Warrington - Otago District

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Open education @ Warrington School

Warrington School's Open Education Initiative - aims for:

Transparency - hoping our ideas will be copied, our mistakes learnt from and advice offered for our continued improvement
A belief that everything we do should be open
Actively sharing the things that we and our colleagues create
Working collaboratively with others who share our goals
Continual learning and improving
A school that is thinking globally

Whakatauki/Proverb

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Featured project

WWW - Warrington Waterway Project - Social Literacy

Waterwheel project

Students and community stream regeneration
Connecting school to beach

Waterway Project

Fenced
Trees, shrubs
Maintaining
Monitoring picnics
Healthy water

Featured Project Archive

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News and events

Warrington School - Free Software Case Study

Free and Open Source Software initiative - computers to a school in PNG

Blueskin Bay Fm broadcasting 24/7 from Warrington School

Early World

Stories from Otepoti: inspiration from 5 enviroschools

BBOSI People

School Playground Project

Funding is presently being sought for this community facility

Mike Sowman Design Ltd Architecture

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Creative Commons, Copyleft and GPL

Warrington School believes in using materials, resources and ideas that are open. We prefer not to pay for copyright licences and we are committed to:

Adhering to permissible educational use of all rights reserved materials under the principles of fair dealing
Using materials which meet the requirements of the free cultural works definition namely Creative Commons Attribution, Copyleft license equivalents and the GPL

Please join us by adding to or editing content

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Calendar

Warrington School Calendar

Room 1 Timetable

Warrington School Calendar/Room One Timetable/BBFM Schedule Combined

Three Peaks Cluster

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Next steps

Annual targets:

To improve the students level of writing by:

Analysing moderated student writing samples looking for patterns of strengths and weaknesses
Undertaking in school professional development using the school's management unit to lead this
Analysing moderated student writing samples in November

2011 goals:

Share the Warrington School Curriculum Overview with the community
Improve the school target with a focus on student achievement data
Use management unit to create professional development on:
- collecting and reporting of school data using;
  - School Open Office spreadsheet
Teaching goals will reflect school goals
Review appraisal, EOTC forms, Cybersafety, Hazards - chemicals, plant, machinery, harassment, custodial agreements
Creating a common understanding for recognising our gifted and talented
KI O RAHI
Use of calendar for policy/procedures review
Annual report - February - create wiki sample
Sound files for Waiata/Whakatauki added to wiki
Paraphrasing learning styles
Virtues list and details
Curriculum policy?
Marae visit and Maori Community consultation