my acrostic poem on my mum

  

my acrostic poem

My Favourite Person in the world
Understanding me in all ways
Much Appreciated always

year 5 retreat

year 5 retreat

On Thursday all year fives went to St Francis of Acici retreat. We all had a blast! We did a Leaf hunt and the scavenger hunt. At lunch we played a ginormous game of infectious around the campus.

 

kitchen science

This week I was in kitchen science for pumanawa. we made hokey pokey the reaction was so cool it started to expand and then we had to tip it on a baking tray, here are some pictures of us .

procedure writing

Here is a picture of my persuasive writing 

Mixed Media - Visual Arts

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.

St Mary MacKillop day

St Mary MacKillop 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.

hockey fun

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:

room 6 prayers

room 6 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:

room 6 assembly

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 a picture of our assembly:

Cook Island Language week

Cook Island Language week

Week 3 has been a very busy week with so many celebrations. Good Shepherd School celebrates

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

the water cycle

water cycle

Have you ever thought about where the water we drink comes from? Many people do not even think about the water that flows out of a tap. All the water in the world is part of the water cycle. A cycle is when a series of steps repeat itself over and over. Each stage of the water cycle repeats itself. The earth is covered by at least three quarters of water. Most of this water on earth is salt water, 97 percent to be exact. This leaves 3 percent fresh water but only 1 percent is drinkable. The water cycle goes through three main stages evaporation, condensation and precipitation. After these stages take place we have our lovely drinkable water.
Evaporation happens when the sun heats up the water in seas, rivers, lakes or bodies of water. The heat from the sun makes the water evaporate from a small body of water like a puddle. Once the heat is added to the liquid it starts to transform the water into a gas called water vapor. Water vapor is actually invisible so you can’t see it. The water vapor goes high up into the sky. However once it reaches high up into the atmosphere it starts to get cooler which then starts the next stage in the water cycle.
The next stage is condensation. How does condensation work? Condensation is when water vapor gets higher and higher into the atmosphere. The water vapours starting to cool down turning back into tiny water drops that form together to make a cloud in the sky. The clouds gets heavier and heavier until the clouds are forced to drop the tiny water droplets.
So how does precipitation work? Precipitation is when the clouds get heavier and colder that the water in the cloud turn back into tiny water droplets.  They come together as water vapour that turns into tiny little droplets. The water droplets can freeze, making them fall as snow, sleet or hail. The higher the cloud the more chance there is of snow because the air is colder and thinner which impacts on the temperature of the water vapour.  This means there is no snow in hotter areas as the water vapour does not freeze in the warm temperature. All water will fall back down to earth, this is precipitation.  

So those are the steps in the water cycle and to keep this great cycle going we need to not waste water to help the earth.                                         

People in the early Church

This week for Religious Education I was put in a group of 4 and we did a poster on famous people in the early church. Me and my group did Priscilla and Aquila. They were tent makers and followers of god. Here is a poster on it .

Book week

GSS 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 My book week character was: Jinny Wesley I am the girl on the left

water care

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

cross country

Good Shepherd School had been busy training for cross country this term and finally the day arrived. In week 6 we all arrived at school in our running gear and had our house colours painted onto us. We were eager and ready to go and win house point. Overall the race was long and required a lot of stamina, but we were prepared. Here are some pictures from our races.

Samoan language Week

Samoan

language Week

This week was Samoan Language Week. In Room 6 we learnt a lot about Samoa and the Samoan culture. We watched Cultural Hub clips about the Samoan alphabet, animals and body parts. Did you know that the Samoan alphabet has only 17 letters? Also during reading time we did a scavenger phrases, our experts were Matila, Remy and Rosa.

Measuring in Maths

Yesterday my class and I did measuring. We made a square out of chalk and made an estimate of the size. I said we could fit 4 people in the square metre and I was right. Next we measured the classroom, it was 86 square metres. Here are some photos:

Science in a Van

Last week my class and I went to Science in a van in the hall with Room 5,6,7,8 and 9.  There we learnt about matter and the periodic table. 

Sign Language Week

This week we learnt how to do the national anthem in sign language in English and

Maori.

My Religious Education Triangle

On Thursday 9th may my class and I all made a 3-d triangle to show the gifts you get at baptism. Here is a photo of me with my triangle .

Maori Marae

On May the 3rd my class and I did some work on naming all of theses places in a marae. 

Here is a photo of my work .

The Season of Easter

My Pinwheel

On the 3rd of May my class and I made pinwheels for Religious Education.
Here is a photo of me with my pinwheel.

sun safety brochure

this term we have been working on brochure the topic was sun safety here is a photo of my brochure .

up up and away Dr sewss hot air balloon

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

Growth mindset -Goal bunting

Each student in room 6 has made a triangle bunting to show our Growth mindset goal and motto that we want to work on . Come and cheek them out !

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.

My Accident story

A Boating Good Time

February 2019

Pippa

I am learning to entertain my audience through a recount

Like most good accident stories they always start out boring. We were up at the bach, deep in the heart of Whitianga on a very normal afternoon. My sister Jess and I were entertaining our cousins as we explored the creek at the end of the beach. Now to get to the creek we simply jump in kayaks and paddle

down to the creek (cause nobody likes walking to the creek).

We took the kayaks out but there was not enough for everyone. So my big cousin Eddie and I took the rowboat down. When we got there we played in the water. Once we were done fooling around our cousins asked us if we could take there towel back to the house in the rowboat. They were very lazy indeed. So Eddie and I said, “Yes.”

On the way back I asked Eddie if it was possible to surf a wave in a small boat. I thought he would would be the one to know, you see he was a Lifeguard and did surf life saving. But apparently he didn’t know as they don’t do this. At this point I suggested that we could try, we rowed out to where the waves were starting to come in, we got as close as we could to the next wave. We paddled and paddled, then the wave came up behind us we. This was the moment to see if my bright idea would worked.

The wave caught up to us, and started to splash at our back, water poured into the boat. It became a race against time, we shuffled forward so that the water would not make the boat sink as it filled from behind. But we shuffled too much the boat nose dive from all our weight. The nose going under flipped the boat, we were now trapped under the boat. Stuck between the sand and the boat, we were too shallow to swim under. We were trapped.

Holding my breath for what seemed like forever but I’m sure was only a few seconds, we managed to have breathing space once the wave had settled. Turning to Eddie I said, “What if another wave comes Eddie, we will drown?” Eddie looked at me with confidence, “Nope Pippa, we aren’t going to die here today.” With all his strength he pushed from his knees forcing the boat up and off us. Freeing us from the trapped boat.

That was the day that my older cousin Eddie save me, I guess all that life saving did pay off. Eddie was confident in the face of danger. This story lives on when our family comes together, Eddie also has the nickname Aquaman now. And by the way all the towels we were carrying got all wet and floated on the ocean.

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

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 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

Pippa 

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

Tēnā koutou katoa, (greetings to you all)

Nō Aotearoa ahau (where you are from / Aotearoa*)

Ko Maungawhau tōku maunga (Mountain)

Ko Waitemata Harbour tōku moana (ocean)

Kei Auckland \Tāmaki Makaurau tōku kāinga ināianei (I now live)

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

Ko McHardy tōku whānau (family name)

Ko Matt McHardy tōku pāpā (father)

No Waihi ia (Father is from, share diverse backgrounds)

Ko Sarah McHardy tōku māmā (mother, ask if maiden or family name)

No Hamilton ia (Mother is from, share diverse backgrounds)

Ko Pippa McHardy tōku ingoa (your name)

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

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

Treaty of Waitangi 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

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:

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.”

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 sisters were called the Brown Joes also because of their brown outfits.