Monday 4 November 2019

My Poetry

In writing we have been learning about poetry. Here are a few of mine:

Surf Beach 

Surfers battling for a wave 
My mum is telling my brother and me to behave 
The sand, so hot, so crisp, is burning the soles of my feet  
My mum finally lets us have a treat


He hit the ball so very high 
   It went so high it touched the sky
   He hit the ball so very high 
   It didn’t come down, he started to cry

Friday 1 November 2019

History of Rugby

For reading, we are learning about the history of rugby. To show our learning we published one of our tasks. Here is a photo of mine:

Friday 6 September 2019

Speech Finals

On Wednesday the school had speech finals. Every year group had three people that had great speeches. I was in the year six one. My speech topic was we are perfect the way we are. Here are a few photos of the people from room six that got into the finals.

Friday 16 August 2019

Mixed Media Hands

 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.


Friday 9 August 2019

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:

St Mary Mackillop 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 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.

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:


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 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.

Friday 28 June 2019

My R.E Poster


In R.E we made posters about someone that Paul met on his journey. My group did Lydia. She made purple dye and purple was the colour of royalty. She let Paul stay at her house. This is the poster:

Friday 21 June 2019

My Explanation Writing

How the Water Cycle Works
By Mia
I am learning to inform my audience through an explanation.

When you take a shower, drink some water or water your plants, have you ever thought about where that water comes from? That water may have come from a cloud, a snowflake or maybe even the ocean. The way that water gets to your tap is because of a process called the water cycle. Did you know that 97% of earth’s water is salt and the other 3% is fresh water but unfortunately only 1% of that water is drinkable as the rest is in ice caps. A cycle is a series of steps that repeat over and over again. There are three main stages of the water cycle is precipitation, evaporation and condensation, starting off with precipitation.

Precipitation is when water droplets fall out of the sky and it can be seen as rain, snow or hail. Rain that falls directly onto rivers is called streamflow. Rain that falls onto land is called surface runoff. Infiltration is when the ground soaks in the water that falls onto it. All the water that has come from mountains will end up in a lake or river. The other water on footpaths or a road for example, will just end up in a puddle. When the sun starts coming out that is when the water will start to add heat causing evaporation, which leads to the next stage in the cycle.

Evaporation is the process where water changes into a gas or vapor by the heat of the sun. Water vapor is actually invisible so if you think it is that thing that comes out of your kettle, it is not, that is steam. The amount of evaporation depends on the temperature and how much water there is to evaporate. That water vapor will start to go high into the sky and then it will all start to condense together and that is when the next stage comes which is condensation.

Condensation is when water vapor gets cool and becomes visible water vapor which results in clouds. Condensation happens when the warm air cools down and the water vapour in the warm air condenses and turns into liquid. This is what happens in clouds. The higher in the sky the water vapor goes the colder it gets. Wind moves clouds into colder air and the water droplets in them merge which means they grow bigger and heavier until they are so heavy that they fall again as snow or hail. So now we are back to the beginning of the cycle.

The water cycle is an interesting process that happens everyday and everywhere. Precipitation is when water falls out of the sky, evaporation is when it turns into a vapor and lastly condensation when the water vapor gets cool and turns back into a cloud. The same amount of water that was on earth millions of years ago is the same now because all this water has been recycled. What a cool adventure this water has been through just to get to your tap. Think about that the next time you take a drink of water.

Friday 14 June 2019

G.S.S 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 our time:

Friday 7 June 2019

Watercare

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

Friday 17 May 2019

Pink Shirt Day

This week is bully free week. On Friday we had pink shirt day. This is to prevent bullying. Here is my outfit:

Sign Language Week

This week was sign language. On Thursday a lady came in a taught us how to do the national anthem in sign language. There was an interpreter there and had to translate English to sign language, sign language to English. This was really fun. I hope we learn some more about it.

Thursday 9 May 2019

The Season of Easter


In R.E we are learning about Easter. We have presented our learning by making a pinwheel. Each time you spin it it shows different drawings. Here is a picture of it.

My R.E Pyramid



In R.E we made Holy Spirit triangles. On each side it said faith, hope or love. Here is mine.

Monday 8 April 2019

Sunsmart Posters



In class we have been learning about how we can be sunsmart. We have displayed our work as a poster. Here are a few facts on how to be sunsmart: you need to put on about one teaspoon of sunscreen on your arms and your legs and you only need about half a teaspoon on your face.

Martin Luther King



For topic we did research about a famous person. I chose Martin Luther King Jr. Here is some information about him: He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Martin Luther King is famous because of his speech about the difference in opportunities for different people. There are over 730 streets in the U.S named after him. Martin Luther King was the youngest person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

The Island of Wingo Pamphlet



For writing we made pamphlets of our choice. I chose to do my pamphlet on a fictional place called The Island of Wingo. Here is some information about it: The island of Wingo is by the island of Singa. Surrounding Wingo island is hundreds of sharks so you have to get shot out of a cannon to get there. The weather on Wingo island is very hot but everyday at twelve o'clock it rains. At Wingo Island there is no devices so I would recommend it for families.

Friday 29 March 2019

Up, Up and Away

This is my hot air balloon that we created to show that our goals are going to take up to new heights.

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.

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.

Friday 22 March 2019

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.

Friday 8 March 2019

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.

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.

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.

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:

Tuesday 19 February 2019

My Mihimihi



Mihimihi

I am learning to: introduce myself and others, and respond to introductions using my personal information 

Tēnā koutou katoa, (greetings to you all)
Ko Hikurangi tōku maunga (mountain)
Ko Moana Nui a Kiwa tōku moana (ocean)
Ko Uawa tōku awa (river)

Ko Takitimu tōku waka (canoe)

Ko Ngati Porou tōku iwi (tribe)

Nō Tamaki Makaurau/Taiwhiti ahau (where you are from)

Kei Tamaki Makaurau tōku kāinga ināianei. (I now live)

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

Ko Growden tōku whānau (family)

Ko Tyrone Growden tōku pāpā (father)

Ko Andrea Growden tōku māmā (mother)

Ko Mia Growden tōku ingoa (your name)

Nō reira, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā tātou katoa.

(Therefore, greetings to you, greetings to you, greeting to us all).




Friday 8 February 2019

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 the reason we called the syndicates Connolly and Sheridan was because of the first two sisters that worked on the school.

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.”

Year 6 Leadership Role

This year I am proud to take on the role of Cowley House Captain and Travelwise Leader. I look forward to this role because it was the role that I wanted.

Year 6 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 The Giants Ladder.



My two favourite activities were Abseiling and The Giants.