2. Thank you for taking the time to choose your PLG for the year, the rooms for PLG groups on Tuesday at 2.50pm are:
Relational Culture - Staff - Staffroom
Relational Culture - Student - A201
Curriculum - 402
Timetable - 126
Assessment & Reporting - 217
3. Just in case you have missed the announcement - the NZ curriculum is undergoing an update - you can find out more from the latest Education Gazette - 'Curriculum refresh to enhance learning'. The Social Science Learning Area will the be the first to get a change to their achievement objectives, which will incorporate the new 'Histories' content that is mandated for 2022. The review to Mathematics, English and Science will occur in 2022 for implementation in 2023.
Let us nurture our sister and she will mourn for us
This whakataukī encourages people to nurture, love and care for whānau members, as they
will do the same for you, even after death. Embedded within aroha is the idea of collective
responsibility which emphasises the importance of whānau to the emotional and physical
wellbeing of an individual.
Week 3
22 Hui-tanguru - 26 Hui-tanguru
School Closed after 1 minute silence at 12.51pm - Mon 22
Achieved Course Endorsement available from 2021 onwards
This change is an outcome of the NCEA review. All school courses that meet existing eligibility criteria will be able to be endorsed at the Achieved level from the start of 2021 onwards. This is in addition to the Merit and Excellence course endorsement awards already recognised by the Ministry of Education.
The purpose of the change is to acknowledge that students who attain 14 or more credits at an Achieved grade or higher, have demonstrated a sound level of skill and understanding in the subject matter of that course. The award will read, for example: English endorsed with Achieved at Level 1.
The existing eligibility criteria for Course Endorsement can be found here.
See NCEA Mythbuster 10 for more information about courses and programmes.
2. Mote - is a Chrome Extension that is integrated into Google Docs, Slides and Sheets, for easy recording and feedback to students.
Students are also able to use mote to connect with their teachers, by adding voice comments or questions into their shared documents.
4. The Education Hub has a number of free webinars coming up on topics such as 'Unleashing the Science of Learning in your classroom', and 'What is learning by scientific design'.
1. Tuahiwi Education Workshops - We have been sent through possible dates for the the Tuahiwi Education workshops held at Tuahiwi Marae. Possible dates for staff include
August 20
September 17
October 1
If your learning Area, or a group of staff would be interested in attending, please let me know so we can organise bookings.