Sockburn Blog Post

Ngaire has blogged about all the awesome happenings at our last PLG for 2016!!

http://mlenewzealand.weebly.com/-blog/sockburn-school-plg

Sockburn School MLE PLG

Term 4, 2015

Well we've been a little quiet lately, but the MLE PLG for Canterbury is moving forward. The awesome Sockburn School in Hornby is the venue for our Term 4 visit. The teachers in the Junior Area of the school are excited to be able to share their learning journey with you. They are running a collaborative space in a modified older building. In exciting news for them, they are also in the early stages of planning for their school to relocate to a brand new site in the Wigram Skies subdivision. Come along and hear about where they've come from, what is working for them in their innovative learning environment and where they are headed!

The PLG will be held on Thursday 19 November at 3:45 pm. We will meet in the school hall to begin with, then tour the Sockburn spaces. Please register your attendance.

Registrations for this event are now closed! We look forward to seeing you all there on Thursday.

Sockburn School Map

Term 2 2015 PLG @ Halswell

This term's PLG will be on Thursday 21st May at Halswell Primary School at 3:45pm. 

The school have recently had a rebuild following the Earthquakes and now have collaborative hubs catering for their students teachers.  There will be an opportunity to have a tour of the school, talk about the vision and design thinking behind the collaborative space, as well as to learn how teachers are working collaboratively to teach in their learning environments. 

Registrations for this event are now closed! We look forward to seeing you all there on Thursday.

Halswell School on Google Maps

Term 3 PLG @ Ladbrooks

This term's PLG will be on Thursday 4th September at Ladbrooks Primary School at 3:45pm. 

The school have recently added a collaborative hub catering for 58 junior children and their three teachers.  There will be an opportunity to have a tour of the school, talk about the vision and design thinking behind the collaborative space, as well as to learn how teachers are working collaboratively to teach in their learning environments. 

Registrations for this PLG are now CLOSED. 
We thank you for your interest. Please keep an eye on this website for our Term 4 PLG.

Term 1, 2014, Clarkville PLG

There was an excellent turnout for the Clarkville PLG. Pene and her staff and students were fabulous hosts.

Ngaire has blogged about the visit here:
http://mlenewzealand.weebly.com/1/post/2014/04/canterbury-plg-term-1-2014.html

We would love to hear your comments and thoughts about what you saw on the day. If you have any blog posts or notes to share, please send them in to us and we will post them here.

2014 Term 1 PLG @ Clarkville

Welcome to 2014. We hope that 2014 has started well and that Modern Learning Practices are flourishing in your school! 

This term our PLG will be held on Monday 14th April at 3:45pm. 

We will be visiting Clarkville Primary School (10 Heywards Road, RD2, Clarkville) where Principal Pene Abbie and her team of teachers and students will share with us the MLP they are implementing and changes they have made to their programme at Clarkville. 

Clarkville is not a new school. They use existing buildings in innovative ways to provide great teaching and learning spaces for their students and staff. During this PLG there will be an opportunity to hear about the innovative teaching and learning that is happening at Clarkville, and the changes they have made to how they are using their spaces to incorporate MLPs. 

We will also have a tour of the school and learn how teachers are working collaboratively to teach in their learning environments to best meet the needs of their students. 

Please click on the register tab above so that we can best set up the spaces to accommodate our visitors.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Term 4 PLG - Breens Intermediate

The Term 4 PLG was held on November 4th at Breens Intermediate School in Casebrook. A huge thank you to Brian Price and his team of teachers for hosting us.

Staff from Breens have been on a exciting journey over the last several years. Their school's values underpin their teaching and learning programmes, appraisal systems and are key drivers in the culture of the school.

They have modified their 1970's school buildings to provide transparency, deprivatised practice and to support their collaborative learning environments.

Participants in the PLG had the opportunity to hear Brian speak about the school's pedagogical development over the last six years. They then visited the three main learning pods, where staff shared their innovations, challenges and successes.

Coffee to begin!

Brian and Nicky start the afternoon.

Classroom Tours

Teacher Think Tank

Checking out the Collaborative Learning Environments