13Bio Actogram Video

In 13Bio we have been learning about Actograms and noticed there wasn't much on the internet to help us with our understanding or revision of this idea so we made our own resource and uploaded it to You Tube.  Now we can watch it any time we like and someone else might find it helpful too.

Hagley Writers excel

Hagley Writers' Institute tutors, Frankie McMillan and Kerrin Sharpe feature in the online poetry collection, Best NZ Poems, edited by Poet Laureate, Ian Wedde . This is a prestigious anthology reflecting, as it says, the very best of NZ poetry and is published annually by the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University.  You can check out the website here -
Best NZ poems

 Frankie McMillan is a short story writer and poet. She completed an MA at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University in 1998. Her publications include The Bag Lady’s Picnic and other stories and a collection of poetry, Dressing for the Cannibals. Her short stories have been included in Best New Zealand Fiction (Vintage, 2008 and 2009). In 2005 she was the recipient of the CNZ Todd Bursary. In 2009 she won the New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Competition.

Kerrin P Sharpe is a poet and teacher of creative writing. She completed the Victoria University Original Composition Programme taught by Bill Manhire in 1976. Her poems have appeared in many journals including Hue & Cry, JAAM, the Listener, Poetry New Zealand, Sport, Takah?, Turbine, the London Grip, Snorkel and the Press, Best New Zealand Poems 08, 09 and 10, and in The Best of the Best New Zealand Poems. In 2008 she was awarded the New Zealand Post Creative Writing Teachers’ award from the International Institute of Modern Letters. Her debut poetry collection, three days in a wishing well, was published by Victoria University Press in 2012. A selection of her poems will appear in Oxford Poets 2013 from Carcanet Press later this year.

Short elearning/blended learning presentation

Quite a nice short interview with a Professor from Massey University on e-learning/blended learning

Certainly worth <2mins of your time !!

Radio show on Plains FM

Lesley Cowie's ESOL class has a monthly radio show on 96.9 Plains FM.
It is quite an undertaking for students whose first language is not English but they do a fantastic job of this.
The students are from many different countries including Ethiopia, Somalia, Nepal, Cambodia, Afghanistan, China and Samoa.
They are between 14 and 20 years old.
As they progress through the year they will have more and more responsibility in the show. It is 25 minutes long and it is played on the first Monday of each month (excluding school holidays).

 You can hear the latest show here:
Plains FM radio show

April Fool's Day writing

ESOL students have been doing free writing in class to boost their skills. It is an on demand piece written within one class. Nav has put together this stunning poster that showcases writing from the class. This piece is by Andrew Chun of 12EAP.

Spotty Day

Here are a couple of prizes winning photos from the recent Fundraising day. There were some fantastic spotty outfits from both staff and students. As usual, the enrolment centre turned out a superb display, and Jenny O'Sullivan was voted the winner for her wonderful outfit. The school raised $125 for the Melanoma Foundation. Thanks to all those who supported this venture.

Social Science postcards

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Here are a couple of postcards from Celia King’s  Social Science class – 10WM.  The topic is migration, about understanding that people move. Students were asked to send a postcard from an exciting destination. Many of them had visited places of natural beauty in the world. They understood the need to inquire after their reader’s wellbeing.