Week 1 - Term 3 - 2018

Qualify for the Future World 

Kia Noho Takatū Ki Tō Āmua Ao

Week 1 23 Hōngongoi - 27 Hōngongoi Year 12 Loves Me Not Seminar - Thurs 26 Music Tour Primary Schools - Fri 27 Badminton Canterbury Champs - Sat 28 - Sun 29	Week 2 30 Hōngongoi - 3 Ākuhata LEF and Estimated Credits due this week Year 9 DIT Paparoa Trip - Mon 30 and Thurs 2 12TOU Akaroa - Tues 31 ICAS English - Tues 31 Music Concert (Evening) - Thurs 2 Chamber Music Final - Fir 3 - Sat 4 Squash - NZ Champs - Fri 3 - Sun 5 Jazz Quest - Sat 4 - Sun 5
Assembly - WED Year 11 - PAC	Assembly - WED Full School - International Assembly
Meeting  Staff Meeting - Tues	Meeting  Learning and Teaching - Tues

Information for Staff

1. Digital Assessment Vision: a design principles approach. 

NZQA have released their vision for digital assessment now that they see schools as being 'digital ready', by embedding the use of technology into their teaching and learning programs. The time frame for NZQA is still 2020, to have all examinations available online.

NZQA are creating the change to how we assess in the future and state that "the current approach of once-a-year, paper based external examinations does not afford the flexibility to respond to, and take advantage of 21st century teaching and learning approaches that are occurring. In fact, the current assessment approach may act as a brake on further innovation in teaching and learning, and constrains students to be ready at a point in time, irrespective of their learning journey." The link above goes through their full vision statement.

2. New Additions announced for Google Classroom:

If you are a google classroom user, then you will soon get the new 'Classwork' feature. This new aspect that will be included will enable you to organise the work you post into Classroom into 'units', rather than having to scroll through a large number of posts. See the 'Google Blog' or 'Classroom Help' for further updates and information.

3. Wellbeing tip for Term 3 - check out the TED talk by Alison Ledgerwood - 'A simple trick to improve positive thinking'.