Wednesday 2 September was the inaugural digital online classroom with Rayongwittayakom in ThailandAvonside Girls’ High School is part of a regional memorandum of understanding (MOU) with this school and we were both asked to take part in this pilot scheme by ENZ (Education New Zealand) Thailand. (ENZ is the peak government body for international education in NZ) with the support of Christchurch Educated and Thai agency, Kiwi Centre. Laura Failing and Francesca Hickey have worked with their Year 10 Integrated classes (10XT and 10XV) who are excited about learning about students from a different culture and country. The afternoon session started [...]

We certainly didn’t expect Term 1 to end so abruptly, but luckily we had an opportunity filled term for our students. Early in the term we held our Host Family Dinner. We are grateful to our host families and we like to bring them altogether at the beginning of the term to have a chat and share some kai. It was a lovely evening and the students and their host siblings played games outside and the host parents had the chance to catch up with other host parents.This term we supported the Child Cancer Street Appeal. Street Appeals are great ways [...]