Why I Teach…

I’ve been off school this week due to highly unfortunate accident involving running, mud, downhills and horizontal rain left me with a fairly smashed up wrist. Not fun, not pretty but c’est la vie!!

Anyway, I received letters from some of the kids in my class and this piece of poetic writing struck me with how much I mean to the kids and what they mean to me….

“I have a flower in my brain and you give it water to grow.
You are not here to give me water.
So you need to come back and give me the water to grow.

Love from Megan”

Brought tears to my eyes and as you can imagine more determined to get back to them as soon as possible. As a teacher I strive to have kids that are eager to learn and happy to be at school – this week has shown me I have achieved that.

Just something I tried…

Was directed to http://www.ideastoinspire.co.uk from Twitter and found out about www.Prezi.com. As I was about to put together a presentation for my class tomorrow I thought I would try this.
It’s very basic but fairly happy with the result – next time (feedforward) would be to have a less chaotic path, but then again I like chaos!!
Struggled to upload any images, kept telling me check my internet connection – I was online at the time!!! So will try away from school and any possible firewalls stopping me.

from prezi.com

World famous in NZ

Being a new school, with new technologies and a forward thinking vision, we have been under the spotlight. We appeared in the July issue of New Zealand’s “PC World” and that resulted in TVNZ (the state broadcaster) coming to do a piece about us for a current affairs show. There is the link to the piece HERE

It’s interesting. My phone began beeping the second the piece had aired and it was all positive, which is fantastic. The only slight disappointment I have is that focused quite a lot on the technology side of our school and not our vision for learning – not much I can do about that but still needed to be said. Would love feedback on the clip!!