What Is A School? By Ingrid

School is a place where kids come to learn new things about the world and make friends.

The people at school are the principal, the teachers and the students. The principal organizes all the things and events that will be happening in the school for the school year. Teachers teach the students new and interesting things about different subjects in the world like R.E, Maths and Reading and many, many more. The students learn and use and apply the knowledge, information and strategies in everyday life.

There are many places in a school like a library, a sick bay, an office, a lunch room and classrooms. The library is a good place to be at school with all the books around you and the information in them. In the lunchroom a teacher  prepares the orders for the kids that buy their lunches. A sick bay is very important  because it’s the place you go if you get hurt or injured.

There are many programmers you can do at school like sports, APOPS and Duffy books. Some of the sports are basketball, soccer, swimming and softball. Duffy books give books to kids for free. Sometimes schools have a Duffy Assembly and people come to do a play about the adventures Duffy has had.  

Some schools have very important days like Mission Day, Cultural Festival, St Patrick's day and a Christmas production. On Mission day each class makes products and activities to raise money to send to the Mission Sisters. Cultural Festival is when other students do dances from different culture then present them to the whole school and their parents. The Christmas production is when the oldest students do a play about Jesus’ birth.

School is very important because you learn thing that will help you in everyday life and prepares  you for your life in the future.

WALT write an explanation writing with descriptions.

I know this when I use at least two more sentences to explain each part of a school.

Why do we have school? By Gabby

WALT - write an explanation with details.

I know this when I use 'because' to explain parts of a school.

A school is an organization for educating children.

There are many students who go and study in school. The principal runs the school and facilitates meetings with the teachers and staff. Teachers are adults who help the students to learn to read, write and think. A staff member is a person who helps the school with things. One staff is in charge of the attendance of the students and the other makes the lunch orders from the lunch orders box. When a school day ends, a cleaner comes in the classrooms and picks up the rubbish that are ignored or hidden by children.

There are many other programmes like 'Trash to fashion' and ‘Touch rugby’. In the trash to fashion activity, students have to use recyclable materials to turn into a fashionable outfit. Students have to plan the outfits by putting in a good sketch of how our designs are going to look like. In the end when the children have finished creating the dress, one of the members has to take a photo of the final look of the dress. The teacher who helps the students make the outfit has to send the picture to the trash to fashion judges and they will pick if the group could participate in the cat walk (Walking on the stage to show the outfit).

The purpose of attending school is to learn and to be educated so that the knowledge they gained, will help them get a good job and a better life in the future. There is also R.E where students learn about how to live as pilgrim people and the history of Jesus with his disciples. In writing, there are different genres like procedure, recount and explanation writings. Explanation is a writing where kids have to explain how something works, how to use it or what it is. Procedures is a writing where we have to include ingredients and how to make it. In each sentence, people have to start with an action word (verb). Students also have to make friends in school so that when kids don’t have anyone to play with, they don’t have to feel lonely.

There are facilities that teachers and students use. Classrooms are where students learn and each teacher has a room of her own and with her own children to teach. The sports shed is where people get the balls and equipment to borrow and use them at Morning Tea or Lunch. The library is where people can issue or borrow books to get information from something or do researching for their topics.

It is fun at school because there are lots of events that happens, like Cultural Festival or Te Mani Ahi (A performance by APOPS). Before Cultural Festival, students have to practice the dance moves every week on Thursdays for 8 weeks. Another event is 'St.Patrick's day'. This is when the school celebrates by attending Mass at Church first and then the students are split into teams to play activities and games run by the teachers in their classrooms. At the end of the day, everyone gets a Popsicle and they get to choose a flavour: lemon and wild berry. Mission day is a time where people have to think of fun activities or sell things to raise money for the Holy Angels Orphanage. On Daffodil Day, people have to wear yellow and donate a gold coin and it goes to the people who has cancer.

St. Patrick’s School  is a great place to play and learn new things. It is a fair and good place where you can make lots of new friends.

Follow the path! by Ace

 

Directions

1.Head south-east on the Te Koa Rd towards Tripoli Rd.

2.Turn right on to Tripoli Rd.

3.Slight left on to Kings Rd.

4.Slight left to stray on Kings Rd.

5.At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Church Crescent.

and you will arrive at your destination.

WALT write a procedure using the correct writing structure.

Success criteria: I know this when I can write the directions from my house to school.