Students at Sylvia Park School created My Tūrangawaewae, a large contemporary version of a tapa. They designed individual squares that represent their identity and culture. The artwork celebrates them individually, as a class, and as a community.  

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: collage, communication, creativity, culture, design, identity, maths, patterns, Sāmoa, tapa, teamwork, tūrangawaewae