Year 7 and 8 Technology

For four days over the last two weeks the Year 7 and 8 students have been attending technology classes. They have been making a variety of products in Fabric technology, Art, Electronics and Materials Technology. They have returned to school with musical sounds, comfy cushions, awesome books and a lot of enthusiasm

Junior Liturgy

Last Wednesday the students in the Junior school at St Joseph's held their special liturgy looking at and celebrating the different cultures that make up our school community. They offered gifts from the cultures and sang about the importance of us all being friends. It was a special occasion to be a part of.
At the end of their liturgy the children shared a meal where they sampled foods from many different cultures including Mexico, China, Japan, and many others. Thank you to all the parents who joined the celebration and helped with preparations.

St Dominics Day Celebrated

On Friday 8th August the pupils of St Joseph's celebrated St Dominics Day during our Friday assembly. Sister Madeline, who is a Dominican nun spoke to us about St Dominic and our Dominican choir performed. As St Joseph's school was started by the Dominican Order it is important that we celebrate this special day.

Guns At School Or Not!!!

The Bosses at Hampden school were allowing the children to bring toy guns to school.
So Pohutukawa discussed and wrote emails to the Oamaru Mail. Some of the children wrote emails to say if they agreed or not. Twenty four people said "We don't agree" and one person said "I do agree that they should be able to bring toy guns to school." Eight children from Pohutukawa who wrote the emails had their pictures taken and put in the Oamaru Mail. Look in the papers for their story.

Choir at Ranfurly Challenge

On Tuesday the 22nd of July, the St Joseph's school choir performed at the Ranfurly Shield Rugby Challenge, between North Otago & Auckland.
It was time to perform.
The crowd was loud with excitement everywhere.
They started singing "Lean On Me"
The Sky T.V cameras were on them and it was their first public appearance.
Once it was over, the crowd went wild.
Then it died down.
Mrs Brookes (The Choir teacher) was so proud.

The Ranfurly Challenge

Tuesday the 22nd of July St Joseph's Kapahaka group performed half time during the Ranfurly Sheild Challenge at Whitestone Contracting staduim.

The performed their dance Kia Kaha telling people be strong and brave. They have been practising for 2 weeks.

The people in the group ranged from 6 years to 13 years old. The children were all nervous but they gave an awesome performance.

They all looked wonderful.

D.A.R.E

This term Constable Hamiltion is taking the year 7 students in D.A.R.E. over 3 days for 4 weeks. She has been teaching us not to take bad drugs. She has been teaching us about the things that drugs can do to people if they use them. We have looked at what drugs are. We used a smoking mashine to show us what happens when we smoke. Did you know that there a 4000 different chemicals in a cigarette.

THE DRUG DOG

On Wednesday the 23 Laurie McNeill and Murphy the drug dog came to talk to us about how they find drugs.
Before we went out side Laurie talked to us about were they go to find drugs. They travel all around Canterbury and Southland/Otago. Murphy is always on patrol he will never stop. Laurie hid stuff in the hedge and Murphy had to find them. Murphy found the first stick of cannibas easy. But when he tried to find the bag it took him about 5 minutes but eventually he found it. We would like to thank Laurie and Murphy for coming.

St Josephs Senior School Production

Panto Pandemonium is St Josephs first school production.
It is about a pandemonium in Pantoland,because the wicked witch and her evil cronies take control of various magic objects. Can a group of school children defeat the wicked witch and rescue all the pantomimes in the land.

Participating in the production are years 4-8 pupils from St Josephs. We have two directors, Miss Sloan and Mrs Dooley and our musical director is Mrs Brookes.

In our pantomime we have 12 songs. A pantomime is a musical so it includes singing and acting.

All the cast are busy learning lines,dance steps and practising our songs.

Here is some pictures of our friday practise.

St Joseph's book celebration!

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On the 25th of July we dressed up as our favourite book characters and we wan't to show you some of our photos.

Save The World!!!

On Thursday 24Th of July a group of actors from the Keep Dunedin Beautiful Society came to St Joseph's School Oamaru to perform a play about what will happen if we don't Reduce,Reuse and Recycle. The characters were Brainy,Zany and Brainy's sister Helga. Brainy and Zany kept getting emergency post cards from the future telling them what was happening because people hadn't cared for the enviromemt. They put the production on so we could know what to do to keep N.Z clean. The message was that every little thing counts.