Congratulations to Charlotte Brown, Kharess Walker-Hemana, Robin Rajangam, Ashton Snook, Allara Shine, Yasmijn Plaisier, and Chloe Jung for winning our Warehouse Stationery voucher draws at Year 9 Assembly on Monday.  They are among 20 students who are now halfway or have finished their Writer’s Toolbox Learning Journey.  This is an incredible achievement!

Some of our voucher prize winners (from left to right): Chloe Jung, Kharess Walker-Hemana, Robin Rajangam, Ashton Snook.

All Year 9 and 10 Waitākere College students have access to Writer's Toolbox, which is an online writing improvement platform.  There are approximately 50 modules in the individualised Learning Journey for junior students to be working away at for homework, during the holidays, and in some class sessions.  Each module focuses on an aspect of writing like how to structure a sentence in different ways, how to expand on an idea across three or four sentences, how to add more detail to writing, and much more.  Each module takes approximately 30-45 minutes to complete.  

This is what Robin, who has now completed his Learning Journey, has to say: “Writer’s Toolbox is very useful for me.  For my Term One English writing assessment, I got a Level 4 Achieved grade.  After applying what I learned from the Learning Journey modules, I soon earned a Level 4 Excellence on my writing.” 

We encourage all Year 9 and 10 students to make full use of this fantastic writing improvement platform.  Just 10-15 minutes a day would ensure one to two modules would be completed each week.

Below is a full list of our Year 9 students who have now completed at least half or all of their Writer’s Toolbox Learning Journeys. Ka rawe!

The $140 voucher prize draw for completing at least half of the Writer’s Toolbox Learning Journey modules:

The $100 voucher prize draw for completing the Writer’s Toolbox Learning Journey modules: