Ash Wednesday

 Today we celebrated Ash Wednesday. We made posters to decorate our class. We shared what we are giving up for Lent. 

 

Welcome new students of 2021

We are really excited to be together in Room 4. Please follow our learning journey through our class blog, personal blogs, and our class site. Your personal blog will be available for your to use in week 2.

Advent

 

Reading Group Poem

Lions group read a poem about an Owl. They wanted to write their own. They chose to write their poem about a horse. 

Real or Fake?

 Today we continued our work on smart media. As smart learners we will ask ourselves 2 questions when we are looking at anything online...

is it real or is it fake?

who can I trust?

Today we looked at some photos and decided if they were real or fake. We also talked about why people alter photos. 

Then we created some fake photos to try to convince others of what we do at our school.

Here are some of our photos...

Maara Kai ideas - Rylee

 Check out the individual student blogs to see the great presentation ideas. You will also learn where around the school you can find the different ingredients. 

Celebrating Cultural diversity in our classroom and school.

The lunchtime art group took it upon themselves to create a piece of artwork that honored the cultural diversity of our classrooms and parish community.

We decided to go with the idea of a sculpture. Every Wednesday lunchtime the art group would get together to research and draw designs.

Over the summer holiday some of these designs were chosen and made into the metal plates.

These metal plates show some of the cultures at our school.

During term 2 and 3 Room 4 took on the challenge to sand and varnish this beautiful piece of wood that my family had donated.

Thomas, Chanel, Stella and Jakob A were very keen to use crystals as part of the design. They are a symbol of light and love.

We finally completed the design with the Whakatauki plate.

It means - Let the uniqueness of the child guide our work.

As a school Saint Mary’s is built on the ideals of Mary Mackillop. Children are the centre of everything we do and the beauty and uniqueness of their cultural backgrounds are honored and celebrated here.

Thank you everyone who has shared this journey with us, contributed materials, time, and skills to help this amazing sculpture find it’s resting place in front of our school.