Our Living and Learning Focus continues as
CARE ATAWHAI KUMANU
Our School Values are
Tina Justice, Pono Truth, Aroha Compassion, Manaakitanga Hospitality and Tapu Respect for the Environment
Lived out in our Motto
Courtesy Care Co-operation Courage
The Learning Model for our school is: “To Know To Do To Use”
Learning to Learn at St Joseph’s #L2L
Welcome to our latest New Entrants and to their families!
Sophie, Rita, Matthew, James, Theo, Joshua
Welcome to Mrs Carla Winfield, Home Group 11 in Kea Team
Mrs Rebekah Saxon, Release Teacher in Kiwi Team
and a big welcome back to Ms Diana Luxon, returning from maternity leave, who joins Home Group 16 in Kiwi Team!
The stars of Home Group 16 Kiwi Team have published their writing already!
Visit from teachers from St Mary’s Catholic School Northcote
St Mary’s School is having a building programme now and a Modern Learning Block is being built to accommodate about 12 classrooms. A group of teachers from there, spent 2 hours here on Tuesday as part of their learning and preparation for the change.
Hayley W being a mathematician, using the ActivStation in HG 13 in Kiwi Team
St Joseph’s on TV ?
St Joseph’s school has become, the ideal ‘out of Hollywood’ film location. On Tuesday 8th of June a film crew appeared in the older classrooms at St Joe’s. Word quickly spread that the next episode of TV series ¨Real Housewives¨ was being filmed in the old Room 15. Whether this is true or not remains unknown.
I was lucky enough to interview Gilda Kirkpatrick, who was seen being filmed on set. After being introduced, I was privileged to ask her a few questions. When asking her why she was filming here she replied ¨We want to film in a school with intelligent students who are interested in science and are adventurous.¨ She has recently written a book on astronomy which some of our students have read of late. Mrs Bon took her on a tour of the school after she came off set. Soon St Joe’s will be famous!
Aoife Moss Reporter Kakariki Team
Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century
Here is some additional information for all who are interested in why education needs to develop and change. I have again inserted some reading into our newsletter.
The extract below is taken from Core Education Thought Leadership
Ten Trend categories
ECONOMIC
Sustainability
“The rapid development and ubiquity of ICT are resetting the boundaries of educational possibilities. Yet, significant investments in digital resources have not revolutionised learning environments; to understand how they might requires attention to the nature of learning.”1 OECD/CERI
Raising awareness and taking action in order to look after our natural world is intimately connected with how well our education systems function. A changing climate isn’t just an ‘education problem’, it is also an issue facing our global and national economic systems. These determine levels of poverty and educational equity. Issues of hunger, low life expectancy, negative health outcomes, bad housing, and high debt are very real flow on effects of a changing climate and degraded natural world.
What can be done?
Harnessing the power of interconnectedness –
He hono tangata e kore e motu; ka pā he taura waka e motu
We are living in an increasingly globalised community. As citizens of Aotearoa and the world, we have rights, privileges and responsibilities that bind us. The whakataukī above underpins this idea – material bonds can be broken, but human bonds endure.
New technologies can act as a powerful tool to enable local and international connections. Schools and learning communities across the world are using networking sites in order to explore and address environmental sustainability. The idea of ‘sustainability’ sits behind the health of our natural world, but it also holds potential for citizens to forge collective action in order to address a wicked problem like climate change.
Learning centres, schools and kura need to make a more explicit mandate for building environmental education into learning programmes and cross-curricular activities. Hipkins, Bolstad, Boyd and McDowall (2014) suggest two big ideas are needed if a future focus is to be applied to a wicked problem, such as environmental sustainability:
The first is to shift how we view knowledge, and the second is the need to redesign educational approaches to that they are based on what we now know about learning… We have in mind a curriculum that really does put the learners themselves at the heart of their learning now. Learners would also keep in sight the important knowledge and skills they must learn, while holding a clear view of where the outcomes of that learning might support them to venture in their futures (pp. 29-31).”
Alphonsus (Yellow) and Pompallier (Blue) House Family Mass is at 10.00 a.m. on Sunday 26 June
Remember also, to buy your tickets for the High Tea, which starts after the 10.00 a.m. Mass on the 26 June!
St Joseph’s Catholic School Board of Trustees 2016-2019
Congratulations to all our new and returning BOT members!
Thank you so much to all who put their names forward for election and to all who exercised their right to vote. Election results have been sent out to candidates, the BOT Chair, all parents via School Links and will be published in the local paper next week.
Our new BOT consists of the following:
Vanessa Bates Parent Representative
Anna Casey Bishop’s Representative
Shane Coleman Bishop’s Representative
Eric Esnouf Parent Representative
Natasha Luxford Staff Representative
Simon Marshall Parent Representative
Ivan Moss Bishop’s Representative
Catherine O’Brien Parent Representative
Philomena O’Connell-Cooper Principal
Mark Street Parent Representative
Monsignor David Tonks Bishop’s Representative
Remember that we will be welcoming the New Entrants at School Prayer on Monday morning.
Ka kite ano!
Phil