17 August - 23 August

Waiho i te toipoto, kaua i te toiroa.

Let us keep close together not far apart.

Kia ora. Well, here we are again in lockdown.  What a sudden move that was.  I hope you are all keeping well, and have settled back into the routine of learning from home.  I was on my way to work on Wednesday morning when I got a call from Mr. G.  Luckily I had not yet got to the motorway so was able to quickly return home!  We are really fortunate to live in such a wonderful county where our safety and health are a priority - and to be part of a school where digital learning is already part of what we do.  You may have seen I have started marking your speeches.  I hope the feedback you have received makes sense and you watch the video I took of your presentation to see what areas you could improve in future.  This week, we are going to continue with our writing.  Last week you wrote a few paragraphs inspired by the picture I shared.  This week we are going to develop some characters that would work in your writing. I have placed some scaffolds onto Google Classroom and we will discuss these during a google meet (yes, we are back to those) on Monday at 11 a.m.  I will send the invitation out to you all on Monday morning, so please check your email.

Success Criteria: I can/have...

• Generate ideas from a visual prompt 
• record ideas 
• decide on the genre and theme of my writing
• identify my audience and purpose
• create an appropriate character for my writing