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.

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 

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. 

Retreat

This week all the year 5 kids went to the year five retreat. We left school at 9:00 am and went to Saint Francis Retreat Centre. When we got there we went straight to the Fireplace Room. Where we learnt what we were going to do for the day. First, we got a leaf and we had to find a matching leaf. Then in groups, we did a treasure hunt but the twist was that we all had to hold onto some cloth for the entire hunt but my team won and we left Saint Francis retreat centre at 2:00.pm and I loved the retreat.                                                                                                                                                          

Graduation Mass

Yesterday in school we had Graduation mass. It was about 2&1/2 hours long. It was quite sad for me because so many of my friends are leaving this year 😭. The year sixes performed a dance it was really good. Afterwards, I went to the morning star and there I met Otis.T, Molly.F, Maggie and Liam we all shared each other's food we played some tag and then we parted ways. 

Cloud

On Friday the other travelwise leaders and I went to the Cloud. We went by taxi and got there at 9:15 a.m. When we got to the cloud the people who were running the event gave us morning tea, it included chips and a biscuit. After some guy did a speech we went on a scavenger hunt. Our team took so many pictures. It was lots of fun.