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Wednesday, 19 October 2016

Parent Teacher Interviews: Thankful parents

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Last night I experienced another really rare moment. This time it was two parents of two of my students who explicitly thanked me for what I...
Friday, 14 October 2016

Financial Literacy: Y9 Social Studies

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Yesterday we started a new topic: Financial Literacy. We discussed what financial literacy means and why it's important to be financial...
Friday, 9 September 2016

Film Booklets - Visual Text Analysis (The Lovely Bones, The Intouchables, The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

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I feel rejuvenated. This term I've taught all new films (excepting my Y11 film study of 'V for Vendetta'..) and they've bee...

Byte Sized PLD - Practical Sessions at WHHS

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Next step in the eLearning PLD at Heights is creating practical hands on sessions. After the Byte Sized PLD emails I've been sending o...
Wednesday, 7 September 2016

Encouraging Growth in Year 9 Students

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Today I had two very interesting conversations with two groups of Year 9 students. The first conversation was out of the blue... mainly...
Wednesday, 31 August 2016

Byte Sized PLD: Powtoon and Storyboard That - Video Tutorials

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This week I did a couple of hilarious video tutorials... they're rather long but I suppose they help to see just how easy they are to us...
Tuesday, 30 August 2016

Byte Sized PLD: Feedback on TOD and Next Steps for eLearning

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Kia ora koutou, This week I sent out a Google Form  to collect feedback from staff around the learning we did on Friday and to identify ...