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Choices L3 Being responsible
Task Purpose: To find out what being responsible means and what it looks like in reality. To find out what being responsible looks like To identify strategies to become more responsible.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Identify ways in which people act responsibly to support themselves and others. Values Know what it means to be responsible and make choices to act responsibly. (Health)
Literacy Learning Goal: Visualising Expand vocabulary knowledge to precisely express what it means to be responsible. Identify and recall main ideas, listening and adding key points omitted by others during discussions. Think critically about what is heard. Plan and write convincingly for an audience about an event, using a clear structure of key ideas and supporting details.
Celebrations and Festivals L4 At my dinner table
Task Purpose: To find out something of the lives of possible guests.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Social sciences goals Make connections by thinking about the underlying reasons why people do the things they do. Understand how individuals participate in and seek to overcome challenges.
Literacy Learning Goal: Skim texts to gain a quick idea of what the text is about. Scan texts to quickly identify information needed to meet the curriculum purpose. Gather, evaluate and synthesise information across a small range of texts. Create content that is relevant and meets the curriculum purpose and engages the intended audience. Seek and respond to feedback given on presentations developed for an audience.
Perfect Poetry L2 Sound Patterns
Task Purpose: To find out about the sounds used in alliteration To find out about the sounds used in onomatopoeia. To think about the sounds of a particular object and capture it in a poem.
Curriculum Learning Goal: English goals : Explore how writers express their experiences and ideas using a particular poetic structure. Build an awareness of how alliteration and onomatopoeia is used for effect, especially within poetry.
Literacy Learning Goal: Recognise and apply some of the sound patterns used in poems. Create a mental picture of a familiar event to recall and organise sound patterns and language into a poetic form. Read aloud fluently with clarity and expression.
Cultural Expressions L3 Traditional Maori musical instruments
Task Purpose: To make connections with what we know about creating and listening to a range of music types. To find out about traditional Maori musical instruments and how they are played. To find out why people use traditional Māori instruments. To create your own traditional musical instrument and musical presentation.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Arts Understand the purposes for and functions of some of the traditional musical instruments used by Māori.
Literacy Learning Goal: To actively listen for key messages and integrate these with key ideas gained from reading a text to achieve the curriculum goal. To discuss ideas and opinions, using relevant Māori vocabulary and make judgments about the most important information needed to convey the curriculum goal. To use new vocabulary that accurately describes the kinds of music and sounds preferred.
Migration L4 Refugee
Task Purpose: Understand why people become refugees and identify some of the challenges refugees may face. Identify how New Zealanders can help refugees feel welcomed into New Zealand society.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand that when people face danger and violence in their home country they may seek safety in another country. Understand that being a refugee creates many challenges for them. Know that refugees have feelings, hopes and needs. (Social Sciences)
Literacy Learning Goal: Use clues in the text and draw on background experience to make inferences about what is unsaid but suggested in the text. Discuss ideas clearly with a focus on the main points of the discussion. Justify ideas using evidence and challenge the ideas of others where they don’t appear to be supported by evidence.
Migration L3 Early Migration
Task Purpose: To find out how scientists use evidence to understand and explain the movement of people. To explore how scientists use evidence to help them work out how early Polynesians migrated to New Zealand.
Curriculum Learning Goal: To learn about clues that early Polynesian people left behind that tell us how they lived and where they came from. (Social Sciences) Identify ways in which scientists provide evidence to support their ideas. Appreciate that science is a way of explaining the world. (Science)
Literacy Learning Goal: Use evidence to support ideas. Locate, evaluate and organise information that meets the curriculum goals.
Let's Get Moving L2 Our muscles how they help us move
Task Purpose: To understand how we move. To understand what you can do to reduce the tiredness in your muscles when you exercise. To use information to plan how to make healthier choices.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Science goal Know and use language to describe how muscles help us move. Social sciences goal: Understand how making healthy choices can help people to better meet their exercise and well-being goals.
Literacy Learning Goal: Clearly explain and demonstrate to others what causes muscle tiredness. Create mental images to gain a deeper understanding of the information read. Find clues in the text and draw on prior knowledge to make inferences about making healthy choices.
Matariki L3 Inferences
Task Purpose: To identify the significance of Matariki within the Māori calendar.
Curriculum Learning Goal: To understand how cultural practices vary but reflect similar purposes (social sciences).
