Week 3 - Term 2 - 2022

 I orea te tuatara ka patu ki waho

A problem is solved by continuing to find solutions

Week 3 16 Haratua - 20 Haratua Bio301 - Field Trip to Wainui - Various students out all week Junior Parent Teacher Interviews - Tuesday 2 - 5pm and Friday 9 - 2.30pm Otago Mathematics Competition Part 2 - Wed 18 p1 Winter Sports start - Wed 18 Cross Country - Thurs 19	Week 4 23 Haratua - 27 Haratua Open Day - p1 - 4 on both Tues 24 and Thurs 26 Life Education - Smashed - Year 10 p5 Tues 24 Otago Liaison for year 12 - Wed 25 Careers Expo Chch Arena - Thurs 26 - Sat 28 Rockquest Heats - Fri 27 - Sat 28 Waikato Uni Open Day - Fri 27
Assembly -  Year 12	Assembly -  Year 11
Meeting  Nil - P/T Interviews - Tues 17	Meeting  Staff

Information for Staff

1. At the L&T meeting on Monday the Junior Curriculum model for 2023 was discussed. Next year we will see the introduction at year 9 of a number of different course options. HoLAs are able to give you more information about this and make time in a department meeting to work on course proposals. The planning template can be found HERE. All new course proposals are due to me (BLS) by Monday 27 June. Arnika and Jackie from ImpactED are happy for further discussion around any ideas to be put forward so just let me know.

You may be interested in reading this blog around students taking control of learning and how to make this happen, with the teacher as "coach"

Students Thinking about their own Learning

2. Something of use for the classroom - Classroomscreen is a service that lets you create a homescreen on which you can place reusable countdown timers, stopwatches, noise meters, random name selectors, dice,  and other helpful classroom management tools. The noise meter lets you set a sensitivity level and have an alarm sound when the room gets too noisy. Here is an example - the different features are in a toolbar, which you can just drag on to the screen.