Week 3 - Term 4 - 2017 - ODD

Naku te rourou nau te rourou ka ora ai te iwi

With your basket and my basket the people will live

Week 3 30 Oketopa - 3 Noema Art Exhibition Evening - Mon 30 Short Film Exhibition- Mon 30 in Staffroom John Parsons Cyber Safety - Mon 30 P1 - year 10 Gym P3 - year 9 Staffroom CGHS Sports Awards - Thurs 2 at 7pm in Gymnasium Final Assembly for Seniors +whole school (p4) - Thurs 2 Last Day for Seniors - NZQA Assemblies - Fri 3 Student and Staff Voting for 2018 prefects closes. - Fri 3 Senior Clearance morning - students clear with LA, Library and Sports Dept.	Week 4 6 Noema - 10 Noema Junior Study Leave Week - Mon - Fri Senior rank lists and senior prizes due - Mon 6 NCEA & Scholarship exams begin - Thurs 9 Volleyball - Canterbury Junior Champs - Fri 10 Sat 11 PD - Late start - Fri 10 at 8.30 staffroom. Outstanding Clearance items to PRD - Fri 10
Assembly Senior Assembly - P4 Thurs 7 NZQA Briefings P3: Year 13 P4: Year 12 P5: Year 11	Assembly NIL
Meeting  Tues 31: Learning and Teaching	Meeting  Tues 7: Department - Junior Exam Week

Staff Information

1. Late Start on Friday 10th will be held in the staffroom. LEG and PWL will be giving staff an update on junior form classes, whanau class and plans for 2018. EPA have also been invited in to talk about their services for staff.  Please be in the staffroom from 8.30.

2. This is just a reminder that there is Secondary Community of Practice at Rangiora High on 9th November 1.30-4.30pm and registrations are still open here:

http://www.evaluate.co.nz/grow-waitaha/776/secondary-community-of-practice-3-9th-november-2017/

Should be an interesting visit hearing how the school is meeting the challenges of connecting subjects across year 9 in their new space. This also has links with our own School end-of-year curriculum project. If you can self-register and fill in the relevant paper work.

3. For those of you who are Google Calendar uses, there is to be an update to the platform. Find out what this might look like HERE

4. Energisenz2018 - the following message has come through from Arnika at Cyclone

I am presenting at #energisenz2018

Come and work with me at #energisenz2018

I will be there, will you?

www.cyclone.co.nz/energise

Register now, pay 2018

5. And finally because it is revision time and for the Google users. If you are wanting a set of pre-made graphic organisers that you can send out for your class to make a summary of a text, timeline, or cause and effect, they can be found HERE

Week 2 - Term 4 - 2017 EVEN

Week 2 23 Oketopa - 27 Oketopa Labour Day - Mon 23 Est Credits and LEFs due- Tues 24 LEFs emailed Wed 25 Stewart Wright (CBHS) (Evening) - Tues 24 Eng 3.5 Seminar Assessments - Full Day - Thurs 26 and Fri 27 12PED Big Day out - Thurs 26 CGHS Film Festival - Thurs 26 Zonta Sports Awards - Thurs 26 Year 13 Graphics Exhibition - Thurs 26 Student voting for 2018 Prefects opens - Thurs 26	Week 2 30 Oketopa - 3 Noema Art Exhibition Evening - Mon 30 John Parsons Cyber Safety - Mon 30 CGHS Sports Awards - (Date TBC) Final Assembly for Seniors +whole school (p4) - Thurs 2 New Entrant Evening - Thurs 2 Last Day for Seniors - NZQA Assemblies - Fri 3
Assembly NIL	Assembly Senior Assembly - P4 Thurs 7 NZQA Briefings P3: Year 13 P4: Year 12 P5: Year 11
Meeting  Tues 24: Learning Area (Pedagogical)	Meeting  Tues 31: Learning and Teaching

Information for Staff

1. Network maintenance will occur on Tuesday 24th October 2017 from 23:00 – 04:00.

As a result of this, there will be connectivity outages for 30 minutes between 23:00 - 00:00 and access to the following services may be unavailable.

