Hello Kate!

The filming your group did today looked great! I loved that you injected some of your sparkling personality into it, while maintaining a professional and mature attitude towards the information you were presenting. You used all of your oral language skills to ensure you were clearly understood. I hope Henry enjoyed your visit as much as you girls did!

Alana

Filming for my Documentary

Today I went to the Water Tower and The Southland Museum and Art Gallery to film for my documentary. We went with Claudia's Mum. First we went to the Water Tower and had heaps of fun filming around the venue. Next we went to the Southland Museum and Art Gallery. We saw the Tuataras and even got to hold one! We got lots of great film [and lots of bad film too] which will be very helpful for your documentary.

Documentaries

Today at documentaries I researched tuataras and the Southland Museum and Art Gallery. I searched on Wikipedia and found out heaps of great and useful things for my documentary. I found out that the tuatara resembles a lizard and tuataras are a greenish brown colour and grow up to 80cm. I have a whole page but it would be to hard to write it all down so I won't but I found lots of cool facts that will make our documentary AWESOME!

Cartooning

Today I did cartooning. I drew a pig, a fish, a dog, a hippopotamus, a mouse, two women's faces and two women. I liked doing the drawing better than watching the cartoon movies and reading the book. I found out that it's harder then what it looks like and for some strange reason even though I copied exactly out of the book it looked better in the book.

Cassandra

Today Cassandra from the Southland Times came to tell us some interesting facts about interviewing people. She taught us how to make people feel comfortable when you're talking to them. (To make them feel comfortable when you're talking to them you say something nice like the weathers not too flash and it will get them in a nice conversation and it will be easier to get stuff out of them). She also told us that we need to ask open questions instead of closed so that we can get more information out of them in our small amount of time. I thought Cassandra was really interesting and I would like to see her again for more information.

Documentries

Today at talent development we decided what we were doing. My group [Claudia, Phoenix and I]

are doing icons of Southland. We called the City Council to get an interview with '' Mayor Tim''. We've got to learn to do filming, presenting, interviewing and editing.

Teacher comment

Kate your passion project was not only full of new learning for you but also assisted a large number of other students to succeed with their projects and so it really did make a difference in the lives of others. I was very impressed with how organized and self motivated you and Karen were, and how well you worked together. You have shown the same level of dedication to all your learning at Enrich and have made the most of all the opportunities you have been offered including representing Enrich at the Otago Southland chess competitions.
Darryn