Creative report writing on invented animal.

The Zambie by Zayne.

A Zambie is a cat like animal. It has slimy skin and long feathers so it can glide. It's so strong it could move a huge rock. It has good eyes and it can see through fog and it can see in the darkness. It only needs water when it's slime comes off but it will regenerate its slime on its skin. They are very  rare. You would be an millionaire if you owned one. They live in the jungle and they sleep in the bush to keep camouflaged but their skin is dark green.  The slime on their skin is green. Sometimes it is unfriendly to humans  but only if you annoy it or attack it. It only eats leafs and vegetables.

SOLO taxonomy hand signals

We use SOLO taxonomy to assess our writing and show us where we are and what our next steps are. Students of all ages can use SOLO levels, rubrics and frameworks to answer the following questions:

• What am I learning?
• How is it going?
• What do I do next?

SOLO Taxonomy (structure of observed learning outcomes) provides a simple, reliable and robust model for three levels of understanding – surface deep and conceptual (Biggs and Collis 1982).

At the prestructural level of understanding, the task is inappropriately attacked, and the student has missed the point or needs help to start. The next two levels, unistructural and multistructural are associated with bringing in information (surface understanding). At the unistructural level, one aspect of the task is picked up, and student understanding is disconnected and limited. The jump to the multistructural level is quantitative. At the multistuctural level, several aspects of the task are known but their relationships to each other and the whole are missed. The progression to relational and extended abstract outcomes is qualitative. At the relational level, the aspects are linked and integrated, and contribute to a deeper and more coherent understanding of the whole. At the extended abstract level, the new understanding at the relational level is re-thought at another conceptual level, looked at in a new way, and used as the basis for prediction, generalisation, reflection, or creation of new understanding (Hook and Mills 2011).

                        Couper and Keeley using given success criteria for Instruction Writing to make a                                                           rubric showing the steps at each stage.

Lots of petting for Brownie

peace poetry

                                                        

                               My Peace Poem

Always be friendly

You have to say no more wars        

Now peace starts with me.

By Nathan        

                                   

Article about us in the Southland Times.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/82979546/st-teresas-school-pupils-celebrate-schools-peace-week

Front page of the Eye today

SOLES FOR SYRIA

http://www.soles.org.nz/

On Thursday 11th August, we will be having a shoe less day for Syria.

From our headgirl Teneille:


"Tomorrow we are having a Soles for Syria day where we will not wear shoes for a day and give a donation. I contacted the students who are running it and said we are going to take part. They want to raise $50,000 for Syria. "