Mrs+Ross



Greetings from Smith and Church Room 14. I'm Mrs Ross, Deputy Principal of Ashburton Borough School. Miss Church and I teach this class of delightful year 5/6 students.

Borough has been part of a cluster of five Ashburton schools that have been on the ICTPD contract for the past three years. We are now starting to show the benefits of this great PD with terrific inquiry learning, and integration of ICT tools in our classroom programmes really coming to the fore.

This is the second year that we have had a class wiki and we're really trying to branch out into new territory with a lot more online learning happening. The wiki will be a communication tool for our families in terms of notices, a display vehicle for students quality work, starting point for learning activities and all the children have a personal page to add work of their choice to.

It is our hope that parents will join our learning community and engage in constructive online conversations with their children about their learning. It was very cool the first time this happened – great excitement from Mrs R! It’s wonderful seeing the interest and enthusiasm among the children when engaged in activities using ICT tools. They really enjoy positive comments from family members, friends and teachers on their quality online work. ICT is a great tool for learning.

 Did you know that; Why do you think this horse is screwing his nose up? (Or is he having a good laugh?)  Did you know; How can cats jump so high?
 * Example for this weeks homework task**
 * Animal: Horse**
 * a horses scientific name is 'equine'
 * men have bred horses for different purposes for the past 6000 years
 * horses can live to be 40 + years old
 * horses are able to sleep standing up (Fully asleep without falling over!)
 * cats can sleep with one eye open
 * cats can stand up on two legs
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">when cats jump or fall they always land on their feet
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">all tabby cats have an M shape on their forehead