2009+GATE+Projects

In term one all senior pupils were introduced to the mydesktop facility for personalised learning.

In term two year 5 and 6 GATE pupils created new home pages for classrooms. They then moved onto creating their own blogs on this term's theme of Energy. They also participated in a short series of lessons using Excel to graph data gathered by surveying their peers regarding energy used for home heating. Year two pupils created personal blogs about Photosynthesis and year three pupils are currently creating their blogs on the Energy topic.

Year one pupils are working together to create a group slide show inspired by the story "The Puriru Tree" by Merito Tawhara and Nikki Robinson. They will be using Art RAge and PowerPoint to create their shared retelling of the story.

Year four pupils created Animations about photosynthesis using Marvin software. Pupils may chose to have their movies written to CDs or DVDs to share at home.
 * Parents may view pupil blogs through their children's logon accounts on mydesktop**

Towards the end of term two pupils have been using new school digital cameras and learning to use the opensource graphic editing software GIMP. Year three and four GATE pupils created slide shows to display their work: [|Year 3] [|Year 4]

In term three junior and middle school pupils took part in a LEANZ virtual field trip to Whenua Hou to learn about the Kakapo. The wikis they created as part of this project can be viewed from the Kakapo page on this wiki.