We win

Great to see our Year 4 and 5 netball team pick up a win in their first future ferns competition on Friday.  Thanks to Emily for her coaching and to Oscar for his umpiring and helping out with the warm up and team talks. A full report will be in this weeks newsletter.

This afternoon I am holding a parent information session in Kereru at 5:15pm. It is about hand-held devices in the classroom and everyone is welcome to come along and find out where we are going with this, why we are going there and what it might look like.

To put some people's minds at rest, it's not all about digital learning.  When I went in to Koromako this afternoon they were using atlases to locate the places mentioned in the book that Sarah was reading to them. While there is always the option of using Google maps or a myriad of other digital choices, for this activity the best option was an atlas, so that is what they used.  This philosophy won't change once there are hand-held devices in the class.  It will still be about choosing the best tool for the job, and in this case an atlas was the answer.