YEARBOOK MADNESS!

NEWS FLASH! The New Good Shepherd Yearbook for 2018 is here! Take a look at all the work we’ve done this year. What a year we had. Take a look!

Room 6 prayers

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.

Athletics

The harder the battle the sweeter the victory! 

All of Good Shepherd School piled into buses as we headed to Three Kings Fields for the annual Athletics Day event. We had been training for weeks and we were ready to take on our peers and to compete for a placing. The events were running, long jump, high jump, discus and shot put. My favourite event was Shotput and I got second.

Kapa haka

Mana, power and pride would be a few words to describe the feeling as the Good Shepherd School Kapa Haka group took the stage. During the weekend a large group of year 5 and 6 students took to the stage to perform at the Eden Albert Cultural Festival. There were a few nerves before we started but once we were underway the excitement of performing kicked in. We felt proud as a team to perform for so many people. Kia Kaha! The highlight of Kapa Haka for me was the haka called tika tonu and it was really loud.

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.

St Peter

In school we did slideshows on saints and about them

Communion of Saints

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.

The who kidnapped the Witch?

In class for math we did a Halloween related math activity.
There was a set of 10 clues and we had to find out who was the kidnapper, what was the location and what tool was used. At November 7 we finally cracked the case!

The kidnapper: Ghost man
The location: Costume store
The tool: Handcuffs.

We had lots of fun and they were really challenging so here is one of of the clues.