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:

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:

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 

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:

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.

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 Sharon 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.  

 

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.

Graduation Mass

Yesterday we had Graduation Mass. I was not graduating but me and the other year 5 students got leadership candles which was cool. We sung some lovely songs and a new one called Light a Candle in the Darkness. This was also Mrs Gleeson's last mass which was very sad. Frankie did a very good speech and it inspired me to treasure my memories of Good Shepherd. I really liked this mass and guess what, it will be MY graduation next year! I can't wait!

St Peters Orchestra

On Wednesday the St Peters College Orchestra came to our school. They were absolutely amazing. There was the strings and also the orchestra. First the strings performed and they were really good, after that the orchestra played and they played some really entertaining songs. Two of my favourite instruments were the drums and the saxophone. Overall I was really glad that they could come and perform for us and I hope I might get to here them perform again.

Author Visit from Raymond Huber

Today we got paid a visit from author Raymond Huber. Raymond showed us some of his books and why he wrote them that way. It was cool to see that you don't just write a book and it gets published, it takes a lot of time and a lot of editing. It was fun seeing some of the books he brought in to show us to. It was great to learn who helped him and what and who inspired to write a book about that. I liked Raymond Huber coming to our school because it was interesting.