Week 7 - Term 1 - 2023

 Tōku reo, tōku ohooho, tōku reo, tōku māpihi maurea, tōku reo, tōku whakakai marihi!  Language is the key to understanding.

Week 7 13 Poutū-te-rangi - 17 Poutū-te-rangi Level 2 Art History Field Trip - p5 - Mon 13 Gateway Health and Safety course - Mon 13 Canterbury Athletics Prelims - Tues 14 Polyfest Showcase Evening - Tues 14 @ 7.00 pm GEO101 Fieldtrip to Aoraki - Wed 15 to Fri 17 Year 9 Camps 4 and 5 - Wed 15 to Fri 17 Bowls - Canterbury South Island Champs - Wed 15 PPTA Strike Day - Thurs 16 Rowing - Pre Maadi camp - Fri 17 - Sun 19 Volleyball Canterbury Champs - Fri 17 - Sun 19 Canterbury Athletics finals - Fri 17 Polyfest - Sat 18	Week 8 20 Poutū-te-rangi - 24 Poutū-te-rangi Marg Thorsborne RP Training for all staff - Mon 20 - starting at 1pm School finishes at the end of p3 @ 12.05 Volleyball ends - Mon 20 Cricket - Regional Gillette - Tues 21 - Wed 22 Non Uniform day - Tues 21 Peer Support p1 - Tues 21 Cycling - Can. MTB champs - Wed 22 Summer Sport ends - Wed 22 LEF's due - Thurs 23 at 2.40pm Swimming - Canterbury Champs - Thurs 23 HoLA StEADA meetings - Thurs 23 (various) Rowing - Maadi - Fri 24 - 2nd Marg Thorsborne TP training for Deans - Fri 24
Assembly -  Mon 13 - Year 12 NCEA (PAC) and Year 13 in the Gym Wed 15 -  Unity Week	Assembly -  Mon 20 Wed 22 - Prefect Led
Meeting  Learning Area - Tues 14	Meeting  All Staff PLD - Marg Thorsborne - Mon 20 Learning Area - Tues 21

Information for Staff

1. Upcoming PLD - ImpactED are running a series of PLD focus that you may be interested in. The most relevant is run by Jackie Brown, who you have worked with here with your Learning Areas. She is hosting a series of 4 workshops - NCEA: Redesigning curriculum to realise the intent of the new NCEA big ideas. This could be a good opportunity for a couple of staff to work with others. Please register and put through your PLD application in the normal way.

2. Saving yourself time - On Monday, I listened to a Webinar on how to use AI to save time as a teacher. The recording of the Webinar is below. There are a few tips that you might find useful about how we can harness AI to our advantage. Such as writing a worksheet to use on a topic, possible lesson plans, even references if you give a few key attributes.

I was also reminded of the comment bank tool in google classroom. If you are finding your are putting the same comment in regularly - put it in the comment bank space first, then this can be reused over, saving yourself time as a teacher.

Open up the comment bank when you are in the students google doc, via google classroom.

Click on add a comment as per usual - you can then add in a key word, which will then display the comments in your bank with your key term and select the one that is the most appropriate.