Lady of Fatima statue visit

 

St Pius X school was blessed by the visit of the Lady of Fatima statue. The whole school had a liturgy honouring and praising our Lady of Fatima, the mother Mary.

Room 5 posed in front of the statue and then wrote a recount of their personal experience of the event.

This is the recount of one of the students, Patience Maketesa.

Meet the mother Mary

I was very excited to see the statue and the sisters. The sisters were all wearing a dark blue and the statue was wearing white.

As we were saying the rosary my voice got tired and I lost my breath I couldn't talk or say the prayers as much because the prayers were so long!

When I came up close to see mother Mary I thought she was beautiful. Her cheeks were as pink as a rose, her crown was as bright as the sun and her clothing as white as a dove.

I think that Mother Mary looks real because her skin looks very smooth.

At the end each class took a photo with the statue with our rosaries and prayer cards. That was my favourite part of the visit.

That was a very fun experience meeting they Fatima statue, I hope I get to see her soon.

If you are interested in finding out more you can click on the extract below to read further about the tour of the statue and how it was organised.

"On January 11, Pope Francis blessed six statues of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and conferred upon them the title of “International Centennial Pilgrim Image of Our Lady of Fatima.” Each of these pilgrim images have since been sent from the Eternal City to a continent, where their pilgrimage will be focused."

Money Tips for Kids

Room 5 had a lot of fun learning how to be Moneywise with Tom and Abs, accountants from Price Waterhouse.

They also then did an hour with the ASB people about Financial Literacy.

Room 5 learned so much about how to be smart with their money that they thought it would be a good idea to make a movie and share their ideas with other kids and

VOILA!

Room 5's movie was made called Money Tips for Kids!

We hope you find a tip you can use to become more money wise!

Niue Language Week

Room 5 was lucky enough to be able to taste a Niuean dish called Takihi as an experience for Niue Language Week.

Patience Maketesa's Nana who is Niuean made it for the class to share and it was brought in and dished up by her mum Aly.

Winter Learning Journey Bloggers

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 These are the students from Room 5 who blogged some or all of the Activities from the Winter Learning Journey site. (Click on picture link top right of Class Blog to see the Activities). Many thanks to Rachel Williams and her team of commenters who made this exercise fun and worthwhile.

Back Row: Etuale, Charis, Akesa, Gabriel

Middle Row: Opeti, Thomas, Christopher, Patience, Dianne, Lily

Front Row: Solomone, Diego, Laki, Cameron

Absent: Telesia, Izayah and Helena

SPECIAL MENTION 

Helena won a prize pack for coming second and Christopher won a prize pack for coming 3rd!

Winter Learning Journey Bloggers Prize giving

Rachel Williams, the Winter Learning Journey site creator and her sponsor came to St Pius X on Wednesday the 2nd August to present prizes and certificates to students who had registered and participated in the Winter Learning Journey blogging during the July holidays 2017.

                              

Bloggers were awarded certificates for participation and prize packs for coming 1st, 2nd and 3rd. The prize packs were awarded to bloggers who completed all the activities and did a lot of commenting on other peoples blogs.

                          

Government Book Week Duffy Assembly

St Pius X was fortunate to have Mr Simon O' Connor, our Government MP for Tamaki,  as our special guest for our Duffy Assembly.
He shared his childhood stories with us and also how much he reads to his family. We all posed for a picture at the end proudly holding up some of the Duffy Books we have received.

Thank you Duffy!

A special visitor

Silia had a very special Mother's day Mass at her church when someone unexpected popped in to worship with them.

Read her recount below. What an amazing opportunity!

A Mother’s Day surprise visitor

On Mother’s day it was a very special day for me. Do you want to know why…??? My dad and my uncles didn’t go to church because they stayed at home and made food for my aunties, mum and grandma. So they missed out on meeting someone special.

When we got to church there were two police cars. I didn’t know what other people were thinking but I thought there was a criminal in the church. We went into the church and there was a big space in the front. I could hear people whispering “what is that space for?” because there were no other seats in the church but the three seats. Then a lady came and welcomed us and the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Bill English. WOW!!!! isn't it amazing.

Our Sunday school did an action song for all the mother’s and I came straight to my mum. She was sitting in the same row as Bill English. After mass everyone hurried out to meet him. My mother didn’t want to meet him but my brother did. He went and asked him questions like “why did you come to our church?” He also managed to get us a personal picture with him.

It was a day that I will never forget. I wish I could be successful just like him one day.