Our two players of the day are below, Cory (left) with bowling figures of 2 for 2 and Lochie (right) with a hard hit 25 not out batting.
Well done team.
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Cricket Victory
In the first round of the NZ Cup, a national knock-out tournament for Year 7/8 cricketers, our team did us proud with a superb team effort to defeat North Loburn, one of our friendly neighbouring schools. The feature of the win that stood out for me was the great team work and encouragement amongst our players, it was absolutely superb and was commented on by the opposing coach.
Our two players of the day are below, Cory (left) with bowling figures of 2 for 2 and Lochie (right) with a hard hit 25 not out batting.
Well done team.
Our two players of the day are below, Cory (left) with bowling figures of 2 for 2 and Lochie (right) with a hard hit 25 not out batting.
Well done team.
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Digital Citizenship
This year I will be learning alongside the Year 7 and 8 students as we aim to embed the use of online tools into a range of authentic learning activities. I am really excited about this opportunity and after our first day together today I can tell the students are too!
Before we launch into the seemingly endless world of the online environment we took some time today to talk and learn about what it means to be a responsible 'Digital Citizen'. We were grateful to have the help of our friend Danny from eTime who led us through some fantastic interactive learning activities.
In one of our first activities the students had to present a 'Plus, Minus, Interesting' or 'PMI' about being a 'Digital Native'. Here are a couple of brief examples of their thinking:
As a culmination of our learning we started to create our 'Digital Citizenship Treaty' that we will all sign before launching into our other online activities. The students then had to create short movie trailers to illustrate at least one of the Treaty points. I was super impressed with how instinctively creative the students were with an iPad in their hands. We learnt a really valuable lesson too, 'don't forget about the learning purpose of the digital task when you have the device in your hand'. Check out this example from one of the teams:
Before we launch into the seemingly endless world of the online environment we took some time today to talk and learn about what it means to be a responsible 'Digital Citizen'. We were grateful to have the help of our friend Danny from eTime who led us through some fantastic interactive learning activities.
In one of our first activities the students had to present a 'Plus, Minus, Interesting' or 'PMI' about being a 'Digital Native'. Here are a couple of brief examples of their thinking:
As a culmination of our learning we started to create our 'Digital Citizenship Treaty' that we will all sign before launching into our other online activities. The students then had to create short movie trailers to illustrate at least one of the Treaty points. I was super impressed with how instinctively creative the students were with an iPad in their hands. We learnt a really valuable lesson too, 'don't forget about the learning purpose of the digital task when you have the device in your hand'. Check out this example from one of the teams:
Sustainable Gardens
This term we aim to have the next stage of our strong focus on creating a sustainable school up and running with the classroom garden beds. It was exciting to see the project progress with last night's working bee. Thanks to the parents and teachers who lent a hand.
I hope the gardens provide all our children with plenty of authentic learning opportunities for years to come. When we think about 21st century learning we often only think of technology gadgets and the world-wide web but what could be more 21st century than learning about creating a sustainable, environmentally friendly community and world!
I hope the gardens provide all our children with plenty of authentic learning opportunities for years to come. When we think about 21st century learning we often only think of technology gadgets and the world-wide web but what could be more 21st century than learning about creating a sustainable, environmentally friendly community and world!
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