Event

Lakes District Health Board PRESENTS

An evening with NATHAN MIKAERE-WALLIS

Tuesday 5 May 2015, 7.30pm

Edmund Rice Centre @ John Paul College, Whitworth Road, Rotorua

WHAT OUR CHILDREN NEED TO LIVE, LEARN AND SUCCEED

This event is tailored for PARENTS, CAREGIVERS, GRANDPARENTS, AUNTIES, UNCLES AND WAHNAU

Nathan is a trustee for The Brainwave Trust and is a sought after trainer.

Nathan’s presentation makes use of real-life examples and case study material, in an accessible, interactive manner.  This is an invaluable opportunity for everyone raising children.

GOLD COIN DONATION-PROCEEDS TO JOHN PAUL COLLEGE PTA

Also-

On 13 May, Jasmin Jackson from the Heart Foundation will be coming to 

present a workshop on healthy lunches.   All year 5 and 6 students will be 

attending and we would like to invite all St Mary's parents to attend.  The 

presentation will be from 1.30-2.30 in the hall, and I am sure will be very 

interesting and informative.  We look forward to seeing you there.


Sheryl Todd

Children's Learning Blogs

The children are all able to get to the middle school's learning site where they have personal access to all of their learning. Here they can make copies of presentations or documents for their own use and revisit learning we have done as a group or  a whole class. Also on one of the button links (our amazing blogs) they can access their personal blogs. These blogs are being used this year as portfolios, where learning is displayed both from end of term assessments and ongoing posts by children. Please ask your child to show you what they have on the blog and to talk to you about some of what they are learning and any improvements that could be made.
Click on this link to go to the Middle School Google Site for Learning for 2015 - Link
You may have to get your child to login to Google to see the site if you don't have your own Google login.

The children spontaneously got into the shape of a poppy while waiting to do poppy mosaics with Janet Keen for our ANZAC memorial.

Google Apps for Education Summit 2015

A team of dedicated St Mary's teachers and management attended the Google Apps for Education Summit 2015 in Auckland during the school holidays. We were exposed to a lot of interesting and helpful new skills and ideas to help us with our digital learning. One of the best and most humorous presenters was Jim Sill who talked about the use of videos and video editing in education. See a brief part of one of his talks in the video above.