TERM THREE - Week 10

Persuasive Writing

This term for writing, our genre was persuasive writing.  We integrated this into our speech writing this term, and based it around our yearly theme 'Champions'.  

Some of our Learning Intentions / Purpose were as follows: 

• Constructs texts that show a growing awareness of purpose and audience through careful choice of content, language, and text form.
• -Uses a range of vocabulary to communicate meaning.
• Organises and sequences ideas and information

Our inspiration to speech writing came from a speech by an aunty whose nephew was in a car accident. She wrote a persuasive speech to try and increase the driving age. Here is the speech if you would like to watch it. Putting the brakes on Teenage Driving

On Term 3, Week 10, Monday the 23rd of October, 2019, we had our Whakapono speech finals, where the judges were to select 3 / 4 students to go through to the grand finals.  Room 18 were so proud to have put forward 3 speech finalists: Manoa Tuifua, Sunia Ungounga and Majete Autagavaia.

After listening to some amazing and entertaining speeches, there could only be three winners that go through to the grand finals.  We were all waiting patiently to hear the judges announcement.  YEAH!!! We had Sunia and Majete from Room 18, make the grand finals.

So again, we were in the hall on Tuesday the 24th of October, with Team Tumanako, all anticipating the speeches that were to come.  So now we had the Year 4's, 5 and 6's.  

We sat there listening to many speeches, some were funny, some were serious and some were very good topics.  But to be honest, we just wanted to hear who wins?

Drum roll pleaseeeeee!  The winner for the Year 6 speeches was Sunia Ungounga and in second place was also our very own Majete Autagavaia.  It was Whakapono 18 in the house!!!!

We enjoyed our time in the hall listening to all the wonderful speeches, but especially supporting our Room 18 students.  

Some excerpts from our speech finalists.

First of all, what is a champion? I believe that a champion is someone who doesn’t give up so easily, and who show’s important values such as Participation, Respect, Integrity, Determination, and empathy just like our school values. By Manoa

For example, how champions like Steven Adams has set up some basketball courts in Rotorua for children who want to be better basketball players and to keep kids off the street.  That’s why we need champions like him to be an amazing role-model to others especially to children.

Champions are also people who need to have good leadership skills and use our spectacular pride values, Participation, Respect, Integrity, Determination and Empathy.  Champions model these values and for a kid like me, that’s what I want to be and that’s why I believe we need champions, who will show us the way. By Sunia

A champion learns lessons from mistakes, focuses on daily improvement and continues to achieve their goals like the Australian Rugby team, they tried and tried to win against the All Blacks and they did.

A champion has the willingness to learn and listen, they are willing to learn and stay committed to it, like us as students, being here at school to learn and better for a better future. By Majete Autagavaia