English

September 15 - 12:45 at William Colenso
Teachers attending

//Monday 15 March - Meeting 1.//
Thank you to the Sacred Heart team who hosted our first Learning Team meeting.
 * Attendees were:** Jo Morris, Amy Price, Trish Williams, Jo Jowett-Morrell and Terry Marshall.

This proved to be a great mix of youth and experience sharing ideas that could lead to find out more about the cluster aspirations and make connections with teachers from other schools.

Although it was more of a "talk fest" than we anticipated there was a very relaxed and open sharing of the way way we could grow our repertoire of strategies and activities that lead to engaging learning. Ideas were generated for future lessons, sharing through Ultranet, useful websites and considering what the cluster can do for us and what we could do for the cluster. We shared a number of videos, and activities some generic to all learning areas and other specific English activities.

**YouTube** was the first nomination to go into the teachers toolkit. The **Great Plea** was that all teachers need to have access to this application as part of their teaching toolkit.

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We thought the above video is a very good cautionary tale to show students about being careful about what they post on social networking sites.

Jamie Mackenzie has long been an inspiration to many teachers hisFrom Now On(fno) site is great for [|questioning] techniques, slam dunks and ideas for bringing a sense of awe and wonderment to learning.