The Power of 'Yet'
A TED talk by Carol Dweck Video Summary: From a study where students were asked to do challenging work, Carol Dweck could categorise...
DVC Standards for Fashion
This was a workshop hosted by Kylie Merrick looking at DVC standards that can be carried out in the context of Fashion Design. Kylie...
My goals for 2016
1#My Being Being warm AND demanding! I feel that I am naturally warm but lack my demanding approach. I've been contemplating this for a...
A week of silversmithing
At HPSS we join two subjects together to make a Module. Our Learning Objective for Technology for term 1 2016 was: To explore by...
Girls in games
This was a day event in which four girls and myself headed to Media Design School to take part in video game development. In the...
Knowing our Maori & Pasifika learners with Ros
Here at HPSS, 23% of our roll identify themselves as Maori or Pasifika learners. And its important that we help eradicate the gap between...
The importance of being a learner
A Veteran teacher turned coach shadows 2 students for 2 days- a sobering lesson learned Today I sat down in the staff room, took 10...
Spaghetti Structures: Who can build the tallest?
Making spaghetti structures as part of building resilience, which is one of the HPSS habits. #Teaching
How do I 'be'?
How do I 'be'? This is the weird question that came out of my mouth in the staffroom at lunch today. I had just finished my SPINs, during...
Day 1: am: Professional development
I thought that a really good way of clarifying what this day was about and processing the information would be to reiterate it here. We...
