Asia New Zealand Foundation Award

Singapore and Education are an amazing thing, I have been able to attend #ICTlt2014 and this was an amazing experience although as I have stated the most compelling part of the experience was the time that was spent in the school prior to the start of the conference.

Earlier this year I became aware of an award from the Asia New Zealand Foundation.  I applied for an opportunity to travel to Singapore in September and was successful in my application which was an amazing opportunity.  It has the dual aspect of promoting collaboration and also also professional learning and opportunity for myself.

I have a pre visit meeting occurring in May, however the details that have already been supplied are exciting and I am looking forward to the prospect of continuing to engage and work with the classroom and students (and teachers and administrators) from another country.

Singapore Reflections 2014

In 2014 I had the opportunity to attend the ICTLT Conference which took place in Singapore. it was the first time that I'd had the opportunity to visit the city, although I had done so briefly as a 9 year old in 2982. The context for the 2014 visit was to attend the conference. This had been provided by the Auroa Primary School BOT as Professional Development. The part consisted of three other Principals from local schools, who were part of a PLG group. The conference was an interesting experience. Having attending numerous ULEARN Conferences in New Zealand I assumed that the conference would be run along similar lines and associated matters such as social media would run similar. I started using the conference hashtag from New Zealand as we began the process of departing and was surprised that there seemed to be minimal tweets prior to the conference. During the conference the tweeting was minimal. There was a break out or workshop that was devoted to Tweeting and unfortunately I missed it. The best part of the entire experience was being able to attend a visit to a local school prior to the conference. We visited the Geyling Methodist School first and saw it in operation. As Singapore was first in the world in the teaching state as ranked by the PISA test I was interested in observing in the classroom and seeing how it operated. The school was extremely encouraging and welcoming.

The experience was something that I enjoyed immensely from a practical point of view but also from an understanding of pedagogy.   However I was realistic that visiting Singapore as part of a conference was a opportunity that would only come once.    This year I applied through the Asia New Zealand Foundation and was thrilled to say that I was accepted to travel to Singapore later this year for a trip to strengthen relations and investigate the Singapore Education system.

5 and 5 Year Old Races - Matapu Wins Boys Relay

I applied for another position at another school in March 2016.  The school was local to Auroa hence while I had recored our students at this competition I also had inadvertently recorded my prospective new school as well.  I intended to play this as part of the interview process to highlight the fact that they didn't have a significant digital footprint.  As it was I was unsuccessful with the application.

One of the highlights of the MT SPA Cluster Athletics which was held at Victoria Park, Kaponga on Thursday 6th of March. These videos are of the Y1/2 races the five year old and six year old students. Manaia are in the blue, Matapu are in the blue with gold, St Patricks are in the purple, Kaponga are in the black and finally Auroa are in the orange.
AtheleticsY56 from myles webb on Vimeo.
Athletics56Boys from myles webb on Vimeo.

MT SPA Relays - Senior Students.

Recorded with an iPad at the event (no tripod) with myself standing near the finish line. One take and no editing. The final race of the MT SPA cluster field day took place on Thursday with the senior students racing. This included teams from the four of five local schools - Manaia (blue), Kaponga (black), Matapu (blue with gold) and Auroa (orange). The teams were competing against each other to contribute points towards the shield for best overall school.

1112Girls from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

SeniorBoys from Myles Webb on Vimeo.