Professional Portal for Donna Rudduck

What? Term 1 has been challenging. I enjoyed camp again, this is such a great opportunity to get to know your students outside the classroom and they love to see you in another environment as well. They realise you are a real person.  We used our learning at camp to create our Year 5 production. This was quite different this year having new staff helping to develop this. It was also a really quick turn around with 2 short weeks as well. This meant the students had to work really hard in a short time to get the show to performance level. But once again the kids pulled it together and produced a wonderful reflection of their learning. My class did some ANZAC writing using the School Kit box of artifacts. This was such a great opportunity and the class really enjoyed researching real NZ soldiers and linking that information with videos and other data we gathered to write some wonderful poetry. I was so proud of what they produced, once again in a short space of time. I have shar...

What? Concerns about the amount of time children spend on computers and the impact this is having on their growth and development. My main thoughts/concerns are why are there so many children displaying ADHD/autism tendencies. There seems to be so many more students with learning difficulties and social interaction deficiencies. What is causing this? What can we do about it? So What? Glow Kids - How Screen Addiction is Hijacking our Kids Dr Nicholas Kardaras www.drkardaras.com 22/11/2017 Book Review of Glow Kids - How Screen Addiction is Hijacking our Kids Waikato Times Article Every time a new technology comes along people become concerned. We have all been seduced by the magical powers of modern devices.   “If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks. What y...