Educamp Palmerston North - RTC

Today I attended EduCamp Palmy in Palmerston North, hosted by Winchester School.

During the course of the day I attended four breakouts and also had the opportunity to listen to the keynote. During the fourth break out I was asked to present about 3D Printing and Laser Cutting (highlighting some of Auroa Primary Schools promotional videos).

The highlights of the presentations can be located here:
For the Keynote.

For breakout One, which was on the subject of intergrated learning which was run by Ana from Whakarongo School (who we visited as part of the MOA Kluster in 2016).  She talked about running an integrated program in an ILE and how she was coping with the change of students with their goal settings.  The details of the breakout are here.

For breakout Two, this was led by Bede Gilmore from Winchester School.   This was about the CORE Education addition on MLAM on the TKI Webiste and how it had been applied to the students of Winchester School.   The details of his presentation are here.

For breakout three I saw STEM in Whakarongo School and in particular how they were using the Sphero Robots to program and how they were integrated it into the program.  I collected the details of the program and have included them here.

Break Four was one that I hosted using exemplars of work from Auroa Primary School.   I had a total of ten teachers in the classroom.  I was not a formal presentation that I am able to link into this blog but instead was a discussion about what we were doing and some examples of our work.  I was asked to do this at rather short notice, hence the use of our School website and talking about some of examples of work.

PRT - Treaty of Waitangi

Engaging with Local Iwi.

School Kits - Treaty Stories.  I have engaged with School Kits in their national 'Treaty Stories Project'.   This is one of ten national stories documenting a project of national significance.   To date I have had two meetings with the liason people for the project (School Kits).  I have further accessed a local High School teacher who has forty years experience with the area (Murray Dobbin) and had two lengthy conversations with him.  He has encouraged me with professional readings and research.

Last week we had a significant meeting with local Iwi (Nga Ruahine) about the project.  We also had representatives from the Taranaki Mounga projects (Sean).   As a result of this meeting we have agreed to move forward to look at meeting again with the School Kits people present and representatives of the Iwi.   This will take place in June. 

In the short term I want to continue my professional reading on the matter (I have ordered 'I Shall not die by James Belich) which deals with the issues from 1868-9.   I have made my way through the Nga Ruahine treaty documents to further make myself through local history,

This project will alow our students and the students of the Kura to work collaboratively in a sharing of knowledge and resources.   This would allow us to directly look at addressing the RTC of criteria one.