Spreading The Good News

We marked Paul's journeys where he went. He spread the word everywhere

Famous People in the Early Church Communities

We were making posters about special people and my group did

Paul/Saul and one of the facts we put on there were I am

fairly feisty enthusiastic sort of character and I do not tolerate fools easily.

Religious Triangle

This is my triangle it has the three gifts from the 

holy spirit faith, hope and love

Jesus Strand-Religious Education

During term 1 we have been learning about Jesus Son of God. This is my cube on how Jesus showed us that God loved us all as his children. We are all blessed with the gifts of faith,hope and love.

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Ash Wednesday

Today was Ash Wednesday. We went to church and sang some hymns, got the ashes on our foreheads, sung happy birthday to a little girl starting school on her birthday! We then went up and got a blessing.We did make an attempt to keep our ashes on our foreheads, but that was a fail due to swimming and itching it off. We had a good day and hope everyone season of Lent and it is at a time of preparation.

Shrove Tuesday

Tuesday was Shrove Tuesday. We all had a great day in room 6. The festivities started with the burning of the ashes on the turf. This was a new and exciting experience that not many of us had seen before.
Later on during Religious Education we learnt more about Shrove Tuesday and Lent. People used to get rid of all their luxury items such as flour, sugar, butter, eggs and milk by making pancakes. We were even able to enjoy some pancakes of our own. We all thought it was a great start to lent and we are looking forward to the lenten season as we prepare for the death and resurrection of Jesus. We are the season of Lent and it is a time of preparation.

Shine

A sea of orange flood Good Shepherd School on Friday the 8th of March. This week was shine week. We raise money to help people whose lives are affected domestic violence. In support we all wore orange clothes and brought a gold coin donation to help the charity. Here are some pictures:

Charism

Did you know the reason Good Shepherd School named their syndicates Connolly and Sheridan? Connolly and Sheridan were the names of the first two sisters that worked at Good Shepherd School when it opened. That is just one of the fun facts we learnt this week when we explored the charism of our school. The charism of our school is the flavour of our school, it is what makes us Good Shepherd School. Over the week we looked at the history of the school and unpacked the visual Image of the Good Shepherd Cross with the values, scripture, feast days and the St Mary MacKillop sayings. We unpacked the values and why we have those values. In groups we identified what each value looked, sounded and felt like before making up definitions. A fact that I learnt was Connolly and Sheridan were one of the two sisters of Mary MacKillop.

Prayers

Week 5 and 6 were busy for Room 6 we presented our assembly in week 5 and had whole school prayers on Monday, Week 6. Our theme for prayers was community, compassion, and discipleship. This was inspired as we approach christmas and start to think about others and those who are in need of help. Our Reading was 1 John 3:16-18, we also presented a song that we put lyrical dances moves to our song was: So will I, by Hillsong. This is the song: So will I

St Anthony Of Padua

Our focus this term in Religious Education was the Communion of Saints. We learnt about the three parts of the Communion of Saints and how we are all connected. The Communion of Saints is bonded through prayer, baptism and the Eucharist.

Communion Of Saints

This is when our teacher split us into 3 groups

the living, purgatory and heaven which the

living prays for  purgatory and heaven, 

purgatory gets ready for heaven,

and heaven prays for both purgatory

and the living.

Year 5 Retreat

When we were at our year 5 Retreat we took this photo

just before we left and we all had a great

time their.

Paper Weaving

Today we have weaved with paper to make 

our All Saints day and All Souls day paper thing.

Title page

Our title page about Jesus.

The Call Of Abraham And Sarah

The Call Of Abraham And Sarah

God Title Page

This is my God Is Faithful

title page.

social justice

We had to watch this video about fairness
and then complete a sheet that asked us
about things for example what do you think
is the main message of the story.

St Mary Mackillop Feast Day

Yesterday was the feast day of Saint Mary Mackillop. We started our day attending our parish mass to celebrate her feast day as a whole community. All the students came back from mass to continue the celebrations by joining our buddy class. Room 4 and 6 together came together to work on paper dolls of ourselves. We know St Mary of the Cross always supported and helped all the children in need. We made a large St Mary MacKillop and we placed all out paper dolls of ourselves around her. Then we were all very lucky to receive a free sausage sizzle from the PTA to continue the celebrations at lunch. In the afternoon we then got to go and play a range of fun games with our buddy class. This was such a fun day working along each other but most of all having fun. Happy Saint Mary MacKillop Feast Day.
Here is our mural…

The Ascension of the lord

In RE we learnt about the Ascension of Jesus. At Galilee Jesus told his disciples to take his Gospel to the whole world he promised to send the Holy Spirit to be with us always and then he returned in glory to his Father in heaven. We used crafts to show how Jesus went body and soul to heaven