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I am the Principal of a wonderful school - Waitaki Valley in Kurow, North Otago. I have been a teacher of all ages from New Entrants to Yr 9 at Full Primaries, a contributing Primary, an Intermediate and a College. I have a passion for ensuring that we as teachers are keeping up with things in the world of our kids - and ensuring that our kids of today are prepared for the unknown world of tomorrow.

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What does 7 days of lockdown look like?

April1

Here we are – 7 days of lockdown already done and dusted. So what has it looked like?  What have we done? I spent Thursday and Friday getting up around my ‘usual’ time, and going for a walk – getting out before it was daylight, before other people and their ‘bubbles’ would be about. I’d […]

Alerts – Level 3 AND Level 4 – all at once!

April1

Anniversary Day – 1pm – and we sit down to watch the what have become ‘normal’ 1pm announcements from Dr Ashley Bloomfield, the Director General of Health and the Prime Minister, Jacinda Adern, about our current situation. It was this announcement where the PM stated that we were moving to Alert Level 3 – those […]

Well – what a year this last week has been! Prior to the Lockdown

April1

The phrase I’ve called this post is one I saw and definitely related to this time last week.  As I write this post I’m kicking myself – I should have started recording my experiences a week ago! Our country is currently in a lockdown. We’ve been instructed by the government to ‘Stay Home to Save […]

Learning @ WVS 2016

December9

Learning at WVS 2016

Chromebooks

September19

On arrival at Waitaki Valley School at the beginning of Term 2 I was met with 30 Chromebooks in their boxes.  These were quickly taken out of the boxes, set up our system and ready to go!! But . . . it’s not always that easy – how do you integrate them in meaningful ways […]

Where have I been?

September3

I am attending a Principal’s Google Day and Rob Clarke is discussing the values of blogging.  This has made me wonder – how long has it been since I last posted to my blog??  OMG – 10 months!!  I have gone from being, at times, a daily blogger, collating resources for myself and anyone else […]

Hearing what BYOD can do for students

November20

I love the messages in this video – from students, teachers and the Principal. While these students are using Chrome Books, the philosophy behind this supports any model of BYOD.  What a lucky school to have the support of this trust to enable this to happen for their kids.  The benefits are obvious and the […]

Social Media and Professional Lives

November19

I have started working with new teachers at the beginning of the year and working through the process of making them aware of their presence on Social Media sites. This is becoming an increasing issue that teachers (and any other professional) needs to be aware of.  The NZ Teachers  Council have put together some great […]

Rocketboards

September2

I can see the potential for something like this Rocketboard ap to be quite exciting – Rocketboards

BYOD @ OIS

August12

Tomorrow is an auspicious occasion at OIS – our first day of BYOD. This has been a three year plan – putting the reliable infrastructure into place, ensuring systems in classrooms are set up for teachers and students, as well as the informing and education of the parents. BYOD is implemented in different schools for […]

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