Barcelona

Barcelona is an awesome soccer club

It is way cooler than Maggie's soccer hub

They wear red and blue

They have a big crew

But sometimes they have to sub

Poetry

We are the best room
Room Six is the perfect room
But we are so loud

Diamante soccer

             

Soccer

     Fun, awesome 

    Kicking, shouting, tackling

     Nationals clubs, professionals games

 Diving, subbing, cheering

   Cool, professional 

  Soccer

Year 5 Retreat

Year 5 retreat


On Thursday the 31st all of the year 5's went to St. Francis Retreat center.

All the year 5's had a blast. Personally my favorite activity was the treasure hunt. You each had a name and I think our one was the best, Jesus the Good Shepherd.

You got put in a group ( the picture below is me with my group ) and had to find clues around the campus. The hardest thing was though is that we had to hold this paper it was about 1 m long and we had to have 1 hand on it the whole time. It was so fun and i wish I could go again

Calender Art 2020

Calender Art 2020

Good Shepherd School.

The Monsters Are coming

Speeches

On Wednesday the 4th of September Good Shepherd School had the speech finals. Three people from each year group performed a speech. These people had won their class, their semifinal and now they were waiting to see what place they would come in the speech finals. I was one of the year 5's along with Jiwoo and Coco. I won the year 5's,  Jiwoo came 2nd  and Coco came 3rd. The overall winner was Mia Growden. I had an awesome time and I can't wait for next year to see if I get in again.











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How To Blow Bubblegum

Mixed Media - Visual Arts

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.

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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:

Assembly 2019

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:

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.

Multi Cultral Cook Island

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. See if you can say/sing this pure too.




Aro’a mai te Atua iaku.

Aro’a mai te Atua iaku

I te au mea taku kite nei

Te anuanua kua iti mai ki roto iaku

Aro’a mai te Atua iaku




My God loves me

My God loves me

And all the wonders I see

The rainbow shines through my window



My God loves me

Keeping Ourselves Safe.

In the last couple of weeks Miss Down gave us each an egg to look after we were all very egg-cited. We took our eggs home and made places for it to sleep. We had to take it to school unless someone looked after it. We made lots of Egg-excellent yokes about them. I got really eggravated doing this but i manged to keep it alive until Friday. It was an egg excellent adventure. Like my vocabulary about eggs it's egg-excellent.

Maths Measurement

On Thursday we did maths with Miss Taylor. We were getting all set up to make jelly.We were measuring cups, bottles, jars  etc. We were measuring them because we need to know how much jelly we need to put in the cups. We have 5/ 6 colors we are allowed to use but before the fun we have to do the math. We had such fun on Thursday I can't wait 'till the next lesson.

Famous People in the Earth's Community

On Tuesday we did a R.E poster. We did it about Famous people in the Church community. We all picked someone to do our poster on i picked Paul ( Saul ) and I with two other people did a poster about him and his journeys.

GSS Book Week 2019

     

Authors, Illustrators, Books, Book Week, Parade, Event, 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!

My book week character was:Russel westbrook

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Samoan Language Week

This week was Samoan week.We learnt about phrases, counting and colors. At reading we did a scavenger hunt and we had to find facts around the room and then turn it into a puzzle. We had experts come up to the front of the class and teach us a few things.The experts were Matila and Rosa. Did you know there are only 17 letters in the Samoan alphabet? I learnt a lot about Samoa I can't wait until next time to learn more.

Football Eden Albert Zones

On Tuesday people who signed up for football went to Western Springs to compete against other schools in the football zones. The boys came 2nd to last and the girls came 3rd. The girls drew with a team that had not lost, so that was pretty exciting.  We all had a great time and I look forward to doing it again next year. I was in the girls team along with Mia, Faith, Alana, Elia, Zara, Hannah, Kayano, Lucy and I.

Periodic Table

This week we have been learning about the periodic table
and the elements.We have focused on the first 20 elements.
Hydrogen, Helium, lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon,
nitrogen, Oxygen, fluorine, neon, sodium. Magnesium,
Aluminum, silicon, phosphorous, Sulfur, Chlorine,
Argon, Potassium and lastly calcium.
That is the first 20 there is over 100 elements.Here
is a link to the periodic table song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz4Dd1I_fX0
Here is a link to the periodic table in words:
https://www.lenntech.com/periodic/number/atomic-number.htm

Sign Language Week

This week was sign language week. On Thursday we had guests come in and showed us how to sign the New Zealand anthem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbDf0YG2xnA

Take a look. We learnt a lot of new sign language. One women was doing sign language one was translating it.

