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__ Milestone Report for St Patrick’s School 2008 __ Inquiry Learning Term 1 school wide Science based Inquiry work based around the topic of NZ Birds and how people affect the habitat of birds Term 3 school wide Social Studies Inquiry work based around the topic of China and the Olympic games Term 4 Junior classes Science based Inquiry around the topic of Space and the question – What is out there? Thinking Skills Graham Watts and Kath Murdoch days Continued use of Thinking hats and introduced Thinkers Keys in classrooms Developed school wide plan of which Thinking hats and Thinkers Keys will be focussed on/introduced at each level ICT Room 1 – use of ‘Paint’ programme Room 2 – Powerpoint, ‘Word’ skills, developing inquiry skills using internet, Photobucket Room 3 – Learning and improving Power Point presentations – many of the senior children elect to present their work by this medium. Chn have had fun with Comic Life. The computer and Google have become very much a part of the school day/curriculum, and researching/checking is a matter of course with the older children. Workshops Having so many workshops available to staff is fantastic. We try to keep one step ahead of the children! Over all, all the children have become very confident with the computers, and consequently the computers are very much a part of general classroom work.