The Joyful Mysteries---The Nativity

The Nativity

I hold my beautiful baby boy in my arms and my heart bursts with pure joy, contentment and hope all mixed together to make one wonderful feeling. I look at his hazelnut brown eyes and they seem full of kindness and knowledge and I can’t help feeling proud that this boy is the son of God. I can smell the hay and barn animals wafting around my face and my husband smiles at me, a smile so exuberant  and his eyes twinkle with joy. I look out the window and I can see stars shining radiantly on the black background of the night. The moon winks at me with joy for this wonderful new baby. I am just so happy.

By:Brianna

The Joyful Mysteries---The Visitation

The Visitation

I enter into Elizabeth’s home and her smile radiates brightness and joy. Time seems to stop as I look back out the door and see the dusty dirt raising upwards in dirty cloudy puffs because of the wind which is howling in anguish. I look at the sky, there are no cloudy blankets covering the beautiful cornflower blue sky today. I try to look at the sun and It feels as if the sun is winking at me. I look back at Elizabeth and the strong smell of hay and manure bursts into my face. Elizabeth says “Blessed are you among all women and blessed is the fruit of your womb”. I smile back at her and time seems to start again.

By:Brianna

The Joyful Mysteries---The Annunciation

The Annunciation

I sit down after praying to God. I look around at my cobblestone walls of my home. The candles around me suddenly blow out around me and the darkness of the room threatens to wrap around my body and overwhelm me. Suddenly I feel a bright warmth cascading around me and I see a heavenly angel appear before me. ”Do not be afraid Mary”, the angel tells me, “You are to have a baby called Jesus”. “ But how can this be, for I am a virgin” I ask. He says that the Lord has chosen me and so I say “ Let it be done” and he vanishes like a candle blows out from the wind. 

By:Brianna

Catholic Social Justice Principles

Catholic Social Justice Principles

Refugees

Refugees

There are more than 50 million refugees in the world. Some of which may be crying as we speak.

Syria has a big refugee crisis as well as South-east asia, The Mediterranean and Africa and over 3 million have run from Syria to other countries such as Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq.

The Syrian civil war has pressed lots of refugees to run away. The Big reason is because of war and fighting. Picture this, crying, fear and  fighting. I sure wouldn’t want to live in a country like that.

The UNHCR helps the Syrian refugees and they also help the Filipino refugees. They help provide shelter, food and water.They help against extremely dangerous circumstances.

Scientific-Method-Layout

What’s in the box

Aim- We are trying to find out how far the two cars will go by watching them go down a ramp.

Hypothesis- The bigger car will go farther because it has more pressure because of its weight.

Method-  1.Make a ramp  2.Get two cars  3.Let the cars go down the ramp one by one with equal placing  4.see which one went the farthest

Results- Miss aspelling pushed one car down the ramp and let the other car go down on it’s own.

Conclusion- It wasn’t a fair test because the results weren't equal.

Brand-Complaint

To Nestle,

I really enjoy your Kit-Kats and they are extremely delicious but due to you having palm oil in your Kit-Kats I will have to stop eating your brand.

Did you know that by using palm oil you are chopping down the orangutans homes and there are now not many orangutans left because of this.

If you decide to stop using palm oil in your chocolate (such as Kit-Kats) please let me know because then I will go back to eating your chocolate. In the meantime I will eat Whittaker’s chocolate because it is also delicious and has no palm oil.

Regards,

Brianna McKenna

Saint Maximillian Kolbe

Saint  Maximilian  Kolbe

Saint Maximilian Kolbe was a Franciscan priest and was born in Poland in 1894. His real name was Raymund but it changed to Maximilian when he became a Franciscan priest. When he was a student he started a group of people who dedicated their lives to Mother Mary and God and it was called  The Militia. He also published a magazine called The Knight to help people learn about Mary and God.

His cause was to help people learn about God, Jesus, Mary and to be good people and he did that when Germany invaded Poland in September 1 1939. He was taken to German work camps and when he went back to his friary he showed he was humanitarian because he looked after thousands of Jewish refugees who were terrorised by the Germans.

He upset the Germans when he wrote critical things about them and so they arrested him and took him to Auschwitz Concentration Camp where he had to wear striped pajamas.The prisoner number on his striped pajamas was 16670.

There were lots of escapes at the camp and every single time there was an escape 10 people were chosen and were starved to death. On August 1ts  1941 there was another escape and when the 10th man was chosen he cried out that he had a wife and children and he would never see them again. Maximilian switched places with the man and was taken to the airless chamber to starve to death but after a few weeks he was the only one alive singing praises to God and so they gave him shots of poisonous acid and that is how his love for others led to his death. He became a saint on October in 1982. He was a great man and an inspiration to everyone.

