This is a HUGE achievement as the competition for this award is tremendous. There are many, many entriesandd to even make the finals is HUGE. Winning is a real coup. Well done to both Room 9 and the wonderful Mrs Wright. Two years ago R9 had not even begun blogging and now they are the best in the country. How cool is that!!
You can see in the photo the Netbook Mrs Wright won as the prize. They are talking to Greg Adams the Editor of the magazine on skype and have just found out about the win.
You can follow the links to their blog and all the other web presences classes have from the sidebar of this blog. Do have a look at the wonderful things that are happening in these spaces. They are a wonderful way for families to see what is happening at school and in the classrooms. No longer can the children go home and answer “nothing” to the “what did you do at school today?” question. There are small maps on many of the sites that show where the visitors to the pages come from. You can see from the dots in so many places that peopl from around the world are coming to our websites to find out about the things we are doing at Outram School.
Room 9’s Blog has made the finals of the Interface Magazine Best Class Blog awards!! Clemency Wright is a stunning teacher and has a wonderful classroom. Her blog began as a tentative toe dipped in the water and has grown over the past couple of years into a central part of her classroom and classroom programme. In the usual way with people who do fabulous things she simply sees it as normal, nothing special, and rather mundane. It is none of these things! It is a wonderful example of the way Web2.0 technologies can break down the barriers between home and school, make the classroom programme ‘transparent’ and bring families into the school in so many different ways. Please take a look at the website and vote for her class blog. (you do have to be a NZ teacher, or employed in a school to vote though) She thoroughly deserves the accolades!
Room 9 really SHINES!!!!!
An interesting note too – 3 of the 10 finalists in the Awards are classrooms and teachers from Dunedin. Two are from our ICT PD Cluster. How good are we!
Stacey Buschl will be taking the NE class during T4 that will be starting in R1. Because of this:
We currently have a vacancy for a teacher to release our Reading Recovery teacher as well as provide CRT in 4 classrooms in both the Junior and Senior school. This position is 0.54 FTTE. You can download the information pack from HERE.
So …. if you know of anyone who may be interested please encourage them to apply!
If you go to our Vacancies Page you will find more information as well.
Our parent interviews are coming up next week – on Monday and Tuesday for most teachers.Bookings for these are open from TODAY and are on a first come first served basis.
They will form the basis of the interview and are intended to give you a clear idea of your child’s work and achievement during the first half of 2009.
There are two ways you can book interviews this year:
·enter your name and email details, number of children to book for and child/rens names
·choose the teacher/s you wish to see
·check the boxes of the times you want
·the site will send you a confirmation email when you save and you can go back in later and change times and other details if you need to using your unique code.It pays to keep this email!
OR
Fill in the slip that came home today and return to school.
We were in the finals of the Full Primary 10-a-side rugby tournament yesterday. We came second in the competition overall and the team played really well in all the games.
Room 7 has been learning all about poetry this term. The children have been reading poems and then the movies of them are on their class wiki. Have a look HERE.
They have done a really great job! If you click on the discussion tab you can leave the children a comment.
If you go HERE you can hear the children reading for us to listen to as well.
Hugh has been working on his Science Badge activities over the holidays. Hugh has taken up a strong technology based challenge around the topic of Toys. Hugh has built a fantastic lighthouse with a flashing light. Hugh was able to give an excellent explanation about how a circuit works. Hugh also built a toy boat that runs on a rubber band. This creation led to Hugh having an understanding of Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Motion – every action has an equal an opposite reaction!!!
He is able to explain how it all works and they are on display in the foyer along with the book he has produced explaining the work and especially the THINKING he has done to make it all work.
Jacob W knows all about meteorology. He built a wind vane and used it to record wind direction. Jacob can now identify cloud types and use that knowledge to help him predict the weather. He is also able to describe wind using the Beaufort Wind Strength scale.
Great work Hugh and Jacob, your brains must have been on fire!!
The Junior syndicate had a triathlon on Friday.
This photo shows everyone getting their instructions at the beginning
Well done to all the children who took part in teams and individually. It was pretty cold but you all did VERY well.
We SWAM.
We BIKED
and we RAN
We gave certificates to the place-getters at Assembly.
Have a look at this video if you would like more ideas about helping your child to learn to swim – especially beginners. It gives the progression we follow:
One difference though is that we teach children to breathe every third stroke so they are breating on both sides.
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