The Neverland Story by Emma Re

WALHT share our free writing on our hub blog.

We were to take our free writing in our books, and publish it on our device. We then needed to mark it against the blog rubric  to see if would make a good blog post.  We were then able to publish to the blog.

The Neverland story by Emma Re

Once upon a time there lived a fairy named Pirella. She lived in Neverland. One day she went to Puppy Princess. Puppy Princess lived in a castle. It was as big as the world. Pirella was delivering an old sink, but the princess didn't want it. The guards took the sink back to a wizard named Soup. He was a fixer upper. The wizard was happy to fix something, as he hadn’t been able to fix anything for a hundred years! It was fixed on Monday. Puppy was happy to get her sink fixed so she gave it to Pirella for her eighth birthday. Pirella loved the sink and she remembered that it was the sink she delivered. She said thank you to everybody. And THAT MADE THEIR DAY!!!

The End

WALHT self assess our work against a writing blog rubric.

WALHT self assess our work against a writing blog rubric.


Ms Brand's authors have been fortunate to receive a copy of Whaea Petra's (Tamaki Primary) blog rubric. Thank you for sharing, Whaea Petra.  This rubric has been adapted by many teachers within the Manaiakalani Cluster schools, but I believe the origin was started at a Point England school.

This rubric really made us think about our work before we just published it to our blog.

Using this in class today we have marked Emma Re's writing.  Special shout out to Emma for being so brave and sharing her work with the class as we built our knowledge in marking rubrics. We were also able to compare and contrast our results and justify our thinking.  We were also able to practice our concept of kindness and empathy as we were able to make connections that Emma is one of our peers and we were critiquing her work, so how could we do that in a positive way?

Now we are all assessing our own work against the blogging rubric criteria. Look out for our new and improved blog posts today.

This is a great tool that will definitely help us in all our future learning.

From Ms Brand's authors.

Baking breakthrough

Chocolate Cake

Cooking breakthrough last Friday resulted in the most amazing chocolate cake.


We were even able to make meaning by comparing and contrast gluten free flour and regular flour in the cakes.

The verdict: The gluten free cake looked like a massive brownie so that was a huge hit.

It has even inspired this weeks baking, chocolate brownies! Yum.


Please ask your learner what ingredients they may need for this coming Friday.

Special thanks to Rachel, our parent help, who was able to share her baking talents with the group.