Calendar art 2019

G.S.S School 2019

The monsters are coming!

Marae Visit

On the 28th of August the whole School went to the Unitec Marae.  Where we had morning tea and preformed our Waiata and our Haka. This was a great trip which we all enjoyed but it had to come to a end.

Procedure Writing

Mixed Media - Visual Arts

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.

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.

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:

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 is a pictures of our assembly:

St Mary Mackillops Feast Day

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 traveled 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 .

Water Cycle

The Water Cycle

I am learning to inform my audience through an explanation

By Xavier Fala





What is something that everyone needs to live, can be in all three states of matter and is part of a never ending cycle? If you guessed water, you are correct! Earth is covered in three quarters of water, this is mainly salt water. 97 percent of water is salt water, leaving 3 percent fresh water. Of that 3 percent only one percent of that water is drinkable. The water cycle is a never ending cycle that has been around since the beginning. All the water that has ever been on earth has always been here.The water cycle has three main stages that connect to each other, they are called evaporation, condensation and precipitation. The first stage is evaporation.




Evaporation is when a liquid is heated by a heat source. You can see evaporation at home when you boil the jug. The water is heated up and the water turns into steam, then after a while the steam turns into water vapor which you can not see. In the water cycle, the sun is a heat source. You can see this when there is a body of water or puddle and heats up the water and it disappears from the ground. This is evaporation, it moves up into the atmosphere where the next stage takes place.




Condensation is when the water vapor meets together in the atmosphere and comes back together in the form of clouds. You can see condensation in your homes when you breath on a mirror or window. When you breathe onto the glass your warm breath condenses together on the cold glass. You can see this more in winter because of the colder temperature. The water cycle needs condensation so that the evaporated water can come back together in order for the next stage to happen. Precipitation is the next stage.




Precipitation is when all of the water vapor joins together in the clouds and gets too heavy from the colder temperatures. Eventually the water vapor will fall down to earth as either snow, sleet, hail or just rain. An example of precipitation is when you take a hot shower and the water condenses on the mirror and gets to heavy and you see water running down the mirror. Precipitation is needed so that water vapor in the atmosphere can return to earth. This starts the cycle all over again.




The water cycle is an important and very delicate cycle. If one piece of the cycle is taken out, the water cycle will cease to exist. All the steps are important from evaporation turning water into water vapor, to condensation coming together and precipitation pouring down as rain. We as a people need to stop being wasteful with our water, or else there will be no future for life on earth.

Cross-Country Eden Albert

On Thursday the 20th of June 2019 we went to cross country zones we only brought  year 4-6 this year. This run was about 3 kilometers long, there was a sausage-sizzle for after you race. the races 

started at 10.00 o'clock and ended at 12.30.  Every school had left at about 12.50 it was a great experience.

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 favorite day arrived, Friday. We got to dress up as our favorite 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: The sorting hat

Water-Care

Water, water everywhere! On Friday of week 6, we were lucky to have Sally from Water-care 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.

Cross Country

Good Shepherd School had been busy training for cross country this term and finally the day arrived. In week 6 we all arrived at school in our running gear and had our house colors painted onto us. We were eager and ready to go and win house point. Overall the race was long and required a lot of stamina, but we were prepared. Here are some pictures from our races.

Samoan Language Week

This week was Samoan Language Week. In Room 6 we learnt a lot about Samoa and the Samoan culture. We watched Cultural Hub clips about the Samoan alphabet, animals and body parts. Did you know that the Samoan alphabet has only 17 letters? Also during reading time we did a scavenger hunt, our experts were Matila, Remy and Rosa. Here are some photos of what were looking at.

Eden Albert Soccer

On Tuesday 21st of May 2019 we went to Eden Albert soccer .We played 5 games we drew 2 and lost 3 we didn't even score one goal! I played center back , left back and center defense midfield. Sadly we had to leave at 1:00 o'clock but all of the games were very fun.
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Science in a Van

On Friday 10th of May, science in a van came to Good Shepherd School they showed us the periodic tables and other stuff like balancing big things. We also saw a cloud that they made and we also saw things explode sadly they had to leave to go to the other schools I really enjoyed it.

Growth Mindset People

At school in term one we researched people who had a growth mindset.







I researched Jackie Robinson, I didn't even know anything about him. Did you know he was poor in his young ages and was told he was old when he was 27. I ended up writing 4 whole pages about him.Here are some photos

Up Up and Away-Dr Seuss

This is my hot air balloon that we created to show that our goals are going to take up 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 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 the gifts of faith hope and 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.

Accident Story

Biking Gone Horribly Wrong 

February 2019 

Xavier F. 

I’m learning to entertain my audience through a recount.

I was at my wonderful home with my fun dad and my very stupid older Sister. My dad wanted to do something in this hot sunny weather so he decided to take us to a humongous concrete biking track. It was a very long, hot thirty minute drive from my house to the biking track. When we arrived, it was much bigger than I thought.

When we lined up our bikes to start the track. Just as we were going to start someone zoomed past us rudely. When we first started biking, my dad and I went slow because I just learnt to ride on my black bike. However us going slow did not stop my sister from speeding off.

My Dad and I started to catch up and before I knew it I was beside her. We were approaching an almighty ramp, you could go up it or around it. I had just learnt how to bike so I went around it, my sister on the other hand had big different plans

My dad and sister obviously went over the ramp, my Dad landed it, but when my sister went over it 

wasn’t pretty. She went over but didn’t land quite right. Crack ka-ching, I saw my sister lying on the ground crying, screaming and holding her head. When she stood up it was like she was a blood waterfall. My dad rushed us to our friends house because their mother is a doctor. She examined my sister and she said that she has a concussion, that wasn’t allowed tv for a week, As you can imagine my sister wasn’t happy about this. She stayed at home for a few days and now she's ok.

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.

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.

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.

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 Mihimihi

Mihimihi 

Xavier

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 tōku moana (ocean)


Kei Tamaki Makaurau tōku kāinga ināianei (I now live)


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


Ko Fala tōku whānau (family name)


Ko Alexander Fala tōku pāpā (father)


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


Ko Clare Whitaker tōku māmā (mother, ask if maiden or family name)


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


Ko Xavier Fala 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

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

 

Pieces of the puzzle

Year 5 and 6: Piece 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.”

Treaty of Waitangi pastel art

Treaty of Waitangi 

After learning about the Treaty of Waitangi, the year 5s took inspiration from the Maori culture and their learning to capture some of the designs. This is my Maori pastel art:

                                                         

Treaty of Waitangi poster

 Treaty of Waitangi 

During week 1 we were learning about the Treaty of Waitangi. The Treaty of Waitangi is New Zealand's founding document. The name is taken from the place in the Bay of Islands where it was first signed, on 6 February 1840. New Zealand recognise this special day with a public holiday. The Treaty of Waitangi is an important agreement that was signed by representatives of the British Crown and Māori in 1840. The purpose of the Treaty was to enable the British settlers and the Māori people to live together in New Zealand under a common set of laws or agreements.




Here is a picture of our factual posters: