Euphrasie Barbier

Euphrasie Barbier had a lot of courage and did not give up and because of her positive attitude she always kept her faith in God by spreading the word of good news to the rest of the world.

Euphrasie Barbier joined a small a Missionary group which was the Sisters Calvary in 1848. In 1851 she was part of a group that was sent to England to be taught how to speak proper English. The Sisters now recognized as the Institute of Compassion. This group established a Religious House and became drawn - in to the Parish schools.

Green Is Everywhere!

Ko te Ratu 18 o te poutu-te-rangi o tenei ra.

Donegals, Tipperary's, Emeralds, Shamrocks, Limericks and the leprechauns.
‘Happy St Patricks Day everyone’.

The special day started off with a Mass. During mass one child from each class took a green painted hat, that had virtuous words that described Saint Patrick. After Mass, it was time for the short interval. Following this  the school made their way to the front of room 4 and 5. Then each student was put into one of 5 different groups. Darrelle, Natalia, Agnes, Soana, John, Dehnyse, Carlos and Myself were the leaders of each group. The names of the groups were the shamrocks, donegals, leprechauns, limericks and the emeralds. The reason for the teams were so the younger students have senior people to guide them to do the right thing. All of the groups were named after Irish things.

As the Donegals walked into room 8, our group seated ourselves down into a chair in front of a desk that had tray with a face that had google eyes, a cloud of orange hair, strips of  green paper,  dark green strip of green papers, popsicle sticks,  gold squares, shamrock papers, plates of glitter and pva glue. The activity was to make leprechaun bookmarks. First of all we had to colour in the top of the drawn on pencil line with the green vivid, then we had to fold over the popsicle stick, and then we added a dark green strip under the light green strip, then we all added the strips of paper, the next thing to do was to add the face with google eyes but before that we put the cloud of hair behind the head. Then we added a gold buckle on top of the strips and then under the leprechauns face we stuck on two cardboard shamrocks. And for the final touch up was a pinch of glitter. When everyone finished their bookmarks Jordi, Destiny and I helped Mrs Dines distribute more things into the trays for the next groups to use.

Our next stop was room 1 which was bowling. This time is was girls against boys. All the girls were sure that we would win the competition. And so it was the girls challenging the boys. Cheering, screaming, clapping all of us on our knees thinking of the right time to bowl the ball. Each player had the same amount of turns to come up and try and bowl the bowling pins over. We all had 4 turns then the bell rang and then Ms Craig called out the total of the points. “16, 21, 32 to the boys”, said Ms Craig, and “ 21, 28, 34, 36 to the girls, said Ms Craig. It was official that the girls had won.

Then we made our way to room 2 which was to create a shamrock that has virtuous words over the shamrock and to conclude to making our masterpiece we stuck on a straw so that we could hold it.

Our last class was room 6. In room 6 we had to paint a small shamrock. Each side of the shamrock represented God The Father, God The Son and God The Holy Spirit. We all did different colors. To finish off with our shamrock painting we punched a hole in the top of the shamrock and we threaded a piece of small ribbon in the hole so we could hang it on our door or on the wall.

To conclude the day we all gathered in the front of room 4 and 5. And for all our hard work we got a ice block each. The team that won over all was the Donegals my team. "We all cheered and and gave thanks to the teachers for planning this awesome day.

How Do You Express Your Feelings?

There are different ways that people can express their feelings. They can express their feeling through body language or through speech.

Many times when people express their feelings for example happiness the person you are resulting your feelings to may see a smile being formed on your face and even a bit of laughter. People usually are happy when they are around their friends or around something they like.

Often when people are delivering a bit of anger they show some aggression that may lead to the use of inappropriate language and even furniture or objects been damaged at school or at home. Humans may even take their anger out on the person they are angry at by being physical. When the person gets physical, it may look like a person being punched or been hit by the angry person. The cause of the person being angry maybe because he or she might of been teased.

Sometimes when people are scared of anything for example of a bully, the person would lock themselves in the toilet or somewhere they are not in sight. Usually you can tell when the person is scared is when their eyes are watery from them being crying and they also may have red eyes from rubbing them or from crying.

When people are sad they usually have water in their eyes and even if their eyes are red.If people are sad it usually is caused by teasing, bullying and even through someone who has passed on in their family.

There are many different feelings that people may have and many different ways that they express it. The most common feelings that people in the world have are happiness, sadness, anger and even scared.

Going Back In Time.

We have been learning about the Fencibles who settled in Panmure along time ago.  Many of these men known also as the retired soldiers came to New Zealand with their families to begin a new life.  Many of them were strong Irish Catholic’s.

On their journey on tall sail ships, they brought as much of their belongings as they could.

Recently we visited the Panmure Stone Cottage which was full of items from the past, representing the time of the Fencibles.

Below is a PMI representing key ideas following that visit.

Plus What are some of the good things about living in the cottage?	Minus What is the bad things about living in the cottage	Interesting What are the interesting about living in the cottage
They have cleaning products and equipment e.g. fly spray and a vacuum and carpet cleaner Nice for a family of 3 people	Not a proper toilet Not enough space upstairs for tall people No t.v Cold rooms in the small cottage You needed to wind the clock every 8 days	All the irons that were in the kitchen The big Family Bible The special lounge room for the special people only