SOLO

We have been on the journey to embed SOLO into our school for the last few years. And although students are all at different levels (from New Entrant to Year 8). The majority are all able to show or explain where they fit.

As a school we have flipped the curriculum and instead of first focussing on Literacy and Numeracy we focus on Inquiry and our reading, writing and numeracy stems from this.

This term our inquiry was 'What Inspires ME?' As a group the Year 5 and 6s focussed on the Arts. How people are inspired to be artists and how art can inspire others.

We read about New Zealand Carvers such as Joe Kemp, Painters Pascal Atiga- Bridger, Janine and Charles Williams. Actors Taika Waititi, Billy T James and Temuera Morrison.

After researching we wrote about our artist we have to write an information report. This lead to students learning more about paragraphs and when to start a new one.

Hands on activities included carving with clay, learning to follow music graphics and notation. Food experiments making ice cream, marbled milk and ice on a rope.

We also covered Food for thought and the children were given a budget to buy food this lead into numeracy and finding the best prices for different items.