Friday 29 March 2019

Up, Up and Away Hot Air Balloons

This my hot air balloon that we created show our goals will to take us to new heights. This was a really fun activity to do.




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. My goal is to put more effort into my work and my motto is 'don't stop until you're proud' 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 three gifts of faith, hope and love. 

Friday 22 March 2019

St 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.

Friday 15 March 2019

My Accident Story



The Epic Fall

February 2019
By: Sarah
I am learning to: entertain my audience with a recount.

Have you ever really hurt yourself? If so, what was it? And was it as simple as grazing your knee or as gory as your guts pouring out of you? Well this is the story of my accident… the epic fall. Now most people when they fall they do it with grace and perhaps it only take themselves down, but not me I was basically a bull in china shop.

Now, for those of you who don’t know, a typical irish dancing class is very loud because of the girls banging out their dances, the music playing and also our dance teacher yelling over the top of us telling us to correct our mistakes. Now one of the most important things to do in Irish dancing is to have your shoes tied tightly, after all if they get loose and flung off, especially in hard shoes, they could hit someone in the head and knock them unconscious!
“Come on girls!” shouted my dancing teacher. We were all at another dance class banging out our dance into the floor, when I realised my shoe was untied! The laces were going all over the place, so I stopped dancing and stepped to the side. “Sarah? What are you doing? Oh.. Tie your shoe quickly and then get back here.”
I strolled off to the side and I targeted a chair, not known to me at that time, but it was THE EVIL CHAIR. I went over, it was like slow motion, I stepped my foot down and slipped on a puddle of water, reaching out I grabbed the chair to help break my fall but, oh no... the chair came down with me! I crashed to the floor with my knee in a position that looked quite wrong. The chair was on top of me and all of a sudden I had a banging headache with the noise all around me.

It took a few moments to realise what just happened. My knee hurt so bad that it felt like someone had torn my knee apart! Then I heard my dancing teacher and fellow irish dancers all saying in a chorus, “Are you okay Sarah?” “What happened?”

My other dance teacher came over with some ice. They took the chair off me then they straightened my leg, took my shoe off and put ice on my foot. “It hurts on my knee not my foot,” I said so they replaced the ice on my knee. Then after about a minute they lifted me over to the bench to rest for the remaining few minutes of dance class.

Since then I have always looked out for unexpected puddles and chairs that are not your friend and most of all I have tried to be less clumsy!!

Friday 8 March 2019

Shine Day

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:

Wednesday 6 March 2019

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 season of Lent and it is a time of preparation. My lenten promise is to give up chocolate and do more around the house.

Tuesday 5 March 2019

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. My lenten promise is to give up chocolate and help more around the house.