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)