Mandarin

In Mandarin we learnt what the different body parts here's an example!

Eyes=

眼睛

Yǎnjīng

My Chinese Name

My name in Chinese is


锡耶纳


Xī yé nà

Cultural Week

Last week Good Shepherd School celebrated all the different cultures that we celebrated with a cultural celebration assembly that was held last friday. The cultures were: Korean, Spanish, Brazilian, Filipino, French, Japanese, Indian and German

Grandparents Mass

On Friday 24th August 2018 we celebrated Grandparents Mass with our grandparents, family/whanau and the whole school. We first went to mass to celebrate with Father Bernard Kyle, who blessed our dear Grandparent with a blessing and we sung a special song to them. When mass was finished our PTA team prepared a treat for us. There was lots of sweet and coffee/tea to sip on. By the time the that all the food was finished it was then time to perform some dances for our audience. The groups that performed were the Sheridan Kapa Haka, Choir, folk dancing, okulele and Irish Dancing. That was a joyful day that we would always remember. We are blessed to have such special people in our lives.

Samoan language week

                                                  Afio Mai to Samoan language Week.
                The cultural leaders opened the week with their  national costume and dance.


In room 6 we have been exploring the Samoan Cultural with general facts. We searched for our fact card around the room and collected information for our Jigsaw Reading Hunt.



Next our Samoan experts in class gave us a lesson on greetings and phrases in Samoan.




Then we moved onto counting to ten in Samoan for math before finishing our math session with a clapping game in Samoan.




Selo-zero

Tasi-one

Lua-two

Tolu-three

Fa-four

Lima-five

Ono-six

Fitu-seven

Valu-eight

Iva-Nine

Sefulu-ten

Ra Whanau Suzanne Aubert

In Room 6 we have been celebrating Suzanne Aubert’s birthday by making flowers for the theme, “Always choose the little flower of hope.”

Suzanne looked after sick people, people with disabilities, children whose families couldn’t care for them, and the elderly. The work she started continues to this day in places like Wellington’s Compassion Soup Kitchen.


Suzanne left her home in France and came to Aotearoa to support the Maori people. She honoured the Maori people, their tikanga, reo and rongoa. Suzanne loved God and always thought about what he wanted her to do, not what she wanted, even when that wasn’t easy.

For My Mother

My Handprint
Here is My handprint,
Five fingers in all,
Outside they are short,
But the middle one is tall,


You will find them on windows,
You can find them on the wall,
They will make a big mess,
For something so small,


One day i will grow,
And leave them no more,
My handprints will be missed,
Of that i am sure,

So here is one now,
That you cant wipe away,

My present to you,
This Mothers day.