Matau School

Well another term begins. I spent the last week of the holidays attending the Navcon2 conference in Christchurch. I was very sceptical about giving up holidays for work but in the end it was very successful and useful. With IT I am aiming to move on from being a well equipped dithering school to a school with IT integrated into the learning environment. Not as hard as it sounds as we were well on our way already. I have set up another blog to record this at
Our opening integrated units are the "Road to Matau" which involves the seniors making an intractive CD with stories collected from our community about how people went to school and a special trip to town in the good old days.
The middle kids are making an advertising poster to attract tourists to Matau. They are currently interviewing people and researching other examples.
The juniors are producing a book about our new road and how it was built. Complete with pictures.