Term 3 - Week 4 - EVEN

Kia mau ki te tokanga nui a noho

There is no place like home

Week 4 14 Akuhata - 18 Akuhata  Extended Form time - Course Selection - Mon 14 10 DIT EPIC Trip - Mon 14 Voices of Canterbury Pop's - Tues 15 - Thurs 17 Junior Alison Harper - Tues 15 Ski & Snowboard Canterbury - Tues 15 Cycling - Litolff/Dawe Cups - Wed 16	Week 5 21 Akuhata - 25 Akuhata  Maths Week Subject Choice Afternoon - Mon 21 Canterbury Secondary School's Duathalon - Mon 21 PD - Late Start morning - Tues 22 (please sign up below) 13TOU trip - Wed 23 - Fri 25 May Campbell Anderson Essay - Wed 23 Winter Sports End - Wed 23 Year 9 and 10 Cantamath - Wed 23 National Big Sing - Auckland - Thurs 24 - Sat 26 13PHY Investigation 1 - 4pm Fri 25 Equestrian- Canterbury - Sat 26
Assembly Nil	Assembly NIL
Meeting  Tues 15 - Student Support	Meeting  Tues 22 - Staff Meeting This is around the use of Creative Commons.

Staff Information and Professional Development

1. We have two late starts left for the year. The next one to be held is on Tuesday 22 August. We have a number of different options running this time, please go to the Google Form to sign up for one below. If you are not going to be here on the Tuesday morning can you please let BLS know.

You can choose your options here: https://goo.gl/forms/yYr1gGNb6Tjj5RbK2

Late start options

a. Intro to Code. Look into what coding could look like across the curriculum. Unplugged or plugged. This session is run by Arnika from Cyclone

b. This session is where a selection of locally based and national secondary cross-curricular programmes/projects will be presented. This is an opportunity for the wider staff to hear about the research being undertaken to inform our end of year Junior Curriculum project. 

c. Using Growth Mindset and Digital Technology to encourage Learner Agency - this is a theory and tools based session with time to explore different options.

d. Teaching as Inquiry - this session is where staff will be working on their own inquiry in one space, with a chance to ask questions and share ideas with their colleagues on a needs basis - basically dedicated time to work on that back story that you might not have had a chance to do yet.

e.  Universal Design for Learning - a chance to find out what this is and how it can help differentiate your lessons.

2. Grow Waitaha: Liz, Sylvia and Michelle have continued to work on their inquiry via their Learning Areas. Last term we had a team from Grow Waitaha come in and interview all three of them, as well as a few of our wonderful students. They have all done a fabulous job representing our school.

Part one of the 3 part series is below - you can check out the other 2 videos here and here.

If you want to test your own knowledge about personalised learning you might want to take the quiz at the link below:
What do you know about personalised learning?

3. Staff were also offered the chance to attend the next Grow Waitaha gathering of Secondary Educators at Haeata at the end of August. We have 8 staff taking up the offer to have a look at the new school.

Also on at the same time is the student exhibition of their kaupapa in Kōrepo with the theme of 'Inside, Outside, Upside-down'. It will be great to hear their thoughts around this new teaching environment.

4. The Digital Licence

Google have enabled all Y8 and 9 NZ students to have access to complete the Digital Licence for free until the end of this year (usually AUD$10 per user).

We have decided to take up this opportunity for our Year 9 students and Sandy will manage this through Health. 

The Digital Licence is a very comprehensive online cyber safety resource. It is focusing on digital reputation, online safety and digital wellbeing. By placing students in real life scenarios they get to explore and develop tools and strategies to remain safe online. There are 8 key topics that students work through and then take a quiz at the end of each, requiring an 80% pass rate, for which they receive a Licence at the end.

If you would like to take a look, or perhaps take the sample quiz, click here .

5. And finally - Office 365 Essentials - a good graphic to remind yourselves of what Microsoft Office has as part of its suite.