Jesus Strand-Religious Education

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 loves us all as his children. We are all blesssed with the gifts of faith hope and love.


                                             

Saint Joseph's Day Tabloid sports

Saint Josephs 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. We all got to play so many fun and exciting games. Thank you to our leaders who prepared this.

My Accident Story

Brave with a Giant Pair of Lungs.

February 2019

Zara

I am learning to entertain my audience through a recount.

Boredom is one of my worst fears and it was happening to me one afternoon after school. It was just me, alone sitting on top of the monkey bars. It was the 29th of October and I had no hope that I was ever going to find someone to play with in the playground. But then in the distance I saw Maggie running down the long, steep hill, past the monkey bars and tall towers. When she finally got to me, we found a bright yellow ball with a purple nike symbol that gave me an idea…

We picked up the ball and started shooting some hoops on the tallest monkey bars that were at the playground, “She shoots..” Oh the look on her face… “She scores!” After a while this game got boring. I thought to myself what could we possibly do. ‘Hey I’m going to do my best move on the monkey bars, I am going to jump across to the second bar, missing out the first.

I jumped but as I jumped for the second bar I suddenly had the fear that Maggie might try and shoot again while I was missing out the first as I was in mid air. My concentration was elsewhere as my first hand grazed over the bar, not enough to grip onto the bar... noooo! I fell I had to think fast as I could as I was about to land on my back. My arm reached out to brace my fall, like I wanted to lean on it. My arm hitting the ground, my weight falling down behind me onto my arm. Looking at the shape of arm, which was rather weird and a squiggle. I screamed at the top of my lungs and everybody's attention was drawn to my beautiful face (except for the boys on the field who don’t care about me). Josie’s mum, Maggie’s mum, my au pair all came running as fast as they could to get to me.

Maggie’s mum dialed the White Cross, Josie’s mum was looking after me and my au-pair was calling my mum. I got into Josie’s car and off we went to the White Cross. “Ahhhhhhh the pain, it huuuuurts,” screaming loudly. Screaming and screaming with pain as we arrived at the doctors. Then with a sigh of relief the best thing that could have happened at the moment happened. My mum came in. She told me that she could hear me all the way from the waiting room. I went for an X-ray and they told me my arm was broken but is was too much of a break for the White Cross to deal with so I had to go to the hospital, Starship.

That night I got home at 7:00, I was so tired, I couldn’t eat food and I threw up the popsicle my parents had given me for being brave. Brave with a giant pair of lungs that is.

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 wdnesday

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.

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 d omestic violence. In support we all wore orange clothes and brought a gold coin donation to help the charity. Here are some pictures:

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.