2017 Speech Finals

Good afternoon,

And our speech finalists were...

Thanks Year 4's...

...for coming over. You were a great audience! Oh, and our judges too, of course!

Well done to Saul and Preston for coming out on top. Go Room 3!

Mr Grant

Limericks 101

Script Writing 101 Take...Many...

Script Writing 101 Take 5

All in front of a live audience!

Script Writing 101 Take 3

:-)

Script Writing 101 Take 2

:-)

Script Writing 101 Take 1

:-)

Room 4 trying get NZ writing!!

Hi everyone,

For the past 2 weeks Room 4 has been doing a programme sponsored by Warehouse Stationery called get NZ writing. We're sending an A2 piece of paper called 'We are...' with questions that we have answered. Also we made a metaphor poems called 'I am..(Ko... ahua)' We needed to describe ourselves as if we were clothing, food, a building, something in our community. We are sending it to Port Chevalier school, Auckland.

Thanks for Reading the Batten Team blog.

By Ben.M

Mrs Windyflax and the Pungapeople

...as part of our personal experience writing unit.

Zog, The Knight, and the Princess

Good evening,

Continuing on with our Personal Experience writing...and sorry about the audio...and the lighting!














(sorry about cutting off their heads!)


Now to transfer those characters to paper!

Mr Grant

Writing Prompts

Good afternoon,

This morning Room 3 were learning (or refreshing themselves on) the techniques of Freeze Frames and Thoughts Aloud in response to a scene from a book. Or in this case, one of two scenes...

These techniques are very useful when thinking what to write - act it out first!

The Battle of Chunuk Bair

Good evening,

Again,

Today we started planning a piece of personal experience writing about one event during our holiday. Mr Grant chose to write/model his own experience of viewing this presentation of the Battle of Chunuk Bair that he captured on his phone. It brought a whole new perspective on the old 2D maps from years gone by...

The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig

Good evening,

As the culmination of our helping out Room 12 with their writing, Room 3 popped back over to video the results.











































Great stuff Room 12!

And a good time was had by all.

Time for Pen to Paper

Good afternoon,

Following on from the work we've been doing with Room 12, Room 3 popped back this morning to help them get their character's experiences down onto pen and paper.

The room was fair buzzing!

Acting to Write

Good afternoon,

As part of our staff's ongoing collaborative practice, Room 3 once again hopped over to Room 12 to teach them Freeze Frames and Thoughts Aloud with the aim of inspiring them to write.

And a good time was had by all!

Tomorrow we put pen to paper.