Pompallier Catholic School Whangarei Camp 2019

This year's camp has been amazing! Our senior students (Year 5,6,7,8) went to such school places like Adventure Forest, Kawiti Glow Worm Caves and Poor Knights. We stayed three nights in Top 10 Holiday Park with our tents set up on the area we were allowed to.

Camp started on the 2nd of December and ended on the 5th.

There were at least 80 students and 13 parents that took time off work to help supervise and supports us in our camp.

In camp, we were put into meals packing up and preparing groups. There were 8 groups total. (Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner) 

                                                                   Pictures below

Grwoth Mindset Poem

Fluency when reading aloud is very important.

Our task was to record ourselves reading of this poem, demonstrating our fluency when reading.

Rugby World Cup Website (WALES)

Our task was to research information and facts about the country that we chose that played in the 2019 Rugby World Cup. We then had to present the information that we had to either a slide, a poster or a website. I chose the country Wales and made a website to present the information that I found. 

Click here to see website. 

Best After School Opinion Writing

For this activity, we were to look at the image and write what we see, think and wonder about this picture.

October, Month of the Rosary

The month of October each year is dedicated to the Most Holy Rosary. This is mostly due to the fact that the liturgical feast of Our Lady of the Rosary is celebrated on October 7. It was introduced to honor the Blessed Virgin Mary in gratitude for the protection that she gives the Church in answer to the praying of the Rosary by the faithful. The feast was introduced by Pope St. Pius V in the year 1571 to commemorate the miraculous victory of the Christian forces in the Battle of Lepanto on October 7, 1571. The pope assigned more to the arms of the Rosary than the power of cannons and the courage of the soldiers who fought there. Legend tells us that the Rosary was given to St. Dominic (1170-1221) by Mary, the Mother of Jesus ,who entrusted it to him as an aid in the conflicts with the Albigensians. The Dominican pope, St. Pius V, did much to further the spread of the Rosary and it thereafter became one of the most popular devotions in Christendom. It was the same Pope St. Pius V, who in 1569 officially approved the Rosary in its present form with the Papal Bull, Consueverunt Romani Pontifices. It had been completed by the addition of the second half of the "Hail Mary" and the "Glory be to the Father" at the conclusion of each mystery.

My Holiday

My Holiday




AWESOME:


One thing I thought was AWESOME in my holiday was

- One thing I thought was awesome in my holiday was when my parents surprised me with a new british shorthair kitten.






SCARY:


One thing I thought was SCARY in my holiday was

- One thing I thought was scary was that I fell out of my boat while we were fishing and there was a shark and it was about 5 metres away from me when I saw it’s fin up the water and then dived down.






RELAXING:


One thing I thought was RELAXING in my holiday was

- One thing I thought was relaxing in my holiday was when me and my family were around a bonfire with a guitar playing a calming song in the background and we were talking and roasting marshmallows, making smores and eating them.

Dot Art - Art and Cultural Evening

We have been creating dot arts for our art and cultural evening. We chose images to represent through dots. Our image had to be outlined because the colours would be confusing with the paint. We used cotton buds, sticks and even nails to make the dots.