In Religious Education we have been learning what sacrament means. We have studied the Last supper and how the Eucharist today is a sign of God's love for us. The strength of the Eucharist enables us to "Go in peace to love and serve the Lord". View this video of the Last Supper.

chess tornament 2011

On Thursday the 15th of August 12 year4-6s from St Josephs school went to the Mid Canterbury chess tournament.We were divided into 2 teams.One team was called an A team and the other was the B team. Students in the B team were: Joe, Jacob,Antonio and Harrison. Students in the A team were: Dallas,Nick,Matt and me .

There were 5 schools together.We started by having a warm up against the last player we were going to play for the day , I played Joe and we had a exciting game . Then we played all the teams one by one.

Nick played very well on the day and didn't lose any games.I lost one game and draw one.
The St Josephs A team ended up coming 2nd over all.We all had a great day and we all liked playing chess all day.

A couple of weeks ago St Josephs school held a 24 challenge competition for the senoir syndicate we had to play 6 rounds of the game. Four people out of each age group with the highest number of points went to the final in the parish centre and who ever won out of that age group got to play the other winners. The 24 challenage champion is Antonio from room 7! Well done.

Aoraki Mathmatics Competion :)

In August, Cathal, Matthew, Shay and Veronica participated in the Aoraki Mathematics Competition, held in the Timaru Boys High School Hall. There were 35 teams from all of the South Island with 4 people in each team. Our runner was Cathal, he was really fast. We had 30 minutes to answer 20 questions, the half an hour went really quickly! We finished 10th, but we were really happy with that! :D Afterwards the driver, Matthew's mum, Kim, took us to McDonalds for tea! Cathal and Matthew ate way too much and felt really sick on the way home. Overall - was a great night, we all loved it. :)

24 Challenge

Do you want to practice 24 Challenge? Here is a website which will let you do just that.

Short Stories

Here are the best of Room 7's short stories, written in Term 2. We hope you enjoy them.

Maths Quiz

On Wednesday the yr 6-8 went to room 6 for a maths quiz. We put into groups of 4 and we had to work the maths out together there was 25 questions and they were on little sheets of paper.Once we had got the answer we took it to Ella and Sam and they checked it if we got it right we got to do the next question if we got it wrog we had to try again. The team that got 1st was Shay,Veronica,Brett and Matthew. we really enjoyed it!