Jono's Amazing Professional Blog

Room 1 were lead by Ray and Sefo in hosting the Week 5 Whole School Assembly. They showed a bit of nerves but spoke clearly in all of their parts to lead the acts, karakia and waiata. Room 1's class item was sharing their "wins" from the 2022 Commonwealth Games. I found it particularly interesting learning about the South Pacific Islands. Room 1 presented their learning on colourful A3 posters about New Zealand, Niue, Samoa, Tonga and a few other places.  My class did an awesome job to prepare and present. Everyone showed great leadership, teamwork and played their part in contributing to the assembly. Foli and I'Ola were great directors in the lead up, while many others stepped up to present, write a script or refine what it was they wanted to share.  Ka rawe, Room 1! 

August 12  Tell us where you've got to The site is looking really good! I think I’ve settled on a name as well …  Algebra’s: Developing Year 7&8 Knowledge and Achievement in Basic Algebra  I’m still recording and adding videos, pondering if I need to delete some parts of the page or not and working on the overall “feel” of the site - how easy is it for a Y7&8 student to navigate the site?  What’s been added, what’s dropped off  I think I’ve settled on the home page and the current structure. I believe the links to different levels of algebra, along with an equation example makes things obvious enough. I think I’m going to add pics of the students in class working on Algebro’s, to make it a personalised site to Ruapotaka School.  The addition of sub-elements like integers, basic facts and integers practise will remain. It was confirmed through teaching this level of algebra how much more my students needed to work on these parts. We then recorded a c...