New Inquiry wall set up for thinking like a scientist. Deep Understanding (simple), 1st ideas on one side with Solo Taxonomy, inquiry model in the middle, 2nd ideas on the other to show a shift in thinking. #inquiry Island Bay School #solotaxonomy #learning #teaching #inquirymodel

📢📢📢 Did you know? When sharing a link to a YouTube video - add a Hyphen (-) after the 't' and it will share an "add free, full screen, view only" link. Try it out! Great for Seesaw, Slides, Classroom, emails... #GoogleEdu #MicrosoftEDU #AppleEduChat

After moving learning spaces every year since 2015 I’ve devised this cool hack (the cupboards are the same). Take photo of shelf, unpack each shelf into a box, label box, move to new space and use photo to unpack in the new year. Hey presto! Everything fits. 🪄#timesaver

Ahh! I can now see out of my learning space windows 👀. A little elbow grease💪, squeegee 🧽🪣 and teacher determination works wonders. 💛

Awesome!! Murray Gadd is working with our school next week for the first time since 2014!! Can’t wait!!

A great writing prompt for kids- The first time I...... rode a bike! Here’s the first time I rode a bike in the early 1990s. Share some of your history with your class to make connections- they love it!! #writing Island Bay School #connections

Sorting out learning for our Thinking Like a Meteorologist Inquiry. Great emerging thinking happening on this Learning Station. #inquiry

Caught this beauty pic of a student reading with our Mascot Baby Kakahi 😍

All the wrist bands arrived for Jump Jam 4 StarJam! Very excited for next week!!! StarJam Island Bay School

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Back to school tomorrow for some planning time- yay!! 👍 Alarm is set for EARLY for the first time in a while! Let’s mask up!! 😷

Let #studentvoice guide your term 4 planning. What do they want to keep? What do they want to change? What are the new ideas? Island Bay School #learning #teaching #learningdesign #ako #UDL

Alright friends, It's August. PD is coming. Here's the bingo board. What am I missing?

With this folding hack, the child develops a basic set of life tools." 👍🏻💕

Read our new resource about how four teachers approach the interface of physics and Māori knowledge of waka: nzase.org.nz/resources/?res… Science Learning Hub Welly ED New Zealand Institute of Physics Thomas Everth Te Kawa Robb 🌊 Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu

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Finally watching F1 P3 LIVE in the daytime here in #newzealand !! What a treat! Sky Sports F1

A haka on home soil in front of a record-breaking crowd What a moment for the Black Ferns at Eden Park

A free, downloadable picture book about Antarctic volcanoes, by scientists, for primary & up: zenodo.org/record/6535775 Science Learning Hub Karyn Gray Annemarie Hyde Tina Crystal Turner @Kar3nlj Chloe Madden Glen Emma Kingston H. A. Barker Jo STEM with M | Morgan @moriarty_ok

I recently cofounded a maths app, to share creative, beautiful maths and encourage students to feel good about struggle, it's called Struggly! You can see it here: struggly.com/?jb=nl202306 We're currently working on a new teacher dashboard, it launches in Aug, here’s a sneak peek!