Services affected will be:

• KAMAR Portal
• Moodle (Onstream for us)
• NZGrapher

2. Establishing your Professional Learning Network (PLN).

As it is coming up to final appraisal time, it is a great time to reflect on your learning throughout the year. As teachers we need to be modelling best practice and make sure we are continuing to learn through collaboration, accessing Professional Learning and Development (PLD) and seeking out information around pedagogical techniques and best practice in the classroom.

To do this effectively you need to have a strong PLN. A PLN is all about making connections with others both in and outside of school where you can gain support, advice, feedback and create new knowledge. Many of you will have joined online communities and be part of established subject networks. The tool below will give you a chance to evaluate your own learning, as an effective PLN needs to be self driven.

You can also explore a new Kit put out by Core Education - A getting Connected Starter Kete (http://connectededucator.org.nz/starter-kete/). The resource has been developed with 5 packages - 30 small daily challenges for your to dip your toes into different social media and educational platforms and find out the best place for you as a teacher to keep up to date with current educational thinking and trends.

You are also able to download the whole kit. With Pedagogical meetings next week, this could be something that could be explored as a Learning Area - what are the best ways that staff find and share information?

According to the National Research council (2000), " Teachers are key to enhancing learning in schools. In order to teach in a manner consistent with new theories of learning, extensive learning opportunities for teachers are required" (p. 203)

Week 1 - Term 4 - 2017 (ODD)

Week 1 16 Oketopa - 20 Oketopa Grade Report Seniors -  Grades double ticked in Set E - Wed 18 Comments to be entered (if doing so) by 1pm Wed 18. Log onto OnStream for full Info found HERE + sent out by BUB on 13/9 Summer Sports start - Wed 18 12EXT Hospital Visit - Thurs 19 Cultural and Service Awards - Thurs 19 Pink Day - Fri 20 Big Band Festival - Sat 21 - Mon 23.	Week 2 23 Oketopa - 27 Oketopa Labour Day - Mon 23 Est Credits and LEFs due- Tues 24 LEFs emailed Wed 25 Stewart Wright (CBHS) (Evening) - Tues 24 Eng 3.5 Seminar Assessments - Full Day - Thurs 26 and Fri 27 12PED Big Day out - Thurs 26 CGHS Film Festival - Thurs 26 Zonta Sports Awards - Thurs 26
Assembly Tues 17 (Period 2): Full School Assembly - Welcome Back, Cups and World Challenge	Assembly Nil
Meeting  Tues 17:  Time set aside for staff to look through the new building, which is open for use from Monday 16.	Meeting  Tues 24: Learning Area (Pedagogical)

Information for staff:

1. After our schools recent MNA (Managing National Assessment) from NZQA our staff Assessment manual that is available via staff resources on Onstream has been updated to reflect some of the feedback that was received. The new updated assessment manual can be found HERE.

2. Near the end of Term 3 via the Matai messenger we signaled that there would be a drop in training day for Windows 10. This training has now been postponed until the start of 2018. Cyclone have been busy connecting up the new area of CGHS, and the school will also be updating a large number of staff laptops at the start of next year so it was thought that it would be better to wait. There are a number of machines in the school that are already running the Windows 10 platform, so please ask if you are unsure about how certain areas of this platform might work.

3. There are a number of resources and readings that you might like to explore in the final few days of the term 3 break for your professional reading:

a. Good article on preparing students for online writing, it's an opinion piece, so food for thought.
b. Series of resources compiled around Future focused learning for teachers to explore, put together by Jono Broome from Haeata: https://padlet.com/jonono/Futurefocusedlearning

4. Ever wanted to make your own GIF to add to one of your online resources - all you need to do is type the work 'gif' before the youtube.com part in a YouTube video: eg. gifyoutube.com/watch?v=gedoSfZvBgE. Once your video loads then you can move the 'time' to the part of the youtube clip that you want to capture.



5. As we head into revision for both Seniors and Juniors this term, you may be interested to read an article around the 'Testing Effect' - how creating quizzes, having students practice exam questions, then finding out what they don't know helps students overall performance.