Cook Islands

Week 3 has been a very busy week with so many celebrations. Good Shepherd School celebrates our multicultural school with our Cook Island Language focus. We looked at the culture through our reading and made fun fact files. We were also lucky to have Alessandra and the cultural leaders teach us a Pure (prayer) to sing.

We learnt Aro’a mai te Atua iaku. See if you can say/sing this pure too
Aro’a mai te Atua iaku.
Aro’a mai te Atua iaku
I te au mea taku kite nei
Te anuanua kua iti mai ki roto iaku
Aro’a mai te Atua iaku

My God loves me

My God loves me

And all the wonders I see

The rainbow shines through my window

My God loves me

Whole School prayers

Room 6 hosted whole school prayers. Our theme was The Gift of Faith. We did a song called ‘Open the Eyes of My Heart’ and Jiwoo, Zara and Maggie made hand actions for us. There were also people who did the prayers of the faithful. Overall prayers was a big success and everyone enjoyed it.


Here are is a picture of our prayers:

Assembly Term 3

Last week Room 6 performed their assembly. Our main entertainment was a drama circle on occupations. We also displayed our mixed media we made in term 2. Some people also shared about what they put on their art and why. We all had so much fun preparing and presenting our assembly

Here are some pictures of our assembly:

keeping our self's safe

For keeping our self's safe room 6 we have been learning about different types of touches and abuse

as a part of keeping our self's safe we had to look after an egg for 4 days and we also had to do the Tui tour the Tui tour is a sheet where we had to write the good choices on what we should do if we are ever abused of being touched inappropriately here is a picture (of not me)

RE Poster

For RE, Room Six has been making posters about the famous People in the early Church. Our group chose Peter for our poster here is a picture.

Water Cycle

How the Water Cycle Works?

I am learning to inform my audience through an explanation.

By Sanjay 

Did you know when you drink a glass of water you are probably drinking water that the first cave people also drank? The Earth has been recycling water for years! This process is called the water cycle. The water cycle is so simple anyone could understand it. Three quarters of the earth is covered in water, however only three percent is freshwater and even smaller is the actual drinkable water at one percent. There are three stages in the water cycle evaporation, precipitation and condensation. Each stage plays an important role in the water cycle.




Evaporation is the start of the water cycle. Evaporation is a process where water turns into water vapor. For example after a rainy day the rain leaves puddles on the Earth's surface. After the rain and an hour or so the water is gone that is because the sun has evaporated the water from the puddle. It doesn't have to be a sunny day for water to evaporate because the sun is always shining even when it is a stormy day, and supplying heat to the earth. From evaporation it leads into condensation.




Have you ever seen water on a window on a cold day? That is called condensation.

Condensation is when water vapor collect together together and is cooled down. Once it has collected together it then forms a liquid together as it connects together. The water vapor in the water cycle rises up into the atmosphere and it collects together and forms a cloud. Once the water vapor cools and collects together it gets darker and darker until it is ready to fall. This leads us into precipitation



Precipitation is when a cloud gets really full then the water falls from the cloud then it rains. Did you know when it rains you could be seeing water from the other side of the world? This is because the clouds evaporate water from the lakes, rivers and oceans from around the world and then the clouds come to where you live then it rains. Clouds move all around the world. When the clouds get heavy enough they water falls back down to earth as precipitation. This can be in the form of rain, hail, sleet or snow depending on the temperature in the atmosphere.




In conclusion there are three stages in the water cycle evaporation, condensation and precipitation, each stage plays evaporation evaporates the water condensation turns the water into a gas and precipitation makes it rain important role in the water cycle. Water is a very important resource in the world. If there was not a water cycle we would not be here today.

book week

GSS Book Week 2019

Authors, Illustrators, Books, Book Week, Parade, Event, 2019

Room 6 was hungry for books during our book week. We had a whole week celebrating all things books. We had author visits from Stu Duval and James Russell. Stu presented workshops on storytelling, cartooning and writing. James shared his books and told us stories. We did lots of cool book week activities in class like making dust jacket covers, wanted posters, bookmarks and story cubes. Finally our favourite day arrived, Friday. We got to dress up as our favourite characters and partake in the literacy treasure hunt. Overall book week is a fantastic week every year. Room 6 LOVES BOOK WEEK



Here are some photos from our time:



My book week character was: dark stalker