Monday, October 12, 2009

Ulearn








Staff had an amazing time at Ulearn in Christchurch. A big day the first day with us starting at 2.30am in the morning for shuttle pick up to Auckland. The pre conference workshop by Margie Carter was inspiring and affirming.
Between staff we attended 26 workshops on different ideas around ICT and innovative teacher practice. The keynote speakers Gary Stager, Derek Wenmoth, Margaret Carr were interesting and thought provoking. We have a lot of reflecting to do!!!!  Our presentation was very successful with a range of people attending from The Ministry of Educartion, ERO Education review Office, Secondary teachers, Primary Teachers, Principles, Correspondance Schools and other Early Childhood Centres. We were challenged and affirmed. A great experience, well done to the team. We have worked hard for this.
A great team building event, the weather was reasonably kind  and we managed to get some shopping in too! Looking forward to sharing with you our inspirations and ideas. Ally

5 comments:

  1. what a great experience you got! keep blogging sis and good luck god bless online forum

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  2. reading this and looking at these pictures make me think... that kindergarten/ Early Childhood teachers are the happiest people in the world! To have to be with kids all day, everyday.... most of the day! ka pai to you all. YOu all look beautiful!!!!
    cant wAIt to hear about what you learnt... I'm still doing "exercises" from that dvd with aaron and jeneah.
    I will have a synopsis for you, just wait till i've finished. Oh and some exercises are complete with pictures.

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  3. Oooh you all look so nice and I nearly didnt recognize Ally with her long straight hair. Fun fun fun.

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  4. Hey Abby - I didnt even know that was you. Lia just said it was.

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  5. Hi to all the teachers and children at Grasslands kindergarten.
    I attended your breakout out at the Ulearn conference and learnt so much! Thank you for sharing your knowledge, we are now embarking on our own individual blogs, we already had a centre blog but are now branching out due to your inspirational journey.
    Thanks
    Catherine
    Learning Curves Kinross Street

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