Week 3 - Term 4 - 2017 - ODD

Naku te rourou nau te rourou ka ora ai te iwi

With your basket and my basket the people will live

Week 3 30 Oketopa - 3 Noema Art Exhibition Evening - Mon 30 Short Film Exhibition- Mon 30 in Staffroom John Parsons Cyber Safety - Mon 30 P1 - year 10 Gym P3 - year 9 Staffroom CGHS Sports Awards - Thurs 2 at 7pm in Gymnasium Final Assembly for Seniors +whole school (p4) - Thurs 2 Last Day for Seniors - NZQA Assemblies - Fri 3 Student and Staff Voting for 2018 prefects closes. - Fri 3 Senior Clearance morning - students clear with LA, Library and Sports Dept.	Week 4 6 Noema - 10 Noema Junior Study Leave Week - Mon - Fri Senior rank lists and senior prizes due - Mon 6 NCEA & Scholarship exams begin - Thurs 9 Volleyball - Canterbury Junior Champs - Fri 10 Sat 11 PD - Late start - Fri 10 at 8.30 staffroom. Outstanding Clearance items to PRD - Fri 10
Assembly Senior Assembly - P4 Thurs 7 NZQA Briefings P3: Year 13 P4: Year 12 P5: Year 11	Assembly NIL
Meeting  Tues 31: Learning and Teaching	Meeting  Tues 7: Department - Junior Exam Week

Staff Information

1. Late Start on Friday 10th will be held in the staffroom. LEG and PWL will be giving staff an update on junior form classes, whanau class and plans for 2018. EPA have also been invited in to talk about their services for staff.  Please be in the staffroom from 8.30.

2. This is just a reminder that there is Secondary Community of Practice at Rangiora High on 9th November 1.30-4.30pm and registrations are still open here:

http://www.evaluate.co.nz/grow-waitaha/776/secondary-community-of-practice-3-9th-november-2017/

Should be an interesting visit hearing how the school is meeting the challenges of connecting subjects across year 9 in their new space. This also has links with our own School end-of-year curriculum project. If you can self-register and fill in the relevant paper work.

3. For those of you who are Google Calendar uses, there is to be an update to the platform. Find out what this might look like HERE

4. Energisenz2018 - the following message has come through from Arnika at Cyclone

I am presenting at #energisenz2018

Come and work with me at #energisenz2018

I will be there, will you?

www.cyclone.co.nz/energise

Register now, pay 2018

5. And finally because it is revision time and for the Google users. If you are wanting a set of pre-made graphic organisers that you can send out for your class to make a summary of a text, timeline, or cause and effect, they can be found HERE

Week 2 - Term 4 - 2017 EVEN

Week 2 23 Oketopa - 27 Oketopa Labour Day - Mon 23 Est Credits and LEFs due- Tues 24 LEFs emailed Wed 25 Stewart Wright (CBHS) (Evening) - Tues 24 Eng 3.5 Seminar Assessments - Full Day - Thurs 26 and Fri 27 12PED Big Day out - Thurs 26 CGHS Film Festival - Thurs 26 Zonta Sports Awards - Thurs 26 Year 13 Graphics Exhibition - Thurs 26 Student voting for 2018 Prefects opens - Thurs 26	Week 2 30 Oketopa - 3 Noema Art Exhibition Evening - Mon 30 John Parsons Cyber Safety - Mon 30 CGHS Sports Awards - (Date TBC) Final Assembly for Seniors +whole school (p4) - Thurs 2 New Entrant Evening - Thurs 2 Last Day for Seniors - NZQA Assemblies - Fri 3
Assembly NIL	Assembly Senior Assembly - P4 Thurs 7 NZQA Briefings P3: Year 13 P4: Year 12 P5: Year 11
Meeting  Tues 24: Learning Area (Pedagogical)	Meeting  Tues 31: Learning and Teaching

Information for Staff

1. Network maintenance will occur on Tuesday 24th October 2017 from 23:00 – 04:00.

As a result of this, there will be connectivity outages for 30 minutes between 23:00 - 00:00 and access to the following services may be unavailable.

