Christmas

Tell us about your Christmas. Where did you spend it? What did you give your family? What did you get?

A sad, sad day for Greymouth

Hi guys,

I know some of you have been writing poems, and thoughts. If you want to share them on here please feel free to. Remember the wiki as well.

Kia Kaha

Please click on 'Comment' below to read the tributes that have been posted.

Cooking Show competition

Click where it says cooking show competition above!

Something to think about for next year.

What do you think?

A day at Shantytown

We had a day to focus on team work and managing ourselves as well as learning about the history of gold mining on the West Coast. Please post some comments:
1. what you learned
2. the highlight of your day
3. how you worked as part of a team.

Touch Rugby Tournament

Congratulations to our touch team who came fourth in a tournament in Nelson!!! Well done. Please tell us all about your trip in the comments.

Congratulations to our Softball team

Well done to the 22 students who represented our school today at the softball. One of our teams came third in the competition. Good on you! Watch this space for some photos.

Never give up

Labour Weekend

I hope you all enjoy your long weekend.

I want you ALL to make one comment about a highlight of the weekend. For some of you this might be to do with St Patrick's celebrations this weekend.

I look forward to reading about your weekend.

Guess the food

What do you think this food is that was for sale in a market in Cambodia? Shame the photo came out a bit blurry.

Have a guess.

Weekend Sport and Activity Report

What are you up to this weekend?

In Cambodia

Hey guys. This place is a real eye opener. The people are so happy and friendly but the place is so dirty and run down. The palace and temples are very rich looking though. It is such a contrast.

I have a question for you to ponder and I would like your thoughts.

Is the money that tourists like me spend in this country (which helps keep poorer people in work) out weighed by exposing people to things, and a way of life, that is out of their reach right now? And if and when that way of life is possible will it ruin what is good about a country like this?

You might want to do some Googling to see if you can get some images and facts about what it is like here in Phonm Phehn (check my spelling... I've gone blank while typing this!) Cambodia. We are only spending one more day here then we are going to go and look at some more remote places.

I hope you are having a good break :)

In Singapore

Hey guys I'm at Singapore airport. Had to sleep on these giant beanbags we found in the terminal last night. Was quite cool really. I wanted to log on here so that (hopefully) Singapore might show up on our map!

I hope you are all having a good start to your holidays. Keep us all informed about what you have been up to :)

Task for the holidays

1. Write on the writers wiki
2. Continue with the earthquake task you are still working on at the end of term
3. Comment on the holiday blog
4. Sporting people let us know what you are doing.

Trips away and adventures at home

If you go away or stay at home let us know some of the highlights of your holidays. I expect everyone to comment on this post sometime during the holidays.

School Holiday Sports

Please let us know how you get on with your sports over the holidays. Eilish B, Alex and Mickey are off to Australia for netball, Paddy and Kyle are on their way to Wellington as I type this for league, Michael D is off to Kaiapoi for league, Benjamin is going to be a mascot for West Coast Girls B hockey team in Ashburton, Mattison is going to Auckland for hockey and Chelsea is going to Invercargill for hockey. Grace M is going to be taking equestrian lessons in Nelson. Alex is performing ballet and barefoot dancing at the Regent Theatre. Check out the newspaper to see when the dancing is on and go along and support Alex if you can.

Good luck to everyone that is competing over the holidays. Please keep us informed.

How NZ was made

You might find this interesting and you could find some information that you want to add to your earthquake work.

Finally the Netball Photos from the big win!

Our netball champions!

Food Technology

Please tell us about these photos. Write about what you made and how you made it. I'm very interested in how you made the sushi.

Weekend Sport and Activity Report 28 -29 August

Share your sports results here. I watched Ben and Alec represent the Coast against Buller in the pouring rain today. Here are some pics of them :)

Maru the Stunt Cat

Just because we all need a laugh :)

Earthquake Study

We are going to be studying earthquakes for the rest of the term and into next term.

You will all need to request membership to a new Wiki to do this unit of work. Please check out our links on the left of our blog page. Follow the link and request membership.

Everyone in Room 5JP must do this :)

I hope you all had a fantastic day at school.

