Term 1 / Week 05 - EVEN Week

Ahakoa he iti he pounamu

Although it is small it is a treasure

Week 5 27 Pēpuere - 3 Maehe (EVEN) Rowing - CSS Regatta Lake Hood - Sat 25 - Sunday 26 Touch Rugby - Canterbury Champs - Sat 25 Peer Support - Period 2 - Thurs 2 Year 9 Parent Evening - Thurs 2, 7.30pm CGHS Athletic Sports - BHS All Day - Friday 3 Tennis - South Island Champs - Fri 3 - Sun 5 Volleyball - South Island Champs - Fri 3 - Sun 5 Wed 1 - LEF Reports to be completed - 12.50.	Week 6 6 Maehe - 10 Maehe (ODD) 12Bio Trip - Temple Basin - Mon 6 - Fri 10 11Geo Trip - Queenstown - Tues 7 - Thurs 9 Athletics - Canterbury Champs - Tues 7 13CHE Internal - P5 - Wed 8 Peer Support - P3 - Thu 9 Rowing - SISS Champs, Twizel - Fri 10 - Sun 12 Athletics - Canterbury Champs Finals - Sat 11
Assembly Wed 1: Period 1 - NCEA Year 13 in staffroom.	Assembly Fri 10: Period 4 - Full School Assembly in Gym (TBC depending on Gym availability)
Meeting   Mon 27: Staff Anaphylaxis Training Session Tues 28: Student Support	Meeting  Tues 7: Learning Area Pedagogy.

CGHS School App

We are currently looking at revamping our CGHS School App. It is a great way of quickly communicating with students and parents.

Staff who are in charge of sports teams, year levels, music groups etc can be added to send out alert reminders. If you think this is something that you would find useful, please let Sonja (BLS) know and a username and password can be created.

Teacher Absences for PD

If you want to check that your relief has been sorted for when you are away for PD, camps, courses etc for the upcoming week, these are now on the front calendar screen on KAMAR for you to check.

A selection of tools for creating Quiz Games for class - A Comparison Chart

Quiz games can be used for creating fun formative assessment activities, some can be created by teachers or students, or used for exit tickets.

Kahoot is a well-known quiz game here at CGHS, we had a PLD session last year on creating Kahoots, and they are popular with students. It is probably the best known quiz game tool, although other popular ones include Socrative and Quizlet. These are not the only ones available to use – there are other good ones too.

They all have a common purpose – to make reviewing work fun – and have some common features. In the chart below you can see the different features of 6 popular quiz games.

The features that are common to all six quiz game tools are:

1. Teachers can collaborate on quiz creation by being able to access published quizzes and then modify them for their own classroom use.

2. All let teachers get results in a spreadsheet format.

3. Teachers can set the quizzes to give students immediate feedback on their answers.

P.S. Kahoot has a new type of game available now called Jumble. This gets players to place answers in the correct order, rather than just choose the one right answer, and promotes higher order thinking.

	Students can contribute to game creation	Team mode	Questions displayed on student device	Types of media in questions	Can be set as homework	Unique features
Kahoot	No	Yes	No	Video & images	No	Offers a “sorting” question type. Supports use of video questions.
Triventy	Yes	No	Yes	Images	No	Teachers can include answer hints as well as 50/50 answer hints.
Quizalize	No	No	Yes	Images	Yes	Offers a marketplace in which teachers can sell quizzes.
Quizizz	No	No	Yes	Images	Yes	Import questions from spreadsheet.
Socrative	No	Yes	Yes	Images	No	Dedicated exit ticket mode.
Quizlet Live	Yes	Yes	Yes	Images & audio	No	Import from flashcards.

Professional Development:

1. ULearn17: Registrations are now open for the annual ULearn conference. This year it will be held in Hamilton from 11 - 13 October.

2. Middle Leadership: Leading Others.

This four-day workshop series is aimed at primary and secondary teachers whose role has them having responsibility for ‘leading others’. First day is Wednesday 15 March, please see BLS if interested.

These four interconnected workshops (spread over the school year) set out to build ourselves as a community of practice. The focus of this learning opportunity is on “making a difference to the classroom next door” – your critical role in leading learning, influencing learning and teaching, creating and leading a professional learning team, and growing others in their leadership.

Term 1 / Week 04 - ODD WEEK

"Education is what people do to you, learning is what you do for yourself" (Joi Ito)

"Mātauranga Ko te aha te mahi te iwi ki a koutou, te ako ko te aha te mea i a koutou hoki koe"

Week 4  20 - 24 Pēpuere (ODD) Year 9 Camps - Mon 20 - Fri 24 Tennis (Canterbury Senior) - Mon 20 - Tues 21 Year 10 Sci Classes with Simon Pollard - Wed 22 - Thurs 23	Week 5 27 Pēpuere - 3 Maehe (EVEN) Rowing - CSS Regatta Lake Hood - Sat 25 - Sunday 26 Touch Rugby - Canterbury Champs - Sat 25 Peer Support - Period 2 - Thurs 2 Year 9 Parent Evening - Thurs 2 CGHS Athletic Sports - BHS All Day - Friday 3 Tennis - South Island Champs - Fri 3 - Sun 5 Volleyball - South Island Champs - Fri 3 - Sun 5 LEF Reports to be done.
Assembly	Assembly
Meeting   Mon 20: MarkBook Set Up (HOLAs; HODs; TICs) - BUB Tues 21: Staff meeting Thurs 23: New Teachers - Library	Meeting  Mon 27: Staff Anaphylaxis Training Session Tues 28: Student Support

Late Start Dates for CGHS in 2017

Staff professional learning and Development this year includes a number of late starts. Just to signal the dates to you all, these are:

Thurs 16 March (T1)

Mon 15 May (T2)

Fri 23 June (T2)

Tues 22 August (T3)

Thurs 9 November (T4).

