Baptism and the Holy Spirit

Our Pyramids

For R.E room 6 has been busy making these colourful triangles that show us the three gifts of God. Faith, Hope and Love. We also learnt about Baptism and the Holy Spirit. You receive the gifts of God when you are baptised. Here is my triangle.

The Season of Easter

My Pinwheel

Room 6 has been learning about Easter and has been making pinwheels that show us different illustrations that involves Easter. I made a pinwheel and here it is.

Jesus Strand - Religious Education

Jesus Strand

During term 1 we have been learning about Jesus the son of God. This is my cube on how Jesus showed us that God loved us all as His children. We are all blessed with the gift of faith, hope and love.

Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday

Today was Ash Wednesday. We went to church and sang some hymns, got the ashes on our foreheads, sung happy birthday to a little girl starting school on her birthday! We then went up and got a blessing. We did make an attempt to keep our ashes on our foreheads, but that was a fail due to swimming and itching it off. We had a good day and hope everyone season of Lent and it is a time of preparation.

       

Shrove Tuesday

Shrove Tuesday

Tuesday was Shrove Tuesday. We all had a great day in room 6. The festivities started with the burning of the ashes on the turf. This was a new and exciting experience that not many of us had seen before. Later on during Religious Education we learnt more about Shrove Tuesday and Lent. People used to get rid of all their luxury items such as flour, sugar, butter, eggs and milk by making pancakes. We were even able to enjoy some pancakes of our own. We all thought it was a great start to lent and we are looking forward to the lenten season as we prepare for the death and resurrection of Jesus. We are the season of Lent and it is a time of preparation.
This year I am focusing on helping around the house without my parents asking.

 

Charism

Charism

Did you know the reason Good Shepherd School named their syndicates Connolly and Sheridan? Connolly and Sheridan were the names of the first two sisters that worked at Good Shepherd School when it opened. That is just one of the fun facts we learnt this week when we explored the charism of our school. The charism of our school is the flavour of our school, it is what makes us Good Shepherd School. Over the week we looked at the history of the school and unpacked the visual Image of the Good Shepherd Cross with the values, scripture, feast days and the St Mary MacKillop sayings. We unpacked the values and why we have those values. In groups we identified what each value looked, sounded and felt like before making up definitions. Another new fact I learnt was that saint Mary MacKillop was born in Australia.