Netball

Congratulations to our fantastic netball team for winning the ASB Netball Trophy this year. We are soooooo proud of all you!. Please comment on some of the highlights of the game. Once I get the camera back I'll post some photos for us all to see.

On 7th of September 2010, Saint Patricks 'A' team travelled up to Westport to compete in the ASB Bank Primary Netball Challenge. We left the school at about 8:45 and arrived at the Solid Energy indoor stadium at 10:45. Captain Eilish got us all ready for the warm ups. After stretching and warming our muscles we had a quick game of half court. Finally the other team arrived and we started the game.
Our 1st game against Westport North. The positions were: Carla-GS, Tay-GA, Briana-C, Eilish.R-WD, Bridget-WD, Eilish.B-GD, Breesha-GK,Alexandra-WA, Brittany-WA, Kristina-GK. Everyone had a court time on both games. We won 18-14. Close game!

Our second game we played against Westland High school. They won last year so we thought we were going to lose. But by surprise we won! (25-12) By this time we were all so tired and worn out, but we kept going and giving all our effort. We kept trying and trying.

We are all so proud of EVERYONES performance. Great thanks to Sall & Helen, the awesomest coaches ever & also a thanks to the parents that took the time off work to take us up to Westport.

Fingers crossed for the girls next year (:

The Earthquake

Hey guys get those writers notebooks out and write down the feelings and thoughts you had when you felt the earthquake or after you heard about it.

Finally our ski trip photos!

Photos from our ski trip. Sorry for taking so long to get them up guys :(

Weekend Sport and Activity Report 28 -29 August

Hardly anyone reported on the sports last week. Let us know what is happening!!! Did you see Southland won again last night!! Yippeeeee!!!!

Diamante Poems

We couldn't get them to stay centered when we published them!!!

Skiing
fast, powerful
Sliding, gliding, flying
Going zoom zoom zoom
falling, rolling tumbling
crash, bang
Crashing

By Eilish R

Snow
Cold, wet
Shining, glistening, freezing
Slippery, bright, soft, dangerous
melting, falling, crying
crystallizing, frosty
Ice

By Grace

Ski
happy, fun
smiling, laughing, enjoying
warm clothes, t-bars, screams
freezing, snowing, raining
icy, cold
snowboard

By Carla

Snowboard
Fast, Fun
Speeding, sliding, crashing
Wicked, awesome, intense, amazing
Turning, carving, gliding
Frozen, freezing
radical

By Michael D

Snow
Cold, white
freezing, frosting, snowing
Cool, fun, cold, awesome
Playing, snowboarding, skiing
Ice, frost
Winter

By Kyle

Snow
Magical, shimmer
Freezing, falling, dropping
White blanket of snow
Charming, calming, cooling
Shiny, white
Ice

By Briahn

Snow
Soft, fluffy
Invigorating, snowing, exciting
Getting frosty, getting squished
Thrilling, freezing, slipping
Wet, cold
Ice

By Briana

Snow
Cold, white
Freezing, falling, blinding
Throwing snowballs, building snowmen
Melting, liquidizing, dripping
Transparent, running
Water

By Courtney

Skiing
Cold, wobbly
Falling, sliding, frightening
Gliding along the snow
Crashing, riding, diving
Fun, exhilarating
Skied

By Courtney


Skiing
Scary, hard
Falling, tripping, outgoing
Funny, mind blowing, dangerous
Entertaining, amazing, thrilling
Slip, Slide
Snowboarding

Eilish B.

Skiing
Painful, scary
Thrilling, embarrassing, shivering
Falling over, extremely fun,
Learning, sliding, zooming
Hurtful, rushed
Snowboarding

By Caleb

Snow
Soft, dry
Exhilarating, invigorating, snowing
Thrills, falls, white blanket
Exciting, thrilling, freezing,
Cold, crystals
Ice

By Bridget

Skiing
Hard wet
Slipping, sliding, tiring
Fast, cool, fun, tired
Learning, cramping, snowing
Long, cold
Snowboarding