By Brianna

Book Review- Unlocking the spell

Unlocking the spell

E.D. Baker                                   October 2 2012

Love, Danger, Fairies, Persevering and magic

Annie’s older sister Gwendolyn A.K.A sleeping beauty woke up from true love’s kiss but unfortunately that true love is stuck in the body of a bear from an evil dwarf. Annie must find that dwarf to break the spell. But will she be able to do it ???

Things I liked- It was funny, interesting and the way E.D. Baker wrote was beautiful.

Things I didn't like- The parts about love and how no one liked annie.

By:Brianna

Endangered Orangutan

Orangutan

Orangutans only live in Sumatra and Borneo which are islands in Indonesia and Malaysia. There used to be around 315, 000 Orangutans in the world but now there is less than 6, 600 left because of the production of Palm oil.

Orangutans are losing friends, family and their homes which is really sad.

Some products that have Palm oil in them are biodiesel, pizza dough, cookies, chocolate and lipstick.

Think about it, in a way you are destroying the Orangutan population.  You could help by trying to stop using products that have Palm oil in them. For more information look at the auckland zoo site.

By: Brianna

My ideal weekend

My ideal weekend

My ideal weekend would be playing with friends, sleeping in and maybe going Ice-skating. I usually have pretty boring weekends so my ideal weekend would be amazingly awesome.

My favourite thing to do in the weekend would be to have a sleepover with my best friend K.C. because then we could have a midnight feast and tell ghost stories about K.C.’s old, rotten doll, Chum-Chum. It is really fun to play with friends because they are really special and you can’t just throw them away like an used t-shirt.

My second best thing to do in the weekend would be to play Minecraft all day long with Estelle because she is obsessed with minecraft. We would build an adventure theme park with parkour, maybe some bow and arrow games, swimming pools, roller coasters and lots of other things.

My third and final best thing to do in the weekend would be to go swimming with my next-door neighbour

Aziza. We usually go to Cameron pools which is down the road from our house. I really like going underwater because it makes me feel calm.

I absolutely love the weekends because they are full of fun(sometimes). Boring weekends are okay but ideal weekends are the best especially if I get to go to K.C.’s, go swimming and play minecraft with Estelle. Ideal weekends are the best.

    By:Brianna 

Malala Yousafzai Biography

Malala Yousafzai Biography

Malala was a teenage activist who was born on 12th July 1997 in Mingora, the Swat district of North West Pakistan. She went to school at Edgebaston High School and started advocating for girls rights when she was 11. Her father’s name is Ziauddin Yousafzai and he was an educational activist against the Taliban. The Taliban were taking over their country and they started closing down schools and shot lots of people.

Malala became an activist against the Taliban and stood up to them. She ended up getting shot in the head by a bullet and she had to go to several hospitals. Thousands of children prayed in Sunni Islam which was Malalas religion for her. Malala got lucky and overcame the injury from the bullet that went through her head. A few years later she was talking all about women’s rights for education.

Malala is an inspirational person and she had the honour of being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (2014), Sakharov Prize for Freedom of thought (2013) and Simone de Beauvoir Prize(2013). She has now published a memoir and is famous for her quotes like “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful” and “One child, One teacher, One book and One pen can change the world.” The world wouldn’t be the same without Malala.  

    

By:Brianna

When You Thought I Wasn't Looking

When You Thought I Wasn’t Looking

1. When you thought I wasn’t looking, you signed my netball form, ticked helper and umpire and I learned to be nice and tick everything if it helps others.
2.  When you thought I was sleeping, you used half of your sleeping time to buy me lunch for school and I learned that you have to use your time for others.
3. When you thought I wasn’t looking, you woke up early to make my lunch and put my uniform on the chair, fresh and clean and I learned that the little things count as the big things.

4. When you thought I wasn’t looking, you put money into a homeless person’s cup and I learnt that you have to treat everyone with respect.

5.  When you thought I wasn’t listening, you stopped important meetings to take me to swimming and I learnt that sometimes you have to stop important things for others.

6.  When you thought I wasn’t looking,I saw you eat the rest of my pizza, so as not to waste it, even though it had ham on it and you are a vegetarian and I learnt that you should try to be cheerful even if you are doing something you don’t like.

7.  When you thought I wasn’t looking, I looked at you and wanted to say “Thanks for all the things I saw you do ……… when you thought I wasn’t looking”.

By:Brianna