Jesse Tree

This week the Year Fives have been doing Jesse Tree prayers. Jesse Tree prayers are prayers that we do each day and the Year Fives would read four readings each day and we would put an ornament for each reading on the a Tree called the Jesse Tree. Then after the readings two Year Fives will read out to goals for the day. I really enjoy listening to the readings.

Graduation Mass

Last night the whole school had the end of year/Graduation Mass. Since I am a Year Six I was Graduating, all the Year Sixes performed a dance that we had been practicing for ages. I also did one of the prays of the faithful. At the end of the mass all the Year Sixes got a photo of all of us together which was really cool. I really enjoyed performing the dance and reading the prayer.

Sports Assembly

Today we had a whole school assembly and I presented at it. During the assembly kapa haka, choir and Irish dancing groups performed, athletics certificates were presented to. Since I am in the kapa haka group I performed the songs we performed my favorite thing we performed was the haka. I got five certificates for athletics I got one for 1st place one for 2nd and 3 for 3rd. It was really fun performing and watching the other groups perform.

St Peters Orchestra

Last week the St Peter's College symphonic and string orchestras came to school to play us some of the music they had been learning. My favorite song they played was the James Bond theme. They also taught us about the different instruments, my favorite instrument was the trumpet because it sounded really cool. It was really fun listening to the music that they played and learning about the different instruments.

Cultural Festival

On Saturday most of the kapa haka group performed at the Eden/Albert Cultural festival at Rocket park. there was tons of good food for us to buy before we performed, I had some dumplings, a bowl of stir fry noodles and slushie. When it was time for us to perform I was a bit nervous at first but after a while I found it was really fun. It was really cool watch the other performances and performing.

Cultural Assembly

Today we performed dances and songs that we have been learning this week as part of Cultural week. My class performed a two Japanese songs and a fan dance. It was really fun watching everyone perform and performing. We also made a poster with the songs on it. This is mine.

Cultural Performances

Today Mangawhau Pacific island and Maori groups came to our school. They performed  some songs and dances. one of the dances they had only praticed three times and it was really good. It was cool to watch them perform.

 Today Panmure Chinese Association also came to school. They performed two dances for us. They were really graceful. I really enjoyed watching both groups perform perform.

Author Visit

Today an author came to visit our school. His name Raymond Huber. He has written lots of books including: Sting, Wings and Flight of the Honey Bee. A lot of his books are about bees. It was really fun learning about his books and how he writes them.

Mini BB Fair

Today was the Mini BB Fair. The 2 B's stand for books and baking. I bought 1 book, 2 biscuits, 3 cupcakes and 4 scones. The reason we had the BB Fair was to raise money for a mural on the power box, we managed to raise enough money. It was a really fun day.

Grandparents Day

Today was Grandparents Mass. At mass I did a big reading. After mass there was tons of food to buy. I bought 6 cupcakes, 1 sausage and 3 biscuits.  I really enjoyed Grandparents Day.