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 * Reflections on my first two days at St John's Mairangi Bay.**

Many thanks for your hospitality and the way we were able to work together to begin this years creative journey using ICT to support our learning. It was great to meet you all and I thank you for the organisation of your classes and congratulate the students on their listening, creative and ICT skills. It is always exciting to see students being engaged in the activities we try. Although we did many similar things in the classrooms I hope that this will also allow teachers to work together and support each other in trying to adapt the activities we did to our caring for the coast theme.

The school is very well resourced and ** one of the challenges is to make more use of the classroom computers **. I am a great fan of short, sharp sessions for the students. As demonstrtaed during the two days students can achileve alot in a short space of time. Try to get your students on the classroom computers at least twice a week. In the junior classrooms explore the idea of having whole class booklets on any relevant them and have students contribute one page.
 * The Challenge:**

The **second challenge is to adapt the acivities I did with your class to a Caring for the Coast** example. As well as interesting ICT work we want to take the opportunity to encourage good writing and a quality of art for that is appropriate for the age level.


 * Ideas for Class Books in the Junior School**