Hosting Online Student Toolkits from Home!

Hello blogging world!

Just wanted to quickly share something awesome that happened with out Senior School students this week!

We held our first ever online student toolkits using google Meet! 9 students ran 7 toolkits from their home for their peers. The toolkits covered a variety of tools including kahoot, using google slides to make an animation, word art and canva.

If you missed them or you want to have a look at different one, click here and check out what was covered!

We had a few technical challenges and it was a bit tricky presenting online, but our presenters did a superb job! Some of the feedback that we had from our student attendees is below:

"I liked both of the sessions I thought it was helpful and they explained the stuff well." - Y5 Tuffery Class student

"The sessions were helpful. The kahoot and the animation worked. Both of them worked. I would like nothing changed, I think it was amazing the way it was." - Y4 Lockhart Class student

"The session were very good and helpful. Everything worked perfectly, nothing went wrong." - Y4 Lockhart Class student

"I found the first session quite cool because I found another way to log in to Kahoot. Next time maybe the presenter can help each other when their connections aren't great. I found the second session useful and great because I learnt how to insert an image into an Kahoot. I also had fun playing Kahoot in the second session. Next time the presenter could slow down a bit more and go with the audiences speed." - Y6 Lockhart Class student

"...everything worked well and there is nothing I would like to change." - Y6 Tuffery Class student

Thanks to all our student attendees who also followed our google Meet norms and were super respectful, responsible and resilient.

Overall the toolkits worked pretty well and we're keen to give it another crack with the other schools in the Ako Hiko cluster soon! 

Learning at home vs Learning at school

Hello bloggers!

Did you know this week marks the start of our 4th week of distance learning! So far we've had 15 out of 27 kids attend our google meet sessions. I'm wondering how we can get more... leave me a comment if you have a good idea!

For this week's blog ponder, we want to know how you prefer to do your learning!

Do you prefer learning from home or learning at school? 

Leave a comment below about what you prefer and why.

Life in Lockdown

Today marks the 33rd day of New Zealand being in lockdown. At 11.59pm tonight we will move into alert level 3. Some things will change, but for most people things will still look pretty similar at this new alert level.

There have been a lot stories about what people have been doing with their time to help keep busy - some learning new skills, some refining their trick shots, others enjoying quality family time. With that in mind, what do you think has been the BEST thing about being in lockdown?

Leave a comment below and let us know what you think is the best part about being in lockdown.

Alert level 4 vs Alert level 3?

Kia ora bloggers,

Today the New Zealand Government will be analysing statistics about coronavirus and making a critical decision around whether (and when) New Zealand will shift down to alert level 3. There are lots of factors that they need to consider, but the number one priority is making sure that the residents of New Zealand are kept healthy and safe.

There will be some differences if we do move to alert level 3. Some of these changes are listed below:

What do you think New Zealand should do? Should we move to alert level 3 or should we stay at alert level 4?

Leave your thoughts and opinions about which level you think we should be at and why.

Boredom Busters!

Hello world!

Today marks the beginning of the 4th week of New Zealand’s lockdown. Many kids and families throughout the country will be getting a bit agitated with having to spend so much time confined to their homes, and some of them will be incredibly bored!

To help combat the boredom, some of our amazing Tuffery Class students have shared their top boredom busters with you.

How are you fighting the boredom during lockdown? What creative and cool activities have you been up to? Share your ideas with us, we'd love to hear them!