Student-Led Conferences

We hope you found these valuable. The children were very excited about the opportunity to talk about their learning and were very proud of themselves. According to world-respected educational researcher John Hattie a major aim for teachers is to "get students to learn the skills of teaching themselves - to learn to self-regulate their learning" (Visible Learning, 2009). The more confident our students are at talking about the learning process the more opportunities they have at understanding how they learn which optimises their ability to learn.

Staff Professional Learning in the Holidays

Today all of our teaching staff worked with Danny from etime developing our own skills and knowledge for teaching our students to be digital citizens.

We developed skills rubrics, explored new apps on our ipods and even made some movies using imovie on our new ipads. All in all a thoroughly exciting and beneficial way to spend the first day of the holidays!