After the interest in chess at Nūhaka was sparked by a workshop given by Genesis Potini (subject of the New Zealand film The Dark Horse) several years ago, Nūhaka won the title of “Most Successful School” in the Hawke’s Bay junior chess championship.

This pack contains wide range of response activities including:

• A guided reading plan exploring key literacy elements including inference and deduction, language use, making connection and text organisation, along with key questioning to promote emotional intelligence, metacognition and compassionate inquiry. 
• An independent learning contract complete with explainer videos for activity clarity
  
• A wide range of response activities to support developing and embedding key literacy skills including sentence and word work, spelling, and cloze activities. 

Themes explored include: board games, chess, chess notation, concentration, Genesis Potini, Gisborne, inspiration, Nūhaka, teamwork, The Dark Horse, tournaments, old games, checkmate, stalemate