: School Notices
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Approach: One to one Level: Year 4 and year 8 
access task
Focus: Recalling and retelling messages
Resources: Audio recording on laptop computer

Questions/instructions:

This activity uses the computer.
You are going to hear some notices being given over
the school speaker. You will hear the notices only once, so you will need to listen very carefully and try to remember the information given.

I won’t hear the notices, so I will ask you to tell them to
me, after you have heard them.

Student listens to notices with headphones on.
Click School Notices button.


Voiceover:
Good morning everyone. Here are today’s notices.
This week we are selling strawberry milkshakes at lunchtimes for 50 cents.
Children in rooms 5 and 6 will not be going to the pool tomorrow because too many have colds.
The principal wants everyone to tell their parents that she was very pleased they came to see your art work in the school last night.
Please remember to bring your $2 tomorrow if you want to go to the lunchtime puppet show. It will be starting at 12.30.
Thank you. That’s the end of today’s notices,

Now try to tell me all of the notices that were given on the school speaker.  


% responses
2006 ('02)
y4
y8

Information mentioned:

First notice:

selling milkshakes
66 (66)
76 (76)
this week
1 (4)
4 (6)
at lunchtime
20 (24)
34 (40)
strawberry
71 (65)
85 (80)
50c
71 (61)
83 (82)
Second notice:
children from rooms 5 and 6
58 (61)
77 (68)
not going swimming/to the pool
81 (84)
89 (91)
tomorrow
17 (15)
20 (16)
too many children have colds
78 (76)
81 (79)
Third notice:
everyone tell parents
15 (12)
25 (27)
principal very pleased
27 (22)
50 (44)
parents came to school
20 (10)
41 (17)
to see art work
34 (28)
57 (49)
last night
9 (5)
9 (8)
Fourth notice:
puppet show
71 (59)
66 (55)
tomorrow
15 (18)
24 (20)
$2
74 (62)
71 (62)
lunchtime
32 (27)
31 (31)
starts 12:30
12 (12)
14 (11)
Total score:
13–19
6 (5)
17 (12)
10–12
21 (16)
30 (30)
7–9
37 (35)
35 (34)
4–6 29
(33)
16 (19)
0–3
8 (11)
2 (5)
Subgroup Analysis:
Year 4

Year 8

Commentary:
Students were moderately successful at retelling the details of a set of school notices being read over the school intercom. Students in year 8 performed better than year 4 students. Slight growth was seen in both year 4 and year 8 between 2002 and 2006. Pakeha children were more successful than Mäori or Pasifika children in both years.
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