A letter will be sent home to parents at the beginning of March signalling our school focus for 2017. These will be:

• eLearning Pedagogy, as the school continues to implement BYOD
• school pastoral systems, focusing on the Key Competencies from the New Zealand curriculum and how to better prepare students for life beyond school
• Tataiako, how the school engages with Maori learners and their whanau.

Another Google Doc tip: Using the Highlight Tool

An add-on that you might find useful, and definitely useful for your students to have as part of their Google Doc learning toolkit is the Add-on which is a highlighting tool.

If you are giving your students a reading with questions via Google Docs, students are able to highlight as they read the document. Different colours can be used in relation to the different questions that need to be answered.

Once they have finished, students can then export the highlighted extracts either by sequence or colour. This is a great way to enable students to summarise, and use the key quotes in their writing.

Professional Learning and Development.

For staff who might be interested in upskilling in Te Reo:

Stage 1- Te Reo Puāwai and Stage 2 - Te Reo Manahua courses are available through Core-Ed. These are 8 - 10 week courses, with one face to face session and start on March 7.

Further information can be found via the following links.
Te Reo Puāwai Māori 
Te Reo Manahua Māori

Term 1 / Week 03 - EVEN WEEK

Kaua e mate wheke mate ururoa

Don't die like a octopus, die like a hammerhead shark

Week 3  13 - 17 Pēpuere (EVEN) Rowing Champs - Tues 14 - Sun 19	Week 4  20 - 25 Pēpuere (ODD) Year 9 Camps - Mon 20 - Fri 24 Tennis (Canterbury Senior) - Mon 20 - Tues 21 Year 10 Sci Classes with Simon Pollard - Wed 22 - Thurs 23
Assembly Mon 13: Year 13 - Formtime in Staffroom.	Assembly
Meeting   Tues 14: Departments	Meeting  Mon 20: MarkBook Set Up (HOLAs; HODs; TICs) - BUB

Giving Feedback in the classroom

BYOD use is increasing at CGHS, and this opens up a number of avenues to provide feedback to students that is not just written.
With this in mind, there are a couple of extensions you can add to chrome - the first is talk and comment. This particular extension is especially great for students who may have difficulty interpreting written feedback, as the teacher is able to provide more indepth feedback - as it is much quicker than typing.

The second extension you could add is called Screencastify (video screen recorder)

This add-on allows you to make little video recordings of your screens. It can be used for a couple of things.

You are able to make video screen recordings that can be uploaded, explaining an aspect of your course. You will be able to record your screen and go to different sites online as well as record your explanation of what your require students to do. This is great for tutorials.

When you save your video, it will be saved in your Google Drive where it can be shared. The url can then be provided to a student via feedback on your document. See the video below for a tutorial.

PD Opportunities:

1. An invitation to all teachers, library staff, eLearning leaders or literacy leaders (primary and secondary)

Term 1 Professional Learning and Development Workshop:

Digital Resources to Support Inquiry Learning and Research: Link to Flyer

The Christchurch Capability team is pleased to offer this hands-on workshop exploring the diverse range of digital sources to inform, ignite and inspire inquiry learning or research - encourage your students to go beyond Google!

Digital Resources to Support Inquiry Learning and Research
Term 1 workshop

Friday, 17 March

National Library Christchurch Centre, Cavendish Road

2. Designing future Focused Curriculum: With Core Ed

http://core-ed.org/events/breakfast/designing-future-focused-curriculum/

The breakfast and workshop is on the 14 March. See link if interested.

Term 1 / Week 02 - ODD WEEK

Whāia te iti kahurangi ki te tūohu koe me he maunga teitei

Seek the treasure you value most dearly: if you bow your head, let it be to a lofty mountain

Week 2   6th - 10th Pēpuere (ODD) Waitangi Day - Mon 6th Extended Form Time (Timetables issued to all students) 8.40am - 9.00am Timetabled classes from Period 1: 9.10am - 9.50am - Tues 7th Tennis - South Island Qualifying - Wed 8th Photographs at the Chateau Cando/Class/Individual Staff photograph at the Chateau 3.15pm - Thurs 9th and Fri 10th	Week 3 13th -17th Pēpuere (EVEN) Rowing Champs - Tues 14th - Fri 17th
Assembly	Assembly
Meeting   Tues 7th: Learning and teaching	Meeting  Tues 13: Departments

Welcome to the new format of the Matai Messenger at Christchurch Girls High School. Our weekly summary of upcoming events will now also include information on PD opportunities that are available, Teaching and Learning tips, links to readings, as well as other relevant information that could be of interest.