Week 7 - Term 1 - 2019

Ka rongo, ka wareware, Ka kite, ka mahara

Ka hangaia, ka marama ahau

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember

I do and I understand

Week 7  11 Maehe - 15 Maehe  Year 11 Art Exhibition - Wigram Airforce Museum - All Week Ugly Shakespeare - PAC p5 - all year 10 students for 'The taming of the Shrew' School Athletics Sports - Nga Puni Wai - Tues 12 Fifia Evening - Wed 13 Canterbury Tennis Senior Champs - Thurs 14 - Fri 15 Volleyball Canterbury Champs - Fri 15 - Sun 17 Polyfest - Sat 16	Week 8  18 Maehe - 22 Maehe Auckland University Visit - Mon 18 (Break 2) Massey University Visit - Tues 19 - (Break 2) Athletics Canterbury Champs prelims - Tues 19 12GEO Trip - Wed 20 - Thurs 21 1st XI Cricket Tournament - Wed 20 - Thurs 21 13MED Film Classification Course - Wed 20 Summer Sport Ends - Wed 20 CGHS Swimming Sports - Thurs 21 11DRA Assessment - Fri 22 Rowing Maadi Cup - Fri 22 - Sun 24 Touch SI Champs - Sat 23 - Sun 24 Athletics Canterbury Champs Finals - Sat 23
Assembly - WED Year 12 NCEA Assembly - PAC	Assembly - WED Scholars Assembly - Gym
Meeting  Pedagogical Meeting (Check with your HOLA as this is now School Athletics Sports Day) New Staff - Thurs 14	Meeting  Learning and Teaching

Information for Staff

1. Following on from staff meeting, for those of you who are ready to sign up for their PLG Inquiry group, you can do so HERE. Once numbers have been determined we will look at size of groups and see whether any need to be split, or alternatively added to the list if there are a number of 'other'.
If you would like more information, please see the presentation that was sent out from staff meeting or see BLS.
If you are wanting a bit of practical explanation as to what some of the groups may involve then have a look at 'How can you use these strategies in the classroom'. A pdf that incorporates some of the High Impact strategies that have been discussed.

2. Something for the CGHS laboratories perhaps......

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A1-o964p4L5aEcipiYBwUkw7jYFrDERn/view?usp=sharing

Week 6 - Term 1 - 2019

Ki te kotahi te kakaho ka whati, Ki te kapuia e kore e whati 

Alone we can be broken. Standing together, we are invincible

Week 6  4 Maehe - 8 Maehe 12BIO Temple Basin Trip - All Week Year 11 Art Exhibition - Wigram Airforce Museum - All Week LEF Reports due this week 11GEO trip - Wed 6 - Fri 8 11ART trip to Wigram Airforce Museum - wed 6 13CHE/13CHM internal - p5 Wed 6 Rowing SISS Champs - Fri 8 - Sun 10 Polyfest Overnight Camp - Fri 8 Triathlon Canterbury Champs - Fri 8	Week 7  11 Maehe - 15 Maehe  Year 11 Art Exhibition - Wigram Airforce Museum - All Week Ugly Shakespeare - PAC p5 School Athletics Sports - Nga Puni Wai - Tues 12 Fifia Evening - Wed 13 Canterbury Tennis Senior Champs - Thurs 14 - Fri 15 Volleyball Canterbury Champs - Fri 15 - Sun 17 Polyfest - Sat 16
Assembly - WED Year 11 NCEA Assembly - PAC	Assembly - WED Year 12 NCEA Assembly - PAC
Meeting  Staff Meeting - Tues All PCT teachers - Thurs 14 @3.20	Meeting  Pedagogical Meeting (Check with your HOLA as this is now School Athletics Sports Day)

Information for staff:

1. Looking for an extra bit of money? The Learning Place is proud to announce a new partnership with the social enterprise LearnCoach, an online learning platform that provides free tutorials to secondary students. Together we have launched 'Flipped', a venture which offers internal assessments for students to sit online and gain real NZQA credits, granting many students in difficult situations a second chance at gaining their qualifications.

