Calendar Art 2019

Good Shepherd Fair 2019

THE MONSTERS ARE COMING!!!

Whole School 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:

Our 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:

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

The Feast of St 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.

Here are some pictures:

Eggsitting

During term 2 Room 6 have been doing the KOS (Keeping Ourselves Safe) programme. With the programme we had to take care of eggs. We got the eggs on Monday afternoon and had to take care of them until the end of the week. We also had to bring our eggs everywhere we went and make beds for them. My egg's name was Margret. On all the school mornings we put our eggs into the daycare ( a egg carton) until the end of the school day. I really enjoyed this experiment and would definitely do it again.

Here is a picture of me with my egg:

My Flute Class

This year I have taken up doing the flute with the St Peters Music Program. I have really enjoyed doing it and would recomend it for other people. We are learning songs like Morning, Hot Cross Buns, Imperial March and so on. Overall I have a great time in my lessons.

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!

Here are some photos from this week: 

My book week character was: Kensy, from Kensy & Max Breaking News 

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!

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.

My Leadership Role

This year I am proud to take on the role of Secretary.  I look forward to this role because I have always wanted to be on the school council and now I am one of the leaders of the school council. I ran for school council rep in year 4 and 5 but did not succeed. I am also looking forward to working with Otis, the chairperson and Peter, the vice chairperson to make the school the best it can be. Overall I am really looking forward to being secretary of the school council for 2019.

Year 6 Leadership 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 archery.