“I take part in the GetNZWriting kit each year and each year it delivers high-quality writing for my classes! This year's poetry focus was a fantastic ice-breaker, enabling the sharing of naughty memories of our younger years. We loved creating our poem cards for our partner class, shared a little 3D printer symbol too as a way of connecting and although dampened a bit with lockdown, sprung back to life as soon as school reopened. Thanks School Kit. Thanks Warehouse Stationery. We are all so grateful here in Room 18.”
“Thank you again School Kit for a fabulous writing kit. It is always great to have this kit at the beginning of the year to kick start our students writing. We did not quite get all of the writing completed when we went into lockdown so it was hard going back to it when we returned to school. We managed to complete our postcards and send them to our buddy school.
I will definitely sign up again next year.”
“Really enjoyed the descriptive language features of this kit - the poetry was excellent. Lots of laughter through this kit. Really appreciated the flexible from School Kit over lockdown and the mix up with all the parcels - their kindness and understanding through this time was much appreciated. Third time doing a writing kit, and they get better each year! Thanks team!”
“Another engaging kit that meant everyone was learning something new at the same time. We loved exploring NZ via our route to our buddy class and enjoyed playing with new language while we found an off the beaten track route. The poems on the postcards challenged us and we learnt that writing can be in the eye of the beholder too. Thank you School Kit.”
“Kids were engaged from start to finish with this year's Get NZ Writing activities. We had great fun finding locations around the country and working out how we were going to get there. We are still waiting for our partner class to get their writing to us (apparently it's on the way). Once this arrives it will be great to trace the journey back.”
“We really enjoyed the writing activities this year, especially the Just to Say poems. It was great to create a few different types of poems, to realise that poems don't have to rhyme, and to be creative in how we use and play with words. We especially loved receiving our the pack from our buddy school and exploring the different 'road' that they had taken to us.”
“I have never participated in the Get NZ writing kit before but loved the resources and experience the kids had.
It was fun reading the poems from our buddy school. Awesome pack! Thanks heaps.”
“Our class absolutely loved this kit. We are new to School Kits and I did have the help of a colleague who was also doing this kit. The poem was a huge hit as were the postcards (once we got our heads around them). Thank you so much for this kit. Knowing that another class in a different part of the country was sending their work to us was very exciting also. The glass were fantastic as it started a lot of discussions and sparked quite a bit of curiousity.”
