Assembly

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

Week 5 was non stop for Room 6 with athletics, kapa haka and irish dancing. But it was also our final assembly for the year, and for some of us our final assembly at Good Shepherd School. This was the perfect time for us to share some of our talents and learning. We had been focusing on New Zealand music through our passport tasks so it was only fitting to pick a kiwi classic; Six Months in a Leaky Boat by Split Enz (written in 1982). We sung along to the words and put some of groovy moves together to create a dance. Throughout the year one of our favourite activities was reading Chris Gurney’s books during book week. Chris has written so many wonderful and humourous traditional tales with a kiwi voice. We absolutely adore her books, so for our assembly we presented a Readers Theatre: Trev and the Kauri Tree.

Culture Festival

Next Saturday Good Shepherd school will be performing at the Eden Albert culture festival for most schools in Auckland will be performing and we will be doing three Maori songs and a Haka. we are doing Te Aroha, Hareruia, Himene mo te Hepara pai and the haka is tika tonu.

St Patrick

Our focus this term in Religious Education was the Communion of Saints. We learnt about the three parts of the Communion of Saints and how we are all connected. The Communion of Saints is bonded through prayer, baptism and the Eucharist.

Communion of Saints

We have been learning about that we are living saints. On all souls day we were learning about three Saints the living Saints on earth the Saints in purgatory and the Saints in heaven. In the picture we're all the Saints together but before be were separated into three groups living saints, purgatory and the saints in heaven.    

writing

In writing, we have learning to write a persuasive piece of writing.

We have co-conducted our success criteria together.

Here is our introduction criteria check list.

The same but different

we learned that  we can't judge people for what they look like  

All saints day and All soul day

we made a paper weaves and it's for all saints  and all souls day

and the communion of saints