Virtual Learning Network

Background and Context   Baradene is a 7-13 girls’ Catholic school in Remuera. It is part of the Baradene/St. Peter Cluster and we are in our last year of our cluster contract. Religious Education (RE) is a compulsory subject that every...

A reflection by staff about where the department has come and where it is going at SPC.

A mash-up of the cluster meeting held for schools leaving the cluster. There are some amazing links and resources included so I recommend having a look.

We has set up a plan for digital citizenship training for all Y7 - 10 students.  This will be done after their exams and we will follow the plan attached. 

I had a two hour PD session with the learning support team in our teacher only day. The aim was to help them access skydrive and also improve their understanding of Power point. The learning support team was quite excited about getting help with...

Y8 students were given a number of devices to trial in class.  They collated the feedback and presented it to the Principal and DP.  They felt a device that supported Windows would be the best choice. This was largely due to SkyDrive...

Parents are regularly reminded to access the parent portal for information as well as assessment results. Initially a letter was sent to all parents with a unique username and password so that they can access this data.   Parents can...

Staff have been given the opportunity to sign up to the Partners in Learning (PIL) programme.  This has allowed us to ask them to do the survey set up by PIL.  We will use the feedback received to plan our next steps for 2014. ...

At one of the ULearn presentations I attended the speaker shared this link on Digital Citizenship. I like that it has information for Primary, Intermediate and Secondary, and covers things from basic ICT skills and online safety, privacy and...

These are the agenda items from the last 3 meetings witht he principal to discuss the year 7 iPads for Learning progression.