Literacy Learning Goal: To make inferences by using clues in the text and drawing on prior knowledge to predict what is happening in a text.
Winter Weather Woes L4 NZ Weather
Task Purpose: To find out what are the main influences on New Zealand’s weather.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Students will ask questions, find evidence, explore simple models, and carry out appropriate investigations to develop simple explanations (Science).
Literacy Learning Goal: To devise an effective question that fosters a useful investigation. To identify relevant information in a text, and consider how it links to other information, in order to reach a conclusion.
Choices L4 Protecting our future
Task Purpose: To find out what is climate change and what is causing it. To identify some effects of climate change around the world. to find out what choices individuals can make to reduce their carbon footprint.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Explore various aspects of an issue and make decisions about possible actions. (Science)
Literacy Learning Goal: Contribute ideas that focus on the main points of the discussion. Select and take concise notes of the important ideas read or heard. Gather, evaluate and synthesise information across a small range of texts.
Treaty of Waitangi L3 Principles
Task Purpose: To understand the difference between rules and principles. To apply understanding of principles to the Treaty of Waitangi, Te Tiriti O Waitangi.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand how British migration to New Zealand has continuing significance for tangata whenua, in relation to the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Social Sciences).
Literacy Learning Goal: Make predictions drawing on background experiences and visual clues in the text and confirm them after reading. Integrate information across a small range of texts to build vocabulary knowledge.
Pests and Predators L4- Kauri Dieback
Task Purpose: To find out how the invasive Kauri Dieback disease is having an impact on Kauri trees and the local community.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Explain how living things are suited to their particular habitat and how they respond to environmental change, both natural and human-induced.(Science)
Literacy Learning Goal: Gather, evaluate and synthesise information, from a small number of texts that reflect a range of viewpoints. Draw on prior knowledge as well as information from texts to interpret abstract ideas.
Perfect Poetry L2 Comparison of poems
Task Purpose: To find out how different poets write about the same topic in different ways. To examine the words and phrases used by the various poets to describe the moon.
Curriculum Learning Goal: English goals : Think critically about the messages in the poems and how these are conveyed by the writer.
Literacy Learning Goal: Literacy goals Make connections with prior knowledge and the senses, to create mental images that foster better understanding. Recognise and use descriptive vocabulary and figurative language features to create a vivid poetic image. Read with fluency and expression to convey the meaning of a poem.
Olympics L4 Injury Free
Task Purpose: To identify how aspects other than physical factors affect health and well being. To find out about whare tapawha and what it means for a person’s health and well being. To find out how the whare tapawha model can be applied to staying injury free at school.
Curriculum Learning Goal: To access and organise information to make and action safe choices in a range of contexts. (Health and Physed)
Literacy Learning Goal: To make inferences by using clues in the text and drawing on prior knowledge to make a prediction. To analyse and synthesise information from several sources to inform and generate new ideas for a particular purpose.
Creating and performing L4 British Empire
Task Purpose: To find out more about the time in which the play is set and why the characters behaved the way they did.
Curriculum Learning Goal: To understand a character’s role by drawing on drama techniques such as voice, arm and leg gestures, movement and conventions such as Freeze Frame and Thought-Tracking (Arts).
Literacy Learning Goal: To be able to summarise the important or significant moments within a play. To analyse and synthesise ideas to reach a conclusion about the why the characters behaved the way they did.
Choices L3 Managing self
Task Purpose: To find out what it means to manage yourself. To find out about some self-management strategies. To find out other strategies that might help when facing a challenge.
Curriculum Learning Goal: To know and use self-management strategies when facing challenges. Identify and evaluate relevant strategies that can be used to build self-management skills. (Health)
Literacy Learning Goal: Use clues in the text and draw on background experience to make inferences about what is unsaid about the characters.
Let's Get Moving L3 Coaches and Refs
Task Purpose: To find out the attributes of a sports’ or activities coach. To understand what it means to be a coach or a referee.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Health and Physical education Identify risks and their causes, and identify safe practices to manage them. Develop movement activities that are enjoyable and promote physical and mental wellbeing. Social Sciences Understand how people make and implement rules and why these might be important in organised sport or activities.
Literacy Learning Goal: Express an opinion and explain why the opinion is held. Is willing to negotiate compromise when an agreement cannot be reached. Scan to locate and evaluate information that is relevant to the task purpose. Use appropriate language and structure to clearly describe a person’s role.
