MIT2020 - Launch Day - Get Ready! Kia Rite! Nofo Sauni!

Last day of the term and one month exactly before the Year 8s go to camp! Today is launch day for the Get Ready! site. It will be linked off the main learning site for all intermediate students. Below are screenshots of the landing page - click here to see the published site which includes:

- the Get Ready! Kia Rite! Nofo sauni! banner - translations in Te Reo Māori and Samoan

- key dates/deadlines, location map and a photo gallery

- a questionnaire for all camp related queries, 

-  Four student videos

- key Mindset slogans

- Karakia 

GOOGLE Analytics has been activated to monitor usage of the site.  By the end of Day 1, 22 users had accessed the site - a promising start!

MIT 2020 - Tuakana-teina: Year 9s in action!

I got in touch with Year 9 students at the local high school last week to see if they would be keen to be part of the GET READY! project. Many were keen but in the end was happy to reconnect with two ex-Pt Englanders - Charlese was in my home class from last year and in school to help out with the weekly Riverside Club as student leader and Troy, was super keen to help out and ended up being very generous with his time,- I ended up filming bulk of videos with him!

Their input seemed like a positive way to build the tuakana-teina connection. Reaching out (via video). Being older/recent peers of the current batch of Year 8s the tips/advice they had to offer were likely to resonate more effectively than if the same information was coming from a well-meaning teacher!

Here are two examples of the videos we filmed:

PAPERWORK

GEAR LIST