Services affected will be:

• KAMAR Portal
• Moodle (Onstream for us)
• NZGrapher

2. Establishing your Professional Learning Network (PLN).

As it is coming up to final appraisal time, it is a great time to reflect on your learning throughout the year. As teachers we need to be modelling best practice and make sure we are continuing to learn through collaboration, accessing Professional Learning and Development (PLD) and seeking out information around pedagogical techniques and best practice in the classroom.

To do this effectively you need to have a strong PLN. A PLN is all about making connections with others both in and outside of school where you can gain support, advice, feedback and create new knowledge. Many of you will have joined online communities and be part of established subject networks. The tool below will give you a chance to evaluate your own learning, as an effective PLN needs to be self driven.

You can also explore a new Kit put out by Core Education - A getting Connected Starter Kete (http://connectededucator.org.nz/starter-kete/). The resource has been developed with 5 packages - 30 small daily challenges for your to dip your toes into different social media and educational platforms and find out the best place for you as a teacher to keep up to date with current educational thinking and trends.

You are also able to download the whole kit. With Pedagogical meetings next week, this could be something that could be explored as a Learning Area - what are the best ways that staff find and share information?

According to the National Research council (2000), " Teachers are key to enhancing learning in schools. In order to teach in a manner consistent with new theories of learning, extensive learning opportunities for teachers are required" (p. 203)

Week 1 - Term 4 - 2017 (ODD)

Week 1 16 Oketopa - 20 Oketopa Grade Report Seniors -  Grades double ticked in Set E - Wed 18 Comments to be entered (if doing so) by 1pm Wed 18. Log onto OnStream for full Info found HERE + sent out by BUB on 13/9 Summer Sports start - Wed 18 12EXT Hospital Visit - Thurs 19 Cultural and Service Awards - Thurs 19 Pink Day - Fri 20 Big Band Festival - Sat 21 - Mon 23.	Week 2 23 Oketopa - 27 Oketopa Labour Day - Mon 23 Est Credits and LEFs due- Tues 24 LEFs emailed Wed 25 Stewart Wright (CBHS) (Evening) - Tues 24 Eng 3.5 Seminar Assessments - Full Day - Thurs 26 and Fri 27 12PED Big Day out - Thurs 26 CGHS Film Festival - Thurs 26 Zonta Sports Awards - Thurs 26
Assembly Tues 17 (Period 2): Full School Assembly - Welcome Back, Cups and World Challenge	Assembly Nil
Meeting  Tues 17:  Time set aside for staff to look through the new building, which is open for use from Monday 16.	Meeting  Tues 24: Learning Area (Pedagogical)

Information for staff:

1. After our schools recent MNA (Managing National Assessment) from NZQA our staff Assessment manual that is available via staff resources on Onstream has been updated to reflect some of the feedback that was received. The new updated assessment manual can be found HERE.

2. Near the end of Term 3 via the Matai messenger we signaled that there would be a drop in training day for Windows 10. This training has now been postponed until the start of 2018. Cyclone have been busy connecting up the new area of CGHS, and the school will also be updating a large number of staff laptops at the start of next year so it was thought that it would be better to wait. There are a number of machines in the school that are already running the Windows 10 platform, so please ask if you are unsure about how certain areas of this platform might work.

3. There are a number of resources and readings that you might like to explore in the final few days of the term 3 break for your professional reading:

a. Good article on preparing students for online writing, it's an opinion piece, so food for thought.
b. Series of resources compiled around Future focused learning for teachers to explore, put together by Jono Broome from Haeata: https://padlet.com/jonono/Futurefocusedlearning

4. Ever wanted to make your own GIF to add to one of your online resources - all you need to do is type the work 'gif' before the youtube.com part in a YouTube video: eg. gifyoutube.com/watch?v=gedoSfZvBgE. Once your video loads then you can move the 'time' to the part of the youtube clip that you want to capture.



5. As we head into revision for both Seniors and Juniors this term, you may be interested to read an article around the 'Testing Effect' - how creating quizzes, having students practice exam questions, then finding out what they don't know helps students overall performance.

