A Special Visitor for the Junior School

The Junior Syndicate had a special visitor yesterday - Mrs Hey brought in Bruno her dog!  Bruno loved visiting the children. He sat down and could shake hands with Mrs Hey and he chased his favourite red ball. Mrs Hey showed all the different leads she used with Bruno.

He really loved all the children at St Brendan's and would love to visit them again. 

Watch this space- pictures to come....

Writing in Room 1

Tuesday 3 March
In Room 1 we have been spending a bit of time in the school garden.  Last week we visited the garden to see what was there and where our garden boxes were.  This week we have planted seedlings.
Look at the great photos and word walls we have created.

Gardening in Room 1 and 6

Monday 2 March.
With all the lovely weather we have been having Jenny McGuiness and the garden group have been busy in the school garden, preparing it for planting.
We spent time on Monday morning planting cabbages, lettuces, celery and roly poly carrots.

Student and Community Voice 2015

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Week 5 Discovery

We had a talk about what we know already

There are lots of different jobs in our community, like roofing companies - Riley P

People that help us - said Tessa

There are people that you see each day - Libby

There are people that love us - Ella

There are houses and streets in our community - Liam

The people in your neighbourhood - Madi C

The Church is part of our community - Alexandra

The school is part of our community - Paloma

We are part of our community - Noah

For our Discovery, we:

Cared for other people

Treated other people with respect

Shared the equipment with other people

Walked when we were inside. 

Created things for our community

Visited Mr Hey's truck - he works in our community. 

We had so much fun!  Look at this truck driver!

This is what the back of the truck looked like - it was so much fun having a run around in the back of a truck! We found a box of....BANANAS!

We also erected a tent in discovery! Can you see the campfire at the front? Some people in our community like to go camping. We learnt how to put the tent together, and take it down carefully. 

Week 3 Term 4 2014

For our discovery/inquiry/RE this week, it rained!! It was also very windy, so we had community discovery in our own rooms. 
In 6a and 6b we were...

• Using our kind words to solve problems. 
• To share our equipment. 
• Create things that are in our community. 
• Create things that we DO in our community

This week, we had a surgical team! They helped someone who was not well. We also had a bank, complete with homemade coins and banking slips. Lily created a community newspaper for us and Carter was busy being the Mayor of Upper Hutt. He made some rules like, "No TV." Our cafe workers didn't have their tea set today, so they created their own cafe. Fae and Mrudula were busy looking after babies and Callum and Douglas created an amazing train track!

Week 2 Term 4 2014

Week 2 Term 4 2014

For our discovery/inquiry/RE this week, the Junior Syndicate were learning to...

• Using our kind words to solve problems. 
• To share our equipment. 
• Create things that are in our community. 
• Create things that we DO in our community.

We had so much fun! You will be able to see some of our photos if you have a look below...

Next week, we are going to bring our milk bottle lids, that we can use for money for our amazing cafe!

Look at this amazing construction site! They are building a tunnel. 

Here is a special prayer area in our community. 

Look at the busy cafe - they were serving lots of treats!

Mmm some tasty rose soup for sale for $2.50!