Back at School under Alert Level 2

Kia ora koutou
We have been back at school for the past two weeks and although only two thirds of the school returned and the students have been locked down in their Form Class bubbles all day, they seem to  be enjoying the experience. We are currently learning about Migration in Year 9 Social Studies but in order to give the students more digital learning tools Whaea Kerry Boyd-Preece joins us for one hour per week and broadens their knowlege base with exciting digital learning lessons. Recently they have been creating cartoon portraits or avatars and I have created one to show what they are learning. It is a bit basic but it was fun to create.

Online Teaching and Learning

Kia ora everyone

Well, week two down of COVID-19 Lockdown and my students in 9R are getting used to joining our google meets everyday and staying in touch with me and each other while we continue our SST learning. When they want a quick conversation they will make contact by google hangout otherwise I see them all in the meets. This week we have also been joined by 9K so that was great sharing with that awesome group of students. Here are a couple of our classes captured on screen shot.

 Above is a lesson run by Kerry Boyd-Preece our Manaiakalani facilitator in school, she is working with the students on their cybersmart footprints.
We are so fortunate to have her expertise and support in our classes.

To the left is Vaughan and Whaea Wai who is her teacher aid and who joins our classes every day.

9R Students Term 1

Here are the awesome students of 9R Social Students in Term 1.

Preparations during COVID-19 lockdown

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What interesting times we are living in at the moment. This is my first Blog post for 2020 which is  long overdue.During the first two weeks of the lockdown I got onto my classsroom website and re-wrote all of the learning resources to make it easier for my Year 9R students to work independantly from home when school starts again on April 15th. It was quite a task, but very rewarding. I also added 3 short screencastify video clips to help talk my students through their work.
Here is the first video clip created at home. 👀

2019 Completed VR Short Film

In 2019 our 9M students created a virtual whare to express who they are and where they come from.
It took a while to create this video and it is self explanitory narrated by Ben Wynyard and Kiro Wikaire. I am very proud of this work that these students put ttogether and I hope you like it too.