The World Peace Game

Today we began an ongoing reflection about our experience with the World Peace Game. Students were asked to consider done of the areas in which they were stretched. They had to consider these (and others that came up as they reflected) using the following questions: What have I learned? How will this help me now and in the future? What will I do about this learning...

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Learning to type

We'd like every student in the secondary school to learn to type - or at least improve their keyboarding skills. Here is a draft for our approach: Learn about correct posture and set up of equipment/space. Home keys - this is critical, ensure no switching of sides! Increasing our expectations for the amount of typing students do - we learn best by doing! Supplementing this with some games and practice of drills to learn the motor skills - some to start you off are below... List of online tools to practice typing - each student needs to evaluate...

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Totara News - Term 2 Week 7

Kia ora koutou! The Peace Game has begun! What an amazing opportunity for students to be working together, meeting new people and attempting to solve some of the worlds current issues. Well done everyone, it has been wonderful to see you all bring your skills to the game and be challenged at the same time. Well done everyone in your use of our new Google Apps system - one of the advantages of these tools is that both Kerry and Rob can ‘see’...

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Rat project- by Anna

The process I went through: I made a plan of what I wanted to achieve through a brainstorm and then I did a CAF (consider all factors) to check that I had everything. Anna's Consider All Factors brainstorm... Then I showed Kerry, Ella and Rob my proposal. (They loved it :) After that it turned out that two little girl rats were destined to come to us because a few weeks later we got given them from some lovely people who couldn't look...

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My Individual Project - Helena

Final Reflection - 13/6/2014 1. Where am I at with my project? I have shared my project and what I have done with the school. 2. What have I learned about myself? I really enjoy photography and web design   3. What are the skills I have learned? Tips with how to take good photos how to code a blog My Blog: http://livelovelaughphotographylife.blogspot.co.nz/ My Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/122864862@N0...

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Totara Newsletter - Term 2 - Week 6

Kia ora koutou! Firstly we want to warmly welcome Meg to the team. Meg joins us from Miro! We also welcome Nathan from Miro - Nathan is joining us on Thursdays. It's great having you both with us! Last week’s debate was a great success. Thank you and well done to everyone involved. We will be spending some time on Wednesday to re-watch the debate and analyse how it went. This week is also Peace Game week! We are all really excited to be involved. The sessions will run for three weeks 9:30am - 12:30pm Monday and Thursday. If you have...

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Maths Challenge - Throwing A Dice

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Heat Transfer Investigation

Today in Science the challenge is to identify the best insulator and the best conductors from a range of items, using this investigation process... Here are some shots of the challenge in action... Questions for students to reflect on (and record ideas to in the comments below...): What is the difference between an insulator and a conductor? How might you improve the investigation? Why do you think scientists sometimes investigate...

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Building Brilliance - What is the Human Spirit?

Today we reflected on the question What is the human spirit? as part of the start to our day. Part of this is to consider the place of a new assessment tool we are using called e-asTTle, which is essentially a testing and assessment tool. Students had to record their ideas on the following aspects: Consider what they think the human spirit is.....

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