Oruaiti School

What a great article in the Education Gazette. I have been lucky enough to have been working in the enviro class with Rob Arrowsmith and the students. I supported them through integrating cyber smart lessons to create their posters and labels for their Honey. They also designed tea towels based on the past historical designs back in the Elwyn Richardson error. We also created QR Codes to go on the labels that took you to their class site page all about the process and history behind their work. The students and class have also been posting lots of posts on their blogs about their journey and learning.  The student wrote and designed the site pages. I can not wait to take a lesson in their natural 21st-century sustainable outdoor classroom.

Outdoor classroom honours legacy

Level 1 History.

Monday 8th of June.
NZ has 0 active cases of Covid 19.
1504 people in NZ had the disease
22 people died

As of midnight tonight we enter Level 1.  No more social distancing. Life returns to a new normal.
Borders remain closed to the world except for returning kiwis and those will quarantine for 14 days on arrival.

Level 4 lockdown 26.03.20 to 27.04.20
Level 3 lockdown 28.04.20 to 13.05.20
Level 2 lockdown 14.05.20 to 08.06.20

This is the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic, which was declared March 11th, 2020.

New Zealand has officially done it. So proud to be a Kiwi. 
Life will return to normal, more students will return to school. 
We can hug each other and high five. Sports and concerts will be back on. 
The next issue on the cards is when and how do we open our borders. Our poor tourist industry is really hurting.

Great Sense Making with WFRC.

Going to online hangout meets for the sense-making was a great move. With the leaders joining at 1.30pm to 3pm going over the writing and Maths data and then the teachers in the Te Hiku cluster joining at 3.15am to review the Reading data. Having also unpacked the Te Hiku cluster data at the week before leaders PLG saved a lot of time doing this in the sense-making meeting. This also helped to support the WFRC team to present the data. Kerry and I organised the break out sessions for the teachers to be sharing time. Sharing what they are currently doing for HLPs in their classroom reading programs. The WFRC also created a short video on HLPs to share with staff to remind them of what they are, which was very helpful. I think it was more successful as teachers were not sitting and listening for such long periods of time and listening to data talk. The talking related to what is actually going on in classrooms, they were getting ideas and resources they can take back and introduce into their classroom work. They were also getting reassurance.