Week 2 - Term 3 - 2024

 Te tīmatanga o te mātauranga ko te whakarongo

Te wāhanga tuarua ko te whakarongo

The first stage of learning is silence

The second is listening.

Week 2 29 Hōngongoi - 2 Ākuhata International Week 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 @6pm  Chamber Music competition - Fri 2 Year 11 Formal - Sat 3	Week 3 5 Ākuhata - 9 Ākuhata QUAD Tournament - Mon 5 Subject Selection opens on portal - Mon 5 Australian Maths Competition p3 & 4 - Wed 7 Junior Speech Competition - p4 Wed 7 UC Law and Criminal Justice Day - Wed 7 LipSynch - Thurs 8 Senior Speech Competitor - Thurs 8 International Ski Trip - Fri 9 Equestrian - Cant ODHT - Sun 11
Assembly -  Mon -  Year 10 PAC Year 11 - Gym Wed - International	Assembly -  Mon -  Nil - Subject Selection Wed - House Assembly - LipSynch practice
Meeting  Mon:  Learning and Teaching Tues: Learning Area Thurs: PCT	Meeting  Mon: Te Whare Haoura Tues: Staff Thurs: Nil

Information for Staff

1. A few updates from the MOE:

• NCEA Level 1 Subject support is still available and many of your curriculum leaders and teachers will be in contact with their subject specific NCEA Implementation Facilitator. Where your subject specialist teachers do not have a MoE contact, connections can still be made and the team can point you in the right direction.
• On-Line Workshops Across the MOE team of subject specific NIFs are currently being scheduled and organised as on-line workshops for Term 3, and these will be advertised on the NCEA website. 
• External Achievement Standard Assessment Specifications: The assessment specifications for the subject external assessments are available. These are on the NCEA website with the subject external achievement standard information. The same document is on the NZQA website by typing in the achievement number and scrolling down the page to the “Level 1 Specifications” link. Please be aware that the instructions and conditions of assessment of these external specifications differ from subject to subject, or standard to standard. It is VITAL that curriculum leaders and teachers carefully and thoroughly read the assessment specifications for the details of the external achievement standards they are using, rather than relying on information from another subject area or achievement standard’s document, or social media.

2. Here is a very interesting article - Navigating the impact of mobile phone bans in schools.

The idea of the 'popcorn brain' mentioned, where your attention jumps around rapidly, can affect a student's focus and it is interesting that the average attention span has decreased from 2.5 minutes to only 47 seconds in the last 5 years or so!

You may be also interested to know that this is not just students, but also many adults, meaning that there is only a superficial engagement with information that is presented to them. Food for thought.