Balloon Experiments

On Wednesday we did science we were learning about gas.Xavier P blew up a balloon and squeezed it and his hands were wobbling the whole time. It's because the air from the balloon was trying to get out of that space.After that experiment Luka blew up a balloon and put it into a bucket of water he let go and the water turned to bubbles. The water went all over the carpet. This was fun.

The Water Cycle

This term we have been learning about the water cycle and how it works.We have started searching for information that might help us in our explanation writing. Miss down gave us the worksheet that is in the picture.Did you know that 70% of a human beings body is water. Three quarters of the world is water. 97% of the water on earth is salt water that comes from the sea. My favorite facts is that all the water that on earth today every single drop that is all the water there has ever been on earth.

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 it out.

Jesus Strand - Religious Education

During term 1 we have been learning about Jesus the son of God.This my cube on how Jesus showed us that God loved us all as His children.We are all blessed with the gifts with faith hope and love.

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.

My Accident Story

Dirt Bike Championship


February 2019


Miranda

I

am learning to entertain my audience through a recount.


Have you ever been on a dirt bike? Or seen how fast they go? If you have then you know they go extremely fast! If you don’t know what a dirt bike is, then it is a motorised bike that is powered to go fast. Some of the most major accidents have been on a dirt bikes. Dirt bikes can be rather dangerous. And this is the story of what happened to me when things did go wrong.

So there I was riding like a monster, speeding past 40 year olds on my little 80cc. I was at New Zealand Motocross tournament (also known as Pukekohe Fun Family Track).

I saw the finish flag 10 meters in front of me. I was going 100 mph. Then I saw one LAST jump, but I was going too fast. I tried to slow down but the brakes weren’t working. I flew over the jump, 100 meters up in the air! I was in so much shock. I let go, I was superman, well at least until I was falling. I fell faster than the dirt bike.

BAM, I fell straight down on my left shoulder. I got knocked out for a couple of seconds. When I woke up I saw the dirtbike coming straight down and I saw where it was going to land and it was not pretty. I tried to move both my legs but only one moved then.. smash. The bike landed on my leg. It hurt a lot, I was crying so much. A nice 12 year-old boy got off his bike and pushed my bike off my leg. He waited until my dad caught up to me.

I had to carry on till the end of the race. Afterwards we looked at my leg and my shoulder and it was swollen so much. When I finally arrived home I put an ice pack on my leg and my shoulder. That is my accident, it might not be the worse accident in the world but it sure was an adventure. What was your accident?

Swimming

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. During the lent season we have to remember to pray, alms giving and helping others. else did to.

This year I am focusing on being nicer to my sisters.

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:

Mihimihi

                                    Mihimihi

                                 Miranda

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




Tēnā koutou katoa, (greetings to you all)

Ko Maungawhau tōku maunga (mountain)

Ko Waitemata tōku moana (ocean)

Nō Aotearoa ahau (where you are from)

Kei Auckland tōku kāinga ināianei. (I now live)

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

Ko Flexman tōku whānau (family)

Ko James Flexman tōku pāpā (father)

No Hamilton ia.

Ko Nikki Rice tōku māmā (mother)

No Auckland ia.

Ko Miranda Flexman tōku ingoa (your name)

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

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

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 Good Shepherd has its own flavour in its own way we are the only Good Shepherd around.

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.”

Maori pastel art

After learning about the Treaty of Waitangi, the year 5s took inspiration from the Maori culture and their learning to capture some of the designs. This is my Maori pastel art:

Treaty of Waitangi

Year 5 Maori - Treaty of Waitangi

During week 1 we were learning about the Treaty of Waitangi. The Treaty of Waitangi is New Zealand's founding document. The name is taken from the place in the Bay of Islands where it was first signed, on 6 February 1840. New Zealand recognise this special day with a public holiday. The Treaty of Waitangi is an important agreement that was signed by representatives of the British Crown and Māori in 1840. The purpose of the Treaty was to enable the British settlers and the Māori people to live together in New Zealand under a common set of laws or agreements.


Here is a picture of our factual posters: