.