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: