Room 6 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:

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.

Holy Spirit Pyramid

This week for R.E we did holy spirit pyramid. We had to put the gifts Faith, Hope and Love on each side and on the remaining side we put the sentence Baptism and the Holy Spirit. This is my pyramid

The Season of Easter

Today for R.E we made Easter pin wheels. We had to draw Jesus on one piece of paper then write a sentence about what Christians hope when they die and draw three different pictures. This is my Easter wheel: 

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 loves us all as his children. We are all blessed with the gifts of Faith, Hope and Love.

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

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. During the lent season we have to remember to pray, almsgiving and helping others. else did to. During the lent season we have to remember to pray, almsgiving and helping others. This year for lent I am focusing on giving up lollies and being more kind.

Shrove Tuesday

Shrove Tuesday

Today 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.

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 that the Josephites nickname was the Brown Joes.

Graduation Mass

Yesterday the whole school had to go to mass because it was the Graduation mass. It was mainly about the year 6's but it was also about going to the next year level. The year 6's had a big part in it because they had to make a dance and some of they had to do special things in the mass. I liked it because the year 6's gave the year 5's a leadership candle. The candle was blue with a green ribbon on it. I can't wait for next year when i'm year 6 and get to do the dance.

Saint Poster

Last week My class did saint posters. I chose Saint Jerome. It used lots of research. I learned that Saint Jerome is the patron saint of translators, librarians and encylopedists. Some of the other things I learnt was that he was born in Stridon in the year 347 ad. 

R.E Play

This morning we learnt about Abraham and Sarah from the Old Testament. Half the class made a slide and the other half did a play. I chose to do the play and I was one of the angels.  I thought the play was super fun and I would do something like it again.

Mary Mackillop

On Wednesday it was Mary MacKillop's feast day. We went to church for mass and after church we got to do fun activities. One of the activities was the dot art. Dot art is when you get a silhouette and make patterns with the dots. This was my one.  

Jesus's Saving Work

Today we have been learning about Jesus's saving work. We were split into groups and got given a bible reading. My group got the 10 lepers. We decided to act our bible reading as a mime. This was our mime:

Suzanne Aubert

On the 19th of June it was Suzanne Aubert's birthday. Suzanne Aubert is in the progress of becoming a saint. She was born in France and moved to New Zealand. If she becomes a saint she will be the very first New Zealand saint.

oil

In R.E we have been learning about the Holy Spirit and its symbols. today we learnt about oil.

The Empty Tomb

This is my friends and I work. It is the empty tomb. We were displaying an event from the Easter stations of the cross.  Jesus was laid in a tomb when he was taken down from the cross.

Good Friday

This is my work of  good Friday. These things symbolise Good Friday. We had to do this for Good Friday because it was almost Good Friday.