By Benjamin

Snowflake
Gentle, peaceful
Snowing, falling, landing
Beautiful, graceful, calm, soft
Shining, twinkling, winking
Delicate, charming
Snow

By Tayla

Snowboarding
Slip, slide
Learning, sliding, zooming
Race, jump, crash, ouch
Rolling, falling, hurting
Turn, stop
Snowboarded

By Jack


Snow
White, fluffy
Blinding, falling, freezing
Fast, chilly, numb, playful
Flowing, dripping, melting
Fun, building
Ice

By Mickey

Snow
Fluffy, white
Skiing, snowboarding, playing
So soft, solid, hard
Falling, slipping, tumbling
Dense, compact
Ice

By Alex

Snow
White, cold
Freezing, falling, melting
Skiing, snowflakes, snowmen, snowballs
Floating, embarrassing, blinding
Wet, slushy
icy

By Ranelle

Skiing
Fast, fun
Gliding, exciting, frighting
Sliding over freezing snow
Falling, crying, laughing
Speedy, cold
Ski

By Ranelle

Snow
Cold, wet
Biting, freezing, shivering
Hard, white, shiny, strong
Talking, shoving, glistening
Beautiful, slimy
Frozen

By Liam

Snow
Shiny, bright
Freezing, glowing, snowing
Icy, cold, bumpy, mountain
Playing, sliding, laughing
White, light
Ice

By Sina

Jaron's Rescue

Porter Heights

ASB Netball

Ski Trip

Hey guys. Big day tomorrow with our ski trip. Remember to bring:

• Morning tea
• Lunch
• Afternoon tea
• Two drink bottles
• Towel
• Change of clothes
• Warm jacket
• Hat and gloves
• Plastic Bag for wet clothes
- Change of clothes

Wear layers!!!!
Make sure you are at school between 6.15 and 6.25. The bus leaves at 6.30 sharp!!!

See you tomorrow :)

Free Verse Poetry

Weekend Sports 20-22 August

Sorry this has taken so long to put on. Let us know how your sport has gone over the weekend :)

Vocabulary work Week 5, Term 3

Find an interesting word from another language. Write the word here and tell us what it means. Don't forget to put it in your writer's journal as well just in case you want to use it in your writing in the future :) Have fun :)

Map Work for Week 5, Term 3

Ok choose a country that of your ancestors came from. Write and interesting fact about it. You might want to list all the countries your ancestors have come from.

Find three towns or cities in New Zealand that start with the letter 'E'. List them all here and write an interesting fact about one of them.

Netball

Sorry I didn't get photos of all the girls. Hopefully I will be able to some more photos tomorrow from Kristina and Mrs Olivier :)

Weekend Sport and Activity Report 13 - 15 August

Let us know how your sport has gone over the weekend and what else you have been up to :)

Week 5 Homework Task

Make a family tree in your homework book. Find out where your ancestors came from. Dig as deep as you can to find out as much as you can. Ask parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles and anyone that knows about your family. See how far you can go back.

List some 'wonderings' about your ancestors and where they came from. Here are some the the examples of my wonderings:

I wonder if my great, great, great grandparents had have stayed in Scotland or England or France what would my life be like now? What language or accent would I have?

I wonder what jobs my great, great, great grandfathers had

I wonder how my ancestors travelled from their countries to New Zealand? I wonder why they came? I wonder if they lived in any countries on the way?

Write at least 5 'wonderings'.

Vocabulary

Please comment below with a single word that describes your favourite place.

Map Work for Week 4, Term 3

Think of a place in the world that you would be nervous to visit. In the comment box below write that country down and why you would be uncomfortable visiting it. Give us an interesting fact about it. Don't forget to add your New Zealand towns also along with the interesting information about one of them. Missed you all today :(

Weekend Sport 7 and 8 August

Please keep us updated with your sports results and let us know what else you have been up to. I might not be able to approve them straight away. I'm off to watch the All Blacks in Chch so not sure if I'll be able to get to a computer but I'll be home Sunday to approve everything!

Room 5CO Girls Tai Poutini Hair Styles

Sorry it has taken me so long to get this done for you girls! You all look so beautiful.

How to do long multiplication

This is one way to do long multiplication. Can you think of any others? Give this way a go as well.

