Mud slide heaven!

A wet drizzly morning tea meant that we were all stuck inside. Lunchtime came and the rain had lifted. What can we do? Wet playground, wet grass, puddles. Let's have a mud slide!!!
Great fun in fact "the best day ever" was how one student described it.
Apologies to our Mums and Dads - our PE uniforms will need quite a soaking tonight!

Digi Awards 2016

350 - that's the number of entries received from across the Matamata District for this year's Digi Awards. St Joseph's had 4 of our entries make it through to the finals -  Joseph for his photo, Baliegh, Jackson and Oscar for their animations. Check out their entries at the bottom of the post.

The evening was a lot of fun and all of the schools in the District were represented. All of the finalists sat with bated breath awaiting the results of their categories. We were so thrilled and proud to have Oscar win the Y5-6 category for his "First Landing on Mars" animation - but wait, there's more - he then took out the Y5-6 Supreme Award!!

A fantastic effort by all 4 to get into the finals - and a wonderful result for Oscar, rewarding the determination and persistence involved in the creation of his 831 slides! Congratulations to you all.



 Joseph Gallagher - Winter Reflection
  Finalist in the Y3-4 Photo

Baliegh Williamson -
Finalist in the Y3-4 animation

Jackson Donderwinkel -
Finalist in the Y5-6 Animation

And Oscar Donderwinkel -
Finalist and winner of the Y5-6 Animation
plus Y5-6 Supreme Award winner!!
(Make sure you watch it right to the very end)

Digi Awards 2016

350 - that's the number of entries received from across the Matamata District for this year's Digi Awards. St Joseph's had 4 of our entries make it through to the finals -  Joseph for his photo, Baliegh, Jackson and Oscar for their animations. Check out their entries at the bottom of the post.

The evening was a lot of fun and all of the schools in the District were represented. All of the finalists sat with bated breath awaiting the results of their categories. We were so thrilled and proud to have Oscar win the Y5-6 category for his "First Landing on Mars" animation - but wait, there's more - he then took out the Y5-6 Supreme Award!!

A fantastic effort by all 4 to get into the finals - and a wonderful result for Oscar, rewarding the determination and persistence involved in the creation of his 831 slides! Congratulations to you all.



 Joseph Gallagher - Winter Reflection
  Finalist in the Y3-4 Photo

Baliegh Williamson -
Finalist in the Y3-4 animation















Jackson Donderwinkel -
Finalist in the Y5-6 Animation

And Oscar Donderwinkel -
Finalist and winner of the Y5-6 Animation
plus Y5-6 Supreme Award winner!!
(Make sure you watch it right to the very end)

St Joseph’s Day - 19 March 2015

Yesterday it was St Joseph’s Day. We started the day with Mass and then we sorted ourselves into houses to make our special shared lunch. 

Silk made the Minestrone soup by chopping up celery, onions, zucchini, potatoes and carrots. Then we added tins of tomatoes, cannelinni beans, pasta and beef stock.

 

MacKillop made the bread in a breadmaker and then kneaded it to make bread rolls.

Joseph made Sfinge cakes.  This was made with flour, butter, water, sugar and eggs. It made a batter that we cooked in the oven and then topped it with riccota cheese mixed with cinnamon, vanilla, chocolate chips and icing sugar

When all the cooking was done and we were ready to eat, we all dressed up like Joseph or Mary or like people did in those days. Bishop Denis came to have lunch with us. We sang our St Joseph’s school prayer and the Bishop said grace. Then we sat down at a long table to eat our lunch. It was amazing. The soup was so yummy. "I liked to dip my bread in the soup" said Chad. "I even had two pieces of cake!" - Joshua

Happy Feast Day St Joseph!!

Excerpts taken from stories by Joshua, Charlotte, Joseph, Talia and Chad