Year 5 Retreat   

Ideas on what makes a good team

                                                  
Mr and Mrs Hammond joined the Year s after lunch to share their knowledge of the history of our school. Some students wrote about their experiences of the day.

The Hammond’s Visit

Wow! The Hammonds were dressed in old fashioned clothes. They had brought our history along with them. It was so interesting because their own children had  attended  our school to learn. That is why they know so much about our history.

Oh no! I didn’t know the first Our Lady Star of the Sea and Orphanage  burnt down. Luckily they constructed another one on Granger Road.

The old badge was so different too. It had a bigger cross, but when we moved to Oakridge Way in 1996 they changed it.

Mr McKay become our principal at Oakridge Way  and is still at  Our Lady Star of the Sea School.

It was so exciting to have them with us. We learned so much about our past.

Thank you Mr and Mrs Hammond.

Samantha Fei     

Lightning the candle

I was waiting in line to light the tea light candles off of the school candle. I put it down on the cloth, then prayed. “Thank you God for this wonderful day and keeping our class safe.”

Before I said my prayer my heart and tummy were beating like thunder and lightening with excitement. It felt like the sun was shining down on us. What a great day! 

Claudia Jimenez

The Sausage Making Machine

Ideas were flooding into my head as our team was instructed to mime the inside of a sausage making machine.

I could hear chattering and mumbling from the other teams as they were practising. What seemed like two hours of getting it done had only been ten minutes. BEEP! “Time is up,” exclaimed Mrs Main. I was shaking like Santa as if one of his reindeer was sick on Christmas Day.

Eventually it was time for us. We all walked into the middle shaking like  we had ants in our pants. “ Just like we had practised,” I said to myself.

We started our mime. Zip, slide and mash. We finished our mime  and we were finally done. Phew ! 7 little sausages. 

Hannah Blake