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 Principal – Chris Hogue Lead Teacher – Deborah Charleson
 * St Brigid’s School**

Our staff has attended a number of Cluster workshops, school visits and international speakers during Term 3 and Term 4. These were Movie Maker workshop, three visits to other schools in our ICT Cluster see their ICT and Inquiry programmes in action, a two day Graham Watts seminar, a day with Kath Murdoch and a day with Guy Claxton. Two staff members also attended the North Otago ICT Cluster Conference held in Oamaru. St Brigid’s teachers’ enthusiasm and confidence has continued to increase over the last two terms with regard to ICT and Inquiry, we feel now that we have a much better understanding of Inquiry Learning Models and are excited about further developing our school planning format. Skill mastery and understanding have continued to be a major focus and teachers have been willing to share this knowledge with one another. A lot of independent and purely school based professional learning has also taken place with teachers working to further their own personal skills in an area that is of interest to them. This has been evident with the use of Photostory, Powerpoint, Comic Life and Movie Maker happening more in the class as well as the use of more Thinking Tools. SMS is has continued to be used everyday to record attendance and we are recording other data such as running records, STAR, S.E.A. and Six Year Net results as the testing occurs. The teachers at St Brigid’s continue to go from strength to strength with ICT and Inquiry Learning. It is a very exciting time to be a teacher and our students are gaining all the benefits from our and the Clusters hard work.