Week 10 - Term 3 EVEN

Ki te kahore he whakakitenga ka ngaro te iwi

Without foresight or vision the people will be lost

Week 10 25 Hepetema - 29 Hepetema Photos Cultural and Sporting - Mon 12 - Tues 16 - Gym (See Onstream for details) Senior Chirnside Competition - All Week Year 11 PED MTB Camp - All Week Year 12 & 13 Drama Performance - Mon 25 (Evening) 12PHY Trip to ARA - Wed 27 International Club Ice Skating - Wed 27 (Evening) Junior Speech Competition - Thurs 28 Year 12 Leadership Day - Thurs 28 WOW/Weta Trip - Fri 29 - Sat 30 Cycling - Road Racing Nationals - Sat 30 - Mon 2 End of Term 3	School Holiday Break 30 Hepetema - 15 Oketopa Hand over Day for our new building is 1 October - watch this space for details......
Assembly	Assembly
Meeting  Tues 26: Student Support	Meeting

Information for Staff

1. The final Secondary Community of Practice Hui for 2017 will be held at Rangiora High School’s new building on Thursday November 9th 1.30-4.30. This Hui is the third in the series from Grow Waitaha - with a number of you having already visited Rolleston and Haeata. If you are interested in attending this session, please let BLS know.

2. Here is a link to view a recent seminar that was held in Wellington on ‘Walking the tightrope: Balancing prevention and protection - promoting resiliency to achieve a safe environment online’. It was hosted by Sean Lyons who, Netsafe states, "comes from a background in the IT industry and the education sector having spent part of his career as a classroom teacher and school leader. He is incredibly knowledgeable about online challenges and is responsible for Netsafe’s programme to combat child sexual exploitation material". We have permission to share this seminar within our school.

3. Tip for marking online work quickly: I (Liz) am not the fastest, nor the most efficient typist and so marking or commenting on classes of student online work can be quite time-consuming. I have recently discovered Talk and Comment - Voice notes anywhere and I am really enjoying using the tool. It has sped up my marking time considerably and I like that the voice recorded notes can be integrated with Google docs, email and more making it very versatile. It is an extension available through the Chrome web store - simply type into the Search bar 'Talk and comment' as in the image above. If you click on the title of this post, you can see more about it.

4. Staff Wellbeing: Why teachers should make sleep a priority - something to think about as we approach the final week for the end of term 3.

Week 9 - Term 3 - ODD

He aha te kai ō te rangatira? He Kōrero, he kōrero, he korero.

What is the food of the leader. It is knowledge. It is communication

Week 9 18 Hepetema - 22 Hepetema Senior Exam week - All Week Get 2 Go Challenge - Mon 18 Orchestra Festival - Wed 20 MCAT NZQA examination - Thurs 21 NZCAF Aerobics Championships - Sat 23 - Sun 24 New Entrant Testing - Sat 23	Week 10 25 Hepetema - 29 Hepetema Photos Cultural and Sporting - Mon 12 - Tues 16 - Gym (See Onstream for details) Senior Chirnside Competition - All Week Year 11 PED MTB Camp - All Week Year 12 & 13 Drama Performance - Mon 25 (Evening) 12PHY Trip to ARA - Wed 27 International Club Ice Skating - Wed 27 (Evening) Junior Speech Competition - Thurs 28 Year 12 Leadership Day - Thurs 28 Cycling - Road RacingNationals - Sat 30 - Mon 2 End of Term 3
Assembly Thurs p1 - Junior Assembly	Assembly Nil
Meeting  No Meetings this week.	Meeting  Tues 26: Student Support

Information for Staff:

1. Heads up - In term 4 the school will be looking at migrating to Windows 10. There will be a drop in training session on Monday 16 October from 9am-3pm. If you could pencil this into your diaries.

2. Supporting students with BYOD includes encouraging typing as an important skill. There are a number of typing games available online and here follows a selection that appeared in the latest edition of Interface, a NZ magazine that supports the use of ICT in learning.

Nitro Type - this is a typing competition that has real-time car racing against others around the world as its basis. The faster one types, the faster the car moves.