Tuesday

Hey guys. I'm not going to be in tomorrow. I'm still in my bed sick but I'm going to check the wiki and blog site in between naps! This is what I would like Room 5JP to do tomorrow:
- challenge yourselves with the division work we did as a whole class. Red group I would like you to work with people to help them. There are only a few that need a bit more practice
- make sure you reread the comments I put on your writing, think about your WALTs and continue with the writing you have been doing. Please explain it to the people who were absent last week
- once you have read all that you are meant to do then I would like you to find a good example of your WALT in a journal or another piece of writing in the class
- spend half an hour on your literacy boxes

Enjoy your day and post any questions about your day on here. I will try and get to them to answer :)

Week 4 Map Work

Share with us a place in the world that you would like to visit and tell something interesting about it! Three places in NZ that start with the letter 'C' and teach us something about one of those places. :)

Weekend Sport and Activities Report 31 July and 1 August

Let us know what has been happening over the weekend with your sport OR ANY OTHER ACTIVITIES! Room 5JP think about our workshop on blogging comments we did on Thursday when you comment. :) Enjoy your weekend! Thanks for a lovely and productive week.

After being pampered at the Polytech

The girls from Room 5JP were invited to have their hair done at Tai Poutini Polytechnic today. This is how some of them came back.

Thank you for my lovely day

These are the beautiful flowers my awesome class gave me. Thank you guys. I had the loveliest day:)

Map Work for Week 2, Term 3

Please post your map work information here! Don't forget that I need to know the time difference between NZ and your chosen country as well as the time there and here! Last week some of you didn't work out the difference :)

Weekend Sports News

We want to hear about your sport over the weekend. Our basketballers in Dunedin will be interested too so let us know how it went?

Red Maths Box people's video

This is to help you with the long division we looked at today. This is just one way of doing it. Can you come up with other ways?
Remember only go halfway through. Don't worry about the decimal part of the video at the moment.

West Coast Basketballers

Good luck to all the people representing the West Coast at basketball over the weekend in Dunedin. Travel safely tomorrow. If you are able to use a computer while you are down there post a comment to let us know how you are getting on.

Map Work

Sorry I didn't have this ready for you sooner. Please put your map work here!

Nearly back to school!

Hey guys,

I hope you have all enjoyed the break. Don't forget your writer's journals on Monday! Can't wait to see you all :) Here is a video to give you a bit of a laugh before you come back. Enjoy your weekend. Don't forget to let us know how you get on with your sport.

Writer's Wiki

Writer's Wiki

Hey Room 5JP I've started a Writer's Wiki for you. Go to the link below

http://stpatricksseniorclasses.wikispaces.com/

Up the top right hand corner is a link labelled 'join'. You will need an email address to join the wiki. Once you have joined you will find your name on the left hand side. Click on your name and a new page will come up. That page is yours for to use to share your writing. I will look and I may go on and put suggestions for you. Other people from our class can put suggestions too. Any suggestions you put on there put them in another colour!

We will talk more about this next term but get on and have a go with it.

Room 5CO I will talk to Mrs O about this idea once Room 5JP have had a go at it.

Keep it appropriate for a school Wiki!

Just for fun (because it's holidays!)

You asked for more funny videos. I think this one is pretty cute. Tell me what you think :)

What have you done over the holidays so far?

Tell us what you have been doing! Share with us how your writing journal is going. Keep in touch!

School holiday sports reports

Let us know how your sport is going over the holidays and get some photos for us to put on the blog site! Make sure you tell us any highlights in your game.

Mouse Commercial

Our Writing Motivation

We have looked at this video today to inspire us to write. We have to choose our audience, our purpose and the style we want to use to write. We used our writers journal to take notes as we watched the video. Some of us will put our writing below so come back and see what we have done!

Map Work

Use the cluster map or globe on our blog site. Choose a dot. Find out where that dot represents. Mark it on your world map in your homework book. In the comment box below:

- Name the place you have chosen
- Name two towns, cities or landmarks that are close to your chosen place
- Find two facts about your chosen place or one of the places you have identified as being close by
- Think of a question you have about that place and write it in your comment box as well.

