Week Five Term Three
#L2L Learning to Learn at St Joseph’s MODERN LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS Adapted from an article by Mark Osborne from Core Education April 2013 “Many of the modern learning environments being built today promote and support a [...]
Week Four Term Three
#L2L Learning to Learn at St Joseph’s In the words of Guy Claxton: Education is a preparation for the future for life, not just for university or work for all, not just for some The [...]
Week Three Term Three
Learning to Learn at St Joseph’s #L2L One of the Principles of the New Zealand Curriculum is “Learning to Learn”. “The curriculum encourages all students to reflect on their own learning processes and to [...]
Week Two Term Three
We arrived back on Monday to find that the diggers had been busy at work over the weekend and the buildings that formerly housed Rooms 9, 10 & 11 were gone and we now had [...]
Week One Term 3 2014
Week One Term 3 2014 Welcome to our new entrants and their families and to Mrs Katie O’Brien (R2), Mrs Robyn McDougall (R5) and Mrs Marilou Diano (Kiwi and Kea Teams) Aotearoa New Zealand te [...]
Term Three 2014
Welcome back! I hope everyone is rested and reinvigorated after a holiday break. We have been having some problems with postings to the site disappearing or not being saved properly. In the meantime, our newsletters [...]
Week Six Term Two
On Monday morning, our Year Six Leaders helped us reflect on the feast of Pentecost and on the importance of the Holy Spirit in our lives. We welcomed our latest group of New Entrants and [...]
Week Five Term Two
On Wednesday, as you will see in the NEWS section, a group of children, with two Welsh staff members, went to Takapuna Primary School, to meet up and do some training with a young Welsh [...]
ENVIRONMENT GROUP
Yesterday lunchtime we made Ginger Chicken using silverbeet from our school garden. We washed the silverbeet and chopped it up. We stir fried the chicken and then added the silverbeet and ginger mixture and steamed [...]
LIBRARY NEWS
Thank you to all of you who supported the Book Fair. We receive a commission from the sale of books from the Fair and as a result of this Book Fair we have received just [...]