Week 1 - Term 3 - 2024

 He mahi kai hōaka, he mahi kai tāngata

Just as work consumes sandstone, so it consumes people/everything worthwhile takes considerable effort

Week 1 22  Hōngongoi - 26 Hōngongoi  Geo101 to Quake City Tues 23 - Thurs 25 (1 Class each day) Young Writers Workshop - Tues 23 Orchestra - Intermediate Schools in PAC TOU201 to Hanmer Springs - Fri 26 Curriculum handbook updates to be completed - Fri 26	Week 2 29 Hōngongoi - 2 Ākuhata TOU201 to Mt Hutt - Mon 29 French students concert at CBHS - Mon 29 Forestry Big Day out - Tues 30 Cultural Dress day - Wed 31 LEF Grades due - Wed 31 Whānau Hui - Wed 31 Chamber Music competition - Fri 2 Year 11 Formal - Sat 3
Assembly -  Mon -  Nil Wed - Welcome back and Legacy Club	Assembly -  Mon -  Year 10 PAC Year 11 - Gym Wed - International
Meeting  Mon:  Nil Tues: Learning Area Thurs: Nil	Meeting  Mon:  Learning and Teaching Tues: Learning Area Thurs: PCT

Information for Staff

1. Welcome back to term 3. A couple of reminders for the upcoming term:

• Please have the curriculum handbook updated by Friday 26th July. This will go live again on our website after this date. Students will begin choosing subjects from the start of week 3.
• Subject choice afternoon is on Monday 12th August - there will be a shortened p5.
• All external entries for the end of year examinations should be in by 1st August - this gives students a chance to check their entries prior to the 1st September deadline. If you need to have conversations with students over digital vs. paper entry, please do this ASAP. If they have SAC conditions this can affect their ability to access a writer, so it is important that if a change is made to a student who has approved SAC conditions that JAC is informed ASAP.
• School examinations are scheduled for the end of week 8 and through week 9. Due to year 11 students having less exam based externals, they will not be off school for the full 7 days of exams. This also allows for subjects who need the time to complete over time submissions to do so before the end of Term 3 as the year 11 cohort will be back in class during week 9. There will be more information to come around this.

2. The University of Reading in the UK has revealed that ChatGPT can not only pass university exams but also outperform human students. This discovery is forcing institutions worldwide into an immediate dilemma. Do they fall back on traditional exams and risk irrelevance, or adapt?

The study paints a stark picture of AI's capabilities. Researchers created 33 fake student profiles and used ChatGPT to answer exam questions for first, second and third-year psychology modules.

The results were astonishing:

• 94% of AI-generated submissions went undetected by markers

• AI consistently achieved higher grades than human students

• Only in third-year exams requiring more abstract reasoning did human students outperform the AI

These findings raise significant concerns about the potential for students using AI to undermine academic integrity. The implications are far-reaching, challenging the foundations of how many university courses evaluate student learning.

To read more of the article - see AI adapt or retreat.