INVITE SKY’S WORLD
into your classroom
The MeWe Power Dress Workshop
A Story-Led Curriculum Experience
for Years 1-4
Featuring a live read‑aloud
of Sky’s rainy day surprise
welcoming mainstream and specialist schools
Readaloud
Poster - Years 1&2
Poster Years 3 & 4
Sky’s World is a fully facilitated, story‑led workshop built around the narrative of Sky’s Rainy Day Surprise. The programme uses the story itself as the delivery mechanism for literacy, oral language, mathematics, visual arts, participation, contribution, and collective creation.
Learners meet Sky through a live read‑aloud and follow her journey of curiosity, creativity, noticing, wonder, and perseverance. Through guided discussion and oral language exploration, tamariki notice what Sky discovers throughout her rainy day adventure.
As the story concludes, learners discover that Sky has lost her dress. A large poster of Sky wearing a blank dress is revealed, creating an immediate transition from story into action.
Learners are invited to help complete Sky’s new MeWe Power Dress using fabric pieces chosen from the Four Hauora Buckets — each representing ideas noticed in the story:
Whakapapa — Family & Belonging
Mauri — Calm & Confidence
Mahi — Ideas & Creativity
Mana — Strength & Bravery
Each learner chooses a piece that represents them, contributing to a shared class artwork that becomes the whole class story.
As the dress grows, learners see how many different contributions can come together to create something meaningful.
Through creative making, discussion, spatial reasoning, pattern exploration, and collaborative design, learners engage with concepts from English, Mathematics & Statistics, and the Arts while experiencing how individual contributions become part of a larger collective creation.
The workshop concludes with the shared mantra:
Sky’s Story - My Story - Your Story - Our Story
Me + We = Power
What Students Experience
Live read‑aloud of Sky’s Rainy Day Surprise
Guided oral language discussion and story exploration
Exploration of the Four Hauora Buckets
Fabric selection and creative contribution
Hands‑on collaborative artwork creation
Spatial mathematics and geometric thinking
A shared Power Mantra celebrating contribution and collective creation
What Schools Receive
Fully facilitated delivery by author‑illustrator Lee‑Ann Mercer
All resources, materials, and visual supports provided
No teacher preparation required
Curriculum‑connected learning across English, Oral Language, Mathematics & Statistics, and Visual Arts
Flexible participation pathways for diverse learning environments
Core Workshop Message
Sky’s World is a story‑led curriculum workshop.
The story creates engagement and meaning. The workshop creates opportunities for literacy, oral language, mathematics, creativity, participation, and contribution.
Every learner has a pathway to participate. Every learner has a pathway to contribute. Every contribution helps create something bigger than any one person could create alone.
Suitable For
Mainstream classrooms, specialist settings, ORS‑funded learners, AAC users, and mixed‑ability learning environments.
Book Your Workshop
Term 4 bookings now open.
