Lights, camera, action!

Welcome back!

This week we have been looking at ways we can use camera angles to tell a story, we have been collaborating with our team mates to make the story come to life. We are working in groups of 4 where we have been taking turns at different roles. 

They are: 

• Scene Manager - 1 person moves the characters

• Camera person - 1 person takes the photo

• Director - 1 person tells the characters what to do

• Editor - 1 person looks at the final shots and tells next steps

 

It has been fun taking turns because it is helping us see what the different roles do and how they are all important to make the final movie. 

We are planning on using stop motion to make our movie and we can't wait to share it with you soon! 

 

Storytelling and Relationships

Hey there, 

Keeping with the idea of storytelling, we have been working as a class to learn more about storyboarding and planning our ideas to help prepare us for our Film Festival movie making! 

We have been learning about what makes a good story and how we can hook our audience in using different sounds and camera angles. Check out a few of our plans here: 

Our next stage is to share our ideas and plans with the class and decide whick story we want to create - maybe some of our ideas might join together - which is a big part of building smart relationships! 

Collaborating with others to learn and grow with one another! 

That's all for today,

 Naomi 

 

Planning - Getting our ideas together

 Kia Ora, 

We have been looking at ways we can use story telling to build smart relationships. We have been looking at writing Positive, Thoughtful, Helpful comments online.  

It has been useful to think about how we are using our words to connect with people, practising different ways of communication with others. 

We are looking forward to practicing this in upcoming sessions! 

Room 6 children receive the Sacraments of Confirmation and First Holy Communion

 Over the weekend, ten of us in Room 6, received the Sacraments of Confirmation and First Holy Communion. For about six weeks we met together after Mass on Sundays, for lessons with our teacher. For Confirmation, we had to choose a Saint who we admire and would be close to us for the rest of our lives.

As the time was getting closer, we were getting more and more excited to meet the new Bishop, who was going to come to our parish to be with us as we continue our journey with Jesus. We also had to decide what we were going to wear. For Confirmation, which was on Saturday night, we could wear any clothes that were respectful. For First Holy Communion on Sunday, the girls were asked to wear white and the boys could wear white and black. We all looked fabulous.

Bishop Steve was very kind to us and he even came to celebrate in the hall with us afterwards. We had a special morning tea with the parish. There were so many people there who were congratulating us. We felt very close to Jesus and we will remember this weekend forever.

                                                                   Confirmation

First Holy Communion

Receiving our beautiful new Dictionaries

 Last Friday, the 13th May, we were so excited because we were having visitors to our class. Just before morning tea there was a knock at the door and Ms Bullot and our teacher came inside with two ladies. Ms Bullot introduced them to us as the "word fairies" because they were bringing us brand new dictionaries. We can use our dictionaries to help us with our writing and look up the meanings of new words.

Mrs Kearns told us a little bit about what Pakuranga Rotary does in the community. They raise money to buy Dictionaries for children not only for our school but for children around the Pacific. They have been coming to our school for many years and we are very grateful.

We all signed our names inside our books and our teacher took photos of us. Here is a picture of us after we had received our books. Thank you Pakuranga Rotary - we feel blessed.

Snapshots of what we have been up to in Room 6 this Term.

 

Welcome to Room 6. This Term has been an unusual one, where not all of us have been able to come to school every day, as we would have like to. It has taught us how much we enjoy being able to participate in and contribute to our learning when we are at school with our classmates.

Class Treaty

At the beginning of the term we read 'The Tree Hut Treaty' by Wiremu Grace, which helped us develop our own thoughts on what we wanted our classroom to look, feel and sound like this year. It encouraged us to think about what being a good classmate entails and this fitted in with our Mitey learning about 'Mana' as well. 

We created our own Tree Hut on the wall at the back of the classroom by painting and adding animals, insects and beautiful flowers to it. 

This is our Class Tree Hut with all of us inside it and some of our 'mana' words on the ladder leading up into the hut. We have our Class Treaty up too, which we have all signed:

Cricket

We have also been lucky enought this term to have had cricket skills with Coach Nick from Cricket Auckland. We have learned and practised small ball skills, like throwing, catching, underarm, overarm throws, aiming at the wickets and playing non stop cricket. It has been so much fun and we learned so much:

Time Capsule

We set our year's learning goals and placed them in a time capsule, which we hid in a secret place till the end of the year. We hope to work towards achieving these goals over the next three terms.

