Hooked on Cricket

Hooked on Cricket

On Monday the 19th November, the year 5 & 6 Students had the opportunity to go and play cricket.

We travelled to and from cricket on the bus, travelling with us were children from West Spreydon School.

The cricket was originally meant to be held at North Hagley Park, but there was a change of venue due to the weather forecast and we ended up being at Action Sports in Buchanans Road.

We were provided with lunch, morning tea and bottles of water. For morning tea we got to choose from biscuits or fruit and for Lunch we had Pita Pits.

St. Bernadette's School  and a few other schools were split into groups and the leaders were Canterbury Cricket Professional Cricket players, and they taught us how to play if we didn't already know.

Cricket was really enjoyable and we hope to do it again sometime.

Book Character Day

Book Character Day

Caleb, a Student in our room came up with the idea of having a Book Character Day.
Caleb and Paige were reading a Pixel Raider book and Caleb asked if there was going to be a Book Character Day, so they looked through a website to check but there was none. 

Caleb went to ask Mr Norman, and he thought it was a great idea to have a Book Character day so  Room 8 was given blank pieces of paper to make the poster's for Book Character Day.  
It was booked in for the Thursday the 15th of November, (a week after camp). 

When it was the Book Character Day, everyone was dressed up, and the main winner was Stanley but there were other winners. There was also a Sausage Sizzle on the same day!

Overall it was a fun day and even the teachers dressed up. 

*Here are some pictures of Caleb dressed up*

In Room 8, we have been learning how to write a persuasive piece of writing. Room 8 is persuading Mr Norman whether or not to move back to our original room or stay in 
Room 3. We have written our reasons why we should move back or stay in the room we are currently in.

The structure of a persuasive writing is

  - Title
  - Choose a side or give clear arguments for both sides
  - Strong opening statement
  - Reasons given and evidence to support the reasons
  - Strong conclusion summing up our point of view

We used the hamburger template to brainstorm what we are going to write. 
Here are some of our examples of persuasive writing

Moving back to Room 8

Dear Mr Norman,

I strongly believe we should stay in Room 3 for many reasons like
the bad heating or its longer too go for the P.A. and there's more space
in Room 3. Which I will elaborate on further in my argument.

In Room 8 I feel uncomfortable and claustrophobic.
In Room 3 we are neighbouring to the other classrooms in case of classroom
split.

If we are moving from Room 8 our chromebook’s might get wet in the rain.
People with phones can leave through the office to get their phones and you
can growl at us easier.

In Room 3 the printer and photocopier are just around the corner.
We are also closer to first aid and medical equipment.
Furthermore we are closer to the exit.

It is more convenient to stay here this is why personally,
I strongly believe Room 8 as a class should stay in Room 3.

Yours sincerely,

Jimmy

Dear Mr Norman

I strongly believe that we should be allowed to move back to Room 8.

We only moved to Room 3 because of the Church being refurbished but now that
the Church is finished we can move back and are ready to move back to Room 8.

I would like to move back to Room 8 since a lot has happened in Room 3.
For instance arguments and drama, so we could get away from those memories,
and create new ones.

We would feel like part of the senior school since we would be near Room 6 full of
the year 7 and 8 students, It would mean alot to me if we could move to Room 8,
to be with the seniors, since year 6 and up are seniors.

If someone is busting to go to the toilet for any reason, it would be right there for them
to go. If we have been painting we can wash our hands there, instead of walking all
the way to the toilets like what we have to do in Room 3.

It will give us a chance to create new memories and for the other students to remember
their old memories, and I would remember when my sister was there.

In conclusion I firmly believe we should move back to Room 8 so we can create  new
memories to treasure.

Yours sincerely,

Shelby O’Donoghue From Room 8.

Uru Manuka Cultural Festival

Uru Manuka Cultural Festival 

 The Uru Manuka Cultural Festival is an event where Schools come together to perform and celebrate the different cultures of our School Communities. This year we celebrated the Maori Culture. 

 On the 24th October, the St. Bernadette's Kapa Haka group performed at the Uru Manuka Cultural Festival for the first time. There were two performances, a Matinee one and an evening performance. The songs we performed consisted of: Kawaita, E Rere Taku Poi with Poi and Utaina. Our cultural leader Whaia Tanya taught us our songs and how to use poi. Mrs Lee accompanied the group playing the guitar. 

 At the evening session of the festival, there were eight or nine schools that performed, and their efforts were well received by the audience. The audience showed their approval by clapping and loud cheering. 

 The Uru Manuka Cultural Festival was a success and next year our school hopes to have a school costume that we can wear to perform in. We are looking forward to taking part again.

St. Bernadette's Kapa Haka Group

Refurbished, Repaired, Strengthened and Extended

On the 17th of October we had our first whole school Mass in the reconstructed Church. Our refurbished, repaired, strengthened and extended Church has a new Tabernacle, carpet, walls e.g. the decorated walls with vines leading into the stars. Jesus is the vine grower and we are the stars.

We have one statue of Mary from Rome, one statue of St. Bernadette from France, and a Crucifix from Spain. This helps to make our Church globally connected.
In the old Church we blessed ourselves with Holy Water out of two bowls, but now we bless ourselves out of the Baptismal Font.

The two entrance doors are now made out of glass , the seats have been angled and the projector is now split into two one on each side of the Church.


Everyone is so proud of the refurbished Church and all the detail that has been put in to the Church. We thank all the people who were involved in making Father Paulo's goal come true.

Student Summit

Student Summit Term 3, 2018

WALT: use different websites to share/present our learning

On the 13th of September Students from our school, from Rooms 8 and 6 were selected to go to the Student Summit. We walked down to Hornby High and joined up with other schools in our Cluster.  We all went into the new building at Hornby High School and were welcomed with a welcoming Waiata in Maori. Miss Morgan went through our session classes with us on a big television.
We then got told where we were to go and we started right away.

The topics that we were assigned were: Sick of making the same DLO's?, Use Piktochart and make your blogs more exciting, Vennage, create your own poster, slideshow and more, Pick-a-Path, Make music on scratch, Coding, Sumopaint, Pixel ART, Biteable Movies, Scratch coding, Voki, Online Music maker, iMovie, Important Chains/Skins, Sensational Storybirds, Gamefoot, A Path to a Movie, Gargantuan Google Sites, DIY ANIMATION, Robotics and How to Stop Mo.

We learned a lot of new ways to present and share our learning. We will endeavour to share our knowledge with others in our classes.

We had a lot of fun and we would love to do it again!

St John, Module: Responding in an Emergency

St Johns

On the 4th of September we were acquainted with Paula Hart. Paula works for St Johns, particularly in Schools. We were very lucky to have learnt about keeping people safe and healthy. 

Paula taught us how to do "DRSABCD", Paula also showed us how to deal with cuts. For this she taught us a jingle, it goes like this "Pack it, Wrap it, Raise it".

 We did role plays and word puzzles. Paula was a great help to us for medical reasons and keeping ourselves safe in an Emergency. we would like to thank you very much for giving us more knowledge 

DRSABCD (Doctor's ABCD) means:

Danger
Response
Send for help
Airway
Breathing
CPR
Defribulator

We are practicing the DRSABCD                             

                                                                      Here we are practicing bandaging cuts.