Red and Black day

Red and Black Day! Friday 27 July, 2018

Last week at St. Bernadette's School we had a Red and Black day to support the Crusaders in the Super Rugby Finals. Room 8 made up a song to the tune of the New Zealand National Anthem to show their support for the Crusaders. The Crusaders heard the song and sent back a thank you for our class.

Here is the song

Giving back to the Community

Giving back to the Community

Recently we had the privilege to create puzzle pieces saying welcome in different languages. Some of these languages were: Samoan, Chinese, Filipino, Fijian, English, Tongan, Maori, Indian Punjabi, and Cook Island. We had to do a base coat and then another coat of paint and then we created the words and painted over the puzzle pieces with black. We had to make sure that you could not see the pencil underneath it or we had to do another layer (Term 2). Then when it was all dry our caretaker Henk took them to 126 on the Corner to put up in the hall. After the holidays we went down to 126 on the Corner to go see what they looked like all together (Term 3). The puzzle pieces were in order of the rainbow. The Community were there to celebrate the new look to the hall. They complemented us on the puzzle pieces and said that they looked really good.

Responsibility

Responsibility

Responsibility is our focus for Term 3. 
Responsibility means being reliable and trustworthy. 

Responsibility is one of our C.E.R.R values. We have four C.E.R.R values Compassion, Excellence , Responsibility and Respect. 

We have learnt not only to say what the C.E.R.R. values are about, but to put them into action. One way we are working on showing Responsibility in Term 3 in our classroom is having H.O.L (Hubs of Learning). These Hubs are Liturgical Leaders, Corridor Inspector, P.A. (personal assistant) for our Teacher, Health Team, Class Blog and Whiteboard manager, whereby it is our job to set up rosters and to help things run smoothly in our classroom.

Another way to show Responsibility is by taking responsibility for our own learning and showing excellence in our work.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Novel Study

WALT: Create a portfolio for our Reading of 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'

As part of our Reading programme, novel study on ('The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' by C.S. Lewis) we were required to complete a Portfolio 

There were 4 parts to the portfolio: Character Trading Cards, Story Plot, Chapter Summaries and the Cover.

Here are some examples of completed Portfolios.

Samoan Language Week

WALT: Learn some words and phrases of the Samoan Language.

In Room 8 we have Samoan students who can speak the language fluently. 
We had reading groups of 4 or 5 where the experts showed us how to say some simple words in their language, through sharing Samoan stories.
Here are Felix and Sanele (the experts) leading one of the groups.

Baptism Posters

WALT: Create a poster to show what happens when you receive the Sacrament of Baptism.

Room 8 were asked to create a poster to inform others about what happens during Baptism. These are our posters of what Room 8 came up with. We used words, phrases, symbols, and images.

Term 2 2018

Welcome 

Welcome St. Bernadette's 2018 Room 8 Class Blog.

Room 8 is a composite class of 13 Year 6 & 10 Year 7 students. There are 23 students altogether: 11 girls and 12 boys in our class.

This is our class blog where we will share our work and express our knowledge. We are a catholic school so we will be sharing not only our Maths, Writing and Reading but we will be sharing our Religious Education.

We will be posting highlights from our week and this will go up on the blog once a week.