Weekend Sport Report 25 -27 June

Ok guys I really want to hear how you get on with your weekend sport. If you have any photos from your sport over the weekend bring them into school on Monday and we will upload them to our sports page. If you didn't play sport this weekend but did something else cool tell us about that too. Have a great weekend everyone :)

Some links

Briahn has kindly suggested some links for us to look at. If you find any interesting ones put them in the comment boxes below.

http://www.mrcsblog.com
and
http://www.apanuisensationalyseven.blogspot.com

Sports photos

I've just added a new page to our blog. If you look on the right hand side you will find a link that is called "Sports Photos". I've added some of the photos from today's rugby game and I will add more photos as people bring them to me from your sports.

Room 5JP Map Work

If you want you can put the information you find about Luxembourg here instead of your homework books! Maybe we can get someone from Luxembourg to add to it as well at the end of the week :)

Weekend Sport Report

Comment below to let us know how you got on with your sport this weekend.

Our Artwork

Raising money for our ski trip

We are planning a ski trip next term. We have started our fundraising process with a sausage sizzle.

All Whites

It was great to see so many people supporting the All Whites today by wearing white to school! Here's hoping they do well tonight.

Photo from:http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/fifa-world-cup/all-whites/3816878/All-Whites-greatest-results-keep-coming#share

Zumba

Today Michelle from BodyWorx Gym in Hokitika came to talk to us about careers in the fitness industry. While she was here she took us through a few Zumba songs and moves. We also got to make up some of our own.

What did you learn about the fitness industry today?

The Crunchie Challenge

Room 5JP and 5CO pupils have the chance to earn a Crunchie bar. Get a family member or friend from overseas to post a comment that tells us something interesting, asks us a question or makes a statement about something we have on our site as well as mentioning the student they know from our classes and tell us which country they are from and the student they know will get a crunchie bar.

We want comments!!!

Students can earn some Pebbles if their parents comment on our site!

National Young Leaders Day

Several students from our classes attended National Young Leaders Day in Christchurch at the beginning of June. This was an awesome experience for all of them. When reporting back to Room 5JP the leaders told us some of the really inspiring quotes they heard from the fabulous speakers they listened to.

If you went on the trip please share one of the quotes that you heard and tell us what you think it means.

Queens Birthday

Hey everyone. I hope you have all had a great weekend. I'm sure our basketballers had a great trip and played their best. What interesting things have you done over the weekend? If you are a bit bored with this awful weather you could explore some of the links on the right hand side of our page. Enjoy the rest of the weekend :)

Year 7 & 8 Camp

At the beginning of Term 2 we went to Hanmer Springs for our school camp.

Please describe:

- the most challenging thing you did and why it was challenging for you

or

- the thing that surprised you the most and why it surprised you.

Vincent Van Gogh

Please place a comment below that says:
- how you feel when you watch the slide show and listen to Don McLean sing Starry, Starry Night
OR
- something interesting you have learned about Vincent Van Gogh

MAKE SURE YOU PUT YOUR FIRST NAME UNDER YOUR COMMENT (AND YOUR LAST INITIAL IF SOMEONE ELSE HAS THE SAME FIRST NAME AS YOU)

Vincent (Starry Starry Night) Don McLean

Teething problems

It is taking a bit longer to get this set up than we planned! Now all students are able to add their thoughts in their own spot on here! Room 5JP students have all been added and 5CO will be added in the near future.

Getting started

Hello Room 5CO and Room 5JP!

Welcome to our blog site!

To get us started I would like you to simply open up our blog site sometime during the week and say hello and put your name. Remember to only use your first name and your last initial (if there is someone else in these two classes with the same first name).

Remember some important internet safety rules when using this site (and others):

• never give your full name
• never give your phone number, address or email details
• don't mention where you will be at a particular time
• don't put any of that information on the net about anyone else
• think carefully if you respond to anyone else's comments because they can't hear your tone of voice to determine if you are joking or serious
• it is ok to have a debate with someone if you don't agree with their ideas but do it in a friendly manner
• do not call people names or put them down