The Opportunity

- LearnCoach and The Learning Place are looking to build a team of experienced secondary school teachers to mark assessments that students submit

- This is an excellent opportunity for teachers who have a few extra hours per week, would like to make some extra money and contribute to a programme which will positively impact thousands of students nationwide.  

See the letter that was sent through with expectations and pay rates HERE

2. Fulbright New Zealand is delighted to invite staff at Christchurch Girls' High School -Te Kura o Hine Waiora to apply for the Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching. If you are interested go to the  website to seek further information.

These awards are for accomplished New Zealand teachers in primary or secondary schooling to participate in a fully funded 4 month intensive professional development programme in the US. The awards are an investment in the individual teacher, their school, students and communities.

The Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching connect New Zealand teachers with their counterparts from around the world and create opportunities for grantees to learn, prosper, and work with others to exchange expertise, expand pedagogical knowledge and problem solve.

The awards are generously supported by the New Zealand Ministry of Education. The Ministry will fund full relief costs to the grantee’s school through the Teach NZ Prestigious Awards Programme.

For more information, please follow the link below to the Fulbright New Zealand website.

http://www.fulbright.org.nz/awards/nzscholar/distinguishedteaching/

The deadline for applications is 15 March so this call for applications is time-sensitive.

3. The latest poster published at the NZ Education Hub:

https://theeducationhub.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/EducationHub_HighExpectations_v2.pdf

Week 5 - Term 1 - 2019

Tohea, ko te tohe i te kai.

Persevere strenuously, like as you do in eating.

Week 5 25 Hui-tanguru -  1 Maehe Year 9 Parents Evening starting at 6pm - Tues 26 13DVC Architectural Research and Exploration (Year 13 Graphics trip) Thurs 28 - Fri 1 13BUS Dragon's Den - Fri 1 13BUS Kickstart - Fri 1 Tennis SI Champs - Fri 1 - Sun 3 Volleyball SI Champs - Fri 1 - Sun 3 Rowing CSS Regatta - Sat 2 - Sun 3 Volleyball SI Beach Champs - Sat 2 - Sun 3 Multisports SI Champs - Sun 3	Week 6  4 Maehe - 8 Maehe 12BIO Trip - All Week Year 11 Art Exhibition - Wigram Airforce Museum - All Week LEF Reports due this week 11GEO trip - Wed 6 - Fri 8 11ART trip to Wigram Airforce Museum - wed 6 13CHE/13CHM internal - p5 Wed 6 Rowing SISS Champs - Fri 8 - Sun 10 Polyfest Overnight Camp - Fri 8 Triathlon Canterbury Champs - Fri 8
Assembly - WED NIL	Assembly - WED Year 11 NCEA Assembly - PAC Year 13 Assembly - Gym
Meeting  No Meeting due to Year 9 Parent evening New Teachers - Thurs 14 @3.20	Meeting  Staff Meeting - Tues

Information for Staff

1. Core-Ed have released their 10 Trends in Education for 2019. 

These are:

a. Social mapping

b. Real-time reporting - better connections with the school community

c. Schools as part of a community 

d. Changing role of teachers - the shift in ownership to the learner

e. Micro-credentialing

f. Big data/ small data

g. Economic - around the changing nature of work

f. Understanding success - what does this look like now?

h. Wellbeing

i. Cultural narratives

If you are interested to know more about any of the areas above, then click on the link and you will be able to download the document.

2. Professional Learning and Development Opportunity

The Education Hub have a couple of Professional Learning Opportunities. One is around embedding inquiry into schools, and the other is a Webinar on 'how to use data to support your teaching as inquiry. See https://theeducationhub.org.nz/events/ for more details.

