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Hour of Code – ECE teachers

December 3, 2019 / / Comments Off on Hour of Code – ECE teachers

International Computer Science week is from the 9th to 13th of December. From the 9th to 20th December, please find some time in your class to do an Hour of Code activity with your students.

Amita has shortlisted 3 simple activities and placed all the resources on the server here:

smb://10.3.1.1/Teachers/@Teachers Pub/@ECE/ECE SHARED FOLDER/2019~20/Hour of Code

She is happy to have discussions with you if you would like, or if you would like her to come into your class to do the activity. She is also happy to work with you should you want to do something besides the shortlisted activities.  BeeBots are also available to be borrow out.

Veronica, Michelle & Amita

Mathletics

August 26, 2019 / / Comments Off on Mathletics
 The rollover for Mathletics has been completed. Teachers should be assigned to their correct classes, and students should be in their correct classes.

Please note you may have a new password, as may your students.

If you find any student is missing achievement information from last year, come and see me as we can retrieve this in most cases.  Please also let me know if you have missing students.

Click here for teacher log in details: TeachersSignInCards

You can go ahead and print off login cards and assign students to differentiated groups based on your SATs results when you have this information

Please let me know of any problems, or students who are missing.

See the below guide for more information about setting up Mathletics.

Mathletics User Guide (New Interface)

You can change your password once you have logged in.

Please ask me if you or your team want a full refresher or introduction on how to use Mathletics-I am happy to do this.

Should you have any questions, please contact me.

John

 

 

Live Mathletics 

Please review the minimum levels set for your students when they play Live Mathletics.  To find out what kind of questions are asked at each level, please use this document: Levels of Live Mathletics.

Typically Level 1 is for Y1, Level 5 is for Y5 etc.

To be able to edit the levels, click SETTINGS on the left hand side menu (new interface)

Thanks,

John

Live Mathletics – Reminder

February 1, 2018 / / Comments Off on Live Mathletics – Reminder

We have had a couple of parent queries about Mathletics.

One thing to remind parents of is the Live Mathletics option. This provides competitive practice of number skills.

However, for this to be effective, you need to close off levels which are too easy. This is especially important for older students. See below for instructions.

Once you have done this, I suggest you show the students – and point out that Live Mathletics has gotten harder (if you hadn’t restricted the levels previously) – this will motivate some students to look again.

Live Mathletics

Please review the minimum levels set for your students when they play Live Mathletics. To find out what kind of questions are asked at each level, please use this document:  Levels of Live Mathletics. Typically Level 1 is for Y1, Level 5 is for Y5 etc. You can vary this based on the ability level of the student, but do check content appropriateness before setting a level which is higher than the Year Level.

To be able to edit the levels, follow the below instructions from the homepage (based on the old interface-let me know if you need help with the new one).

1. Click “Reports.”

Screen Shot 1

2. Click “Live Maths Report.”

Screen Shot 2015-09-22 at 9.11.16 PM

3. At the bottom right, click “Set Minimum Level.”

Screen Shot 2015-09-22 at 9.15.43 PM

4. Choose the level for each student, remember to change the group tab to set for all students.

Thanks,

John

Seesaw: Following Up

November 6, 2017 / / Comments Off on Seesaw: Following Up

Thank you for your efforts to make our Seesaw roll out run smoothly. We think this has been very successful. Across Primary and ECE we have, as of now, 534 connected parents. However, this can include multiple parents per child, and there are still parents who have not connected. We would like your help to encourage them to do so.

The below actions are for co-teachers; specialists do not need to do anything with the below information.

Action 1: Send the reminder email

We would like you to do this before the end of week 12 for all non-connected parents. Instructions as to how to find out who is non-connected, and how to generate the email to send, are attached below:

How to send email reminders to parents to connect with Seesaw

Action 2: Set a homework task

Once the above emails are sent, we would like you to follow this by setting a homework task which requires parents to interact with Seesaw with their children at home. Year leaders should coordinate this across year levels. We ask that this is done in week 12 or week 13.

  • This could be as simple as asking each student to get together with their parent and put a comment from the parent account saying what they liked about the work.
  • An alternative could be that students post a question on Seesaw for Parents to answer at home.
  • Attached is a PDF designed for students, but which could equally apply to parents, which you can send home with the homework task to support good commenting: Seesaw Tips

 

A couple of extra tips:

Folders

Some teachers have mentioned that students are not being prompted to add work to folders, and that they are having to sort manually into folders. See below for a setting you need to change to give students the option to put work into folders.

Likes

Please make sure student and family likes are turned off.

ECE & Primary – Back up drives

September 1, 2017 / / Comments Off on ECE & Primary – Back up drives

We would like to encourage all staff to take back up of their computer at regular intervals. The best way to do this is using time machine with an external drive (for more information on how to use this please click here)

To help staff who are interested in purchasing a backup drive, ITD will help order these. You have 2 choices:

Seagate 1TB external hard drive – RMB 410
Seagate 2TB external hard drive – RMB 600
If you are interested in purchasing one please hand in the exact amount to either Alex or Amita by the end of the school day on Monday 11th September.

 

 

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