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Kumeroa-Hopelands School

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1. Students empowered with the skills to learn in a way that enables them to become life-long, 21st Century learners. In the first week of Term One the Year 7/8 children travelled to Napier to participate in the annual Optimist Yachting experience. Upon returning from the trip the children then had to present their experience and learning to the rest of the class and also the community as they shared their learning at a Community Assembly. Here was one of the slideshows that was shared.

Whilst learning about Keeping Ourselves Safe the children completed a Bubblus mind map (Web 2.0 tool). They recorded initial thoughts, new thoughts and them combined all their ideas together. Below is one a group completed. media type="custom" key="9389310"

3. Teachers will be well informed, confident users of e-learning At the end of Term One our school purchased 2 new Mimio Boards for the Senior and Middle class. We already had one Mimio that was being trialled last year that is now set up in the Fantails class. This has been a huge learning curve for the staff as the Mimio is a brand new piece of technology to us all. We have had a couple of workshops and are looking forward to experimenting with this throughout the Term - finding ways to enhance learning through the use of an interactive whiteboard.

4 **.** Investigate, develop and implement ways to involve Family/Whanau in order to actively participate in and celebrate students learning success. Every fortnight a newsletter is sent home to the community detailing upcoming events, celebrations of student achievement, learning goals and teaching foci. We are in the process of being able to make this accessible through our website as we often find once a fortnight communication isn't enough.

The Senior class developed 5. Through the development of the Te Kids initiative the students will grow as reflective leaders of e-learning The Kumeroa-Hopelands TeKids have a weekly meeting on a Tuesday am. They are released from class to gather together to reflect on TeKids sessions at St James, plan workshops at school, upload work to their Wiki and to plan their workshop for the Student Led Conference coming up later in the Term.