Kia ora,
First and foremost what a fantastic achievement it was to take all Poroutawhao teaching staff to the U learn, ICT, conference in Christchurch this year. Without a doubt it was money well spent in so many ways. Exposure to this high quality professional development is absolutely essential if major changes are going to take place in any area of a school's performance. To have the whole team hearing the same thing at the same time is the ultimate dimension. The buzz on day one back at school this term was evident amongst us all.
Our major objectives of further reinforcing in our minds the importance of the integration of the ICT tool and then exploring different tools and applications we would actually use in our classroom was achieved. Alongside this there was also the invaluable experince of meeting some pretty impressive people working in this field, including other from within our own cluster.
I now look forward to staff introducing a new ICT tool or application into their classroom programmes. Each staff member has been challenged to do this by the end of week 4 and then give a presentation about this to staff, (using ICT of course).
Over and above this, all staff have also been challenged to not only get their class blogs up and running but ensuring that their class community is regularly contributing to it. This is also an expectation that must be shortly met.
Regards
Neil Hirini
Principal
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