Thursday 21 March 2019

St Joseph's Day Tabloids Sports

On Tuesday it was St Joseph's Day. We celebrated by going to mass as a whole school in the morning.

On Wednesday we had tabloid sports day!

We were split into our houses and then each house were split into 2. Then we had 8 different games that we played that was organised by the house captains.

We finished our day with a sausage sizzle put on by our wonderful PTA.

What a great way to celebrate this great Saint!













Friday 8 March 2019

Light it Orange for Shine!

This week we have been collecting money to help victims of family violence get safe and stay safe!

On Friday we dressed up in orange clothes and showed up in full support for Shine Week!








Wednesday 6 March 2019

Shrove Tuesday

Today is Shrove Tuesday and we made PANCAKES!!!

We started by burning last years palm branches and then we made pancakes!





Shrove Tuesday is also called Pancake Day. It is over 1000 years old!

It is celebrated on the Tuesday before Lent begins.

Lent is an important time for Christians. It is a time when people are getting ready for Easter and thinking about becoming better people. Some Christians give up luxuries and 'rich' food, like chocolate and cakes. 

In the past, people gave up food like eggs and butter. The day before Lent began they would use up all these foods by making pancakes. 









Tuesday 5 March 2019

Swimming Sports

On Wednesday 20th February Connolly went to West Wave to compete in our annual SWIMMING SPORTS!!!

It was a wonderful day! We had 2 swimming groups- Competitive and Non-competitive.

We did freestyle races, back stroke races, dolphin dives, breast stroke and water walks.









Tuesday 28 August 2018

Grandparents Day

On Friday last week we celebrated our Grandparents!
What a beautiful day it was! We started with Mass, followed by a shared lunch and performances from our Sheridan Irish dancers, folk dancing, choir, ukelele group and Sheridan Kapa Haka.

We were so lucky to have the sun shining down on us, allowing us to have a wonderful celebration!














Friday 29 June 2018

Drama

We have been doing drama this term and learning about the story of Hansel and Gretel.

This week we learnt about freeze frames and how we can show pictures using our bodies. 

Each group got given a picture from the story of Hansel and Gretel and then we had to show it with actions and FREEZE!


The House:
"Sophie and Shai were one half of the wall and roof. Felicia and Christina were the other half of the roof and wall and Amirah was the front door." -Amirah, Felicia, Sophie, Shai and Christina.



A Bird:
"John Paul was the head and the beak. William was the feet. Kalo and Remy were the nest. Kharsha was the wings." -William M, Kalo, Remy, John Paul and Kharsha.


Path and the pebbles:
"The first pebble was Jack, the second was Nigel, the third was Sanuka, the fourth was William and the fifth was Miguel." - Miguel, Sanuka, Nigel, William, Jack.


The Forest:
"We all love gymnastics so we used gymnastics to make two trees. Imogen and Siena were the leaves and Florence and Asher were the trunk of the tree. -Imogen, Siena, Florence and Asher.


The Cage:
"Lei'ataua was the right bar, Josh was the left bar, Xavier was the back bar, Leo was the front bar and Jai was Hansel inside the cage." - Josh, Jai, Xavier and Leo.

Thursday 21 June 2018

Book Week!

We have had so much fun this week participating in Book Week activities!

We have been lucky enough to hear from poet Tasmin-Flynn and author Chris Gurney!

We've loved the Lit quiz and buddy reading with the juniors!

We can't wait for the book parade on Friday.
Stay tuned to see which character we come dressed up in on Friday!