Week 4 - Term 1 - 2019

"Hurihia tō aroaro ki te rā tukuna tō ātārangi kia taka ki muri i a koe"

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows will fall behind you"

Week 4 18 Hui-tanguru - 22 Hui-tanguru Year 9 Camps - All Week Rowing NZ Champs - Tues 19 - Sat 23 ARA visit - Tues 19 Equestrian Canterbury Show Jumping - Wed 20 Music Choir Camp - Fri 22 (pm) - Sat 23 Touch Canterbury Champs - Sat 23	Week 5 25 Hui-tanguru -  1 Maehe School athletics Sports - Nga Puni Wai - Mon 25 Year 9 Parents Evening starting at 6pm - Tues 26 13DVC Architectural Research and Exploration (Year 13 Graphics trip) Thurs 28 - Fri 1 13BUS Dragon's Den - Fri 1 13BUS Kickstart - Fri 1 Tennis SI Champs - Fri 1 - Sun 3 Volleyball SI Champs - Fri 1 - Sun 3 Rowing CSS Regatta - Sat 2 - Sun 3 Volleyball SI Beach Champs - Sat 2 - Sun 3 Multisports SI Champs - Sun 3
Assembly - WED House Assemblies	Assembly - WED NIL
Meeting  Department - Tues 19 New Teachers - Thurs 14 @3.20	Meeting  No Meeting due to Year 9 Parent evening

Information for Staff

1. The Year 9 parent evening will follow the same format as last year. All teachers of Year 9's are expected to attend the evening with HOLAs/HODs there to support other staff if needed. At 6pm all parents will be in the PAC to be addressed by a number of different people.

Staff will be grouped in Learning Areas in the Arts block for parents to go an meet their daughter's teachers. Please make sure that you have your name badge on.

The PTA will be providing wine and cheese for the evening.

2. Delving Deeper 4, is a professional learning day where teachers share with teachers what's engaging our learners, is running this year on May 9th at Riccarton Park and they are now inviting teachers in schools to register a willingness to share their stories of successful practice. 

What - a one day sharing of 'stories around engaging learners' . They are looking for teachers to present their stories of success (and what hasn't gone so well) so that others can learn from their experiences.Here are two examples from Delving Deeper 3:

'Tama Tu, Tama Ora' is a literacy intervention programme that was trialled in 2017 with a focus on engaging our boys and improving their achievement. We particularly focused on our Maori and Pasifika boys who were neither engaged nor achieving. The programme created a boy friendly curriculum and removed a lot of their typical boundaries or escape routes. It was hugely successful and this workshop will simply explain what we did and how we did it.'

'A collaborative cross curricular experience at Secondary School. How can we work together collaboratively with teachers and learners? Last year we collapsed conventional timetables to work together across five curriculum areas at year 9 and 10. This presentation and discussion looks at one group from that experience, their successes and challenges and looks ahead to further collaborative practise.'

When – Thursday May 9th from 9am to 2.45pm

Where – Riccarton Park 

Why – to share our practice, grow collaboration and learn from each other.

Who – anyone in your school who would like to share what they are doing because it works. Because of the numbers our venue can hold, schools will be restricted to a maximum of 8 participants and this includes those presenting or attending. Presentations can be made by two teachers and involving students as a part of a presentation is encouraged.

How – After an opening provocation by Kaila Colbin, attendees will participate in four presentations offered - two in the morning and two in the afternoon, each of 45 minutes. Presenters may be asked to present one, two or three times depending on interest once teachers register their attendance - this process will occur once we have a list of presentation topics to share with schools. It is hoped that presentations will be two way and those attending are given an opportunity to ask questions. Technology will not be made available but presenters would be able to bring resources to support their presentation. 

Cost –  There is no cost for presenters for the day but any relief costs etc need to be covered by your school. The registration process will be on line once we get confirmation of presenters and the registration cost for delegates or those not presenting, will be $60. Further details will be sent to all schools once presenters areconfirmed.

Now!!! -They are now looking for teachers within our schools (Primary, Intermediate and Secondary) to share their stories of how they engage learners - what's worked and what hasn't. 

If you are interested in presenting, please register an interest by emailing Neil Wilkinson (wilkinson899@gmail.com) before March 8th giving details of your presentation. All emails will be acknowledged.