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.