Back to School!

 Today everyone came back to school and I was so happy. So todays activity for R.E Ms Nees gave us questions to answer and we had to complete it on google drawing.This activity was FUN!

Caritas Keep it simple for Lent Action Plan - By Taniela

This week in class, we are talking about Lent. This year I'm giving up. Playing too

much, because I might get patellofemoral pain again.

Giving up lying, because it's disrespectful.

Stop polluting, It's bad for our environment.

Games you'll be addicted. 

Prayer- I hope the weak, and the poor became the strong and the rich, and I hope the world would
have no virus-like coronavirus. I hope the world would become a peaceful place.
Amen.

Give- I got mad because Mrs Nees-Kairua said I had love notes in my pencil case,

but that was a joke, so I got over it and became happy.

Live-  I Had thoughts bad one and good ones. But always we would have a peek,

and a Truff a peek means when something good happens, and traffic means you

had something bad today, so all I did was say negative words and truthful words 

So- while we were playing my friend Sony said I'm not good at soccer,

but I said keep trying you'll get great at it I use to be bad at soccer and rugby, but I kept

on trying and look at me now.

Find- today I search up on google where's the most displaced country it is in Syria, South

Sudan, Iraq, Pakistan, Sudan, and Nigeria so I prayed and said bless this country.

Create- every year on easter we make cards for old people in retirement some

of us wrote good stuff and bad stuff

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Ash Wednesday - By Mele

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Eastview Water Testing with Frazer - By Jabez

On Tuesday the 10th of March Frazer came to St Pius X so we could go see if our local
stream in Glen Innes is clean, clear, and to see if there is excellent, good, fair, or bad life at our stream.
When we got there we saw a statue, I think it was an entrance that they used to use a long time ago.
Anyway, he showed us a magnifying glass that detectives use when they are solving a mystery or a
murder. Then he showed us this tube with a magnet inside it, and there's another magnet, so you can
move the magnet in the tube and look through a hole at the bottom of the tube and water from the
stream there's water from the stream so when you move, the magnate you have to try to not lose sight
of it.

Then we lastly did an experiment on our water to see how much life/oxygen in our stream. There are
about seven small tubes that start from light blue and go to dark blue. Our water stopped at I think
number there, so it was a fair I wish it could be a lot better. What I would do to make our local stream
clean, bright and not polluted.

How much life do you think is in your stream?

Have you ever done an experiment in your local stream and why?

What would you do to make sure that your local stream is
healthy and has life in it?

Summary I would like to go back again one year later because of
I would like to see if there is a change of life.

Caritas 2020 - Action Plan By Krystal

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The Guardians of the Mauri - By Briana

This term we are looking at water pollution and how we as a school and community and help keep our waterways clear and healthy. Here is Briana's KWL on what she learnt.

Here is the link to the video we watched

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Andy Warhol: Part 2 By Aisake

   

 

 

This term for art we are researching Andy Warhol and the origins of "Pop Art" and his use of
repetition. Today in class we are blogging about Andy Warhol and starting our own piece of art.
We first took a photo of ourselves on our netbooks and repeated it 5 more times. Next week we get to
start colouring ourselves in!

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Ash Wednesday - By Zenith

Walt: Describe Lent as a time of spiritual growth and renewal for individual people and the Church community.

On Wednesday the 26th February, St Pius X Catholic School had a very important mass. We went to the Church for Ash Wednesday. There was a story about Jesus and how he travelled to a village for 34-days. Ash Wednesday is a Christian holy day of prayer and fasting. It is preceded by Shove Tuesday. 

For lent I am going to give up being naughty and try my hardest to be nicer to people around me.


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Goat Island Marine Reserve visit - By Laurence

On Monday morning my brother and were so excited because the year fives and six from St Pius School are going snorkelling for some of the kids it is their first time. Still, Sio and I got ready as fast as we could’ and rushed to the bakery we got some lunch after that my mum dropped us off to school then we played on the field’ for a little bit then off we went into the bus then we all waited until we got there but instead we all sang songs’, but once we got there we all were very excited when we hopped off the bus they introduced themself after that we got split up into two groups, the first group went swimming, and the second group did land activities. Well, I was getting ready we put on our tight black, and yellow suit when I put it on I was so hot. Still, when we hit the sand my feet were burning like fire then they told us to put on our flippers then we all went into the water I was cold. It was deep after a while we all went back and swapped group two went swimming, and group one did land activities after that we hopped on the bus, and all went back to school.

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Welcome to our brand new school!

On Tuesday the 12 of November, we went into our new school. It was “amazing”  I wish I could have lived here, it was humongous it was 4 times bigger than my house, I was kinda freaking out of how amazing it looked. When we went inside it was full of colourful walls, it was like I was in a rainbow. We got to have a tour around the classroom they had a room that was almost fully soundproof. We got to have a tour around the whole school like we were visitors from a different country. We got to see into the office, staff room, printer the shower little kids room downstairs and the resource’s room, it was amazing after that we got to play cricket for kiwi sports, it was amazingly fun it was tiring. My whole team won every game except one because that team was quick and smart so were we but we were tired. Then we all went home after school.

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Click here to read Kamaea's recount on her first day in our new school!

Read Amihuti's recount of his first day in the new building!

Working in our new space