Simon O'Connor Visit

SLOG DAY!

Reflect on Simon O'Connor's visit to our school.  

SYMBOLS	FOCUS	My answer
	From our brainstorm, choose the 20 most important words.	Family Democracy Polices Parliament His past - Trained for 9 years as a priest Talked to people on K-Road Community Can't keep contact with his kids Busy Fencing (Bruises) 20 emails a day Help Politics National His family and friends inspired him His education wasn't good, he was on low grades He is a member of Parliament Sister (Lawyer) Brother (Carpenter) Irrational people Opposition Whangarei ‘National is always right’ Travels to other schools Wellington Played soccer and cricket Great childhood Pt England reserve Emotional Rest homes ‘Never give up’ MP Government Respect
	Choose 8 of these words and highlight them.   Write a summary to describe what the life as an MP. Use Simon O’Connor as your example and use one or two of these images in your summary.	His family and friends inspired him His education wasn't good, low grades Travels to other schools Help Irrational people Can't keep contact with his kids Busy Respect Simon O’Connor, a member of a parliament has visited our school Yesterday and had told and explained how he works and what he does for our Community. He has explained to us all the important things and not so important things he does in the parliament, he has also told us that it is a very good job and he enjoys being apart of the government. But in Simon O’Connor’s childhood he was struggling in all his works, so technically he was dumb, but then something switched on and he became more smarter than ever and much more mature. He speaks his mind and shares his opinions and because of that his Family and friends has been encouraging him to go beyond. They wanted him to be apart of a parliament and been encouraging him through his days. He is married with 5 kids, but he doesn't stay around much because of his job and he’s disappointed and upset that he doesn't spend much time with him family. That's one  thing Simon O’Connor struggles is that he never gets so much time with people who love him and people who he love. As a Member of Parliament, Simon O’Connor has recently received like 20 emails a day and been having visitors swear at him, and he doesn't like that he has haters hating on him for no possible good reason. Instead of Simon O’Connor running to his corner and hiding, he sits his visitor down and talk with them so he can solve the problem with them. Simon is a very helpful man, he is always keen to go out and talk with people to know what problems they're facing so he himself can help sort things out and make things work. He respects everyones opinions about the Community and what they struggle with and he is more than happy enough to help them through any and everything. As i said he has visited our school and not just our school but he travels and visits other schools to give them information of what life is like as an Mp. ‘ I’d love to be a Minister ‘ a dream of Simon O’Connor which he will want to be true because he is desperate and will be more than happy to become the Minister of the Parliament. ‘ Never give ‘ Simon O’Connor has said this to us to encourage us to not give up that easily that sometimes taking the hard and long road will lead us to success.
	You have a chance to have your voice heard.   Explain to Simon O’Connor one of the biggest problems in our community.   Describe to him why it is a problem and how he could use his job as an MP to address it. You can use the inquiry you did in our term 1 Sustainability unit or another one of your choice. Choose one of these ways of sharing the message: A rap A speech A written song A letter	A problem that i find disturbing in our Community is that the Government is destroying the houses which families spent nearly their whole lives in. Even though the Government is rebuilding houses and remodeling the houses to make it look more better and more safer and like put in more space but the price is too high, and most of us in the Community doesn't have that much to afford a new house for ourselves. I like the way they rebuild the house but the price they put on for us to purchase is really high. I really appreciate the Government changing and reshaping our houses but it won't feel as normal and it’ll be more of an experience and like we as a Community won't feel like we’re living in ‘ Home sweet home ‘ . Another problem that concerns me is that people at late night sleep in the dark and cold. That they shiver through night and have nothing to keep them warm. Its really sad for me too see the homeless in the streets smoking and sleeping on the floor, starving and wanting money for food, clothes and water. I love our Community and i’ll do any and everything to help the homeless and help them get back to their feet and being healthy and warm. It's a big concern because the Government doesn't seem to care at all for the people in our Community and this is a situation i want the Government to fix. Getting people in houses again.