Wednesday 29 August 2018

Halsey drive school playground should be bigger (speech)

Introduction
Uhhhh…. don't you want the playground to be bigger?
 Well I do and I’m going to tell you why.


First main idea and evidence
There are lots of children at Halsey Drive School.
 In the seniors we have 256 and in the juniors we have 248.
In the whole school there are 504 students.  
That’s a lot of people to fit on two small playgrounds!


Second main idea and evidence
It will be safer so the children will not bump into each others
and they can jump. There will be way less accidents and
therefore less people getting hurt.  At the moment the
playground is so small that people can swing into each other
while playing on the monkey bars, children push and shove
each other arguing over equipment and whose turn it is and on
the slide, people hit into each other at the bottom.
 Overcrowded playgrounds leads to crying, upset and angry
children. The duty teacher has to deal with injuries and hand
out many sick bay cards. However, if we had a bigger
playground there would be more space to swing, jump, balance,
run, and climb. More space means happy, safe children and
less stressed out duty teachers!


Third main idea and evidence
We should add so some more equipment so that children are
able to practise their jumping, running, climbing and balance.  
Students can practise these skills if we add a flying fox, a slide,
a climbing wall and two swings. These are important physical
skills for children to learn as it helps them to move well and
build up their body strength.  Playing on the playground also
makes children fit and therefore healthy.


Conclusion
Don't you want a bigger playground to play on ? I sure do! I
strongly believe that the Halsey Drive School playgrounds
should be bigger as it would be safer and allow more children
to practise important movement skills.  So come on principals,
let’s make it happen! Bigger playgrounds for everyone!
                          
                                 
References     

Halsey drive school office lady.

Wednesday 8 August 2018

My Money Note

I chose Mr Bainbridge to draw on my note because he was an amazing teacher at Halsey Drive School. I also have a kiwi bird because the kiwi bird is a NZ native bird. I put a holographic window on my note so you can tell that the money is real and not fake. I put the tukutuku panel next to the kiwi bird.  I wrote $10,000 so they know how much money note is worth.