The Summer Learning Journey

Last week Taylor from the Summer Learning Journey came to our school to tell us about how the Summer Learning Journey can help us stay at the expected level of education during the summer holidays. The  Summer Learning Journey helps you catch up with your reading and writing and then you post about it on your blog. They have done a survey on all the people that have done the Summer Learning Journey and the results where all the people who did the summer Learning Journey stayed at the expected level of education for their year and the people how did not do the summer Learning Journey went down the summer slide. The summer slide is when you haven’t been practising you reading and writing as much as you do in school and your reading and writing levels drop during the holidays.  You also get to look at other peoples work on their blogs and comment on them. When you comment and post on your blog you get points. At the end of the holidays all of your points gets added up and whoever has the most points wins a cool prize. Did you know that it takes three month for you to get back to the level you where at at the begging of the holidays? Have you ever participated in the Summer Learning Journey?

setting sail

Dear Primrose,

I am about to leave for Aotearoa. I feel excited and nervous because I am about to sail for at least 100 days to get to another country, far away from home. I have never been on such a long journey.

My longest trip before this was out past the reef to go fishing.

I am going with my whanau and several others from our village.

Hope to write to you again after we get there safely.

Imogen