Breakouts

In 2018 we piloted an Integrated Studies programme at Year 11 with 14 at risk boys.

In 2018 we piloted an Integrated Studies programme at Year 11 with 14 at risk boys.

This session will look at how the online platform Classcraft can be used to create an online D&D style quest that students can do in teams.

In the past 12 months, Wellington College has embarked on a significant re-focusing of its strategic vision.

The key focus of this session will be understanding how to make VR for free. You don't need to spending $$$ on HTC Vive or Occulus Rift.

The key focus of this session will be understanding how to make VR for free. You don't need to spending $$$ on HTC Vive or Occulus Rift.

The session will look at my journey towards incorporating SOLO based activities in Junior Science to promote relational and extended abstract thinking.

The focus will be equipping Junior students with core knowledge and skills to be a confident and responsible Digital Citizen (supporting all curriculum areas).

"Let’s at least do what we can to understand why we are so easily divided into hostile groups, each one certain of its righteousness” – Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind (2012).

To race and compete in the evolocity programme school teams need to design and fabricate 2 or 3 wheeled electric vehicles.

EPIC is a venture between New Zealand libraries and the Ministry of Education, giving schools free access to a worldwide range of electronic resources.Through EPIC schools can access e-resources co

Getting the best out of KAMAR - what do we use it for and why? Are their better ways of collecting, disseminating and using this data?

This session is aimed at school leaders / leaders of change. Nicola will deliver a presentation with a focus on leading innovation and change.

Gifted, Accelerated, Talented and Extension Students are a focus for education events and enrichment here at Wellington High School and most other schools and colleges in Aotearoa New Zealand and w

This is for maths teachers who use enrichment activities or run extension for secondary students.

Minded is an online tool that helps learners to identify their strengths and understand their own personality and that of others.

In this session we will explore Sexual Abuse Prevention Network's approach to discussing consent, healthy relationships and pornography with students and parents, preventing sexual harassment

PE teachers, have you been playing the same version of dodgeball since 2008?

The steps taken to put together a full English and Social Studies Integrated program at Yr9 and Yr10 including team teaching. The lessons learnt and mistakes made along the way.

This presentation is 'a story worth telling' for two reasons:

Thomasin Sleigh from DigitalNZ will give an introduction to the search engine www.digitalnz.org, a free service run by the National Library that brings togeth

This session will use the Wellington College journey with Healthy Relationships and Sexuality Education to unpack why we believe comprehensive Sexuality Education is important across all levels of

This workshop will largely be a guided discussion session based around the trend of the increasing number of SNA results on external assessments. Is this something to be concerned about?

I will cover the need to provide for Special Assessment Conditions and the process that our school uses to identify, assess and apply for and implement the process of providing students to have Spe

For some students, summer is an opportunity to "get over the line" and meet their educational goals by gaining additional credits while studying online.

This session is about how a range of groups at Wellington High School (the feminist group, the lgbt+ group and the amnesty international group) support students to create change in their society an

A discussion of what constitutes a task, and the benefits of using tasks in the languages classroom. Participants will have the opportunity to trial a task and share ideas and experiences.

This sessions focuses on how we’ve turned traditional curriculum design on its head by introducing a range of Field Māori sub-fields that fit learning and assessment design around student, whānau a

Our session gives an overview about the development of the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi and facilitates a discussion about how we as educators can most effectively implement them in our sch

This session will be about pedagogy of teaching the Holocaust in the classroom.

Teachers are often faced with difficulties when considering this discipline and I would like to share some of the solutions I have found.

Come away from the workshop inspired and with enough practical knowledge and resources to enable you to take on Sculpture in your own classes or to develop your existing Sculpture programs.

The role of deans seems to be changing with the mental health needs of our students.

A study of the way making students explicitly aware of the stories they are surrounded by, and the stories they tell themselves, can positively colour their experience of education.

In this session, we will re-visit the key ideas that underpin powerful assessment for learning.

This will be a workshop style collaboration of what is offered in your area for students with complex needs transition.

Quizlet is an online platform which allows students to test their own knowledge to learn and revise individually, but can also be used to facilitate group based quiz games in the classroom - a bit

This session will be presented in the context of Digital Technologies, but is open to anyone who is interested.