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.