Week 4 - Term 1 - 2024

 He maurea kai whiria!

Ignore small matters and direct effort toward important projects

This whakatauki encourages us to keep things in perspective, to not get bogged down by the small things, the little details, but instead to maintain our focus on the vision, on what is important. It could be used to keep people on track, and/or to remind us/people to maintain focus on what’s important even in the face of great complexity. 

Week 4 19 Hui-tanguru - 23 Hui-tanguru PHO201 Skills afternoon - Tues 20 Equestrian - Canterbury Show - Wed 21 LEF's due - Wed 21 @ 3.30pm PHO301 Skills afternoon - Thurs 22 Ako Conferences - all school - Fri 23 Volleyball Mainland Champs - Fri 23 - Sun 25	Week 5 26 Hui-tanguru -  1 Poutū-te-rangi New Staff walk through - p1 - 3 Mon 26 Peer Support p2 (year 9) Wed 28 Cricket - The Willows - Wed 28 Rowing - SISS - Thurs 29 - Sun 3 Ara Liaison visit break 2 - Thurs 29 CGHS Tabloid Sports Day - Fri 1 Staff Drinks - 3pm Fri 1 (Venue TBC)
Assembly -  Mon - Nil Wed - Full School  Thurs - New Staff in 126	Assembly -  Mon - Year 10 - Gym Year 11 - PAC (NCEA) Wed - Full School
Meeting  Mon:  L&T Tues: Learning Area	Meeting  Mon:  TWH (126) and HoD's/HoLA's if needed in 104 for markbook set up Tues: Learning Area

Information for Staff:

1. As students are starting the best internal, it might be time to further explore plagiarism detection software. Last year we made the decision to keep using Turnitin as our main tool. If you have not used this before, please see Michelle to discuss how to set this up for your class. We did not get the additional AI detection part of this software as it was an extra expense.

Many of you will also be using draftback, or brisk. Another one is Copyleaks. Search for the Copyleaks Chrome extension and click “Add to Chrome”. Once it has installed, you can click the © logo up the top-right corner of your Chrome window and paste in the text. 

Experiment by pasting in different amounts of text and see what might work best. The  software for these tools is not perfect. It can be wrong. Always use this step with your own judgement and with the next step.

Remember to explicitly tell our students about what constitutes academic dishonesty and plagiarism and what is acceptable or not acceptable use for your Learning Area.