Letter to Mr Burt

Letter to Mr Burt

Walt: read for a particular purpose and synthesise information

Walt: write convincingly for a particular purpose

Your task: You are going to be writing a letter to Mr Burt, asking him of the possibility of our team planting native plants in our school.

You need to:

• Explain your learning about ‘Te Taiao o Tāmaki.’
• Explain why you are writing to him - what are you wanting to do?
• Explain why we want to plant native trees/shrubs around school.
• Your research - what native trees have you researched which you know will grow well around our environment? Explain this.
• Timeline - when do we want to do this?

Prompts: This term, we have been learning about… I am writing to you… We want to ... because … I have researched native trees and have found… We hope to be able to do this by… Plan for your writing here:

Start you writing here:

Mr Burt                                                                                           Pt England School                                                                                           Auckland                                                                                           New Zealand Harlyn Pt England School Auckland New Zealand 28/2/2017 Dear Mr Burt, Room 10 has been learning about native plants.Room 10 wants to plant a native garden in pt england school and we have been learning about native plants so i'm sure we will not mess up our lovely school and I no heaps of facts about plants like flax was the most important fiber plant to maori and harakeke will be good hear since we have wet surface so mr burt I hope room 10 could do this please. Kind regards, Harlyn