Profile Self Portraits

Later in the term we created self portraits using an overhead projector. We looked at light refraction and used our profiles to project these onto the white board. Then our partners traced around the image on black paper. These were cut out and stuck onto a white background. We reminded ourselves that we are all unique and special and created in the image and likeness of God. We love our portraits:

Designing and Creating our own model Tree Huts

Finally, we finished the term with the design and creation of our own model Tree Huts. We drew a plan on squared paper and then brought recycled materials from home. In the last week of term we spent everyday creating our tree huts and it was fun. We had some success criteria to follow, so we kept on having to refer to these.

 

Success Criteria were: the huts had to be less than 50cm tall, they had to be water and wind resistant and they had to be able to take the weight of 4 pairs of scissors.

On the last day of term we painted and then had to test our huts against the criteria and most of our tree huts were successful. We all said this was our best week at school!!!

Here are some photos:

Happy Easter everybody!

Catholic Schools' Day

 Catholic Schools' Day

Last Wednesday, 29th September, all Catholic Schools around the country celebrated our Catholicity and  the reasons we love attending our special schools. We all joined in a school meet at 11am to share a beautiful Liturgy, organised by Room 7 and 8 students. It was great to connect with one another again and see our friends looking so happy. Thank you to Ms Bullot for spending many hours collating this wonderful video for us to keep looking back on, in thanks and gratitude for our fantastic school, St Patrick's.

Here is our video for you to enjoy:

Catholic Schools' Day

Lockdown Activities

Lockdown Activities

With lockdown level 4 coming to an end at midnight tonight, I thought it would be a good idea to share some of the amazing learning many of you have completed and shared with me. It's not easy to keep motivated and focused on learning when we're not in the classroom environment but you have all done a stirling job. I am proud of your efforts!


Ion doing crafts with his sister.


Eldrich playing chess and doing karate with Ezekiel





Create a word cloud promoting friendships and how important it is to feel valued.

By Daniel

Laura's fudge pudding and writing her Pepeha during Maori Language Week.

Lockdown Diary Entry: 

This morning after I woke up and brushed my teeth, I came and set up the device I was working on which was a laptop. After I set up I did some of the work Mrs. Agnew gave me. At 9:45 I had a break and after I had my break, I did my Olympic slides with my friend Daniel. Then I drew a panda for my arts and crafts time and then I carried on doing my learning. 

By Andreaus

Our Common Home - Laudato Si

                             Our responses to the BOT initiative for a better world for all.

Room 6 were inspired by the letter sent to the children of the world by Pope Francis, Laudato Si. It gave us many insights into the state of our world and how, if all people across the globe work together, we can make a difference for ourselves and others. 

We began our journey by drafting our ideas as images in our writing books. We divided the page into sections, like in a stained glass window. Then we added blurbs to go with our pictures. We coloured them in, so we could get a good idea of what the final result would look like.

When we were happy with our Draft copies, we cellotaped half a page of overhead transparency sheeting over it. Then we started the fun part of colouring and writing the final blurbs if felts. It was really important that we coloured in one direction and didn't leave any gaps because otherwise they wouldn't look like real stained glass windows. The final job was to mount them on black cardboard which Mrs Yumul did for us, and wrote our names. We were going to hang them in our windows in the classroom but they are now up in the foyer of the school.

We are proud of our efforts and we hope they will motivate those who see them to think about the actions we take and could take to make our world a better place for us all to live in.

Click on the link below and you can see our presentation to the Board of Trustees set to "Our Common Home" song. We hope you enjoy it.

Room 6

 Our Common Home - Laudato Si

Water Safety

 We had been looking forward to going to Water Awareness lessons for a long time. We were booked in for ten days of lessons from the 8 June until the 21 June. We had to plan and prepare before hand so that we all had togs, towels and most importantly swimming caps. Some of us brought our gear in early, just to make sure we had it at school.

On the first day we were so excited we could hardly do our morning learning! The buses arrived on time and we saw the senior boys leave, then the Juniors and then the Senior girls left last. This is a photo of us girls leaving on the first day:

After we arrived at the CLM pool in Morrin Rd, we went upstairs and waited on the bench for our teacher. We were beyond excited.

We have learned over the last two weeks how to keep ourselves safe around water. We were told that New Zealand is surrounded by water, either the sea or rivers and lakes and we need to be able to stay afloat until help comes. We lay on our backs and spread our legs and arms out like starfish. We also used the boards to hold onto while we put our heads under the water and kicked our legs as fast as we could.

Our favourite day by far was the last Thursday when we got to get into a real boat!! We all had to sit around the edge facing towards one another. When the teacher said 'go' we had to fall backwards into the water. It was so much fun. Also, the teachers made us sit still in the boat and they tried to capsize us but we didn't fall over.

We have really enjoyed our water awareness lessons, even though we were very tired when we went home. Also it wasn't easy getting our togs and towels to dry overnight but we managed. What a wonderful experience we will remember forever.

Table Tennis Skills

 Yesterday the children in Room 6 were fortunate enough to be chosen to attend a lunchtime skills lesson with Dinyar, who represents New Zealand Table Tennis. We have been using 'small balls' as our focus this term and building skills both individually and in pairs. The table tennis balls are certainly small and definitely lighter than the tennis balls we've been using.

Dinyar started by introducing himself to us and then took a photo of us all. He handed out the bats, which are also very small in size and our first lesson was how to hold the bat. He said he thinks the best way is to pretend you are shaking someone's hand. We got that.

Then Dinyar asked us to challenge ourselves to how many times we can hit the ball straight up and down. After that we had to count our hits by turning the bat over each time. That was a bit harder but we are fast learners.

Our very final challenge was to stand very still and try and be the last person standing while balancing the ball on the bat. It was a lot of fun but the windy day didn't help the ball stay on the bat very easily. Thank you Dinyar for sharing your time and skills with us. We hope you can come again soon.

Room 6 2021

 

In Room 6 we have started our learning journey for 2021. We are ready to continue to form strong friendships full of kindness, compassion, forgiveness and empathy...just like Jesus.

Summer Learning Journey Has a New Format!

 This year the Summer Learning Journey has a different format. Below is a little teaser to try and see if you would like to be a part of this summers adventure!

Kick Start  Art Colouring Book: choose an image to colour. Dig Deeper  Watch: colouring time lapse Share  Upload your Art and a screenshot of the original and label each image. Describe why you chose a different colour for one of the objects in the painting. Watch: create your blog post.

Step It Up  Art Colouring Book: choose an image to colour. Use the Zoom Tool Look closely at the original image you chose to colour. What do you see? Dig Deeper  Watch: Elements of Art Read: Elements of Art Share Upload your Art and a screenshot of the original and label each image. Describe the image using as much detail as you can. Watch: create your blog post.

Mission Day with a difference!

 Last Friday we celebrated Mission Day at school. It was different to how we usually spend it because of Covid19 restrictions. We couldn't celebrate with our families or do any games and shopping. Unfortunately, we were not able to go to Mass either but we did start the day with a beautiful Liturgy under the canopy.

When we came to school we were allowed to come in mufti but we had to bring a gold coin as a donation. Every year our goal for Mission Day is to raise as much money as we can for Holy Angels orphanage in India. Ms Bullot told us that India has 50,000 new Covid19 cases every day. It must be very hard to live there and scary too.

After the Liturgy we came to class and we wrote our Basic Fact-athon. We had to ask friends and family to sponsor us. We brought our lists back to school. We all did very well and now we have to return all the donations to Mrs Thompson. We hope we raise a lot of money.

After morning tea we watched a movie called "The One and Only Ivan" about a gorilla and his friends. Mission Day was fun but different to our usual day but it was for a good cause - Holy Angels.

First Holy Communion 2020

On Sunday, 9 August, our St Patrick's faith community celebrated the ultra special Sacrament of First Holy Communion. Eight of the communicants are from Room 6 - to Andreaus, Julio, Nino, Joyla, Jamie, Frances, Tuaupu and Madelyn, we say Congratulations on making this commitment to continuing your faith journey with Jesus. 

It was such a joyous occasion - beautiful singing, excitement from communicants and families and the amazing morning tea afterwards in the parish hall, added to this memorable occasion. 

 

                                               

  

Art Work at School Level 3 , By Jamie

Daniel makes Cookies

Who is this behind the mask?

 

Nino's Bakery!

Thanks Nino for sharing your lockdown learning with us. 

I wish we were all able to test those delicious treats you made too! 

And then there was more!

 

Cooking Time at the Ripata's