Week 2, Day 1 (SLJ)

Activity 1

For this activity, create a list of your 'Top 5' favourite things to do and take a photo of yourself doing each of these things.

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Activity 2

For this activity, we would like you to calculate Jessa’s age when she won the NAIDOC Youth of the Year award. She was born on 7 April 1985 and she received the award on 9 July 2010. Please provide the answer to this question in years, months and days (eg. 20 years, 6 months and 2 days).

Jessa won the NAIDOC Youth of the Year award when she was 25 years, 3 months and 2 days old.

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Activity 3

For this activity, please write a letter that includes the issue you have chosen, why you have chosen it, and what you would like our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, to do about it. It is your job to persuade us (and her!) that it’s an important issue.

Dear Jacinda Ardern,

I am writing this letter to you because I have an issue with the teachers pay problem. 

First off, I know that the government are already sorting out teachers pay rises. What I want to address is how will that help the students? Yes, teachers are cerntainly underpaid, but paying them more will not exstinguish the problems that they face at their jobs. For instance, school resources.

Some schools can only afford to buy a certain amount of things, and sometimes they have to waste it on fixing something about the schools' exterior. Kids need more resources but too often smaller schools need to fund other things like teacher aides.

What I am asking of you is to put more money into education budget so that schools can deal with issues like teacher aide pay so that they can make more than the living wage and that they're not so stressed and can focus on supporting students. This way schools can focus on putting more money into resources needed to inhance students learning.