Ready To Change The Way We Learn

Ash Wednesday/Blessing Of Our Net-Books

Wednesday 9th of March was Ash Wednesday.
A day I will never forget.

It was a Wednesday Morning. Around 9.00 the teachers and students of St Pius X School. Prepared themselves for our annual Ash Wednesday Mass.

Our Mass Began with Robbertanna doing the introduction. We then sang our intro hymn. It was called ‘Turn Back To God’
The Mass went on smoothly. Their were no problems at all.

Our Ash Wednesday Mass nearly came to an end. But before we sang our final hymn, and did the final blessing.
Father Iosefa was to do 1 extra blessing.

A blessing for our net-books. Not really a blessing for our net-books a blessing to how we are going to use it.
Father Iosefa Blessed us and our net-books.

It was then time to end our Mass and sing the final hymn.


NOW WE ARE READY TO CHANGE THE WAY WE LEARN.

My Prayer Reflection Of Stations Of the Cross

Dear Jesus,
Thank-you for dying on the cross for our sins.
Thank-you for going through 14 rough and painful stations.
Without thinking bad thoughts of those who hurt you, and forgiving them.
May we be like you with our everyday life.
And may we remember you today as we go through those 14 rough and painful stations you went through.

Amen

Athletics Day

2011 St Pius X Athletics

Once a year St Pius X school have their athletics. So they can find out who would go to the cluster inter-zone athletics and represent our school.

Friday 18 March was St Pius X annual athletics day.
Friday was a fun and enjoyable day. Students were cheering for their teams. Lots of laughter and shouting going on. Teams were singing and chanting. I saw a lot of team effort shown from everyone.

On the other hand, teachers were frustrated with some of the students. Some were wandering around. Some took off for a drink without asking for permission. Others were just not listening. I thought it was okay but teachers said no.

Time for the cheer off, “yelled Mr Coakley”!
‘KEAS’ dynamite don’t mess with dynamite’ are one of the cheers I heard, at the cheer off. As well as Strawberry shortcake banner spilt we make your team look like ;shift to the left shift to the right come on TUIS fight fight fight’.

“And now the team that won the Cheer off is..............GECKOS !!” said Mr Coakley. ‘Who are who are who are we, we are we are somebody, can’t you see can’t you guess were the team that is the best’ - Geckos.

It was near the end of Athletics. But before that it was time to announce who came 4Th, 3rd 2nd and 1ST.

4th place by 169 points KEAS. 3rd place by 330 points KIWIS. Now first place by 500 points..............B-boom b-boom. My heart was thumping. Hoping that Mr Coakley would say TUIS.

“Now 1st place by 500 points................GECKOS”.

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!” I cried. Thinking that I was dreaming.

But Geckos soon got up and started yelling from the tops of their lungs.
That’s when I knew that it was reality.

Geckos. Had won, and TUIS had come second.

Reflection of 2010

Goldilocks and the Police

The Year 6's have worked very hard on their drama this term.  This group adapted the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.   Not bad seeings as all the equipment used was brand new and the first time any of us had ever used i-movie :-)

Description Of 2010

2010- was a new year and a new beginning. For all of us we were in a new year level, and had a new teacher. But for some of us we were at a new school which equalled up to new friends.

School life for 2010- has been really great. During term 1 our topic was where we fitted in St Pius, we also learnt about using the virtue co-operation, which pretty much means working together as a school/group. During Term 2 our topic was Hero’s and how they are helpful, to the community,(police,doctors etc.....). As well as that during Term 3 our topic was Changing Matter, and we learnt about the 3 basic matters you can change, ‘solid’ liquid’ and ‘gas’. Also on top of that Term 4’s topic was animals and their natural habitats. One thing I have learnt about animals is that certain animals have to live in a certain place.

2010- Has been an hectic year with the natural disasters such as the Haiti and Canterbury earthquake. Also with the miners in Chile and recently the miners in Greymouth. Who were sadly confirmed dead. Our prayers and thoughts go to the people in Greymouth who were related to one of the 29 miners.

2010- has been an awesome year from being a year 6 in Miss G’s class and being a presenter at the 2010 Manaikalani Film Festival.

So really one way of describing 2010 is using the word AWESOME, but also, with the miners at Greymouth another way is a ‘Country Tragedy’.

My Description Of A Baseball

A baseball is as round as a shooting comet. It is used obviously for the sport baseball.

A baseball is the same colour as Spongebob Squarepants socks, they are both red and white.

If there was no such thing as baseball’s the Los Angels Dodgers would not have won the 2010 Baseball world cup.

So as you can see you can describe a baseball in several different ways.