Barbara Kendall Visit

Today we had Barbara Kendall come and visit us at school.

Barbara's talk today helped to inspire and motivate us. She encouraged us to have confidence and to work towards excellence. Barbara shared with us from her own journey of achieving consistent sustainable world class results and international leadership while maintaining a balance in life. 

About Barbara:

Barbara spent 21 years at the top of international windsurfing, competing at five Olympic Games, winning medals at three of them. She has four world Championship titles, 4 NZ sports woman of the year titles and been inducted into International Sailing and New Zealand's hall of fame and got awarded Sport New Zealand Leadership award in 2014.

Currently she is a member of the International Olympic Committee and volunteers her time to sit on 12 different sporting executive boards, commissions or working groups representing New Zealand, Oceania, Woman and Athletes on this highest level of sports administration. 

Barbara acts as an ambassador for Health 2000, the New Zealand Olympic Committee and Project Litefoot. She is a Patron of the Upside downs Education Trust, Motutapu Outdoor Education Camp, and Gulf Harbour Yacht Club.

Small Ball Skills

This term in Room 5 we are working on our small ball skills. We are learning to throw and catch a ball using hand eye-ordination at varying distances as well as working cooperatively within a team.

Below are some photo of us putting these skills in to practice in a game of scatter ball with Room 6 students.

Te Reo Maori

This term in Te Reo Maori we have been focusing on our school's pepeha.

Ko Putauaki te maunga
Ko Ohinemataroa te awa
Ko Mataatua te waka
Ko Ngati Awa te Iwi
Ko Toroa te Tangata
Ko St Joseph's te kura

This week as a focus on "Ko St Joseph's the kura, we were learning about our school's waharoa.  We learnt that Wayne Stuart, an ex-student of our school carved our waharoa many years ago.


At the bottom of our waharoa are the Priest's, we know they are Priests because they are holding crosses.  We know they are males because they are doing the pukana.  We know from kappa haka only males poke their tongue.  They are doing the pukana to scare away all things evil.

Above the Priest's are the Sister's of St Joe's.  We know they are the sisters because on their chest is their crest they would wear in their days.

At the top of our waharoa is the Holy Trinity, with God at the centre.  They wear a korowai (cloak) to cover us all in their love.  In each hand they are holding a patu (a maori weapon) which symbolises all of the work of God in our school.

We know we are a Catholic school and that makes us special.  Our waharoa is very special to us, because its story is all about our school and our religion.

Stations of the Cross

We are learning about Lent so on Friday we went and had a tour of the Stations of the Cross over at the Church. We walked around the Church looking at each of the 14 stations and learnt what happened at each one.

The 14 stations are:

1. Christ is condemned to death.
2. The cross is laid upon him.
3. Jesus has His first fall.
4. Jesus meets His Blessed Mother. 
5. Simon of Cyrene is made to bear the cross. 
6. Jesus' face is wiped by Veronica. 
7. Jesus falls a second time.  
8. Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem. 
9. Jesus falls a third time. 
10. Jesus is stripped of His garments. 
11. Jesus is crucified. 
12. Jesus dies on the cross. 
13. Jesus body is taken down from the cross.  
14. Jesus is laid in the tomb.

In Room 5 we work hard

This week ERO has been in the school and we have been able to show them how hard we can work. We have had a big focus on writing recounts and have also been doing lots of work on our statistics unit. This week for Golden Time we are having electronics, toys and games.

 

Pass It

On Friday we started Go4It and had our first 'Pass It' session. We were learning how to chest pass, bounce pass and catch a netball. Miss Wallace was very impressed with our skills. 

Gospel Value - Speaking with gentleness

This week our Gospel Value is speaking with gentleness. At assembly on Monday the students from Room 1 performed some scenarios demonstrating how we could speak with gentleness when someone wants to join in with our game, when a classmate is upset or if we are angry.

We then discussed in class how speaking with gentleness helps us to follow the Golden Rule of we are kind and respectful.

In Room 5 we speak with gentleness when we:
Speak softly - without raising our voices or shouting
Speak carefully - We think before we speak (especially when we are frustrated or angry)


A gentle answer turns anger away. But mean words stir up anger.
- Proverbs 15:1