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.

Kickstart Breakfast

24 August, 2018 

Kickstart Breakfast 

Today at St. Bernadette's, we had Tracey Fleming (Relationship Manager) from Kickstart Breakfast and John (Sanitarium Manager) visit our Breakfast Club to see how things were going. We have Breakfast Club running on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at school in Room 7. This is an opportunity for children to have breakfast before school to engage their brains, and it is also a social time where children can converse with other students and adults.

In the photo we can see (aside from Tracey and John), Mr Norman (Principal of St. Bernadette's), Mrs Barnes (volunteers) who help out at Breakfast Club and Karin from Mana Ake. 

Here are some comments from children in Room 8 about the Breakfast Club:

"I like the food that they make".

"I like the way Breakfast Club provides food for children who haven't eaten breakfast at home".

"I like the way the Staff who volunteer in Breakfast Club are so welcoming to everyone".

"At Breakfast Club, I like the way the Volunteers are very polite and it is fun to talk to them".

"I like the way we get to choose what we would like to eat".

Tongan Language (Sister Monika)

Tongan Language

At the start of this year, the Year 6 students have been learning Tongan language with Sister Monika.
This takes place when the Year 7 students are at Technology.
Sister Monika has helped us learn some phrases in Tongan and also to respond to phrases spoken in the Tongan language.

Other activities we have been doing include : 
- Worksheets translating English to Tongan
- Prayers, songs and dances e.g  Te Iwi e and Si'i lolo
   
Recently we have begun to learn other languages e.g Te Reo and Samoan.
We would like to thank Sister Monika for preparing the worksheets and tasks for us.

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