Tetrahedron

In Religeous Education we learned about the gifts the Holy Spirit gives us. To show our learning we made a tectrahedron and explained what each gift means.

Lent

Last week was the beginning of Lent.  Every year in Lent I make a lenten promise. This year my lenten promise is to do every chore that I see that needs to be done. We made heart and wrote our lenten promise on them. This is my heart.

Shrove Tuesday

Yesterday was Shrove Tuesday. At the start of the day we burnt the palms from last year to use on Ash Wednesday which is today.  Ash Wednesday is the start of Lent which marks down to Jesus' death and ressurection.In the afternoon we made pancakes with the year one's. We make pancakes on Shrove Tuesday because in Jesus' time Lent was a time of fasting and their sugar, milk and flour would go off so they made pancakes.

Graduation Mass

This Wednesday we had the year 6 graduation mass/end of year mass.  We reflected on our year and all the year 5's got a leardership candle for the next year.

Prayers

In week 5 and 6 were busy for Room 6 we presented our assembly in week 5 and had whole school prayers on Monday, Week 6. Our theme for prayers was community, compassion, and discipleship. This was inspired as we approach christmas and start to think about others and those who are in need of help. Our Reading was 1 John 3:16-18, we also presented a song that we put lyrical dances moves to our song was: So will I, by Hillsong. 

Saint Slides

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. 

Year Five Retreat

Last Friday all the year fives went on retreat. The retreat was guided by brother Phillip. We did a few activity's but my favourite activity was the treasure hunt. We are very lucky to have had this experience.

All Saints Day

In Religious Education we have been learning about All Saints and All Souls Day. We did paper weaving to show our learning. This is mine.

Religious Eduation Title Pages

In Religious Education we have been learning about all saints day.  We have started a new strand so we made new title pages. This is my new title page.

Grandparents Mass

On Friday 24th August 2018 we celebrated Grandparents Mass with our grandparents, family/whanau and the whole school. We first went to mass to celebrate with Father Bernard Kyle, who blessed our dear Grandparent with a blessing and we sung a special song to them. When mass was finished our PTA team prepared a treat for us. There was lots of sweet and coffee/tea to sip on. By the time the that all the food was finished it was then time to perform some dances for our audience. The groups that performed were the Sheridan Kapa Haka, Choir, Folk dancing, Ukulele and Irish Dancing. That was a joyful day that we would always remember. We are blessed to have such special people in our lives. 

Saint Mary Mackillop feast day

Yesterday was the feast day of Saint Mary Mackillop. We started our day attending our parish mass to celebrate her feast day as a whole community. All the students came back from mass to continue the celebrations by joining our buddy class. Room 4 and 6 together came together to work on paper dolls of ourselves. We know St Mary of the Cross always supported and helped all the children in need. We made a large St Mary MacKillop and we placed all out paper dolls of ourselves around her. Then we were all very lucky to receive a free sausage sizzle from the PTA to continue the celebrations at lunch. In the afternoon we then got to go and play a range of fun games with our buddy class. This was such a fun day working along each other but most of all having fun. Happy Saint Mary MacKillop Feast Day.
Here is our mural… 

Suzanne Aubert

Ra Whanau Suzanne Aubert

In room 6 we have been celebrating Suzanne Aubert’s birthday by making flowers for the theme, “Always choose the little flower of hope.”

Suzanne looked after sick people, people with disabilities, children whose families couldn’t care for them, and the elderly. The work she started continues to this day in places like Wellington’s Compassion Soup Kitchen.

Suzanne left her home in France and came to Aotearoa to support the Maori people. She honoured the Maori people, their tikanga, reo and rongoa. Suzanne loved God and always thought about what he wanted her to do, not what she wanted, even when that wasn’t easy.

The Asccension of the Lord

In R.E we learnt about the Ascension of Jesus. At Galilee Jesus told his disciples to take his Gospel to the whole world. He promised to send the Holy Spirit to be with us always and then he returnee, in glory to his Father in Heaven.