Want to have a good education?

School is awesome

School is really important because you will learn about a lot of things like  R.E, Maths, Reading and many, many more.  Being educated means you will have a good future when you grow up. At school, you can make great friends too!  There’s a lot of different people you interact with everyday like the principal who is the head of the school,  the teachers who help and teach all the children to learn. Sometimes if a teacher s sick, he or she gets a reliever to handle the class.

A school has a lot of support staff to help the students in their needs and to assist the smooth running of the school. The cleaner or janitor who cleans the school when the school ends in the afternoon, the librarian, the school secretary and the lunchroom lady are part of the support staff.

Here are the facilities every school offers to the students:

• the classroom  where all students do their schoolwork most of the time.
• the staff room where all the staff go during morning tea, lunchtime, and when they have meetings.
• the sickbay where students go when they have a scratch, cut or when they are sick.
• the playground where students plays during morning tea or lunch time.
• the library where students can borrow books and research information for topics.
• the lunch room where we can order food.
• the principal’s office is where the teachers send the kids who are naughty for detention.

Every school is multi cultural because there is a mixture of different kinds of students like Tongan, Samoan, Filipinos, Chinese and many others. The good things about is we get to learn about their culture.

At St. Patrick’s School, there are a lot of events and programs such as Kiwisports (such as softball, ripper rugby, netball and soccer). We have events like cultural festival which is very exciting for the students because different classes practise a specific cultural dance for 8 weeks and then they get to perform on stage in front of a big audience.  Another event that happens at St. Patrick’s School is called APOPS. APOPS invite schools to watch their performance at the Aotea Centre. They put on a wonderful show because they use all the musical instruments in the orchestra to impress the audience. There is also Mission day where students prepare games and they also sell some products. After Mission Day, the money is collected and donated to an orphanage.  St. Patrick’s day is a day when people switch class to play games with the other teachers.  There is also the Duffy show and that is a performance by the Duffy book people. They perform for the kids to encourage them to read books.

St. Patrick’s School is a school with lot of great opportunities for students to get a good education.

WALT plan and write an explanation.

Success criteria: I know I can do this when I write an explanation writing about school and use at least 2 sentences to describe each part.