Being+Valued

= Strand Two - Being Valued and Motivation =

This area is linked to the strand which are working on motivation and being valued. Staff from all schools have been looking at the tools they use in the classroom which encourage motivation and being valued. They have also been working towards making links within curriculum planning and in raising awareness across their whole school.

I think it would be great to visit other schools/classrooms after school so that we can talk to the teachers who are trying some innovative ideas. When we do school visits while teachers are teaching, we do not get to ask questions of the teacher without disrupting the teaching that is happening. If these visits were to occur once a term or every two terms as an alternative to a staff meeting it would be great. Busy teachers would not resent yet another meeting after school hours if it replaced an existing meeting. Perhaps teachers could even nominate some of the interesting programmes they are running that relate to the strands. From this we we could create a "menu" from which you could choose to visit others. **WHAT DO YOU THINK??** Don't forget to use the discussion board to post your comments - click on the discussion tab at the top of this page.

We know that things are constantly changing both within and beyond our classroom walls, but together we can still make a difference. Good Luck to you all as you embark on a new school term and year, with all those new fresh faces. Keep in touch with each other, and sometimes when we share we create new and wonderful things.
 * Welcome to 2010-** an early weblink- the UN cyber school bus project.

With your food basket and my food basket the people will thrive
 * Nā tō rourou, nā taku rourou**
 * ka ora ai te iwi**

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Thanks very much to Shelley, Scottie, and Mark for all their hard work organising the Auckland PD, which was fabulous, and extremely interesting. Congratulations to Scotty also, on Isaac. Glad you got back on time. Thought for the day/week All that glitters is not gold..... wonder what that is all about???? Check this weblink out... [|Mission heights]
 * Week 7**

Inspirational Video- Don't Quit: media type="youtube" key="VkCFeNeqyHk" height="344" width="425"

Week 6.** Check this out, got it on an e mail, very spiritual and lovely: [|precious]
 * Cheers to Matarau..... thorough loved the Trudy and Alison "What not to wear" night. Totally valued and motivated.... have even put make-up on this week!!!!!!

Ben Soole was showing this to students including my daughter. Ellen loved it, we did too, thanks Ben. [|sand art]

Check out the Clos up item. it is Chapter 3 [|Duncan]
 * Duncan Brown. Some of you will have taught Duncan. he has done some fabulous work and has achieved well in a recent design competition as has Paige Mackie.**

**Week 5. term 3**
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. **  Aristotle **


 * Invention related Photo. For KPS**



=Thought for the week. (term3, week 2)= To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone. There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is till wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolutely follows the best.
 * John Hall Gladstone**

Thought for the week (Week 1 term 3)


Thought for the week (Week 10 term 2)

 * Nā tō rourou, nā taku rourou**
 * ka ora ai te iwi**

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