Typing Exercise - is touted as a great way to start typing as it is quick. It can be customised for the user too.
Keybr - teaches touch typing by generating random words which are to be typed as shown. It then automatically tailors typing lessons to skill level.

3. Maori Language Week - as we come to the end of the week - a reminder that with the new Practicing Teacher Criteria, using Te reo in our classrooms becomes even more important. PTC 1 refers to Te Tiriti o Waitangi partnership, and teachers are requried to practise and develop the use of te reo and tikanga Maori. Think about how you can comfortably meet this standard by starting with small steps.

A couple of resources that I came across that could be of interest were:
a. Te Ahu o Te Reo – The Health of the Māori Language - a blog post on Te reo in education
b. From Stuff - As we look to creating a school Waiata - stuff created a post on their 5 top Waiata - Click HERE to see what they are.

Week 8 - Term 4 - EVEN

Ka tangi te titi

Ka tangi te kaka

Ka tangi hoki ahau 

Tihei Mauri Ora

The Parrot cries

The Mutton cries 

and I too cry

Behold the breath of life

Week 8 11 Hepetema - 15 Hepetema 11/12/13 Music Performance - All week Maori Language Week/ Te Wiki o te Reo Māori - All Week CGHS Concert St Mary's - Wed 13 Senior Examinations begin - Fri 15 Swimming - NZ Champs - Fri 15 - Sun 17 Ski & Snowboard SSIS Champs - Sat 16 - Sun 17	Week 9 18 Hepetema - 22 Hepetema Senior Exam week - All Week Get 2 Go Challenge - Mon 18 Orchestra Festival - Wed 20 MCAT NZQA examination - Thurs 21 Junior Assembly p1 - Thurs 21 NZCAF Aerobics Championships - Sat 23 - Sun 24 New Entrant Testing - Sat 23
Assembly Mon 11 Sept: Formtime Yr 11 - 13 - Examination Information	Assembly Nil
Meeting  Mon 11: Optional Staff meeting discussion re form classes for 2018 Tues 12: Department	Meeting  No Meetings this week.

Information for Teachers

1. Maori Language Week/ Te Wiki o te Reo Māori: Next week is Maori Language Week and we will be running a series of activities and competitions to celebrate the use of Te reo. Each day there will be a daily quiz sent out by PWL.

(From Christchurch City Libraries)

• Rahina/ Monday - Have a go at greeting your students in Te reo (see HERE for words and phrases you can use in your classroom) 
• Ratu/ Tuesday - Staff Waiata 
• Raapa/ Wednesday - Maori Language students out at interval and lunchtime asking questions in Te reo and if students or staff answer correctly they get a treat.
• Rapare/ Thursday - TBC
• Rāmere/ Friday - Shared kai for morning tea - it would be great to bring along something to share from each Learning area , this replaces the support staff/library/IT scheduled morning tea - they are happy to move to Friday 22nd - so that means we have a morning tea scheduled for the next 3 Friday's. 

There will also be a number of Te reo sayings available in the staffroom to collect and put up in classrooms.

2. Examination Revision Ideas:

Next week for our senior students will be all about revision heading into our School Examinations. It would be great if we can avoid the term 'Mock', as this conveys the idea that these grades may not count.  As these are our derived grade examinations in some cases they do count, as we all know from last year, they can also count on a very large scale.

Our wonderful group of PCT (Provisionally Certified) teachers met and discussed different ways that we could revise with students - both senior and junior. We have collated our small sample of ideas in Google Slides.

3. A couple of blog posts that have come into by emails this week might be of interest to some of you. The first is from Claire Amos, who has been the Deputy Principal at Hobsonville Point High School in Auckland, one of the first big open plan schools.
She talks about how from this experience, there will be a new Urban High School opening up in Auckland next year focusing on STEAM education. As part of this Blog post, she gives an overview of what their timetable will look like. Worth a read to find out what is happening on the New Zealand Education landscape.

The second post was related why learning and teaching has changed, and are we making sure our students are getting the skills they need for now and in the future. The Post can be found here.